Fomite: 103 books

Bec Robertson is starting over. She's broke, recovering from breast cancer, and lives in a rundown cabin in northern New Mexico. Her husband is deployed in Afghanistan as a chaplain, and can't stand to touch her. The people she meets, her villagers, are batty if not wacko, and her hawk Amelia can't...

Four centuries after the Reformation Pilgrims sailed up the down-flowing watersheds of New England, Taylor Thatcher, irreverent scion of a fallen family of Maine Puritans, is still caught in the turbulence. In his errant attempts to escape from history, the young college professor is further...

It starts with the first ski race down the mountain, but quickly the Guide to the Western Slope and the Outlying Areas heads off into the woods, seeking the wisdom that can be found in the spaces between the trees. The Guide to these woods may somehow be encoded between the spaces that wind between...

 America has lost its war in Vietnam and Cambodia. Racially-tinged riots are tearing the city of Boston apart. 1973, The politics and counterculture of the 1960s is disintegrating into nothing more than sex, drugs and rock and roll. The Boston Red Sox are on one of their improbable runs toward...

Twenty-Two Instructions for Near Survival: You start reading a book, but suddenly the words crowd against each other and a riot ensues. Later a group of men with shovels sails down a river on their way to dig the great pit. But the pit will never be built. In another time and place a drunk wakes up...