New York: Harper Collins, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first novel (second book). Set in Southern California, in San Diego and at the Salton Sea, this is the story of a mixed race young woman's struggle to come to terms with her mother's terrible past (as a forced prostitute in Korea) while she searches for her own place in the world. Praise from Barbara Kingsolver, Toni Morrison (who said this 'has an edgy beauty that enhances perfectly the seriousness of its contents), Susan Straight and Donna Gershten. Winner of the second annual Bellwether Prize for Fiction, an award in support of a literature of social responsibility sponsored by Barbara Kingsolver. SIGNED on the title page. Promotional postcard laid in. ISBN: 0-06-0528036.

New York: Harper Collins, (2003.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first novel (second book). Set in Southern California, in San Diego and at the Salton Sea, this is the story of a mixed race young woman's struggle to come to terms with her mother's terrible past (as a forced prostitute in Korea) while she searches for her own place in the world. Praise from Barbara Kingsolver, Toni Morrison (who said this 'has an edgy beauty that enhances perfectly the seriousness of its contents), Susan Straight and Donna Gershten. Winner of the second annual Bellwether Prize for Fiction, an award in support of a literature of social responsibility sponsored by Barbara Kingsolver. ISBN: 0-06-0528036.

New York: Ballantine, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which tells the story of a journey down the San Andreas fault, "searching for the places and the people who could perhaps answer the provocative question: What is it like living in a place that no matter how beautiful, might suddenly, while you opened the cereal, combed your hair, or bathed the baby, strike you dead?" Recounts the histories of Wiyot Indians and their earthquake legends, investigates the conflict between California's logging industry and environmentalists, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, visits Palm Springs and the Salton Sea and more. A mixture of sociology, history, personality, and seismology. Map, bibliography. 417 pp. ISBN: 0-345385667.

New York: Grand Central, (2014.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Thriller featuring FBI Special Agent Pendergast - a piece of turquoise lodged in the stomach of a murdered man deposite on his doorstep leads him to an abandoned mine at the edge of the Salton Sea in California, SIGNED by Douglas Preston on the title page. 403 pp. ISBN: 978-1455525898.

New York: Grand Central, (2014.). First edition - Thriller featuring FBI Special Agent Pendergast - a piece of turquoise lodged in the stomach of a murdered man deposite on his doorstep leads him to an abandoned mine at the edge of the Salton Sea in California, 403 pp.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2008.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel set in 1978 at the edge of the Salton Sea in the California desert. SIGNED on the title page. Finalist for the LA Times Book Prize in Fiction. 271 pp. ISBN: 1416563164.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2008.). SIGNED first edition - Novel set in 1978 at the edge of the Salton Sea in the California desert. Finalist for the LA Times Book Prize in Fiction. SIGNED on the title page. 271 pp.