New York: Atheneum, (2008). First edition - The story of a young girl who spent nine years of her life in fourteen different foster homes where "painful memories of being taken away from her home quickly become consumed by real-life horrors, where Ashley is juggled between caseworkers, shuffled from school to school, and forced to endure manipulative,humiliating treatment from a very abusive foster family." Through some caring volunteers, supportive adoptive parents, and her own determination to survive, she finds the courage to succeed - and in working to help other children who face the same terrible circumstances. 297 pp plus a note to readers and a section of photographs.

New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, (2018). SIGNED first edition - Told in alternating voices, this is the story of two teenage boys from a tough inner city neighborhood and how their lives change when one wins a basketball scholarship to an elite private school. SIGNED on the title page. 325 pp.

New York: Avon, 1997. First edition - First suspense novel by this Hollywood screenwriter. 'A riveting new novel of suspense and terrorism in the political arena' - set in Texas. 376 pp.

New York: St Martin's, (2015). First edition - Published on the band's 50th anniversary, this book attempts to answer the question of why the Grateful Dead became one of the world's most legendary bands. Notes, sources. 353 pp.

New York: Bloomsbury, (2000). First edition - The authors first novel, set in turn of century Japan, in the world of the Noh theater and in Paris during the height of impressionism. 371 pp.

New York: Harper Collins, (2013). SIGNED first edition - "A late-night accident on a San Francisco subway platform has altered Nat Idle's reality. But then, there are no accidents." The second in the series featuring Idle, former medical student turned journalist, by this Pulitzer prize winning technology and science reporter. SIGNED on the title page. Includes a bonus short story "Floodgate." 418 pp.

New York: Harper Collins / Voyager, (2015). First edition - A time-traveling speculative thriller originally self-published in 2014 by the author (although this is described as the "definitive edition.) "En route to London from New York, Flight 305 suddenly loses power and crash-lands in the English countryside, plunging a group of strangers into a mysterious adventure that will have repercussions for all of humankind. Struggling to stay alive, the survivors soon realize that the world theyve crashed in is very different from the one they left."

New York: Newmarket Press, 1997. First edition - Screenplay for the film based on Ridley's first novel, 'Stray Dogs.' Published as a trade paperback original. Includes a reproduction of the shooting script, a foreword by Ridley and an introduction by the director, Oliver Stone. Illustrated with stills from the movie. 145 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. First edition - The highly praised first novel (second book) from the first woman director of Britain's MI5.

New York: Bantam, (2003.). First edition - The title refers to a school in Texas for kids who need the toughest of 'tough-love' survival-type programs. Chadwick, whose own 16 year old daughter died of a heroin overdose 10 years ago, escorts these troubled teens to the school. A stand-alone novel by this award winning mystery writer best known for his Tres Navarre series. 340 pp.

Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House Publishers (2022). First edition - A romantic novel set in California's Sierra Nevada mountains, where towns boom and go bust as precious ores are discovered and run out. ". Condition: new. "Banished from Boston by her wealthy stepfather, Kathryn Walsh has come to claim an inheritance from the uncle she never knew: a defunct newspaper office on a main street overflowing with brothels and saloons, and a seemingly worthless mine. Moved by the oppression of the local miners and their families, Kathryn decides to relaunch her uncle's newspaper - and then finds herself in the middle of a maelstrom, pitted against Calvada's most powerful men." Note from author. Publisher's material laid in. 442 pp.

New York: St Martin's, (1994.). First edition - The second medieval mystery in this series featuring the one-eyed spy, Owen Archer. Author's note. 281 pp.

New York: Bantam, (2000). SIGNED first edition - Novel set in the final months of World War II, when decisions were made that affected the future for many years. SIGNED on the title page. Bibliography. 412 pp.

New York: Forge / TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2008). SIGNED first edition - Autobiography of the woman who worked as Harold Robbins' executive assistant for ten years prior to their marriage, and who continued to edithis unfinished manuscripts and develop his ideas into new novels, after his death in 1997. SIGNED on the title page with the words "With all good wishes" and dated in May 2008, several months before publication. 300 pp.

