NMLP P-013669 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

Rain Gods

James Lee Burke · Simon & Schuster · 2009

The US Simon & Schuster edition (2009) is the accepted true first. This is the first novel featuring the modern Hackberry Holland (Hackberry Holland Book 2 in the wider Holland Family sequence); a UK Orion hardcover of the same year is near-simultaneous.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-013669 for "Rain Gods" by James Lee Burke (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-013669, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).