Fomite: 103 books

Is Hell the same place in 2005 that it was in 1300? To Join the Lost, the first of a three part transformation of the Divine Comedy, revisits the terriotory of Dante's Inferno. The contemporary torments of contemporary sinners case vivid light on the changing character and eternal nature of evil.

In the four stories and two novellas that comprise Love’s Labors the protagonists Ben and Laura, discover in their fervid romance and long marriage their interlocking fates, and the histories that preceded their births. They also learned something of the paradox between love and all the things it...

On a Monday evening in December of 1980, Mark David Chapman murdered John Lennon outside his apartment building in New York City. The Consequence of Gesture brings the reader along a three-day countdown to mayhem. This book inserts Chapman into the weekend plans of a group of friends sympathetic with...

It’s the year 2008 in America, the banks have tanked our economy, OJ Simpson goes to jail for theft after being acquitted for murder, the governor of New York is forced out of office for a sex scandal after promoting himself as a corruption buster, and all this follows quick on the heals of 9/11,...

Sinfonia Bulgarica is a novel about four women in contemporary Bulgaria: a rich cold-blooded heiress, a masseuse dreaming of peace and quiet that never come, a powerful wife of the most influential man in the country, and a waitress struggling against all odds to win a victory over lies, poverty and...

In a world afflicted with war, toxicity, and hunger, does what we do in our private lives really matter? Fifty years after the creation of the atomic bomb at Los Alamos, newlyweds Pauline and Clifford visit that once-secret city on their honeymoon, compelled by Pauline’s fascination with Oppenheimer,...

In 1989, the summer before the Berlin Wall collapsed, a pregnant, young American art historian, is drawn back to Berlin, seeking the truth about the disappearance of her husband. There, she meets an exiled East German artist whose tormented life and stories of the Greek mystics make him both forbidding...

Andrea Barton is single but wants a child. When an infant is abandoned at a church on the north side of Chicago, Andrea first becomes a foster mother and then adopts her. Andrea believes that love and her experience as a social worker will see her through the challenges of raising an African-American...

Visiting Hours, a novel-in-stories, explores the lives of people not normally met on the page---AIDS patients and those who care for them.  Set in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and written with large and frequent dollops of humor, the book is a profound meditation on faith and love in the face of illness and poverty.

Indian Springs, Nevada (pop 991), at the edge of the Mojave, is “downtown" to three institutions: — Creech Air Force Base, home to drone operators in their air-conditioned trailers, — High Desert State Prison, Nevada’s largest, newest, and most modern, and — the Sekhmet Temple of...

After Rae's ear is shot off by a jittery security guard at the health food store, the insurance settlement allows her to take a year off from teaching. She spends it volunteering at the Los Angeles Zoo. These days, except for her best friend Jennie, Rae has little use for human beings. She loves cats–lots...