New York: Bloomsbury, (2011). SIGNED first edition - The author's second novel, set in the early 1970s among the giant redwood trees of California's Lost Coast in Humboldt County, the story of a nearly broken and abandoned boy who finds a new home. SIGNED on the title page. 287 pp.

New York: Scholastic, (2002). First edition - Young adult novel about a boy obsessed with fire (issued as a trade paperback original). 195 pp. ISBN: .

New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2013). First edition - The story of a deadly dance hall fire in 1929 and its impact on several generations - 164 pp.

New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2013). First edition - The story of a deadly dance hall fire in 1929 and its impact on several generations - 164 pp.

New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2019). SIGNED first edition - Southern author's second novel. "Moving from Mississippi to Paris to New York and back again, a saga of family, ambition, passion, and tragedy that brings to life one unforgettable Southern dynasty - the Forsters, founders of the worlds first major soft-drink company - against the backdrop of more than a century of American cultural history." SIGNED on the title page and dated in 2018, that is, before publication. 384 pp.

New York: SOHO Press, (2002). First edition - The third novel in the award winning series featuring Shanghai Police Inspector Chen Cao. 310 pp.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1997. First edition - Second novel by this highly praised young Hawaiian writer, the story of a ragtag group of orphans trying to stay together.

New Milford, CT: The Toby Press, (2006). First edition - A collection of thirteen short stories, issued as a trade paperback original. 163 pp.

New York: Morrow, (1988). SIGNED first edition - An intimate look at the lives of two young couples in New York City, both of whom have a baby boy born the same year - a provocative look at the challenges of parenthood in the 1980s. SIGNED on the title page. 523 pp.

New York: Harper Collins, (2007). First edition - First book - and first in a trilogy - by this young author, who was born in China, came to the US with her parents at age 7, and wrote this just a few years later to give a message of peace to the world. Illustrated. 219 pp.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2013). First edition - The first novel by this writer whose first book, a collection of short stories, won several awards. This is a spare and beautifully written account of a Korean, who after two years as a prisoner-of-war refused repatriation to the North, and instead accepted a chance to go to Brazil, where he was placed in a job working for a Japanese tailor. 194 pp.

Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks / Media Fusion, (2007.). SIGNED first edition - "Like Harlem renaissance poet Langston Hughes, who first popularized the blues as a poetic form, California Poet Laureate Al Young has written about the blues, played the blues and drawn inspiration from the blues." 120 poems in the book plus this includes an audio CD with "More than 60 minutes of gripping, dynamic blues poetry (often with a live band), plus Langston Hughes' soulful reading of 'The Weary Blues'."SIGNED on the title page. Square format. 254 pp.

New York: Crown, (2013). SIGNED first edition - The author's first novel, second book, a psychological thriller. "Josephine Hurst has her family under control. With two beautiful daughters, a brlliantly intelligent son, a tech-guru of a husband, and a historical landmark home, her life is picture perfect. But living in this matriarch's determinedly cheerful yet subtly controlling domain hasn't been easy for her family." SIGNED on the title page. 360 pp.

New York: Gotham / Penguin, (2012.). SIGNED first edition - His last book - a tribute to hopes we have for our daughters - "Thousands of women have stepped inside Becker's Bridal, in Fowler, Michigan, to try on their dream dresses in the Magic Room, a special space with soft lighting, a circular pedestal, and mirrors that carry a bride's image into infinity. . . Run by the same family for four generations, Becker's has witnessed transformations in how America views the institution of marriage: some of the shop's clientele are becoming stepmothers, some are older brides, some are pregnant." SIGNED on the title page, and very uncommon thus - Zaslow was killed in an automobile crash just a month after this book was released.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1995. SIGNED first edition - The author's first novel, one which combines intrigue and history. Set in Paris in 1892, a city embroiled in a political scandal involving the French Panama Canal Company; the protagonist is the American historian and author Henry Adams, grandson and great-grandson of President Adams. SIGNED on the title page. Editor's letter bound in at the front of the book. 375 pp. .

New York: Tom Doherty Assoc, 1994. First edition - Epic novel of the Mexican Revolution of 1914; blurbs by Tony Hillerman among others. Author has won the Golden Spur award twice.

New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2010). First edition - The first novel in a series based on the seven deadly sins. When the battered body of Irini Asimakopoulo is found at the foot of a high cliff it is written off as a suicide or accident, until a mysterious investigator Hermes Diaktoros ("the fat man") arrives from Athens on the island of Thiminos to look into her death. 322 pp.