New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1980) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, set in South Carolina, where the Jackson family has gathered for the funeral of the matriarch - and to face the practical implications of her death. 237 pp. ISBN: 0-684165988.

New York: Dial Press, (2018) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - First book for children by this Pulitzer prize winning author, who was 'islandborn' himself - in the Dominican Republic. SIGNED on the title page and dated in April 2018. Illustrated by Leo Espinosa. Large format, unpaginated. ISBN: 978-0735229860.

New York & Boston: Little, Brown & Co. (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel about the heartache and personal trials and tribulations of growing up within a dysfunctional family. At age 20, Cheevey lives in a house of ominous silence and he seems to be the only one who cares that things are not right. 297 pp. ISBN: 0-316-185493.

Walnut Creek, CA: Komenar, (2008) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, set in California's Salinas Valley in 1975, where 17 year old Sheila finds her world changing at an overwhelming pace. SIGNED by the author and dated in the year of publication. 286 pp. ISBN: 9780981727103.

New York: Atheneum. (2018) dj. Hardcover first edition - A thoughtful story about race and divorce and families written for older children by this award winning author. Eleven-year-old Isabellas blended family is more divided than ever - one week she lives with her black father, the next with her white mother - and it feels like all of their fights are over her. "What does it mean to be half white or half black? To belong to half mom and half dad? And if youre only seen as half of this and half of that, how can you ever feel whole?" 308 pp. ISBN: 978-1442495005.

New York: Henry Holt, (1995). First edition - The author's fifth collection, a slim book of 21 prose poems, in which he meditates on the dying of his cold and unloving father. 33 pp. ISBN: 0-805036687.

New York: St Martin's, (1979) dj. Hardcover first edition - Southern author's first novel (and the only book she published using Hudlow as her name) A sensitive and gripping portrait of a young woman with the frightening disease of anorexia nervosa and her relationships with her parents, her new husband and her psychiatrist. 240 pp. ISBN: 0-312017022.

New York: Henry Holt, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's 11th novel. "George Light is a restless man whose career in TV has never had his full commitment. At 50, he is temporarily working in Denver, amicably separated from his wife, who has remained in Manhattan. They have a beautiful daughter, a college senior. Women's behavior mystifies Light. 'Men and women still stare at each other across an abyss,' he thinks; it's an age-old situation exacerbated by the new morality of the 80s. But in his case the abyss is deeper than Light suspects." (Publishers Weekly) 282 pp. ISBN: 0-80501067X.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's third novel, set mostly in a small town in upstate New York, a book which "paints the numbing routine of lives which appear stagnant but are fraught with violent change." Warmly INSCRIBED on the half title page "For --- whose poetry defies gravity" and dated in the year of publication. 303 pp. ISBN: 0-684-800918.

Livingston, Montana: Clark City Press, (1992) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - In a novel about family, set in California, and spanning the years from 1978-1991, as seen by three protagonists - Billy who has bored two wives into leaving him, his bitter sister, Ann; and their efficient cousin, Kay whom they both resent and rely on. Boldly INSCRIBED on the front endpaper, and dated in the year of publication. 228 pp. Dust jacket art by Russell Chatham. ISBN: 0-944439462.

New York: Putnam, (1996.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's third novel, the story of a young girl who moves from an abandoned citrus grove in Florida to a transient motel in the city where she meets Miss Zora, a healer. SIGNED on the title page. 272 pp. ISBN: 0-399141294.

New York: Putnam, (1996.). First edition - Author's third novel, the story of a young girl who moves from an abandoned citrus grove in Florida to a transient motel in the city where she meets Miss Zora, a healer. 272 pp.

New York: Ballantine, (2011). Hardcover first edition - Her third novel, a story of two families caught up in a legal nightmare when Anthony sends his girl friend a nude picture of himself - and her father discovers it on her computer and calls the police. Not just "ripped from the headline", this was inspired by Fowler's own 19 year old son's arrest for "sexting." Author's note. 366 pp. ISBN: 978-0345515537.

New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (2016). Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a New York Times Book Review editor's choice, set in Houston, Texas. "Anna's daughter, Julie, was kidnapped from her own bedroom when she was thirteen years old, while Anna slept just downstairs, unaware that her daughter was being ripped away from her. For eight years, she has lived with the guilt and the void in her family, hoping against hope that Julie is still alive. And then one night, the doorbell rings. A young woman who appears to be Julie is finally, miraculously, home safe. Anna and the rest of the family are thrilled, but soon Anna begins to see holes in Julie's story." 273 pp. ISBN: 978-0544920958.

