New York, NY: Harmony Books (1999)

From the number one bestselling author of Midwives comes this rivetting medical thriller about a lawyer, a homeopath, and a tragic death. When one of homeopath Carissa Lake's patients falls into an allergy-induced coma, possibly due to her remedy, Leland Fowler's office starts investigating the case. But Leland is also one of Carissa's patients, and he is beginning to realize that he has fallen in love with her. As love and legal obligations collide, Leland comes face-to-face with an ethical dilemma of enormous proportions. Graceful, intelligent, and suspenseful, The Law of Similars is a powerful examination of the links between hubris and hope, deception and love.

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New York, NY: Knopf (1999)

Near fine in dust jacket.

In the small town of Holt, Colorado, a high school teacher is confronted with raising two young boys alone after their mother retreats first to her bedroom, then altogether. A teenage girl, her father long since disappeared, her mother unwilling to have her in the house -- is pregnant, alone herself, with nowhere to go. And out in the country, two brothers, elderly bachelors, work the family homestead, the only world they've ever known. As the milieu widens to embrace four generations, Kent Haruf displays an emotional and aesthetic authority to rival the past masters of a classic American tradition.

Denver, CO: MacMurray & Beck (1999)

Near fine in dust jacket.

In a literary voice that is both original and powerfully unsettling, William Gay tells the story of Nathan Winer, a young and headstrong Tennessee carpenter who lost his father years ago to a human evil that is greater and closer at hand than any the boy can imagine -- until he learns of it first-hand.

New York, NY: Dutton (1999)

Near fine in dust jacket.

When former prosecutor Penn Cage returns to his hometown of Natchez, Mississippi, he doesnt' find the peace he desperately craves. He finds that his own father is being blackmailed by a corrupt ex-cop. And when Penn investigates, he uncovers a murderous secret -- and the small town's violent past. 

New York, NY: W.W. Norton (1999)

Yellow Jack is a ribald, picaresque trip through an 1840s New Orleans saturated with sex, drugs, death, and corruption. In this "luminously haunting" (Entertainment Weekly) portrait of decadence, daguer-rotypist Claude Marchand becomes hopelessly entangled with both a voodoo-adept octoroon mistress and the erotically precocious daughter of a prominent New Orleans family.

New York, NY: Harcourt (1999)

"The Night Inspector" follows the extraordinary life of William Bartholomew, a maimed veteran of the Civil War, as he returns from the battlefields to New York City, bent on reversing his fortunes. It is there he meets Jessie, a Creole prostitute who engages him in an adventure that has its origins in the complexities and despair of the conflict he has left behind. Bartholomew befriends someone who can help him -- a deputy inspector of customs named Herman Melville, who, largely forgotten as a writer, is condemned to live in the wake of his vanished literary success and in the turmoil of his fractured family.

New York, NY: William Morrow (1999)

Faulkner meets Hemingway, Jim Harrison, and Cormac McCarthy, along with Rick Bass and Larry Brown, in these stunning tales set in southern Alabama, where emotions run as raw as moonshine whiskey. Tom Franklin's eloquent, deceptively simple prose evokes a world of hunting and fishing, shotgun shacks and trailer parks, poachers and lawmen, factory workers, poor white trash, and bucket-o'-blood boozers. His stories are laced with naked violence, lush detail, and the hot blood, sweat, and tears of human relationships.

Denver, CO: MacMurray & Beck (1999)

A powerful and gritty first novel about revenge, reconciliation, and redemption in the Mississippi Delta.

New York, NY: North Point Press (1999)

Vicki and Dennis Covington, like many of their generation, "promised each other nothing" when they wed, and got more than they'd bargained for: drinking, infidelity, infertility, uncertainty. Gradually tumult gave way to sobriety, parenthood, and meaningful work, but a yearning remained. The triumph of this haunting book, which succumbs to neither sentimentality nor cynicism, is its portrayal of the unpredictable eddying of passion through the institution that enshrines but cannot contain it.

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New York, NY: Delacorte (1999)

Chili Palmer's follow-up to his smash hit film Get Leo bombed, and in Hollywood, you're considered only as hot as your last project. Once again outside the system, Chili is exploring an idea for his third film by lunching with a former "associate" from his Brooklyn days who's now a record label executive. When lunch begins with iced tea and ends in a mob hit, Chili soon finds himself in an unlikely alliance with one of the LAPD's finest. Detective Darryl Holmes, and the very likely next target of Russian gangsters.
With a hit man on his trail, Chili tries to pull together his next movie, the story of Linda Moon, a real-life singer with dreams that go further than her current gig. She's desperate to tear loose from her current manager, an erstwhile pimp named Raji. Orchestrating his movie as he goes along, Chili wrests the reins of Linda's singing career away from Raji, basing the plot of his new film on the action that unfolds as a result.

New York, NY: Penguin Putnam (1999)

Moving to New York to be with her ill sister, park ranger Anna Pigeon rooms with a fellow ranger on Liberty Island and spends time on nearby Ellis Island. Her fragile peace is shattered when a teenage girl falls to her death from atop the Statue of Liberty. The reason for the girl's fatal plunge is not the only mystery alive on these historic sties.

New York, NY: Doubleday (1999)

In a plush Virginia office, a rich, angry old man is furiously rewriting his will. With his death just hours away, Troy Phelan wants to send a message to his children, his ex-wives, and his minions—a message that will touch off a vicious legal battle and transform dozens of lives. Because Troy Phelan’s new will names a sole surprise heir to his eleven-billion-dollar fortune: a mysterious woman named Rachel Lane, a missionary living deep in the jungles of Brazil.

Enter the lawyers. Nate O’Riley is fresh out of rehab, a disgraced corporate attorney handpicked for his last job: to find Rachel Lane at any cost. As Phelan’s family circles like vultures in D.C., Nate goes crashing through the Brazilian jungle, entering a world where money means nothing, where death is just one misstep away, and where a woman—pursued by enemies and friends alike—holds a stunning surprise of her own.