New York: Henry Holt, 1999. SIGNED first edition - SIGNED on the title page. The 15th Kinsey Millhone mystery, one which reveals some information about the break-up of her first marriage. 316 pp. This advance issue is much less common than the hardcover trade edition.

New York: Addison-Wesley, 1991. First edition - The author's first book, this is the story of the political awakening of a tiny black community in coastal Georgia in the 1970's. Shortlisted for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. 338 pp.

New York: Broadway Books, 2001. SIGNED first edition - SIGNED on the title page. A look at the West's first liberated women, free to choose their own lovers and command considerable respect and power. Muses and artists themselves, their liasons brought them influence and wealth. Among the women discussed in this book are Veronica Franco of 16th century Venice, Madame de Pompadour, La Belle Otero, Marion Davies, and many others. Illustrated.

Ipswich, MA: Oceanview Publishing. (2007). First edition - The author's second novel, a thriller set in the Tampa, Florida area, the story of a woman caught in a web of intrigue and danger which destroys her illusion of "having it all." 328 pp.

New York: HarperCollins, 1996. SIGNED first edition - The story of a Colorado rancher who goes to Mexico to uncover the mystery that lay behind the murder of his son there. Finalist for the National Book Award. SIGNED on the title page. 255 pp.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999. SIGNED first edition - An account of his journey from the Atlantic to the Pacific using inland waterways of the United States - a trip which covered 5000 miles - this except includes Part VII - the Lower Missouri River. Double page schematic of the 'Nikawa.' SIGNED on the title page. 31 pp.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999. SIGNED first edition - An account of his journey from the Atlantic to the Pacific using inland waterways of the United States - a trip which covered 5000 miles - this except includes Part VII - the Lower Missouri River. Double page schematic of the 'Nikawa.' INSCRIBED on the title page. 31 pp.

New York: Scribner's, 1998. First edition - Author's second novel - the story of a family's attempt to heal itself after their oldest daughter is killed in a terrorist bombing. 460 pp. Promotional letter laid in.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1991.). First edition - An Italian professor recounts his experiences in the Great War - World War I - a half a century after that war intervened in his life. A massive novel which is, ultimately, a celebration of love and a recapitulation of a life more than it is a story about war. 791 pp.

New York: Scribner's, 1999. First edition - Described as the last unpublished manuscript of Hemingway, this was written in 1953 after returning from safari in Kenya. Edited and with an introduction by his son, Patrick Hemingway, who accompanied him on that safari. Cast of characters, Swahili glossary, 315 pp.

New York: Atheneum, (2008.). SIGNED first edition - First book for young adults by the Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of THE MAMBO KINGS PLAY SONGS OF LOVE. Set in the 1960's, this is the story of a young Cuban-American boy, raised in Harlem, who runs away to a farm in Wisconsin, and of his struggle to define his identity and to deal with the pressures around him - including drug use. Boldly INSCRIBED by Hijuelos on the title page. "For.... .. with best wishes." 435 pp.

New York: Atheneum, (2008.). First edition - First book for young adults by the Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of THE MAMBO KINGS PLAY SONGS OF LOVE. Set in the 1960's, this is the story of a young Cuban-American boy, raised in Harlem, who runs away to a farm in Wisconsin, and of his struggle to define his identity and to deal with the pressures around him - including drug use. 435 pp.

New York: SOHO Press, (2021). First edition - Set in 1944 Chicago, this is the first book in a new series and the winner of the Mary Higgins Clark Award at the Edgar Awards. "The story of a young woman searching for the truth about her revered older sister's death, brings to focus the struggles of one Japanese American family released from mass incarceration at Manzanar during World War II." Includes a list of more reading and resources. 305 pp.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (2003.). First edition - Canadian author's first book, a novel based on the life of Mabel Stark, the greatest female tiger trainer in history. In the 1910's and 20's, during the golden age of the big top, she was the superstar of the Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus. A tiny blonde in a white leather bodysuit, Mabel was brazen, sexually adventurous and suicidally courageous. "You can't mix tigers and husbands, and anyhow, I prefer the tigers." Winner of the Trillium Award. 428 pp.

