Fish Memoir

Baby Boy Fisher was raised in institutions from the moment of his birth in prison to a single mother. He ultimately came to live with a foster family, where he endured near-constant verbal and physical abuse. In his mid-teens he escaped and enlisted in the navy, where he became a man of the...

Antwone Quenton Fisher was raised in institutions from the moment his single mother gave birth to him in prison. As a foster child, he suffered more than a dozen years of emotional abandonment and physical abuse, until he escaped and forged a life on the streets. And just as his life was about...

From heartbreaking moments to gut-busting humor, Fish on Fridays is the story of a life lived fully—through good times, hard times, unexpected turns, and everything in between. From growing up in a military family to more than twenty years in the U.S. Army, from leadership and travel to family, faith, illness, recovery, and some of life's unexpected detours, Greg P. Smith has collected a lifetime of stories—and the lessons that came with them. Some will make you laugh. Some may bring a tear. And some may make you stop and think. Fish on Fridays is not simply a story about cancer or ...

What happens when one of America’s most beloved biographers writes his own biography? For five-time New York Times best-selling author Eric Metaxas, the answer is Fish Out of Water: A Search for the Meaning of Life - a soaring, lyrical, and often mischievous account of his early years, in which the astute Queens-born son of Greek and German immigrants struggles to make sense of a world in which he never quite seems to fit.

Memory and history have been Penelope Lively’s terrain in fiction over a career that has spanned five decades. But she has only rarely given listeners a glimpse into her influences and formative years. Dancing Fish and Ammonites traces the arc of Lively’s life, stretching from her early childhood in Cairo to boarding school in England to the sweeping social changes of Britain’s 20th century. She reflects on her early love of archeology, the fragments of the ancients that have accompanied her journey - including a sherd of Egyptian ceramic depicting dancing fish and ammonites found years ago on a Dorset beach.

The star of the Animal Planet's River Monsters and author of the bestselling companion book shares a meditation on fishing—and life. In his previous book, Jeremy Wade memorably recounted his adventures in pursuit of fish of staggering proportions and terrifying demeanor: goliath tigerfish from...

You thought you were the fisherman. What if you were the one being fished for? For more than six decades, Daniel Bryant has cast into rivers, mountain streams, open lakes, frozen reservoirs, and remote Alaskan wilderness. He thought he was chasing fish. Looking back, he discovered something far greater. The Master Fisherman had been casting in his direction the entire time. In God Must Be a Fisherman: The Cast of a Lifetime, Bryant shares true stories of fishing, adventure, storms, family, laughter, loss, faith, and the unforgettable moments when something beneath the surface suddenly ...

Few books have captured the haunting world of music and rivers and of the sport they provide as well as A River Never Sleeps. Roderick L. Haig-Brown writes of fishing not just as a sport, but also as an art. He knows moving water and the life within it - its subtlest mysteries and perpetual delights. He is a man who knows fish lore as few people ever will, and the legends and history of a great sport. Month by month, he takes you from river to river, down at last to the saltwater and the sea.

Here are a father and son's recollections of the river and the life that inspired the book A River Runs Through It.

Pretty Mess meets #Girlboss in this part memoir, part entrepreneurial manifesto from The Real Housewives of New Jersey star Margaret Josephs as she chronicles her rise from chaos to confidence, business success, and reality TV fame. Known to fans as “The Marge,” Margaret Josephs is outspoken...

Over 5 Million Copies Sold! Imagine a workplace where everyone chooses to bring energy, passion, and a positive attitude to the job every day. A powerful parable that will help you see your life and work in a new way. It's a rainy day in Seattle, and on the third floor of First Guarantee...

When Artie Lange joined the permanent cast of The Howard Stern Show in 2001, it was possibly the greatest thing ever to happen in the Stern universe, second only to the show’s move to the wild, uncensored frontier of satellite radio. Lange provided what Stern had yet to find all in the same...

Two friends. One campervan. And plenty of whisky. This is the hilarious true story of a Scottish adventure like no other. With a foreword by Diana Gabaldon. When Sam Heughan and Graham McTavish hit the road, they are not following a script. They are chasing adventure. Armed with a campervan, a...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER NPR BOOKS WE LOVE 2025 PICK A thrilling biography of Mamie Fish that explores how women used parties and social gatherings to gain power and prestige, from the author of Madame Restell and Get Well Soon. "As entertaining as it is illuminating ... Wright is a brilliant...

When the wild strips everything away, what’s left is who you are. In the raw, untamed wilds of Alaska—where the wind howls, predators hunt, and the sun disappears for months—only a rare few figure out how to survive. Sue Aikens, the breakout star of National Geographic’s long-running TV...

With his colorful tattoos and booming hip-hop sound track, Mike Iaconelli has turned the world of big-money competitive bass fishing upside down. In Fishing on the Edge, Iaconelli tells his own story–and it’s a whopper: a Philly-born, Jersey-bred Yankee who’s been stealing the spotlight...

The number one bestseller and Sunday Times Humour Book of the Year by national treasure Bob Mortimer. ‘The most life-affirming, joyful read of the year’ - Sunday Times ‘Winningly heartfelt’ – The Guardian ‘A triumph’ – Daily Mail Bob Mortimer’s life was trundling along happily...

"I was born on the Oregon coast on an ebbing tide, within earshot of waves crashing on a Pacific shore, my first breath the rich smell of low tide." And so begins this memoir, a rich tapestry of a young life in the Northwest and Alaska, and an abiding love for waters, wild lands, family, and fishing. The author, an internationally known tracker of "Longwalkers," the mountain cougars of Montana and British Columbia, invites you along on the vivid adventure of his early life in the outdoors, inspired by a father who fished and handed him the fishing rod, early. If you love the outdoors, you ...

The Yurok Tribe and an Indigenous family share a moving multigenerational story of their fight to undam the Klamath river—the largest river restoration project in history—and save the planet. Includes exclusive audio content! The Water Remembers is the story of Indigenous resistance and an...

A tender, fearless debut by a forester writing in the tradition of Suzanne Simard, Robin Wall Kimmerer, and Robert Macfarlane Only those who love trees should cut them, writes forester Ethan Tapper. In How to Love a Forest, he asks what it means to live in a time in which ecosystems are in...