New York: Putnam, (2015). SIGNED first edition - The author's very highly praised first novel, both a mystery and a coming-of-age story. In the summer of 1989, a quiet Baton Rouge neighborhood is rocked by a violent crime when a fifteen-year-old girl, a free spirit and track star, is attacked late one evening near her home. "As the dark side of this idyllic stretch of Southern suburbia is revealed, the close-knit neighborhood is irreversibly transformed.. . [a book which] brilliantly juxtaposes the enchantment of a charmed childhood with the gripping story of a violent crime." SIGNED on the title page and dated in 2014, that is, before publication. 303 pp.

New York: Putnam, (2015). SIGNED first edition - The author's very highly praised first novel, both a mystery and a coming-of-age story. In the summer of 1989, in a quiet Baton Rouge neighborhood where a fifteen-year-old girl, a free spirit and track star, is attacked late one evening near her home. "As the dark side of this idyllic stretch of Southern suburbia is revealed, the close-knit neighborhood is irreversibly transformed.. . [a book which] brilliantly juxtaposes the enchantment of a charmed childhood with the gripping story of a violent crime." SIGNED on the title page. 303 pp.

New York: HarperPerennial, (2013). First edition - First collection of short stories by this award-winning author, which "veer from comic tales of love to social satire to suspenseful crime fiction, from hip Portland to once hip Seattle to never hip Spokane" and more. Issued as a trade paperback original, 177 pp.

San Francisco: Tapestries Publishing, (2007.). First edition - Romantic novel of an attempt to save the life of Marie Antoinette during the French Revolution. Appendix. 363 pp.

Boston: Little Brown, (2008.). First edition - Gritty crime novel set in Los Angeles by this former LAPD detective sergeant. 343 pp.

Los Angeles: The Unnamed Press, (2016). SIGNED first edition - The author's very highly praised intergenerational first novel about the inheritance of madness, and told from multiple perspectives. Author Adrienne Celt described it as a "magnificent achievement, an exhortation for human tenderness and individual dignity in the most difficult of circumstances. Wang explores identity and family with a sense of drama that borders on gothic, without ever sacrificing the psychological texture that connects us to her characters." SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication, and uncommon thus. 275 pp. ISBN: 978-1939419699.

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, 1996. SIGNED first edition - Young Southern author's first novel - returning home to her grandfather's vineyard in Carolina after college, Mavis becomes aware of the emotional distance from those who were once closest to her. SIGNED on the title page. At just 23, Warlick was the youngest ever to win Houghton Mifflin's Literary Fellowship. 256 pp.

New York: Grove, 1994. SIGNED first edition - Author's first novel. SIGNED and dated 10/94 on title page.

New York: St Martin's, (2003). First edition - The author begins this novel with "This is the imagined life of a woman who really lived in the late Eighteenth Century - Catherine Sophia Boucher, called Kate - wife of the English poet and artist, William Blake. If you read between the lines of his poetry and letters, this is a story you might find." Illustrated. Biographical notes and author's note. 371 pp.

New York: Random House, (1995). SIGNED first edition - When a lumber baron tries to clear-cut the part of the Algonquin Forest he considers his own, and in the remote Maine town of Abenaki Juntion, only Madeleine Cody, the owner of a small newspaper, The Forest Sentinel, tries to stand up to him. SIGNED on the title page. Cover praise from Tobias Wolff (who calls Watkins "one of the most gifted writers of his generation") among others. 284 pp.

Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, (2008). First edition - The author's first book for young readers, set in a small town in 1966, one which deals with issues like race and segregation, the reality of the Vietnam War, abuse, sexuality and even death, in a thoughtful and affecting way. 327 pp.

New York: Random House, (2003). SIGNED first edition - Novel by this award winning writer set in 1950s Wisconsin. "Ned Weaver, an internationally acclaimed painter, is famous in Door County, Wisconsin, for his luminous work - and for his affairs with his models. His wife, Harriet, has learned to accept these dalliances in the belief that his immense talent will ultimately make up for his shortcomings as a husband. Sonja Skordahl, a Norwegian immigrant, came to America looking for a new life. Instead, she married Henry House, only to find herself defined, like so many other mid-twentieth-century women, by her roles as wife and mother." SIGNED on the title page. 239 pp.

