Lyons Press imprint: 837 books
The Lufthansa Heist
Behind the Six-Million-Dollar Cash Haul That Shook the World
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
The inside story—from the organizer himself--of the largest unrecovered cash haul in history. This full account brings readers behind the heist memorialized in Goodfellas, a crime that has baffled law enforcement for decades. From Henry Hill himself, The Lufthansa Heist is the last book he worked...
Baseball Hall of Shame™
The Best of Blooperstown
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
From 1985 to 1992, The Baseball Hall of Shame series chronicled more than 100 years of baseball goofs and gaffes, selling more than 700,000 copies. Now, the authors of the most offbeat baseball books ever written are back, featuring their looniest lineup of classic stories and inducting their first...
by Harvey Frommer
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
During the more than one hundred years that baseball has been our national pastime, all types of individuals have been managers of teams. They have run the gamut from political appointees to tyrants, schemers, incompetents and geniuses. Legendary baseball stars have been managers such as Ty Cobb,...
300 Pounds of Attitude
The Wildest Stories And Craziest Characters The NFL Has Ever Seen
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2006
One fall night in TK, Steve Sabol of NFL Films answered the door to see his friend, Philadelphia Eagles linebacker Tim “Rosso” Rossovich, standing there literally on fire. After Sabol knocked Rossovich to the ground and put out the fire, Rosso stood up and (without missing a beat) said, “Sorry,...
American Hero
The True Story of Tommy Hitchcock--Sports Star, War Hero, and Champion of the War-Winning P-51 Mustang
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Born to wealth, adventuresome in spirit, shrewd in business, gallant in war, and a beau ideal of his class, Tommy Hitchcock was the epitome of the American hero, a legend even in his own time. To Scott Fitzgerald, Tommy embodied the ideal of the aristocratic man of action, basing two of his characters...
Cabin Living
Discovering the Simple American Getaway
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
A tour through America’s favorite cabins
Created in partnership with Cabin Living magazine.
An inspirational celebration of one of America’s icons.
Handsomely designed with more than 300 color photographs.
Cabin Living is a collection of twenty-five of the best stories covering legacy...
Death on Mount Washington
Stories of Accidents and Foolhardiness on the Northeast's Highest Peak
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
On Mount Washington, it’s lack of preparation, not the mountain, that kills. The weather is highly changeable with wind gusts of 140 mph and -35 degree temps. Then there are the avalanches and icefalls. Combine this with inexperienced hikers in t-shirts and flip flops and things can get ugly fast.
Death...
All in All
An Actor's Life On and Off the Stage
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
Stacy Keach is known for movie roles like Fat City and American History X and the television series Titus, and of course Mike Hammer, but he's also revered in the industry as a serious actor who's passionate about his craft. In his long, impressive career, he has been hailed as America's finest classical...
Greatest U.S. Army Stories Ever Told
Unforgettable Stories Of Courage, Honor, And Sacrifice
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
Since the United States Army's inception by an act of Congress on June 14, 1775, its remarkable service members have engaged in almost every one of the most important turning points in our nation's history. In The Greatest U.S. Army Stories Ever Told, editor Iain Martin gathers the amazing experiences...
Night of the Long Knives
Forty-Eight Hours That Changed The History Of The World
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
Many wonder how Adolf Hitler, a mediocre army corporal and failed landscape painter, could have become the architect of the most calamitous events of the twentieth century. But fewer know that Hitler's fateful transition from ambitious demagogue to Europe's most vicious tyrant occurred on an ordinary...
The Backyard Gardener
Simple, Easy, and Beautiful Gardening with Vegetables, Herbs, and Flowers
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
A beautiful and simple guide to edible gardening
The “garden to table” movement is inspiring another generation of gardeners but many of them have questions. How important is composting? Is seed saving really worth it? Focusing on sustainable, organic growing practices and plants, The Backyard...
Wayward Angel
The Full Story of the Hells Angels
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2008
We all know about the Hells Angels: toughs on Harleys terrorizing the law-abiding; wild brawls and wild sex; drugs and cruelty, beatings, and even murder. But nobody really knows what it's like to be an Angel except an Angel. In this classic of Hells Angels literature, to be read alongside the works...
Indian Creek Chronicles
A Winter in the Bitterroot Wilderness
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1993
"The wardens climbed into their truck, ready to leave. 'You'll need about seven cords of firewood. Concentrate on that. You'll have to get it all in before the snow grounds your truck.'"
"Though I didn't want to ask, it seemed important. 'What's a cord?'"
So begins Pete Fromm's seven...
Habit of Rivers
Reflections On Trout Streams And Fly Fishing
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
Originally published in 1994, this book was a fly-fishing phenomenon in the way Howell Raines's Fly Fishing Through the Mid-Life Crisis was. Taking his fishing hobby to near metaphysical levels, Ted Leeson tells about his passions: rivers, trout, and fly fishing. With wry humor and rare insight, he...