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.

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"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...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

🌊 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 ...

A frozen lake. A frosty fish. A dead body. When Rainey and her boyfriend, Detective Cade Starkey, decide to get in a little rest and relaxation by going fishing, the last thing they expect to find is a dead body beneath the ice. How did he end up in the lake, and who killed him? Rainey may be a reluctant fishing enthusiast, but she loves nothing more than to spend time with Cade. Will she ever admit that she's falling hard for the detective?

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.

My plan was simple: fly to Vermont, sketch the sad beauty of my family’s decaying farm, and escape before the first snow. This small-town trip was just another subject to capture and forget. But the farm’s porch is a structural failure, and the grumpy carpenter hired to fix it is a walking indictment of my entire life. Evan Carter doesn’t do patch jobs. He builds things to last, and he sees the rot I’ve spent a decade painting over. He’s infuriating, steady, and solid as the foundation he insists we rebuild. He’s everything I’ve run from. But as the autumn chill sets in, his ...

She borrowed her best friend's name. He's the one man who can't forgive a lie... Daniel Garrett carved a ranch out of the Arizona Territory with his bare hands and a promise he made over his brother's grave: never trust a liar again. Daniel carries that lesson in his bones, ever since the lie that cost his brother William his life. When his mail-order bride arrives, she's everything he didn't expect: warm, capable, and brave enough to face down a rattlesnake. Before the week is done, he's falling fast. Abby Foster fled Boston hours before a forced marriage, taking her friend Clara's name, ...

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...

It’s a perfect fish-out-of-water story: LA influencer meets cozy small town. My life is a brand, and I’m one viral campaign away from saving my family’s struggling Vermont farm. The only thing I didn’t storyboard is Dr. Bryan Miller, the town’s gruff, single-dad vet. He’s got sad eyes, a protective streak a mile wide, and he hates everything my world stands for. He thinks my life is fake, but the more time I spend in this town of falling leaves and crackling bonfires, the more I realize he might be the realest thing I’ve ever known. But just as I start to fall for him and his ...

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.

Dr. Ally St Clair is a fish out of water in a remote country town in New Zealand, where she has been called in to help a local doctor. But with one look at her, the local doctor, Sam Livingstone, decides that this city girl belongs to him. If only he can persuade her that in the country is where she really belongs. Featuring: fish out of water city girl and country boy forced proximity medical romance

Rule #1: Stay out of the barn. Rule #2: Do not fall for the farmer. Rule #3: Seriously. Do NOT feed the goat. When lifestyle influencer River Sterling hits rock bottom after her mother's death, her best friend books her on an all-inclusive mindfulness sanctuary. Or at least that is what River thinks. Instead, she ends up on a muddy farm run by Sam Cordell: broad-shouldered, impossibly gruff, a man who's spent years keeping his heart locked down tight behind farm fence lines. Sam has two ironclad rules for survival: protect his family's legacy, and never trust a woman who travels with ...

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 ...

With her sassy humor and sexy cowboys, USA Today bestseller Carolyn Brown launches her new Longhorn Canyon series. One city girl, one die-hard rancher, and eight mischievous kids. What could go wrong? Every summer Cade Maguire looks forward to opening his Longhorn Canyon Ranch to underprivileged...

The whole town came up the lane. One of them filled a dead man's thermos. It's the last weekend of October on the Sorrel Bay peninsula, and the Harvest Fest is the barn's this year: the co-op's annual dinner on Friday for a hundred and twenty growers, a fish boil for two hundred on Saturday with a kettle that's been on its iron ring since 1962, a dance, a pancake breakfast, and a table for Lakeshore Collective, who've asked to be seen and have brought a lawyer. Gary Sundquist, treasurer for twenty-two years, has a six-page report he means to read out loud, because he reads everything out ...