New York: Harper Collins, (2015). First edition - Award winning author's second novel, a psychological thriller. "When Julia learns that her sister has been violently murdered, she wants to know why.. . As she becomes entangled with a dangerous stranger online, shes losing herself . . . losing control . . . perhaps losing everything. This search for answers will jeopardize her marriage, her family, and her life." 415 pp.

New York: Kensington, 2004. SIGNED first edition - New novel about family relationships and conflicts by this #1 'Essence' best-selling author, who is also a bookseller. Introduces the Duncan family.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2006.). SIGNED first edition - Epic stand-alone science fiction novel by the author of the Honor Harrington series. It is 2378 and earth is dead; humanity is in hiding; progress, change and invention are all forbidden - and it is time to change that. SIGNED on the title page and dated by the author. Glossary. 605 pp.

Blue Ash, OH: Tyrus Books / F+W Media, Inc, (2013). First edition - The author's first book, "A powerfully observed, evocative, and downright dazzlingÓ (NY Times) portrait of the American working class in a collection of related stories. "After more than a decade spent in and out of juvenile detention, halfway houses, and jail, Roy Alison returns to his rural hometown determined to do better. But what he finds is a working-class community devastated by the economic downturn - a town without anything to hold onto but the past." 195 pp.

New York: Scribner, (2012. SIGNED first edition - A book which "investigates one of the most universal human institutions--marriage. Elizabeth Weil and her husband Dan have two basic ground rules for their marriage: no cheating, no dying. For ten years it's worked fine, but Elizabeth started to wonder if it could be better.. . In this book, Weil examines the major universal marriage issues--sex, money, mental health, in-laws, children--through bravely recounting her own hilarious, messy, and sometimes difficult relationship." SIGNED on the title page. Selected bibliography. 177 pp.

New York: Balzer + Bray (Harper Collins), (2019). First edition - The story of the only women to fly in combat in World War II - Led by Marina Raskova three regiments consisting of women who enlisted and were deployed on the front lines of battle as navigators, pilots, and mechanics were formed including the 588th Night Bomber Regiment. Photographs, source notes and an author's note. 376 pp.

New York: Twelve, (2008). First edition - Using as his guide the emerging field of positive psychology, the author traveled the world trying to find the happiest places and to figure out what made them happy - from Iceland to Bhutan to India, and more. 329 pp.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1995. First edition - A wickedly incisive picture of modern divorce.

New York: Norton, (2008.). First edition - After a child-murder case, Edinburgh Detective Inspector suffers a mental breakdown and is given time off to recuperate. He heads to Miami with his fiance only to find himself in the middle of an even nastier case, and the only protector of a 10 year old girl. 344 pp.

New York: Viking, (1992.). First edition - Spanning several decades, from the 1950's to the 1990's and set in Wesley's beloved West Country, this is, in many ways a typical - but rewarding - "Wesley novel" with two strong women, an offbeat lover, and a bit of violence under the surface. She has been described as "witty, unillusioned and extraordinarily wise" - all characteristics exhibited in this story. 272 pp.

New York: Pocket Books, (2000). First edition - Second legal thriller featuring Cinda Hayes, set in Boulder, Colorado, where the author is a law professor and a former federal prosecutor. Bibliography. 341 pp.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979. First edition -

New York: Harper Collins, (1996.). First edition - Southern author's third novel, the story of three sharply contrasted sisters, separated by personality, geography and circumstances, but drawn together again by a freak accident. 377 pp.

New York: Mysterious Press, (1994). First edition - A crime thriller - or maybe this is more accurately described as a humorous caper novel - set in Branson, Missouri, the new home of country music. 291 pp.

New York: Viking, 1993. First edition - Wharton's last novel, uncompleted at the time of her death in 1937, completed for this edition by Marion Mainwaring (it was originally published in its uncompleted form in 1938, and even then received praise as one of her most sophisticated novels.) Set in the 1870's, this is the story of five wealthy American girls, denied entry into New York society because their parents' money is too new, who travel to England and marry lords, earls and dukes who find their beauty charming, and their money useful.