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|  | | The Bad, The Good and Two Fly Fishing Women
A novelette:
Amanda is fourteen when her mother deserts her to be with a new man. Hurt and betrayed, Amanda loses faith in the world. To soothe her pain, she retreats into fly fishing, until she learns that her loving grandmother has terminal cancer.
Amanda struggles to find answers. Then one day she discovers that her grandmother, against the doctor’s orders, has gone fishing somewhere on the Junction River. Frightened, Amanda, along with Shana, her adopted dog, and Vernon, a grieving alcoholic, searches the river—but marches into an unexpected, terrifying event that, in a surprising way, helps her learn to forgive and to see the good in the world.
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div style="text-indent: 0.3in; margin: 0in 0in 0pt">Now, as I approach the autumn of my life and some, though not all, of my dreams have come true, how do I describe myself? As a wife and a mother who loves her family, as an attorney who admires the law, and as a fly fisher who proudly says she learned from the greatest fly fisher she ever knew: her grandmother./div>
div style="text-indent: 0.3in; margin: 0in 0in 0pt">And whether by accident or not, my grandmother, with the help of so | |  | | The Fly Caster Who Tried to Make Peace With the World
An historical fly fishing novel about a man's journey to make peace with loss and a world he can't always understand.
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Making peace with the world, sooner or later most of us have to. But how?
For Ian Mac Bride, his way begins almost accidentally when, in 1909, he watches a fly-casting tournament in New York’s Central Park, and begins to dream of becoming a great fly caster.
But soon Ian experiences personal tragedy, and then is appalled by the unexpected slaughter of World War I.
He retreats into the world of fly fishing and fly | |  | | The Way of the River: My Journey of Fishing, Forgivness and Spiritual ...
The Way of the River: My Journey of Fishing, Forgiveness and Spiritual Recovery is a collection of memoirs and autobiographical stories that reflect Randy Kadish's long journey of fishing and spiritual recovery.
div id="postBodyPS">The Way of the River is a collection of memoirs and autobiographical stories that reflect Randy Kadish's long journey of fishing and spiritual recovery. The journey, often difficult, often gratifying, began when he finally admitted to himself that he couldn't communicate, and that his life had become unmanageable. Then, after he asked for help, he looked back into his life and relived the deep pain and loss that began during his very traumatic childhood. To soothe himself with the beauty of the outdoors, he turned to fly fishing. As he struggled to come to terms with |
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Boy in a Box
by Paul Lonardo
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 This book is an autobiographical account of the lessons I learned about life and how I was able to apply them to inspire, motivate and empower others in my own work as a firefighter, as well in my daily life as a husband, a father and a man. When I w |
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