When Euclid (real name Lydian) ventures onto the Random Queries and Idle Speculation bulletin board she meets Proteus (real name Merle), a self-described misfit who admits to unemployment. Lydian is wary of this impossibility. After all, it is the 29th century and such oddities have been eliminated. But curiosity and a desire to jettison her culturally induced techno-stupor lead Lydian to rendezvous with Merle, igniting an unlikely meeting of the minds - and bodies. Lydian and Merle's careening love affair takes them from Paris to Jamaica, from the wrong side of the law to the far side of late-millennium family values, and ultimately, to a face-off between technology and civilization that spurs Lydian to question - and then dismantle - the very essence of human existence.

Exit to Reality: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

FORBES, Edith

Literary

Seal Press

A young woman who has spent her entire life in a small, dusty town off the Interstate, working at her pop's mercantile, has her life thrown into chaos when a vivacious, cowboy-booted trucker, rolls into town.

Alma Rose: A Novel (Forbes, Edith)

Navigating the Darwin Straits reintroduces some of the characters from Edith Forbes’s Alma Rose, most notably Jordy McNeil. Growing up in a small western town with a lesbian mom presents challenges Jordy would rather avoid. As soon as he can, he makes an escape, landing in the San Francisco Bay Area where he joins Ultimall, an Internet startup company. As his fortunes rise and fall with Ultimall, he finds himself with a fat bank account but an increasing sense of emptiness and unease. His search for meaning takes him to Seattle, but tragedy sends him into self-imposed exile. Forced to confront his disillusionment, Jordy eventually finds a way to re-enter the world.

Navigating the Darwin Straits

United States

Pat Lloyd leads a solitary life in a small town until spirited trucker Alma Rose marches into Pat's life, and the women discover the joys and difficulties of love and growth. Original.

Alma Rose

Returning to her rural Vermont hometown after a decade of chic, academic living because of her father's suicide, Vincie Nowle and her brothers explore the mysteries of their enigmatic parent's life, relationships, and death from a supposedly self-inflicted gunshot wound. Tour. IP.

Nowle's Passing: A Novel

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Seal Pr

Set in a computer-controlled utopia where every human misery has been dispelled, a futuristic romance traces the love affair between the Greek god Proteus and Euclid, whom he persuades to escape from her virtual reality. IP.

Exit to Reality

A third of Vermont's farms are being squeezed out of business, and enigmatic farmer Vernon Nowle is found shot dead. The police assume the fatal wound was self-inflicted, but was it really suicide? Rooted in the austere beauty of New England, Nowle's Passing unravels its mystery and characters with dazzling skill and genuine heart.

Nowle's Passing (Forbes, Edith)

A memoir of the author’s twenty-five-year, self-designed experiment with a nonpharmaceutical approach to multiple sclerosis and of the indomitable mother who taught her to meet trouble with active resistance.\nWhen novelist Edith Forbes experienced her first episode of multiple sclerosis in 1993, few treatments existed. The famously crippling disease was a medical mystery, its cause unknown and its course unpredictable. The only medical advice Forbes received then was to “simply live your life.” She had other ideas.\nForbes grew up on a ranch in Wyoming, raised by a widowed mother who met challenges head on. Besides shouldering responsibility for seven children and a cattle ranch, Forbes’s dynamo mother had ambitions to change the world. As a forward-thinking woman in a largely male business, she became a model of tenacity and independence for her daughter.\nAfter her MS diagnosis, Forbes turned her fear into action, immersing herself in the medical literature to search for ideas. Finding an unexpected connection between the medical information and her own knowledge of agriculture, she embarked on a self-designed experiment that continues to this day.\nTracking a Shadow weaves together the story of Forbes’s personal twenty-five-year medical experiment with a memoir of the mother whose constant determination to look for better answers shaped the author’s unique approach to her disease.

Tracking a Shadow: My Lived Experiment with MS

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Girl Friday Books

Alma Rose!

LGBTQ+ Books

Krug & Schadenberg

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