Palo Alto, CA: Perseverance Press , (2004.). First edition - In 1903, widow Charlotte Dodson, housekeeper at a manor in a small Sussex village which has been leased by a mysterious stranger, finds herself in the midst of sinister events involving an escapee from Dartmoor Prison, tales of a vampire on the loose and a fabulous jewel called the Orb of Kezir. With the assistance of Sherlock Holmes, her young son, and her own powers of observation,the resourceful Charlotte untangles this complex web. 259 pp.

np [Emmaus, PA:] Rodale, (2003.). First edition - Autobiography of one of basketball's greatest all-around players - the story of how the NBA was built and his own story of segregation, triumph, and disillusionment when he was forced out of the game. Photographs. Index. 342 pp.

New York: Harper Collins, (2008.). SIGNED first edition - The author's first novel - "a wicked satire about politics, office life, the fashion world, NPR, celebrity, Hollywood, superheroes, villains, and much more." SIGNED on the title page with the words "To Freedom!" 258 pp.

New York: Harper Collins, (2008.). First edition - The author's first novel - "a wicked satire about politics, office life, the fashion world, NPR, celebrity, Hollywood, superheroes, villains, and much more." 258 pp.

New York: Scribner, (2015). First edition - The author's first novel, and first collaboration - at once "a coming-of-age story, a war story, and a story of the disaffected millenial generation for whom the war hardly happened at all" (Phil Klay)

New York: The Free Press, (1999.). First edition - A thoughtful study of how his attitude towards race changed when he went to Brazil - a country which looks at people through a broad spectrum of colors, rather than black and white as in the US. He discovered in the process that racial identity is of great value rather than the burden it had seemed. 271 pp.

New York: Orbit / Hachette, (2017) dj. SIGNED hardcover - A look at New York City a century from now - "As the sea levels rose, every street became a canal. Every skyscraper an island. For the residents of one apartment building in Madison Square, however, New York in the year 2140 is far from a drowned city." INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 613 pp. ISBN: 978-0316262347.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2008.). First edition - The third novel by this award winning writer, finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the Orange Prize, the 2009 Women's Prize for Fiction and the Los Angeles Fiction Award. A completely independent novel but set in the same town of Gilead as her Pulitzer prize winning second novel. 325 pp. Includes a promotional cd.

New York: Morrow, (2007, c. 2008.). SIGNED first edition - A Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks mystery. SIGNED on the title page. 372 pp.

New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2009.). Hardcover - Mystery featuring Detective Inspector Alan Banks and Annie Cabbot, one which probes not the "who" but the "why.' 356 pp.

New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2013.). First edition - A novel in the critically acclaimed and award-winning Chief Inspector Alan Banks series, set in Yorkshire. 354 pp.

New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2015.). First edition - A novel in the critically acclaimed and award-winning Chief Inspector Alan Banks series, set in Yorkshire. 354 pp.

New York: Amulet / Abrams, 2016. First edition - A haunting coming of age story by this award-winning author - "Vivian feels left behind when her older sister, Audra, runs away from home. She believes that Audra will return and pays careful attention to the clues around her. Then, inexplicably, writing begins to appear in a blank notebook." 229 pp.

New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (2013). First edition - His 6th novel, the story of two children who grew up in a religion that predicted the end of the world in the 1980s, and who, when the apocalypse did not happened, wound up living in a world that they did not think would have continued to exist. 214 pp.

New York: Anchor Books / Doubleday, (1997). SIGNED first edition - "Sixty-four-feet tall and made of metal, the neon giant Wendover Will stands in front of the Stateline casino in Wendover, Nevada, facing east. The sign under him reads This Is the Place. Over a hundred miles away in Utah, across the salt flats, stands the statue of Brigham Young, atop his monument, also proclaiming This Is the Place. In this sinister, heartbreaking story, an aged and lonely blackjack dealer who lives in Wendover becomes obsessed with a nineteen-year-old Mormon girl from Bountiful, Utah." The author's first novel, published as a trade paperback original. SIGNED on the title page. 244 pp.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, (2015). SIGNED first edition - Author's highly praised first novel. Kirkus Review in their starred review commented that it "feels just right for our desperate and despairing time, when a miracle - any miracle - will do.. SIGNED by the author on the title page and dated in Oct 2014 (that is, before publication). Finalist for the 2015 L.A. Times Award for First Fiction. 322 pp.