New York: Simon & Schuster, (2019) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "In 1941, during humanity's darkest hour, three unforgettable young women must act with courage and love to survive. . . In Berlin, at the time when the world changed, Hanni Kohn knows she must send her twelve-year-old daughter away to save her from the Nazi regime. She finds her way to a renowned rabbi, but its his daughter, Ettie, who creates a mystical Jewish creature, a rare and unusual golem, who is sworn to protect Lea. Once Ava is brought to life, she and Lea and Ettie become eternally entwined, their paths fated to cross, their fortunes linked." SIGNED by the author on a tipped in page which states, "This signed edition . . has been specially bound by the publisher." A Barnes & Noble Exclusive Edition and includes a bonus essay by Hoffman on golems. 382 pp plus a 1 p publisher ad. ISBN: 978-1982141998.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2020). SIGNED first edition - "In 1941, during humanity's darkest hour, three unforgettable young women must act with courage and love to survive. . . In Berlin, at the time when the world changed, Hanni Kohn knows she must send her twelve-year-old daughter away to save her from the Nazi regime. She finds her way to a renowned rabbi, but its his daughter, Ettie, who creates a mystical Jewish creature, a rare and unusual golem, who is sworn to protect Lea. Once Ava is brought to life, she and Lea and Ettie become eternally entwined, their paths fated to cross, their fortunes linked." SIGNED by the author on a tipped in page which states, "This signed edition . . has been specially bound by the publisher." Includes a letter from Hoffman to Target readers 382 pp plus a 1 p publisher ad. ISBN: 978-1982160289.

New York: Viking, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel by one of China's most innovative writers, and his first book to appear in English, translated from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt (with a note that, at the request of the author, this is based on the 1988 Tapei Hongfan Chinese edition which restored some of the deletions made in the 1987 Mainland Chinese edition). Mo Yan is a pseudonymic phrase meaning 'Don't speak.' Over more than 30 years, Mo Yan has been writing brutally vibrant stories about rural life in China that flout official Party ideology and celebrate individualism over conformity. He also flouts literary conformity, spiking his earthy realism with fantasy, hallucination and metafiction. The story in this book revolves around three generations of the Shandong family between 1923 and 1976 as the narrator tells the story of his family's struggles, first as distillery owners making sorghum wine and then as resistance fighters during the Second Sino-Japanese War. The first parts were the basis of the award-winning 1987 film of the same name. 359 pp. Translated by Howard Goldblatt. In 2012 Mo Yan was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. 387 pp. ISBN: -670844020.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (2003). First edition - The first novel by this award-winning Trinidadian-born British writer, originally published in the UK under the title "Sun Dog." Publisher's Weekly described it as "An imaginative fable grounded in realistic detail, which follows the metamorphosis of August Chalmin, a socially awkward, lonely 30-something Londoner with 'upright blood-orange hair which limbo danced crazily from his head, as though a madman lived there, leaping from a burning attic.' .. Over the course of a year, August's body undergoes a series of peculiar changes tied to the seasons. His skin turns blue and an icicle dangles from his ear in the fall and winter. In the spring, his body begins to bud, sprouting small leaves and branches... Mournful, quietly suspenseful and gently surreal, August's story is a haunting whimsy that marks the arrival of a talented newcomer." 320 pp.