Dru Anderson has what her grandmother called the touch. When her dad turns up dead--but still walking--Dru knows she's next. Will Dru discover just how special she really is before coming face-to-fang with whatever is hunting her?

A remarkable collection of ten contemporary plays covering a wide range of topics and themes. It is a rousing resource for those wanting to use drama to stimulate discussion on issues such as marriage, work, poverty, and fair trade. Some of the plays are challenging, some an invitation to laugh, some to take risks, and some an invitation to just have fun - but all of them are full of a great vitality.

The second novel in the Strange Angels series picks up with Dru neatly tucked away in a Schola that's more like a prison than a secret training facility. Except for one tiny detail . . . she's the only girl in the place and is totally surrounded by tons of cute boys. But a traitor in the Order wants Dru dead and she can't trust anyone except for Graves. Too bad he's being kept busy with a new crew of wulfen teens and doesn't have time for her. As she learns the truth about who she can and can't trust, Dru's only hope may be to save herself - although the one gift that makes her special is draining away, and she doesn't know how to get it back. Will Dru survive long enough to find out who is really after her? Or is she destined for the same fate as her murdered parents? Lili's characters come alive on the page in a way that's visually stunning and she creates the same terrific pace, danger and teen romance as in Strange Angels.

It?s a good thing Dru Anderson is fast. Because the sucker chasing her isn?t slowing down?and he won?t rest until he has tasted her blood and silenced her heart . . . Dru?s best friend, Graves, and her strange and handsome savior, Christophe, are ready to help her take on the ultimate evil. But will their battle for Dru?s heart get in the way of her survival?

Dru, a psychic sixteen-year-old aided by a "werwulf"--Bitten friend, and a half-human vampire hunter, faces danger and death while searching for her parents' killers. Bind up of books 1 & 2, Strange Angels and Betrayals.

"Austen was still staggering from his divorce from Emily. First he couldn't paint anymore. Then he took a pratfall in the parking lot of a 7-Eleven. The beer bottles broke. Brain damage. In the hospital they said 'Don't stop taking your medication.' Then the visions began. An oily silver sheen, chrome cascades of blood and tears... from the corner of his eye he sees the head of a mucous serpent, reaching out for him. ...And in his pain and horror, all he can think to say is, 'Emily! Emily!' His obsessed mind has mutinied. His madness has launched him on a cross-country odyssey of debauchery and more pain. Searching for Emily and love lost; searching for a cure, finding Dr. Quiet--healer or demon? Dr. Quiet will cure Austen. Painting will cure Austen. Death will cure Austen. Here is what waits at the end of the silvery road of shimmering madness: the blood of the one you love..."--Back cover.

Once upon a time there was a war . . . and a young American who thought of himself as the Quiet American and the Ugly American, and who wished to be neither, who wanted instead to be the Wise American, or the Good American, but who eventually came to witness himself as the Real American and finally as simply the Fucking American. That’s me. This is the story of Skip Sands—spy-in-training, engaged in Psychological Operations against the Vietcong—and the disasters that befall him thanks to his famous uncle, a war hero known in intelligence circles simply as the Colonel. This is also the story of the Houston brothers, Bill and James, young men who drift out of the Arizona desert into a war in which the line between disinformation and delusion has blurred away. In its vision of human folly, and its gritty, sympathetic portraits of men and women desperate for an end to their loneliness, whether in sex or death or by the grace of God, this is a story like nothing in our literature. Tree of Smoke is Denis Johnson’s first full-length novel in nine years, and his most gripping, beautiful, and powerful work to date. Tree of Smoke is the 2007 National Book Award Winner for Fiction.