New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2002. First edition - A book in which the author also wrestles with good and evil. "Delacroix, a narrative artist of the mid 19th century, portrayed one of the most enigmatic episodes in Genesis. It was said to be his 'spiritual testimony,' and it took him eight years to complete. In the manner of an intuitive detective, Kauffmann investigates the painting and the church that houses it. Stroke by meticulous stroke, he uncovers the paintings deeper meaning the struggle with God for the artist and for himself, as he attempts to put his own troubled past into perspective." (A foreign correspondent, he was imprisoned in Beirut from 1985 to 1988) Translated from the French by Patricia Clancy. Bibliography. 198 pp.

New York: Hyperion, (1995). SIGNED first edition thus- An advance copy of this trade paperback reissue of Burke's long out of print first novel, the story of three men in Louisiana struggling to escape their lives (the back cover notes that this title had been unavailable since 1969). SIGNED on the title page. An uncommon advance issue, and scarce signed. 279 pp.

New York: Harcourt, Inc., (2002). First edition - A novel about starting over late in life - "Candida Wilton - a woman recently betrayed, rejected, divorced, and alienated from her three grown daughters - moves from a beautiful Georgian house in Suffolk to a two-room walk-up flat in a run-down building in central London. Is the move perversity, she wonders, a survival test, or is she punishing herself? How will she adjust to this shabby, menacing, but curiously appealing city? And yet, as she climbs the dingy communal staircase with her suitcases, she feels both nervous and exhilarated." 307 pp.

New York: Hyperion, (2005). First edition - The author's third thriller, the story of a young woman far too involved in drugs and violence, and "the flawed father forced to come to the rescue. It's been three years since 17 year old Lydia Carson ran away from her privileged home in West Los Angeles. . . One afternoon Lydia finds herself guarding the back door of a house in Topanga Canyon during a shakedown. As murderous violence erupts, Lydia herself becomes a target. She escapes down a creek and through the hillsides to the shore - alone, destitute, and frightened. Her last option is John Link, her blood father, who has just come off a long prison sentence for violent crimes of his own." 308 pp.

New York: Twelve, 2017
(2017). First edition - The personal account of "an award-winning comedian who decided to run for office and then discovered why award-winning comedians tend not to do that. . . about our deeply polarized, frequently depressing, occasionally inspiring political culture, written from inside the belly of the beast" (that is while Franken was still the Senator from Minnesota) "Flips the classic born-in-a-shack rise to political office tale on its head. I skipped meals to read this book - also unusual - because every page was funny. It made me deliriously happy." (Louise Erdrich, NY Times) 395 pp.

London: Jonathan Cape / Vintage, (1992). A novel which blends the worlds of spirits and the world of the born in the story of Azaro, a spirit-child, an "abiku" in the Yoruba language or one born to die. Winner of the Booker Prize. 500 pp. Has an "Advance Reading Copy" sticker on it for the Doubleday 1992 edition.

New York: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster, (2019). First edition - Uncommon advance issue of the author's first book - true stories about the sex lives of three real - and very different - American women, based on nearly a decade of reporting. In suburban Indiana, there is Lina, a homemaker and mother of two whose marriage, after a decade, has lost its passion; in North Dakota, there is Maggie, a high school student who allegedly who has a clandestine relationship with her married English teacher, and in the Northeast, there is Sloane, a successful restaurant owner, happily married to a man who likes to watch her have sex with other men and women. Publisher's letter laid in. 302 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. First edition - A "novel of family and redemption, as a mother struggles to save her eighteen-year-old daughter from the devastating consequences of mental illness by forcing her to deal with her bipolar disorder" by this award-winning African American author. 319 pp.

Denver: McAdam / Cage, (2004). First edition - The author's highly praised second novel - The seemingly perfect lives of the affluent Winters family in suburban New York begin to unravel when their five-year-old daughter, Ellie, mysteriously vanishes. 15 years later, Caroline, Ellie's older sister, working as a cocktail waitress in New Orleans, sees a photograph in People magazine, and convinced it is her sister, now grown, embarks for a search for her - through the New Mexico desert, the Colorado mountains, Montana and more. Andrew Sean Greer commented that Ward "shines her with the same brilliance and humor she showed in her first novel." 291 pp.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2023). SIGNED first edition - Novel featuring Martin Hench, a self-employed forensic accountant who roams California in a comfortable touring bus - a story of "cryptocurrency, global financial shenigans and the secret wars that underlie the modern world. " SIGNED on the title page. An uncommon advance issue with the pages in typescript. 415 pp.

Freedom, California: Crossing Press, (1991). SIGNED first edition - Collects 15 stories by women writers. SIGNED by S, J. Rozan at her story 'Prosperity Restaurant.' Also includes stories by Caroline Stafford, Barbara Wilson, Judith Post and others. Notes on contributors. 194 pp.

