Books


Recent Non-fiction

Riding Barranca: Finding Freedom and Forgiveness on the Midlife Trail

Riding Barranca: Finding Freedom and Forgiveness on the Midlife Trail

Riding with Laura is pure pleasure. In a fleeting one-year journal, skilled horsewoman, Laura Chester, brings us into her world, where we deeply connect with the earth and its seasons, with beauty and sometimes danger. Read more...

HOLY PERSONAL, Looking for Small Private Places of Worship

HOLY PERSONAL, Looking for Small Private Places of Worship

Laura Chester documents the American landscape as well as the American soul, as she and photographer friend, Donna Demari, traverse the continent looking for small, private places of worship. Read more...

Lupus Novice: toward self-healing

LUPUS NOVICE: towards self-healing

This “exceptional patient,” as Dr. Bernie Siegel describes Chester, reverses the expectations of current medical opinion… This intimate self-portrait is not only a personal mythology but a story of transformation. Read more...

Fiction

KINGDOM COME

KINGDOM COME

It was the worst Christmas of her life for many reasons. With the discovery of her husband’s infidelity, and her children’s painful rejection, Joanna Hawkins leaves her comfortable life on Beacon Hill and heads west. Read more...

Children's Books

Marvel the Marvelous

Illustrated by Gary Lippincott

Willow Creek Press
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Marvel the Marvelous

Kids love reading about horses, as the popularity of National Velvet, Black Beauty and even the “My Little Pony” series can attest. Now, in Marvel the Marvelous, writer and editor Laura Chester shares her lifelong love of horses in a new fantasy novel for kids ages 8-12. Read more...

HIDING GLORY

Hiding Glory

The story of a girl and a small blue horse With illustrations by Gary Lippincott.

First in a series of imaginative children’s books, this is the wild tale of a small blue horse named Glory, (guardian on the morning glory vine), who takes Turner Flint off to the land of Joya.

To be published Fall of 2007 from Willow Creek Press
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Early Volumes Of Poetry

MY PLEASURE, voice pieces

MY PLEASURE, voice pieces

These voices pieces were performed with Summer Brenner, Gloria Frym, Geoffrey Young and John Bean. Several of them were published on the audio cassette magazine Black Box. Read more ...

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