James D. Houston

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  • Bibliography:
    9 Books
  • First Book:
    April 1987
  • Latest Book:
    July 2025
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Book List in Order: 9 titles

  • Continental Drift

    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...

  • Love Life

    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...

  • Gig

  • The Last Paradise

    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, ...

  • Snow Mountain Passage

    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...

  • Bird of Another Heaven

    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...

  • Where Light takes its Color From the Sea

    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...

  • A Queen's Journey

    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...

  • From Shadows to Light



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

James D. Houston has published 9 books.

James D. Houston does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, From Shadows to Light, was published in July 2025.

The first book by James D. Houston, Love Life, was published in April 1987.

No. James D. Houston does not write books in series.
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