New York: Harlequin Teen, (2017). SIGNED first edition - Author's second young adult novel, one which deals with a very timely and important topic right now: the sometimes unexpected consequences of DNA tests. "Are some things better left unknown? Dana Fieldss father never knew his parents. When Dana secretly does a DNA test for her dad, hoping to find him some distant relatives for his birthday, her entire world implodes. Instead of a few third cousins, Dana discovers a half brother her age whose very existence means her parents happy marriage is a lie." SIGNED on the title page. 328 pp.

New York: Harper & Row, (1984) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Young adult novel set in Atlanta, Georgia and the Blue Ridge Mountains in 1921, a time of turmoil both for the mother and two daughters, and for women as they are fighting for the right to vote, and for society as a whole, with the Ku Klux Klan holding a Grand Konclave at Stone Mountain. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper and dated in the year of publication. 174 pp. ISBN: 0-060230630.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2010). Hardcover first edition - Set in Virginia, this is the second mystery featuring Elizabeth Parker, a Jane Austen-quoting sleuth. "Elizabeth suspected that fulfilling her duties as maid-of-honor for her best friend, Bridget, was going to be murder. And no sooner is the last grain of rice thrown thanshe finds herself staring into the dead eyes of Bridgets Aunt Roni, a woman whose death is almost as universally celebrated as Bridgets nuptials." 291 pp. ISBN: 978-0312537579.

New York: Poseidon Press, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's debut novel, the story of four women who first meet as freshmen roommates at Radcliffe College in 1972, all daughters of famous men, all bright and ambitious. ISBN: 0-67160760X.

Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A story of growing up and surviving in a dysfunctional family, with an abusive father. When Sandra was eight, "her mother went to the hospital to give birth--only to return without the baby.For the next ten years, her family--with her alcoholic father at the helm and her mother battling depression--traveled across the country from West Virginia to California and back again in search of stability, each destination holding out the elusive promise of 'making it.'" INSCRIBED on the title page with the words 'Peace Love.' 455 pp. ISBN: 1-585748544.

Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A story of growing up and surviving in a dysfunctional family, with an abusive father. When Sandra was eight, "her mother went to the hospital to give birth--only to return without the baby.For the next ten years, her family--with her alcoholic father at the helm and her mother battling depression--traveled across the country from West Virginia to California and back again in search of stability, each destination holding out the elusive promise of 'making it.'" SIGNED on the title page and dated 5-31-03 - in the year of publication. 455 pp. ISBN: 1-585748544.

New York & London: The Toby Press, (2006). First edition - The story of a friendship which grew out a chance between between three young children in the 1930s in a small midwestern town. 178 pp.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A coming-of-age story set in a small Appalachian town. SIGNED and dated on the title page by Lowry. 192 pp. ISBN: 0-395-436079.

New York: Philomel Books, (2006) dj. Hardcover first edition - A holiday novel and a sports story - "Josh Cameron has it all: a World Championship ring with the Boston Celtics, an MVP award, a clean-cut image, and the adoration of millions. What he doesn't have is family. Until the day 12-year-old smartaleck Molly Parker confronts him in a parking lot and claims to be his daughter." 246 pp. ISBN: 0-399244883.

New York: Moyer Bell, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - Scottish-born author's seventh novel, her most complex, as it moves between New Zealand in the early 1900s and contemporary London. Brief bibliography. 341 pp.

New York: Akashic Books, (2019). SIGNED hardcover first edition - With his trademark humor, Mansbach "tackles a new addition to the family and all the fears and frustrations attendant to the simple, math-defying fact that two is a million more kids than one. As you probably know by now, you shouldn't read it to a child." Illustrated by Owen Brozman. INSCRIBED by Mansbach on the title page with the words "Play nice." Small oblong format, unpaginated. ISBN: 978-1617757600.

New York: William H. Morrow, (1985) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a comic story of two Italian-American families attempting to adjust to life in Depression-era America. 251 pp. ISBN: 0-688-042503.

