Small Fish

Small-stream fishing wisdom with the same insight and pungent humor that has become Gierach's trademark. Advice on tackle selecting, reading water, and scouting.

Welcome to Travers Corners, a dusty Montana town, where nothing much has happened since Herbert Hoover stopped for gas. Travers Corners, like most small towns, has no newspaper, no radio station; but here, large trout - no better than large trout, fictitious trout - await the angler. And apart from spreading gossip outside the McCraken’s General Store, the residents of Travers Corners love nothing more than fly fishing. Scott Waldie’s delightful cast of characters breathes life into this tiny, out-of-the-way town.

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...

You're either an innovator or replaceable. You're either predator or prey. Taking lessons from ocean life - Small Fish, Big Pond shows business leaders how to outwit, outswim, and outlast competitors by playing to their own strengths. Small companies face tough competition from large established players. Small Fish, Big Pond unpacks the Futureproof Strategic Framework™ which delivers a proven process for entrepreneurs to build an authentic business that attracts top talent, delivers incredible client experiences, and outperforms competitors at every stage of growth.

Lottery winner and ex-journalist Donal Fitzgerald joins forces with his girlfriend, DNR conservation officer Mercy Virdon, to solve the mysterious death of a beloved angler, Charlie, who was murdered in his tent in a state campground and who was known by all - and who may have known too much. Set in the engaging small town of Ossning on the Borchard River in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula - an angler’s dream, filled with eccentric, believable, sympathetic, and unforgettable characters - Riverwatcher is a classic whodunit.

Humanity had been unintentionally sending radio signals to the stars for over 200 years. That was how they were located. Humanity’s population had continued to grow until the loss of so many of their fellow Earth species grew appalling and threatened their very existence. Whether it was from the instinct for self-preservation or wisdom gained from experience, humanity had finally found a balance with the natural world that it is a part of. That balance was found but it had cost the burgeoning population of humankind many of the freedoms that their recent and distant ancestors took for ...

Romaine Wilder, big-city medical examiner with a small-town past, has been downsized and evicted. With few other options, she’s forced to return to her hometown of Roble in East Texas, leaving behind the man she’s dating and the life she’s worked hard to build. Suzanne Babet Derbinay, Romaine’s Auntie Zanne and proprietor of the Ball Funeral Home, has long since traded her French Creole upbringing for Big Texas attitude. She’s a member in a number of ladies’ auxiliaries and clubs, including being in charge of the Tri-County Annual Crawfish Boil and Music Festival. Hanging on to ...

"A bravura historical debut . . . a gloriously immersive escape." —Guardian Wolf Hall meets The Favourite in Lucy Jago's A Net For Small Fishes, a gripping dark novel based on the true scandal of two women determined to create their own fates in the Jacobean court. With Frankie, I could have...

Clyde Sheffield prefers a quiet life stocking produce and avoiding attention, but when loudmouthed fisherman Jasper Oxridge publicly dares him to enter a high-stakes bass tournament at Lake Blackshear, Clyde finds himself hooked into something he never wanted. Becky McInvale, the independent office manager —and the girl Clyde never had the nerve to ask out in high school—joins the competition herself after Jasper’s ego gets out of hand. As boats launch and tempers flare, Clyde must navigate more than tangled lines and stubborn fish; he has to find the confidence he’s always lacked. ...

A grumpy single-dad fisherman. A sunshine teacher new to Alaska. And a slow burn that melts the coldest state. Timber Moore trades the Arizona heat for a summer teaching job in Port Promise, Alaska. She tells everyone she's chasing adventure, but the truth rides in her coat pocket: a postcard from a man who might be the father she's never met. All she needs is a few quiet months to dig up answers. She doesn't need Kane Hollister—gruff, storm-eyed, and convinced she won't last the season—telling her she doesn't belong. Kane has one rule: don't get attached to anyone who isn't staying. ...

