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.

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 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.

"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...

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 ...

Maybe you’ve been wrestling with feelings of inadequacy over what you have to offer God. Eleanor Powell is credited with saying, “What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.” But for many of us, our gift to God doesn’t feel like much. That’s why I love the story of Jesus miraculously feeding five thousand men, plus whatever family members were with them, with five loaves and two fish. If we think this story is just about food we are missing something really essential to how God longs to relate with us, His children. I seriously doubt the little boy in this ...

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.

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. ...

A dying town. A blood debt from the deep. A nightmare awakening. Collin Mercer hasn’t returned to Black Tide Point in eleven years, and for good reason. The dilapidated fishing village is drowning in rot, sulfur, and long-buried secrets. But when a salvage dive uncovers an antique pendant from the silt of a submerged channel, it awakens a starving, ancient apex predator. This is no fairy tale. It is a ruthless, elongated nightmare with translucent teeth that uses the drowned as bait. Trapped inside a flooded cannery while a violent storm surge cuts off all escape, Collin is forced to face...

🌊 Breaking Waves 🌊 Opposites attract, forced proximity, and a tantalizing only-one-bed dilemma push Mack and Riley closer than either is prepared to handle. Riley James lives through her camera lens, capturing disappearing worlds before they're gone forever. Arriving in Sunset Harbor to document Maine’s vanishing fishing community, she expects rugged boats and quaint charm—not a surly fisherman with stormy blue eyes and zero patience for outsiders. Mack Sullivan is a third-generation fisherman fighting to preserve a way of life that’s slipping away. The last thing he needs is ...

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...

An elegant, slow-burn time travel romance. Rosalind's story begins in Victorian England in 1895, where she is a duchess of fifty, and unfolds in the present day, from the year 2026 onward. England, 1895. At fifty years old, Rosalind Carrick, Duchess of Aldworth, has spent her whole life being handed from one man to the next. Married off at seventeen, exiled for thirty years, and now, newly widowed, shipped across the Atlantic to a second husband she has never met, she has learned the only safety a woman in her position is allowed: to want nothing, and so to have nothing left to lose. Eight ...

In the new country, Shirley and her family all have big dreams. Take the family store: Shirley has great ideas about how to make it more modern! Prettier! More profitable! She even thinks she can sell the one specialty no one seems to want to try: Mama’s homemade gefilte fish. But her parents think she’s too young to help. And anyway they didn’t come to America for their little girl to work. “Go play with the cat!” they urge.  

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.

She’s a city girl with a blog to write. He’s a hometown hero who gave up the big leagues. All it takes is one swing to change everything. When Harper Lane is roped into Maplewood Grove’s charity baseball game, the last thing she expects is to catch feelings for the local coach with a past. But sometimes, a curveball is exactly what you need. Harper Lane prefers road trips and blog posts over settling down—until her cousin ropes her into playing in Maplewood Grove’s annual charity baseball game. Humiliated at the plate and way out of her element, Harper’s ready to pack up and go...

Skyla Maxwell has a plan for everything. Her career. Her future. Even the exact kind of boyfriend she’s supposed to have. So when her sister announces a week-long destination wedding at a Colorado dude ranch, Skyla hires a professional plus-one to survive the family scrutiny. What she gets instead is Eli Crawford, a cowboy with calloused hands, a quiet smile, and no idea he’s supposed to be pretending. Stranded at a remote ranch with spotty cell service and no backup options, Skyla and Eli strike a deal. He’ll play the devoted boyfriend for seven days of wedding chaos. She’ll keep ...

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...

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.

What if your fish tank could clean itself, feed your fish, and generate consistent income — all from a backyard or rooftop, anywhere in the world? That is not a promise. It is the documented science of biofloc technology, now accessible to any small-scale farmer willing to follow a system. Biofloc fish farming is the fastest-growing segment of a global aquaculture industry now valued at over $320 billion. Practised commercially in more than 40 countries — from Brazil and Bangladesh to Ghana and the Philippines — it allows farmers to raise tilapia, catfish, shrimp, and carp in dense, ...