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Spring Creek
Twentieth Anniversary Edition
2012
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“Spring Creek is everything a fishing book should be,” says Craig Nova. “It has the ability to convey the magic that always exists between somebody who loves fishing and a particular piece of water that endlessly lives up to its end of the bargain.” It has been called Lyons's masterpiece.The river is one of those rare places where the trout are as long as your arm but also exceedingly difficult to catch. Lyons explores its secrets and confronts its greatest challenges. At first he ...
Fire in the Straw
Notes on Inventing a Life
2020
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****Named One of the New York Post's Best New Books to Read **FIRE IN THE STRAW is the witty and deeply felt memoir of Nick Lyons, a man with an intrepid desire to reinvent himself—which he does, over and over.Nick Lyons shape shifts from reluctant student and graduate of the Wharton School, to English Professor, to husband of a fiercely committed painter, to ghost writer, to famous fly fisherman and award-winning author, to father and the...
Fishing Stories
A Lifetime of Adventures and Misadventures on Rivers, Lakes, and Seas
2014
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All fishermen who have fished for a lifetime have baskets of great stories and reminiscences about the sport they love. Nick Lyons’s new collection is chock-full of them. From fishing a small Catskill creek and catching a huge brook trout when he was barely out of infancy to long opening day treks during his teens, and then on to fishing in France, Iceland, Key West, Montana, and widely elsewhere, Nick has spent a lifetime on the water.Fishing Stories features tales about ...
The Seasonable Angler
Journeys Through a Fisherman's Year
2013
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Nick Lyons’s first fishing book, The Seasonable Angler, is the story of a fisherman’s year, from the projects and fantasies of an angler’s winter through the thrill of a June evening’s rise on the Beaverkill, and on to the pleasures and melancholia of autumn trout fishing.In a book of spirited contrasts, Nick Lyons recounts hilarious misadventures on opening day and on family trips, as well as quiet moments when the fisherman becomes contemplative and close to nature. Lyon...
2024
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Final issue! After cutting herself on the sword that beheaded the original Medusa, Gloria Merrick is transformed into Medusa. Medusa's sisters Stheno and Euryale (who are also hideous Gorgon creatures) are none too pleased that Gloria is masquerading as their dearly departed sister, and they want to see her dead. Can Gloria survive Medusa's sisters? Will Stheno and Euryale come to see that Gloria is carrying on Medusa's work?
2013
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This ample selection of articles and essays by one of America’s most popular writers about fly-fishing begins with a moment on Michigan’s Au Sable River—the exact moment when the author lost his heart to fly-fishing. This collection chronicles a fishing life punctuated by a revealing trip with one of his grown sons and mellow reflections from a hospital bed.This is the broadest of Nick Lyons’s books, with sections on tarpon and pike fishing in the Marquesas and in France, bass bugg...
2010
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This collection of more than 350 memorable quotations about the passion and pleasure of fishing captures the essence of the sport like very few collections have. Here are quips, comments, and words of wisdom on all aspects of fishing from Lord Byron, Cervantes, Art Flick, John Gierach, Roderick L. Haig-Brown, Ernest Hemingway, Ted Leeson, A. J. McClane, Thomas McGuane, Arthur Ransome, Steve Raymond, Charles Ritz, Paul Schullery, G. E. M. Skues, Izaak Walton, Ed Zern, and many more. This is...
Bright Rivers
Celebrations of Rivers and Fly-fishing
2014
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Bright Rivers chronicles the angling passions and frustrations of one of fly-fishing's greatest men of letters.A city dweller trapped in the complexities of modern life, Nick Lyons has always found solace in his pilgrimages to great rivers. It is there that he fishes for trout, and in Bright Rivers, Lyons recounts the sometimes moving, sometimes hilarious experiences of his expeditions to Delaware, Beaverkill, Madison, Big Hole, and Yellowstone rivers, sharing rem...
2015
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After cutting herself on the sword that beheaded the original Medusa, Gloria Merrick is transformed into Medusa. Medusa's sisters Stheno and Euryale (whom are also hideous Gorgon creatures) are none too pleased that Gloria is masquerading as their dearly departed sister and they want to see her dead. Can Gloria survive Medusa's sisters? Will Stheno and Euryale come to see that Gloria is carrying on Medusa's work?
2019
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The Diver’s Tale is an unvarnished account of real British diving, based on the author’s 40+ year experience. Britain is an island nation so, unsurprisingly, scuba diving is a popular British pastime enjoyed by some 50,000 keen participants and just as many of the armchair variety. A carefully-structured programme of training ensures that the British diver is well-prepared for the challenging conditions which may be encountered beneath our seas. Or does it? How many trainee divers were tau...
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- Best Stories Ever Told
2027
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More than one hundred of the finest writers ever to pick up a rod, collected in one 576-page volume.Fishing is the oldest excuse there is for a good story. Edited by Nick Lyons—a lifelong angler and one of the most respected names in fishing literature—this anthology gathers over a hundred pieces of fiction and nonfiction from writers who understood that the telling matters as much as the catch, with or without one to show.John McPhee is here. So are Jimmy ...
Available Apr 13, 2027
2015
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This one shot features a brand new story called THE DAME! Private eye Frank Wood (Vincent Price) takes on a case in which he must track down a wealthy husband's beloved missing wife. As Frank investigates the case further, he realizes the client is hiding a major secret about his wife. A deadly secret.