New York: Beaufort Books, (1981) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel (her first won the Pacific Northwest Award for a junior novel) With an instinct she doesn't quite understand, fourteen year old Tally fills the roll of mother to her older sister's baby - a coming of age novel for older children which "makes a simple and universal statement about life and living, and highlights the truth that age is never a measurement for responsibility." 156 pp. ISBN: 0-825300495.

Boston: Little Brown, 1999. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her second novel, one which explores the strains a terrible accident puts on a family - when one child shoots another. Robert Olen Butler called this 'a novel of rare power and profound importance.' SIGNED on the title page. 356 pp. ISBN: 0-316-825336.

New York: Hyperion, (2003.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's intriguing second novel From the dustjacket: "The Woodrow family is at the circus to celebrate Greta's seventh birthday. When a clown asks for a volunteer from the audience, the Woodrows are shocked when James, their extremely shy five-year-old, raises his hand. .. James thrives in the spotlight, and... the parents glow with pride as the audience cheers for their son. The cheers turn into thundering applause as the act culminates in spectacular fashion, with James vanishing before their very eyes. The trouble is that James really does vanish -- into thin air.." Cover praise from Joanna Scott, Margot Livesey and others. 278 pp. ISBN: 0-786867795.

New York: Orion, (1962) dj. Hardcover first edition - The very hard to find first edition of the first novel by this pioneering Hindi writer, the story of a young boy in a small village. It "has acquired the status of a classic in Hindi and, in a way, anticipates his literary journey . .. [He] had no predecessors in Hindi. He decided to depart the dominant mode of realism and explore reality in non-realistic, sometimes surrealistic ways. . . [and he] created a geography of empathy for those who have been thrown or pushed out to the margins of life, society and morality." (Ashok Vajpeyi) Translated from the Hindi by the author. 150 pp.

New York: Dutton, (1977) dj. Hardcover first edition - Her third book for older children - unlike the rest of her family, Quincy didn't draw or act or write. She wanted to be a scientist, and set up her telescope while everyone else swam and played on vacation in Florida - but when a hurricane hit, and gold pieces washed up from a sunken Spanish galleon, everything changed. 166 pp. Wraparound cover art by Richard Cuffari.

New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2018). SIGNED first edition - The author's first novel, set in California's Silicon Valley, this is the story of a first generation Chinese American family as the father is approaching death. A "tale of cultural expectations, career ambitions and our relationships with the people who know us best, [this] skewers the ambition and desires that drive Silicon Valley and draws a sharply loving portrait of modern American family life." SIGNED and dated on the title page. 383 pp.

New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2018). SIGNED first edition - The author's first novel, set in California's Silicon Valley, this is the story of a first generation Chinese American family as the father is approaching death. A "tale of cultural expectations, career ambitions and our relationships with the people who know us best, [this] skewers the ambition and desires that drive Silicon Valley and draws a sharply loving portrait of modern American family life." SIGNED on the title page. 383 pp.

New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Southern author's second novel. When her sister, June, is murdered in the months before Lindy is to be married, she abandons her hometown of Charlotte - her job, her fiance, her shattered family, and her shifty brother-in-law - for Galveston on the Texas coast, where her ailing grandmother has a huge Victorian home, and the chance to leave her grief behind. All that she takes with her to tie her to her old life is June's son, not yet a year old. SIGNED on the title page. 254 pp. ISBN: 0-395926904.

New York: Harper Collins, (2004). Hardcover - An unusual coming-of-age story of a young girl who goes on a cross-country journey to discover the truth about her parents . . "everything about Heidi and her mentally disabled mother's past is a mystery, but when a strange word in her mother's vocabulary begins to haunt her, Heidi sets out on a cross-country journey in search of the secrets of her past." Basis for the film of the same name. 245 pp. ISBN: 0-066236223.

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: Arbor House, (1986) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second book, set in the 60s and 70s, featuring Joe Hank King, a domineering father and the charismatic and "undisputed leader of the counterculture revolution" and the daughter who eventually gets her revenge on him for a lifetime of inflicted damages. 274 pp. ISBN: 0-.87795805.

New York: Dell, (2001). The author's second novel. A humorous look at modern life - and how far it can be from our expectations. 246 pp,. ISBN: 0-38533412.