New York: North Point Press / Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, (2002). First edition - A book which "continues the quest Bowden began in Blood Orchid - to discover the headwaters of the sickness that seeps through the American soul, and to consider what it might mean to come fully alive in a time of exalted consumption, global pillage, gated communities, and wholesale destruction of the environment." 293 pp.

New York: Ecco Press / Harper Collins, (2015). First edition - Set in Northern California, and based on actual events in 2011 which culminated in a more than month-long police and SWAT team search in the Mendocino forest, this powerful novel explores the roots of violence, mental illness and alienation as it alternates in telling the stories of three damaged people from their viewpoint. 384 pp. ISBN: 978-0062349378.

New York Crown, (c.1995.) dj. Hardcover - A book about inner city children - growing up in the South Bronx - and the guarantee that they will lead lives full of heartbreak, violence and disease unless people start trying to make a difference. Index. 286 pp. ISBN: 0-517-799995.

New York Crown, (c.1995.) dj. Hardcover - A book about inner city children - growing up in the South Bronx - and the guarantee that they will lead lives full of heartbreak, violence and disease unless people start trying to make a difference. Index. 286 pp. ISBN: 0-517-799995.

New York: Pantheon, (2010) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her seventh book, the story of a travel writer who returns to her southern California home to mark the fifth anniversary of the murder of her closest friend, only to find herself drawn into the timultuous life of the twenty-two year old son of that friend. A novel which moves from California to Lousiana, from the issues of the past to the dangers of the present. INSCRIBED on the title page "For --- for keeping those candles lit" 320 pp. ISBN: 9780307379146.

New York: Pantheon, (2010) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her seventh book, the story of a travel writer who returns to her southern California home to mark the fifth anniversary of the murder of her closest friend, only to find herself drawn into the timultuous life of the twenty-two year old son of that friend. A novel which moves from California to Lousiana, from the issues of the past to the dangers of the present. SIGNED on the title page. 320 pp. ISBN: 9780307379146.

New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1992. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's third novel: Set in Santa Barbara, California, in the 1800's, in the days of the missions, this is a novel of the tragic results of the conflict of culture, race, sex and religion - Based on an actual historical event, this tells the story of Sage, a Chumash Indian woman, and her tragic encounter with white civilization - after the enslavement and death of her entire village, she is captured, renamed Solidad, and given to a family by a mission priest who is determined that she will become a Christian. INSCRIBED on the title page to the late noted Oklahoma book collector Larry Owens. 302 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-395615925.