New York: Ace Books, 1994. First edition - The third book in this series which continues to explore Asimov's three laws of robotics. 304 pp.

New York: Henry Holt, (2019). First edition - Her fifth novel, winner of the National Book Award, among other honors. The Washington Post commented "Choi's voice blends an adolescent's awe with an adult's irony. It's a letter-perfect satire of the special strain of egotism and obsession that can fester in academic settings. . . . [she is] a master of emotional pacing: the sudden revelation, the unexpected attack. . . . How cunningly this novel considers the way teenage sexuality is experienced, manipulated, and remembered. . . . The result is a dramatic exploration of the distorting forces of memory, envy, and art." 222 pp.

New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2012). SIGNED first edition - The title almost says it all - although among the things which Janzen faces in this book is a diagnosis of cancer. "Breezy despite the weighty subject matter... Janzen's wit and love of fashion keep things light, but her conversion to Pentecostalism after a miraculous return to health sends the book into serious seekers' territory." (People). SIGNED on the title page. 245 pp.

San Francisco: City Lights Books, (2016). First edition - A book written shortly before Trump's Electoral College victory, and more urgent and important now than ever. Author Chris Hedges calls this "a brilliant analysis of corporate power and the popular mechanisms that can be used to wrest back our democracy. No one has been fighting corporate domination longer, or understands it better, than Nader, who will go down in history not only as a prophet but an example of what it means to live the moral life. We disregard his wisdom and his courage at our peril." Endnotes. 153 pp.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2007). First edition - Sequel to her award-winning young adult novel, Earthseed, the second book in the Seed Trilogy. More than twenty years have passed since Ship left it children on an uninhabited earthlike planet called Home, but divisions arose among the settlers - 287 pp.

New York: Villard, (2005). First edition - The author's first novel, a story of life in a failing big-top circus (by an author who worked in one himself) and of a college drop-out who somehow manages to survive all the bad choices he made. Upon publication the title was changed to simply "Serpent Girl." 197 pp.

New York: Harcourt, Inc., (2006). First edition - Novel by this award-winning writer, best known for his non-fiction, set in New Orleans in 1913. "Francis Muldoon is a special policeman in the notorious Storyville District of New Orleans in 1913. His job is to see that the DistrictÕs volatile mixture of sex, alcohol, and gambling doesnÕt boil over but instead rolls along at a continuous simmer. Once a member of the cityÕs regular police force, he now works for the DistrictÕs vice lord, Tom Anderson, patrolling his patronÕs honky-tonks and saloons and whorehouses - both the high-priced bordellos and the coffinlike cribs where the girls work with only a cot and a washbasin." An uncommon advance issue. 348 pp.

New York: Henry Holt, (2017). First edition - Written for young adults, and based on over 600 letters that Vincent wrote to his brother Theo, this is story of a deep and enduring friendship between these brothers - and also of Jo, Theo's widow, who perserved Vincent's paintings, believing in their importance, and eventually organized a successful exhibition. A Printz Honor Book, YALSA Nonfiction Award Winner, Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Winner and more. Include a list of the people, a timeline, bibliography and notes. 451 pp.

New York: Harper & Row, (1984). First edition - The author's first horror novel, the story of a "morally repulsive Twin Cities executive who murders his estranged wife and attempts to go back to business as usual, until she returns sets about arranging his divine retribution. With help from her dead mother and the ghost of poet John Berryman-thoroughly bored of suburban sances and all too eager to lend a hand-Giselle undertakes the elaborate, righteous, and wickedly amusing haunting of her husband." An uncommon advance issue. 297 pp.

New York: St Martin's, (1999). SIGNED first edition - A Pacific Northwest mystery - the 4th featuring Venus Diamond, a US Fish and Wildlife Agent, who is inveFine in fine dust jacket.stigating an elite research center off the coast of Washington. SIGNED on the title page. 274 pp. ISBN: 0-312-193645.

New York: Ballantine, (1990). First edition - A novel set in the far reaches of the solar system by the writer who was just the second to be named Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America (Heinlein was the first). A scarce advance copy. 293 pp.

London: Michael Joseph, (1996). First edition - International thriller set in the Himalayas in 1961 featuring Paul Chavasse, the dramatic tale of the rescue of a scientist from Chinese soil who held information vital to the West. 248 pp.

New York: Scribner's, (2002.). SIGNED first edition - Fifth mystery featuring featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan. The author is herself a forensic anthropologist for both the state of North Carolina and the province of Quebec - This one is set in Guatemala, where the unidentified bodies of 20 young women and children, massacred by soldiers in 1982, have been recovered from a well. Recommended - an excellent series, better in my opinion, than the Patricia Cornwell books. SIGNED on the title page. The popular television series "Bones" is nominally based on these books. 315 pp.