Several children recently completed the 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten Program at the Wells County Public Library by reading and listening to 1,000 books with the help of family members. At left, ...

The River Why by David James Duncan: Fly Fishing Fiction. The only work of fiction on this list, The River Why tells the story of a young man searching for purpose and fulfillment through fly fishing.

Listen: Shy - Max Porter talks to RTÉ Arena. Which brings us to Max Porter’s fourth book Shy and its eponymous protagonist; a troubled teenaged boy committed to a youth mental health facility ...

The book centres on a troubled teenager named Shy, who lives at a rural boarding school, named Last Chance, for similarly wayward boys. When we join Shy, he’s sneaking out of school and headed ...

These are the five best fly fishing books that will transport you to the water, even when you're stuck at home. advertisement ...

The question, asked by a staff member at the Last Chance school for disturbed youths, rings in the memory of the teenage title character of Max Porter’s novel “Shy.” Shy finds trouble as ...

Grief, which hit the right balance between the heartbreak of a mother's death and Porter's inventive, poetic, sardonic, typographically playful text, was a hard act to follow.Porter's second novel ...