James D. Houston

• Apr-1987
• / General Fiction
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The San Andreas Fault is both a real and a metaphorical player in this novel of northern California in the early 70s. Set on a ranch near Monterey Bay, it explores relationships in a family jarred by the return of a son from Vietnam, almost whole but...

• Apr-1987
• / Literary
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With the discovery that her husband, part-time country-and-western musician Grover Doyle, is involved with another woman, thirty-two-year-old Holly Doyle escapes to New York but returns to San Francisco to salvage her marriage...

• May-1988
• / General Fiction
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• Aug-2000
• / General Fiction
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Resonating with ancient themes of quest and transformation, The Last Paradise follows Travis Doyle, a Vietnam veteran working as an insurance claims adjuster, from California to Hawaii. Doyle is dispatched to investigate fire damage to outbuildings, ...

• Apr-2001
• / Action Adventure
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Snow Mountain Passage is a powerful retelling of the most dramatic of our pioneer stories -- the ordeal of the Donner Party, with its cast of young and old risking all, its imprisoning snows, its rumors of cannibalism. James Houston takes us inside t...

• Mar-2007
• / Historical
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The story is told by her great-grandson, Sheridan Brody, a Bay Area talk show host, whose life has reached an unexpected standstill. He can't quite commit--he doesn't know why--to his Japanese-American girlfriend and her five-year-old son. A corporat...

• Apr-2008
• / General Fiction
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Inspired by the California landscape, Where Light Take Its Color from the Sea reveals a writer s nuanced appreciation of place and exhibits his mastery of style. From the cupola of his house in Santa Cruz that radiant city by the sea Houston introduc...

• Oct-2011
• / General Fiction
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An unfinished novel about Hawaii's last monarch

There are few more intriguing and captivating characters in the history of Hawaii than its last queen, Liliuokalani--the island monarch who could just as easily read Shakespeare as ''sit barefooted o...