Laura B Chester

Marvel the Marvelous

In the far reaches of Northern Joya, most of the inhabitants wear skates, for without these sharp, silver blades it would be too slippery to traverse the shimmering ice fields. When the King and Queen find a frozen girl child in a snowbank, everyone stops and tries to thaw her out. A gigantic bonfir...

Rancho Weirdo

Fiction. Includes full-color illustrations by Haeri Yoo. In RANCHO WEIRDO, Laura Chester's new collection of short stories, life on the U.S./Mexican border presents a clash of cultures and expectations that is explored with insight and dark humor. Chester's short fiction, accompanied by Haeri Yoo's ...

Heartbeat for Horses

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...

Holy Personal: Looking for Small Private Places of Worship

Holy PersonalLooking for Small Private Places of WorshipLaura ChesterPhotographs by Donna DeMariForeword by Thomas MooreDiscovering private spiritual spaces in America."[This] book represents the best way of doing theology—keeping it relentlessly human and thoroughly concrete.... The ultimate effect...

Deep Down: The New Sensual Writing by Women

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. Laura Chester is author...

Riding Barranca: Finding Freedom and Forgiveness on the Midlife Trail

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...

LUPUS NOVICE: Toward Self Healing

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...

Cradle and All: Women Writers on Pregnancy and Birth

How does it feel to be pregnant, to give birth, to mother an infant? Laura Chester collects short fiction, poems, and excerpts from novels by more than 50 of today's best women writers on the subject of pregnancy, birth and motherhood.

The Unmade Bed

The Unmade Bed

Holy Personal: Looking for Small Private Places of Worship

Deep Down

Deep Down

Cradle and All: Women Writers on Pregnancy and Birth

In the Zone: New and Selected Writing

In the Zone: New and Selected Writing