Product Description: In this remarkable one-year journal, skilled horsewoman and adventurer Laura Chester brings us into her world, where we deeply connect with the earth and its seasons, with beauty and sometimes danger.While riding in places as far-reaching as Mexico, Australia, and India, Chester is always grateful to come home to the comforts of her familiar horse...read more

A tiny blue horse named Glory takes elementary school student Turner Flint on a fantastical journey to the land of Joya, where they must do battle with the Kermudgins, a tribe of 'terrible tidy-uppers,' as well as an even more lethal foe.

Product Description: Hearbeat for Horses is a collection of writing and photographs brought together in honor of horse crazy girls - those who might only live in the fantasy world of books and porcelain statues, who pin posters onto their walls and dream of jumping like National Velvet, or who actually compete in rodeos and horse shows in an attempt to win that blue ribbon...read more

Product Description: Anthology of prose and poetry from great writers such as Annie Proulx, John Hawkes, Maxine Kumin, Beryl Markham, Jane Smiley, Mikhail Lermentov, Tess Gallagher, Isak Dineson, Charles Bukowski, Annie Dillard, and more.

Product Description: Poetry. Photography. SPARKS marks the second collaboration (after Holy Personal) of author Laura Chester and photographer Donna DeMari. Here, prose poetry and sepia-toned photographs combine to tell a story. "THE SPARK SO quickly becomes the fire becomes you...read more

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Recommended by Andrew Weil in Natural Health, Natural Medicine, Lupus Novice gives a moving account of the author's successful struggle with incurable SLE (systemic lupus erythematosus), affecting mostly women. Ms. Chester shares the personal discoveries behind her recovery, and a meditation on what it means for a body to be attacking itself. This enlarged edition updates her story and includes a foreword by the best-selling authority on immune-system disease: the author of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Dr. Jesse Stoff.Laura Chester has written a moving and significant book. On one level, she discusses her personal odyssey through the realm of a serious and inexplicable disease-its history, current cultural status, biology, symbolism, and the doctors of all persuasions who attempt to cure it. On another level, she speaks to the esoteric level of the disease, discussing the initiation into a deeper level of self and a journey through the unconscious and archetypal aspects of nature. On this level, she is an artist more than a patient, an individual who has the power to effect her cure.- Richard Grossinger, author of Planet Medicine (view table of contents)

Beginning with Victorian times, the lives of four families are played out in the resort area of Wisconsin's Nogowogotoc Lake, summer refuge of Milwaukee's wealthy beer barons, in a panoramic saga rich in Midwestern history. IP.

Product Description: In the linked short stories of Bitches Ride Alone, Laura Chester returns to her signature subject matter with headlong, unguarded candor. Chronicling girlhood crushes, bittersweet love affairs, and erotic fantasies, Chester's narrator, a nameless divorcee in her middle forties, examines the tension between the idealism of womanly desire and the shortcomings of reality...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Collects writings by over ninety women on pregnancy, birth, and motherhood, from conception to nursing and beyond

As her marriage gradually breaks down, Julia realizes that her husband has been living a secret life

Product Description: This is an anthology of over 150 pieces by contemporary women writers ranging in tone from innocent to erotic, and from serious to hilarious with pieces by authors such as Erica Jong, Alice Walker and Jayne Anne Phillips. It includes short stories, poetry, prose and extracts...read more

A selection of poems and essays on friendships, love relationships, and nature

A selection of poems and essays on friendships, love relationships, and nature