Böcker av W. D. Wetherell

The black bass is not only the most popular American gamefish, fished for by millions, but is also one of the country's most iconic creatures, embodying many of the traits and virtues we like to think of as typically American. And yet, despite the hundreds of "how-to" books published on bass fishing over the years, few if any authors have stepped back to examine the bass's place in the natural world, to honor its virtues, and describe its remarkable adaptions to an ever-changing environment as it spread from its original home in the continent's middle to 49 out of the 50 states. Bass tournaments with huge cash prizes, overpowered bass boats, glitzy bass fishing programs on TV. That's what people think of when they think of bass--a heavily commercialized, over-the-top commodity involving big bucks and crowds. That the bass can also be a creature of the quiet, forgotten places, the beautiful wild places, is a story that has been drowned beneath all the bassy hype and buzz. In Summer of the Bass; My Love Affair with America’s Greatest Fish, prizewinning novelist and dedicated fly-fisher W. D. Wetherell sets out to change our views of the smallmouth and largemouth, restoring them to their status as one of the world's truly great fishes. Part natural history, part cultural investigation, part memoir, Summer of the Bass, in its whole-hearted, lyrical celebration of the bass's many virtues, gives America's greatest fish the classic is has long deserved.Skyhorse Publishing is proud to publish a broad range of books for fishermen. Our books for anglers include titles that focus on fly fishing, bait fishing, fly-casting, spin casting, deep sea fishing, and surf fishing. Our books offer both practical advice on tackle, techniques, knots, and more, as well as lyrical prose on fishing for bass, trout, salmon, crappie, baitfish, catfish, and more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

The tale of Charles Marden, an apple grower and judge who sets off from his Vancouver Island home on an impulsive journey to Belgium, where his son has died in battle. Marden's mission is to find the exact spot where his son was killed. This is a story of the power of death, the pain of loss, and the possibility of hope in a time of war.

The award-winning author of A Century of November explores the lives of three womenseparated by decades but connected by one house. When Vera decides to travel to an old house in the New England countryside for a month-long escape from some devastating news about her daughter, she has no idea her life is about to change forever. It begins innocently enoughpeeling the old wallpaper from the walls as a favor to the house's owner. What she discovers underneathwritten in India ink on the very walls of the house by a woman named Beth, in 1919is the beginning of the reader's unsettling crossing into the unknown world underneath the paper. The Writing on the Wall is a brilliantly realized journey into the connected lives of three women whose stories span a century, linked by the house they all briefly inhabit, and by the tragedies they've had to endure. ';W.D. Wetherell is a fearless acrobat with words and narrative structures. His work, filled with humor, warmth and wisdom, asks us to re-examine our recent history.' Chicago Tribune ';W.D. Wetherell has a sharp, fresh eye and a complicated view of our dislocations, pains and dreams.' The New York Times ';Wetherell impressively captures a diversity of voices, telling distinct but parallel stories whose moral arcs resonate across time.' Publishers Weekly

Writing with the same descriptive flair that has won his novels so much praise, Wetherell tells the true story of his teenage son's winning soccer season. "Soccer Dad" is simultaneously the candid reflections of a devoted father and diehard soccer fan.

Although Yellowstone is America's oldest, most iconic, and most popular national park, it is perhaps, in W.D. Wetherell's words, "America's least-known best-known place." Detailed in the humorous, and lyrical language that has distinguished Wetherell's award-winning fiction, this introspective journey merges the fascinating story of Yellowstone's history and geography with the author's own story.