When marine photographer Dani Calloway arrives in Harlow Cove, North Carolina, she tells herself it's just a magazine assignment — a long-form piece on the charter fishing families who have worked these waters for generations. What she doesn't tell anyone, including herself, is that she's running from three years of brilliant, hollow commercial work that has left her unable to trust her own eye. What she needs is somewhere without a brief, a brand deck, or a reason to perform. What she finds is Adam Pruitt. Third-generation owner of Pruitt Charter Company, single father to one six-year-...

When Paul Forte is indicted by a federal grand jury, everyone suspects prosecutor Bernard (don’t call him “Bernie”) Kilroy has more on his mind than justice. Then the FBI agent in charge of Paul’s case gives him a clue to the mystery: Kilroy is bent on settling an old family score, and he’s not above breaking the law to do it.

An enemies-to-lovers romance. A Hollywood actress stranded with a grumpy mountain man. And an Alaskan wilderness that doesn't care about either of their egos. Lena Kensington's career imploded after she threw a champagne flute at her director on live television. Her agent's last-ditch plan: a wilderness reality show in remote Alaska. She expects staged photo shoots at a luxury lodge. Instead, she crash-lands a floatplane into someone's wedding, loses a Louboutin in a dock, and meets Finn Hollister, who treats her designer wardrobe like a personal insult to his mountain. Finn's lodge is ...

Welcome to Clean Slate Ranch: Home of tight jeans, cowboy boots, and rough trails. For some men, it’s a fantasy come true. Reyes Caldero keeps his past buried deep and his emotions buried deeper. But what he doesn’t say he always makes up for with his actions. When the hot chef he once saved...

The Lobster Boil Weekend was supposed to be the biggest celebration Pelican Harbor had ever seen—four hundred people, an antique copper kettle, and sixty quarts of Blair Whitcome's Cajun lobster bisque. What Blair didn't plan for was opening her walk-in cooler at four in the morning to find the man who delivered the lobster dead inside it, with someone else's handwriting in her temperature log and a sharpened oyster knife she'd never seen before. Now her kitchen is sealed, her festival booth is the talk of the harbor, and Detective Delcambre is building a case against a hot-tempered young...

Sinister secrets hidden by the tranquil waters of an Ozarks lake. Can married amateur sleuths bait and capture a killer before the truth slips away? Kirkus Reviews—“A fine whodunit featuring a delightful cast whom readers will love—or love to hate.” After newlyweds Elizabeth and Jonas Trout arrive to settle her grandmother's estate, they quickly find themselves embroiled in a treacherous mystery when Elizabeth is implicated in the murder of the property manager. With mounting evidence and the Southern small-town sheriff convinced of her guilt, Elizabeth and Jonas must fish for clues...

A fake date. A second-chance ex. And a high-stakes lie that’s about to catch up with her. Lauren Wallace is this close to proving she’s more than just the sweet, supportive sister at The Beacon. With her parents officially retired and the family restaurant undergoing a high-stakes relaunch, all she needs to do is land the new seafood supplier and claim the operational credit she’s earned. Then her ex walks in—and Lauren panics. Desperate to avoid a pity conversation, she blurts out the first name that comes to mind as her new boyfriend: Zach, the drop-dead gorgeous local fisherman ...

From the creator of The Honest Toddler comes a fiction debut sure to be a must-read for moms everywhere There are good moms and bad moms and then there are hot-mess moms. Introducing Ashley Keller, career girl turned stay-at-home mom who's trying to navigate the world of Pinterest-perfect...

Bloomsbury presents A Net for Small Fishes by Lucy Jago, read by Sarah Durham. Longlisted for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award A GUARDIAN SUMMER READING PICK ‘Sumptuous … If you’re feeling bereft after finishing The Mirror and the Light, let Jago transport you to the Jacobean...

She’s lost everything, including her house and her husband. When a stranger leaves her a beach café in North Carolina, she grasps the chance for a new beginning. When a stranger leaves forty-five-year-old Caitlin Walsh a beachside café in North Carolina, she grasps it as a lifeline to escape her shattered life. Packing up her things, she convinces her best friend to join her on a coastal road trip toward a fresh start. But inheriting a business is a mystery in itself. Caitlin doesn't know the first thing about cooking, and some of the locals seem resentful of her sudden arrival. The ...