New York: Black Cat - Grove / Atlantic, (2013). First edition - Satirical novel issued as a trade paperback original - a "super-fun, super-wild and sneakily thoughtful take on American literary and entertainment excesses." 276 pp.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2013). SIGNED first edition - A damning picture of today's Russia, a novel inspired by the slain journalist and freedom fighter Anna Politkovskaya. SIGNED on the title page. 290 pp.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2013). First edition - A damning picture of today's Russia, a novel inspired by the slain journalist and freedom fighter Anna Politkovskaya. 290 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. First edition - The author's first book, basis for the movie of the same name starring Bill Paxton, and Billy Bob Thornton. A young man living an ordinary life, accountant, married with a starter house in suburbia, stumbles upon a crashed plane with 4 million dollars in cash, and he makes what seems like a harmless decision. 329 pp.

New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2012.). First edition - The final novel in the award-winning Child 44 trilogy. Former secret police agent Leo Demidov is forbidden to travel with his family to the US as part of a "Peace Tour" and when that ends in tragedy, he is forbidden to investigate. An epic novel ranging from the 1950s and 1960s to the Soviet war in Afghanistan in the 1980s. 467 pp.

New York: Penguin, 2016. First edition - A novel which moves from Northwest London to Africa, the story of two brown girls who dream of being dancers, although only one has talent. By the author of the award winning "White Teeth." A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. 453 pp.

New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2015). First edition - The second book in this series of alternate history books - "In Reconstruction-era America, vampire Henry Sturges is searching for renewed purpose in the wake of his friend Abraham Lincoln's shocking death. Henry's will be an expansive journey that first sends him to England for an unexpected encounter with Jack the Ripper, then to New York City for the birth of a new American century, the dawn of the electric era of Tesla and Edison, and the blazing disaster of the 1937 Hindenburg crash." 348 pp.

New York: HarperTeen /Harper Collins, (2008). SIGNED first edition - The author's first novel for young adults, issued as a trade paperback original. Ever since Claire hit her teens, electrical storms cause her to switch bodies. Usually she's back to her old self in no time, but then something goes terribly wrong . . . SIGNED on the title page. 215 pp.

New York: Warner, (2002). First edition - The true stories of a Manhattan Supreme Court Justice judge and her account of years on the bench, behind the courtroom trials, and how her rulings have placed a permanent stamp on the legal system. 338 pp.

New York: Walker, (1999.). SIGNED first edition - A look at Galileo's life, his discoveries, and his clash with Catholic doctrine, based on the letters of Maria Celeste, a cloistered nun and the daughter and confidant of Galileo, which the author translated them from the original Italian. SIGNED on the title page. Illustrated. Chronology, bibliography, notes and index. 420 pp.

New York: Crown, (2013). First edition - The author's first novel, a thriller about an international crime family. Translated from the Swedish by Neil Smith. 446 pp.

New York: Other Press, (2019). First edition - A novel by this prize-winning Turkish writer, a story of "one man's search for identity and meaning in Istanbul after the loss of his memory. . . [he] can't recall why he wished to end his life. He remembers only things that are unrelated to himself, but confuses their timing. . . His mind falters when remembering civilizations, while life, like a labyrinth, leads him down different paths." Translated from the Turkish by Umit Hussein. Brief glossary. 177 pp.

New York: Kensington, (1999.). First edition - A Mickey Rawlings novel - a story involving the Negro Leagues, set in 1922 in St Louis when the Ku Klux Klan was growing in influence in the Midwest, and of the struggle against Jim Crow laws. After a game between a semi-pro team and a black team, the black pitcher is found hanging on the field. 263 pp.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2019). First edition - The author's first novel for children. "In the humdrum town of Moormouth, Walter Mortinsons unusual inventions cause nothing but trouble. After one of his contraptions throws the town into chaos, Walters mother demands he cut the nonsense and join the family mortuary business. Instead, Walter runs away in the family hearse along with Cordelia, the moody girl next door with one eye and plenty of secrets. Together they journey through a strange landscape of fish-people, giantess miners, and hypnotized honeybees in an adventure that will not only reveal the truth about Walters past, but direct his future." 327 pp.

New York: Harcourt, Inc., (2003.). SIGNED first edition - A young adult novel - "you'd think being murdered would be the end of things, but for Chuy, that's when his life finally gets interesting." Set in Fresno, California where Soto grew up himself. SIGNED on the title page. Glossary of Spanish words and phrases. 161 pp.

New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. First edition - A powerful collection of essays by this Nobel Laureate writer, originally delivered at Harvard University in 1997 as the inaugural lectures at the W. E. B. DuBois Institute Macmillan series. " In the face of centuries-long devastation wrought on the African continent and her diaspora by slavery, colonialism, apartheid and racism, what form of recompense could possibly be adequate? .... Soyinka examines the question, illuminating the principle duty and 'near intolerable burden' of memory to bear the record of injustice." Leopold Senghor, Martin Luther King, the genocide in Sudan, the atrocities in Nigeria are just a few of the topics Soyinka touches on. Publisher's material laid in. 192 pp

New York: Doubleday, (2000). First edition - A "wickedly amusing and subversive novel in years, a savagely witty tale of murder and escape based on the notorious real-life case of Lord Lucan.' If you are a fan of Spark, as I am, you will love this. 182 pp.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2011.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel in the award winning Clare Fergusson / Russ Van Alstyne mystery series, set in the small New England town of Millers Kill. SIGNED on the title page. 327 pp. ISBN: 0-312-312644.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2005.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fourth novel in the award winning Clare Fergusson / Russ Van Alstyne mystery series, set in the small New England town of Millers Kill. SIGNED on the title page. 311 pp. ISBN: 0-312-334850.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2011.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel in the award winning Clare Fergusson / Russ Van Alstyne mystery series, set in the small New England town of Millers Kill. SIGNED on the title page. 327 pp. ISBN: 0-312-312644.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2005.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fourth novel in the award winning Clare Fergusson / Russ Van Alstyne mystery series, set in the small New England town of Millers Kill. SIGNED on the title page. 311 pp. ISBN: 0-312-334850.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2013.). SIGNED first edition - Novel in the award winning Clare Fergusson / Russ Van Alstyne mystery series, set in the small New England town of Millers Kill. SIGNED on the title page. 355 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. SIGNED first edition - The author's first novel, an edgy suspense story of white collar crime in the world of high finance (a world with which the author, who worked on Wall Street for 20 years, is very familiar.) SIGNED by author. Winner of the Shamus Award for best first PI novel. 283 pp.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2011). First edition - A Kate Shugak mystery novel, set in Alaska. 446 pp.

New York: HarperCollins, (1994). SIGNED first edition - The author's third mystery set in South Florida. Although this has a glossy cover, the text itself is in a typescript format. SIGNED on the first page. 424 pp.