New York: Delacorte, 2000. First edition - Author's highly praised first novel, told from the viewpoint of an elderly man looking back at the boy he was in the Great War in 1917.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2007.). First edition - A massive book, a novel of the Vietnam War which spans the twenty years from 1963 to 1983. Highly acclaimed and deservedly so, this opens in the Philippines on the day that President Kennedy was killed, and grips the reader from the very first scene. Winner of the 2007 National Book Award for Fiction and nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Letter from publisher bound in and cd in pocket inside back cover. 814 pp.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2007.). First edition - A massive book, a novel of the Vietnam War which spans the twenty years from 1963 to 1983. Highly acclaimed and deservedly so, this opens in the Philippines on the day that President Kennedy was killed, and grips the reader from the very first scene. Winner of the 2007 National Book Award for Fiction and nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Letter from publisher bound in and cd in pocket inside back cover. 814 pp.

New York: Dutton, 1997. First edition - The adventures of two American sisters in Paris - a novel of "style, wit and considerable moral complexity." A National Book Award nominee. 309 pp.

New York: Viking, 2002. First edition - A novel in his prize-winning Albany series - this is set just after the end of World War II.

New York: Macmillan, 1994. First edition - Author's first book - a study of a year in the lives of the Skyline High basketball team in Oakland, CA - where basketball is not just a sport, but something that can provide focus in a world of violence - and sometimes a way out of that rough world. Highly praised.

New York: Doubleday, (2004.). SIGNED first edition - The author's first mystery, introducing Los Angeles greeting card artist Wollie Shellie, who is dating 40 men in 60 days as research for a talk radio show. A very funny - and very highly praised - debut. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Winner of the Agatha and Anthony awards for best first novel. 325 pp.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003. First edition - The first novel (second book) by this wonderful young writer who won the Pulitzer prize for her first book, a collection of short stories. Basis of the movie of the same name, directed by Mira Nair.

New York: Kensington - Pinnacle, (2009). First edition - A serial killer known as the Street Butcher is terrorising Seattle. Newspaper photographer Nick Wilder is accustomed to gruesome homicide scenes, but when the Street Butcher claims Nick's brother, the case suddenly becomes very personal. Praise from Lee Child ("Excellent - everything a great thriller should be."), Harlan Coben ("Larsen takes you into a disturbing world of intimate danger and dark passion.") and others. 376 pp.

Reading, MA: Perseus Books, (1999.). First edition - A look at the nature of respect, as shown by stories ranging from birth to death, by this noted African American sociologist (recipient of the MacArthur 'genius' award, among other honors.) Bibliography, 225 pp. ISBN: 0-7382-0093x.

New York: Addison-Wesley, 1994. First edition - Subtitled "Lives of Loss and Liberation" this is the story of the six middleclass African Americans, in midlife - a massive book (654 pages) but a moving one also.

Woodstock, New York: Overlook Press, (1996.). First edition - A novel of the French Revolution, following the life of journalist, pamphleteer and patriot Camille Desmoulins through those turbulent days., until he was silenced by the guillotine during the Terror at age 28, 514 pp.

New York: Random House, 2000. First edition - The author's first book, set in early 18th century England, winner of the Edgar Award for best first novel and of the Barry and Macavity awards. SIGNED on the title page. Kirkus Reviews calls it "A well-researched and highly entertaining historical mystery debut. Liss's fiendishly intricate tale of financial skulduggery and multiple murder, set in a solidly realized early-eighteenth-century London, has as its redoubtable protagonist and narrator one Benjamin Weaver. The very model of a modern historical mystery." Also named a New York Times Notable Book for 2000. 435 pp.

New York: Random House, 2000. First edition - The author's first book, set in early 18th century England, winner of the Edgar Award for best first novel and of the Barry and Macavity awards. Kirkus Reviews calls it "A well-researched and highly entertaining historical mystery debut. Liss's fiendishly intricate tale of financial skulduggery and multiple murder, set in a solidly realized early-eighteenth-century London, has as its redoubtable protagonist and narrator one Benjamin Weaver. The very model of a modern historical mystery." Also named a New York Times Notable Book for 2000. 435 pp.

New York: Warner, (2003.). SIGNED first edition - The 3rd novel by this highly acclaimed young author, set in 1949 against the backdrop of post World War II India and China, this is the story of an extraordinary quest by two women - one the wife of a journalist, and the other a young girl who had been sold to a flash house - a house of prostitution - when she was just 10 years old. 458 pp