New York: Harper Collins, (2005.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A coming of age novel of a young girl and her brother set in a small midwestern town in the 1950s - "To escape problems with both of her parents throughout her childhood in the 1940s and 1950s, Pearl Harbor Keenan reaches out to Walking Mary, a strange old woman who meets every single passenger train that pulls into the Framburg Depot." 130 pp. ISBN: 9780060284725.

New York: Random House, (1959) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel by this award-winning writer set in a small town in Tennessee in the 1950s where a young man is believed to be trapped in a cave, and the town becomes the center of national attention - a catalyst which changes the lives of many in the town. 403 pp.

New York: Harper Collins, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, one which combines dark calamity with comedy, set in 1952 in Limoges, Louisiana (population: 905), where the main occupations "seem to be spreading juicy gossip and consoling the unfortunate with casseroles." 390 pp plus index to recipes and author's note. ISBN: 0-060183489.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2000). First edition - Set in Sherman, New York in the spring of 1954 , Tamara and her family begin to settle into their farmhouse. The author's first novel, the story of a young girl's coming to age and the fears she encounters with a mother ill with tuberculosis and a father who escapes into his art. 275 pp.