New York: Crown, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second novel, set in a quiet seaside town where a young widow is struggling to raise her 6 year old daughter and finds her career as a children's writer at a standstill, 278 pp. ISBN: 0-517-559900.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel (preceded by an award winning collection of short stories) "1953, Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. Chenia Arnow is a petite, sensuous Betty Grable look-alike, a Russian emigre whose Old World fear of the Evil Eye and heavily accented English cannot mask her fierce intelligence and wit. Her husband, Ruben, is both a charmer and miserly, often absent, with a penchant for trumped-up lawsuits. He has a mistress. Chenia is pregnant. It is this child, Chenia's daughter Devorah, who tells the story of her parents' marriage." 388 pp. ISBN: -375408924.

New York: Random House, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A memoir about her search to discover the truth about her father, who died when she was just seven. INSCRIBED on the title page "For -- with thanks for your intelligence and care." xiv, 274 pp. ISBN: 0-679428852.

New York: St Martin's, (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's "darkly funny" first novel, set in the summer of 1967, this is the story of an adolescent boy struggling to find suburban normality, despite a philandering mother, a father driven to drink and an autistic brother. 208 pp. ISBN: 0-312150709.

New York: Atheneum, 1980. dj. Hardcover first edition - When 14 year old Joshua moves from San Francisco to Santa Rosa with his mother and sister, he is hoping for a life different from that of the counter culture in which he had been living with his divorced mother and her friends. 152 pp. ISBN: 0-689307772.

New York: Harper & Row, (1984.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A provocative look at American families and especially our child rearing habits by this noted feminist. Boldly and very personally INSCRIBED on the half title page "For -- (difficult, proud, exciting, dangerous) with love" Notes, index. xii, 539 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0151404.

Mansfield, TX: Latitudes Press, (1991). First edition - The author's first novel, a story about a boy, one of five brothers, growing up in a household dominated by the grandfather, in a huge house built right after the Civil War and set on 40 acres of pecan trees, which made it almost like an island in the West Texas 'wasteland.' It was a life that seemed "almost happy" but Stephen knew that things were not as they seemed. Hanging over the family was the empty seat for his father, an alcoholic often absent as he sought oblivion in the bottle. 159 pp. ISBN: 0-941179354.

New York: Harper Collins, (2016). First edition - The author's highly praised sixth novel, in which three sisters, a brother, and their children assemble at their country house - one prohibitively expensive to maintain, so they will be forced to sell it - but in these three weeks hidden passions and devastating secrets begin to come to the surface. Winner of the Windham Campbell Prize and on several best book of the year lists, including the Washington Post, Time, San Francisco Chronicle and more. 361 pp.

New York: Gallery Books / Simon & Schuster, (2016). SIGNED first edition - Set in Australia, this is the author's first novel, one told from the alternating points of view of 12-year old Ethan, a gifted boys and each of his parents - his overprotective mother and the father who suddenly appears in his life. SIGNED on the title page. 359 pp.

New York: Ballantine, 2001. First edition - In this literary debut, Joanna Hershon tells of the ever-evolving aftermath of one tragic summer weekend for the Wheeler family in New Hampshire. A pond, an accident, a loss, a search, a recovery - the chain of events in the novel is not as important as their effects or the feelings inside each conscious act. At the center of the novel lies a young girl named Lila, whose search for truth will not let her forget that summer night long ago.

New York: Ballantine, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel one which describes aftermath of ae tragic summer weekend for the Wheeler family in New Hampshire. A pond, an accident, a loss, a search, a recovery - SIGNED on the title page. 356 pp. ISBN: 0-345439147.

New York: Metropolitan Books / Henry Holt, (2012). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A book which points out how "everything that was once part of private life love, friendship, child rearing is being transformed into packaged expertise to be sold back to confused, harried Americans. . . From dating services that train you to be the CEO of your love life to wedding planners who create a couple's 'personal narrative'; from nameologists (who help you name your child) to wantologists (who help you name your goals)" INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Photographs, extensive notes, bibliography, index. 300 pp. ISBN: 978-0805088892.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1972. Contributors include Gail Sheehy, Anne Roiphe, Spock, Caroline Bird and others.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's fourth novel, about a murder in a small Colorado town - "Two weeks before Christmas, Diana Duprey, an outspoken abortion doctor, is found floating in her pool, a bruise the size of a golf ball visible through her dark curls. A national figure, Diana inspired passion and ignited tempers, never more so than on the day of her death." 285 pp. ISBN: 0-307263665.

New York: Putnam, (1988). First edition - The author's second novel - one which "traces the need of sisters Rosie and Noonie to choose their own lifestyles even as they continue seeking the approval of their eccentric mother, Elsa Gluck. Estranged by Rosie's lesbianism, the three women are brought together again by the failure of Noonie's traditional marriage and Elsa's terminal cancer." (Library Journal) 261 pp.

New York: Putnam, (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel - one which "traces the need of sisters Rosie and Noonie to choose their own lifestyles even as they continue seeking the approval of their eccentric mother, Elsa Gluck. Estranged by Rosie's lesbianism, the three women are brought together again by the failure of Noonie's traditional marriage and Elsa's terminal cancer." (Library Journal) 268 pp. ISBN: 0-399133577.