Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, (2008) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, a sequel to her award-winning first book "Motorcycle Ride on the Sea of Tranquility," this is the story of a young woman's struggles to find her place in her family and the world, as a first generation Mexican American, and to understand the ghosts in life - her mother (who has recently died), her father (who has sold their home), and her seemingly idyllic childhood. 287 pp. ISBN: 97-0826344090.

New York: Celadon Books / Macmillan, (2019) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first book by this NPR journalist, a memoir, a coming of age story and "a love letter" from a modern woman to her old-world father. "The Shahanis came to Queens -from India, by way of Casablanca -in the 1980s. They were undocumented for a few years and then, with the arrival of their green cards, they thought they'd made it. This is the story of how they did, and didn't." This is the story of the mistakes that propelled them into years of disillusionment and heartbreak. SIGNED on the title page. 245 pp. ISBN: 978-1250204752.

Palm Beach, FL: Medallion Press, (2005) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel which opens in Ireland in 1846 where the potato blight has returned and the people are dying and continuing in America through 1905. "Ireland is dying. And Margaret cannot keen for an entire country. Leaving her decimated family, she flees with her husband, now a wanted man, to America. In Troy, New York, where pig iron, starched collars, and union banners herald the success of Irish immigrants, Margaret discovers something even more precious than a new life and modest prosperity. She finds the heart and soul of Ireland. And she finds it in the voice of the Keeners." INSCRIBED on the title page. 278 pp. ISBN: 1-932815155.

New York: Doubleday, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's very highly praised first novel, the stories of four Japanese women, each from a different generation, who live together in a large house in San Francisco. 254 pp. ISBN: 0-385-476787.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1981. dj. Hardcover first edition - Memoir by this Nobel prize winning author of his days as a young man in Poland in the 30s dreaming of getting to America, the sometimes perilous trip there, and the community he found in New York City, including his older brother, the author I. J. Singer. Illustrated with both full color paintings and black and white drawings by Raphael Soyer. A handsome production, printed on coated glossy stock, illustrated endpapers. 259 pp. ISBN: 0-385157568.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2011) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 3rd book (2nd novel) by this Pulitzer prize winning journalist, son of Guatemalan immigrants, set in Los Angeles, in the world of gated communities and Mexican help. SIGNED on the title page. Selected as one of the best 100 books of 2011 by the NY Times, winner of the California Book Award Gold Medal for Fiction. 422 pp. ISBN: 9780374108991.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2011) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 3rd book (2nd novel) by this Pulitzer prize winning journalist, son of Guatemalan immigrants, set in Los Angeles, in the world of gated communities and Mexican help. SIGNED on the title page. Selected as one of the best 100 books of 2011 by the NY Times, winner of the California Book Award Gold Medal for Fiction. 422 pp. ISBN: 9780374108991.

San Francisco: East Bay Filipino American National Historical Society, 2002. First edition - "An anthology of memoirs by Filipino Americans. The stories are culled from memories of growing up in different regions of the United States: from the urban jungle of Manhattan to the dusty farmlands of California. Contributing writers represent different generations, ranging from survivors of the Great Depression era in the 1930s to immigrants from the 1980s, escapees of an ancestral homeland in economic and political turmoil." Introductions by Toribio and James Sobredo. Includes 3-page glossary and 9-page Filipino American Timeline and notes on contributors. . xvii, 243 pp. ISBN: 1-887764569.

Seattle: University of Washington Press, (1999). A novel covering the years from 1917 through 1943, this is a testament to the strength of the immigrants who came to America in hopes of a better life. Young Hana Omiya arrives in San Francisco, California, in 1917, one of several hundred Japanese "picture brides." Her story is intertwined with others: her husband, Taro Takeda, an Oakland shopkeeper; Kiku and her husband Henry, who reject demeaning city work to become farmers .. . all are caught up in the cruel turmoil of World War II, when West Coast Japanese Americans are uprooted from their homes and imprisoned in desert detention camps." 216 pp. ISBN: 0-295976160.

Boston: Little Brown, (2001.). SIGNED first edition - An epic novel of America in the early 20th century. Sequel to "The Hummingbirds Daughter." SIGNED on the title page. 479 pp.

New York: Coward-McCann, 1929. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The story of a simple Eastern European immigrant, a giant in size, but gentle at heart, who finds himself working in a bakery in Seattle. As one contemporary reviewer wrote "Ho, but this is the kind of workman that some people seem to think is the real thing. Ho! but unfortunately it is nothing more than an advanced case of amnesia. Ho! but who ever thought "Ho!" anyway.?" (Geoffrey Hellman, The Bookman). Still the story is not without its appeal. INSCRIBED on the title page "Autographed for Mr and Mrs H.O. Roberts. Best wishes and memories of Alaska. Seattle, July 29, 1929." 312 pp.