New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. SIGNED first edition - The fourth collection by this award-winning poet, a sequence of poems which chronicles a father's illness and death as seen by his daughter. INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 79 pp. ISBN: 0-679-740023.

Vancouver, BC: Arsenal Pulp Press, (1998). First edition - Essays, written with "a poet's eye and an explorer's heart" - mostly on Canada, but also ranging into other parts of the "new world" by this award-winning writer. The final essay is a moving meditation on the life and death of a friend. 200 pp. ISBN: 1-551520613.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf / Apple Soup Books, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A girl remembers her brother, just ten months younger than her, and full of life and mischief - until he was killed in a bicycle accident. 89 pp. ISBN: 0-679-877355.

New York: Fromm International, 1995. First edition - At age 72 and facing death from lung cancer, Pawel looks back at his life beginning in 1934 Belgrade, where he and his family moved to from Berlin shortly after the Nazis took power. Pawel is best known for the landmark biography of Franz Kafka "The Nightmare of Reason." 247 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her third novel, 5th book, the story of a woman who must cope with the care of her terminally ill mother at the same time as she learns the joys of caring for her newborn first baby. SIGNED on the title page. ISBN: 0-375-401946.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. First edition - Her third novel, 5th book - the story of a woman who must cope with the care of her terminally ill mother at the same time as she learns the joys of caring for her newborn first baby. 292 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her third novel, 5th book - the story of a woman who must cope with the care of her terminally ill mother at the same time as she learns the joys of caring for her newborn first baby. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. SIGNED on the title page. 292 pp. ISBN: 0-375-401946.

New York: Roaring Brook Press, (2006) dj. Hardcover first edition - "He talks to the dead, and the dead talk to him . . . Murray is a loner who talks to the dead and comforts them in their lonely graves. When Nikki, a murdered cheerleader, asks for help, Murray and Pearl, the daughter of the cemetery caretaker, try to prove that Nikki is closer than anyone thinks." The author's first novel. 225 pp. ISBN: 1596431148.

New York: Atheneum, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His first book for young readers, one which uses the friendship between a boy, grieving over the death of his mother, and an elephant to explore the boundaries between joy and sorrow. SIGNED by the author on a bookplate on the half title page. Frontispiece and dust jacket art by Maurice Sendak. 168 pp. ISBN: 0-689830297.

New York Dial Books. (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of young Prince Rakoto who learns to cope with his father's death by visiting the Wise Woman. Set in nineteenth century Malagasy. Illustrated with watercolors by E.B Lewis. Large format. 32 pp. ISBN: 0-8037-14602.

New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. A completely revised and updated version of the 1983 book, 'The Biology of Religion.' Reveals how religions in all parts of the world meets the needs of ordinary people - includes discussion of such topics as sex in and out of marriage, circumsion, sickness, faith, divorce and widowhood, birth and childhood, and the challenges of modernity. Map, illustrations, notes, index. 322 pp. ISBN: 0-19-5069749.

New York: Norton, 1977 dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of the death of both of his parents, of cancer, within a few months of each other. ISBN: 0-393-087719.

Costa Mesa, CA: Quality Words in Print (QWP), (2003.). First edition - Poet's account of her attempt to deal with grief and to move on in her own life, when her husband, Robert, a Zen priest, died of colitis at the age of 36. The title refers to a Buddhist teaching story. 207 pp.

Boston: Little Brown, (2002) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel - the story of a family's struggle after the disappearance and murder of their fourteen year old daughter, as told by that daughter. 328 pp. ISBN: 0-316-666343.

Los Angeles: J. F. Rowny Press, (1926). Hardcover first edition - Once a month, Granny meets with her own four grandchildren and eight overs, all between 5 and 12 years old to answer one question from each child, answers based on her dreams - the questions range from "is there a Santa Claus?" since it opened at Christmas " to "did all the soldiers who died in the Great War go to the same place?" Topics include vegetarianism, reincarnation, death and dreams and visions. Frontispiece portrait. 104 pp.

New York: Random House, (2006.) dj. First edition - A loving tribute to his wife, published five years after her death. 78 pp. ISBN: 9781400066155.

El Paso, TX: Cinco Puntos Press, (1997). SIGNED first edition - Award-winning writer's second collection of poems - he "has captured the grief of a parent's passage in death, multiplied ten-fold by violence" (Denise Chavez) SIGNED on the title page. Includes a translation of the poems which are in Spanish. 95 pp. ISBN: 0-938317-30X.

New York: Newmarket Press, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Published in the UK under the title 'Wrongful Death' this is the first nonfiction book by this award-winning novelist and artist. Wharton's daughter, her husband and two infant daughters were killed in a highway accident caused by poor visibility due to smoke from field burning - this is an account of how he dealt with his grief and of his fight to get the practice of burning outlawed. INSCRIBED on the dedication page. 246 pp. ISBN: 1557042233.

New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2013). First edition - A young adult novel which "explores the two most powerful forces known to man - death and love. . . Danny's mother lost her battle with cancer three weeks before his graduation - the one day that she was hanging on to see. Now Danny is left alone. . When he gets a letter from his mom's property manager in Tokyo, where she had been going for treatment, it shows a side of a side of his mother he never knew. So, with no other sense of direction, Danny travels to Tokyo to connect with his mother's memory and make sense of her final months."

New York: Harcourt Brace (1990) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "After the death of his beloved owner, a cat named William wins the heart of his grieving mistress and shows her what a good friend a cat can be." SIGNED by illustrator Julia Vivas on half title page. 29 pp. ISBN: 0-15-2006257.