When Purvis Driggers, a South Carolina Low Country loser with little sense and less hope, seeks out the fortune of a murdered old man and comes up empty-handed, he latches onto the only escape he can find: Martha, the beautiful woman being baptized across the lake. But Martha is not who Purvis thinks she is—she’s every bit as trapped as he is,...
Lessons on Life, Love, and Language from the Insect World
Marlene Zuk
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub Date: 08/02/2011
ISBN: 9780151013739
Genre: Nonfiction, Science
A remarkable examination of insect behavior and what it can teach us about human development by "one of the best science journalists at work today" — Tara Parker-Pope
Genre: Literature & Fiction, Mystery & Thrillers, Romance, Science Fiction & Fantasy
NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR. At the core of New Orleans lie the otherworldly vampires and shape-shifters that hide in plain sight among mankind. As one of the Keepers, an elite group possessing superior skill and strength, Fiona MacDonald knows her duty is to secure balance in a place where one vampire’s bite could ignite a...