Toronto: Park Row Books, (2019). SIGNED first edition - A book which is part memoir, part beekeeping odyssey, the story of "a girl, her grandfather and one of natures most mysterious and beguiling creatures: the honeybee. Meredith May recalls the first time a honeybee crawled on her arm. She was five years old, her parents had recently split and suddenly she found herself in the care of her grandfather, an eccentric beekeeper who made honey in a rusty old military bus in the yard. . . The bees became a guiding force in May's life, teaching her about family and community, loyalty and survival and the unequivocal relationship between a mother and her child." SIGNED on the title page. 321 pp plus author's note.

New York: Touchstone / Simon & Schuster, (2003). First edition - The author's first novel, issued as a trade paperback original and set during the last weekend of the summer of 1984. Hank Toohey, "a thirteen-year-old altar boy, is an incessant smart-ass with a deep love of life...and other four-letter words.. . Everyone up and down St. Patrick Street, Henry's claustrophobic Irish-Catholic block in Philadelphia -- with its seventy-eight row homes, seventy-eight skinny mile-high lawns, seventy-eight statues of saints, and seventy-eight Mondale-Ferraro signs -- knows that the Toohey family is falling apart." 286 pp plus a reading guide.

Asheboro, NC: Down Home Press, (2000) dj. Hardcover first edition - North Carolina writer's second memoir, one which finds him "smack-dab in middle age: he's a 45-year-old cancer survivor who has piled his brother, his two kids, and his mother into a Winnebago and set off west to see the Rocky Mountains. But this is no mere road trip re-creation; it's a series of funny, sad, always fascinating glimpses of a life that was often lived too close to the edge." (Booklist). Among the twists and turns of this book is the discovery that the cancer he thought he had beaten years before is back. 259 pp. ISBN: 1-878086855.

New York: Atria / Emily Bestler Books, (2018). SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's third novel, a thriller set in northern Minnesota in the Boundary Waters area. "Ten years ago a man and his son trekked into this wilderness asnd never returned, until now." SIGNED on the title page. 319 pp. ISBN: 978-1501177361.

New York: Liveright / Norton, (2014). First edition - The author's first novel, the story of two sisters on a pre-apocalyptic road trip, with their evangelical father who is sure the ending of the world is near. 231 pp.

New York: Harper & Row, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, third book, the story of the impact on a family of an autistic child. 389 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0163976.

New York: Harper & Row, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, third book, The author's second novel, third book, one which spans forty years in the life of a large Chicago family as it explores the effect on the family of a beautiful autistic son. 389 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0163976.

New York: Harper & Row, (1990.). First edition - The author's second novel, third book, one which spans forty years in the life of a large Chicago family as it explores the effect on the family of a beautiful autistic son. 330 pp.

New York: Harper & Row, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, third book, The author's second novel, third book, one which spans forty years in the life of a large Chicago family as it explores the effect on the family of a beautiful autistic son. 389 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0163976.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2018) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Sixth book by the author of "The Paper Chase." A couple Living in San Francisco, recently separated, with two children and demanding jobs, have started going to a marriage counselor. This novel unfolds over the course of ten months and takes place entirely in the marriage counselors office - the story of a fractured couple in a moment of crisis, and of the person who tries to get them to see each other again. SIGNED on the title page. 246 pp. ISBN: 978-0374192020.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1972. dj. Hardcover first edition - Attractive copy of this classic psychological study of the development of mental illness (including one child who became schizophrenic) in a comfortable upper-middle class family. 333 pgs.

New York: St Martin's, (2014) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel which explores the bonds between brothers; a young man returns to Southern California from serving in Afghanistan only to discover that a wildfire has destroyed his family's avocado ranch and that his brother has been drawn into a circle of violent misfits. A literary novel by this Edgar award winning author. SIGNED on the title page. 278 pp. ISBN: 9781250052001.

New York: Donald I. Fine, Inc., (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - His highly praised first novel, about the life of a Devon village as they live through the devastating drought year of 1984, as told through the eyes of a 13 year old girl, the youngest child in a family of prosperous farmers. In addition to praise from such diverse writers as Salman Rushdie and A. S. Byatt, one British reviewer called it "more perfect than any first novel deserves to be." Winner of the the Ruth Hadden Memorial Award in 1993 and the Hawthornden Prize in 1994. 310 pp. ISBN: 1-556114230.