Lyons Press imprint: 837 books
The Grimaldis of Monaco
Centuries of Scandal, Years of Grace
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
The Grimaldis of Monaco tells in full the remarkable history of the world’s oldest reigning dynasty. For nearly eight hundred years, from the elegant Genoese Rainier I to the current Prince Albert II, the Grimaldis—“an ambitious, hot-blooded, unscrupulous race, swift to revenge and furious in...
Red Rose Crew
A True Story Of Women, Winning, And The Water
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2005
In 1975, a group of amazing women rowed their way to international success and glory, battling sexual prejudice, bureaucracy, and male domination in one of the most grueling and competitive sports around. Among the members of the first international women’s crew team--and one of the first women’s...
The Fight of Their Lives
How Juan Marichal and John Roseboro Turned Baseball's Ugliest Brawl into a Story of Forgiveness and Redemption
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
One Sunday afternoon in August 1965, on a day when baseball’s most storied rivals, the Giants and Dodgers, vied for the pennant, the national pastime reflected the tensions in society and nearly sullied two men forever. Juan Marichal, a Dominican anxious about his family’s safety during the civil...
Elston
The Story of the First African-American Yankee
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
Beginning with his early years as a St. Louis teenager, Elston tells of Elston Howard’s love of baseball and his encounters with racism. His three decades with the New York Yankees include numerous anecdotes about fellow Yankee legends such as Mickey Mantle, Whitey Ford, and Yogi Berra. Written...
Strong Boy
The Life and Times of John L. Sullivan, America's First Sports Hero
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
“I can lick any son-of-a-bitch in the world.”
So boasted John L. Sullivan, the first modern heavyweight boxing champion of the world, a man who was the gold standard of American sport for more than a decade, and the first athlete to earn more than a million dollars. He had a big ego,...
Hack's 191
Hack Wilson and His Incredible 1930 Season
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
Hack Wilson’s record 191 RBIs in 1930 may well stand the test of time, and so may the record of his hard-drinking lifestyle. In Hack’s 191, Bill Chastain recreates the most productive offensive season in baseball history while giving readers unique insight into the life of one of baseball’s...
Cohn-Head
A No-Holds-Barred Account of Breaking Into the Boys' Club
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2008
In Cohn-Head, one of America’s most successful female anchors lays bare her hard-fought rise to the top of the sportscasting boys’ club and her life inside the ESPN empire, talks candidly about sports personalities she has met, and reveals her personal top ten lists plus much, much more. After...
The Next Millionaire Next Door
Enduring Strategies for Building Wealth
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Over the past 40 years, Tom Stanley and his daughter Sarah Stanley Fallaw have been involved in research examining how self-made, economically successful Americans became that way. Despite the publication of The Millionaire Next Door, The Millionaire Mind, and others, myths about
wealth in American...
Hard Luck
The Triumph and Tragedy of "Irish" Jerry Quarry
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
The story of boxing legend Jerry Quarry has it all: rags to riches, thrilling fights against the giants of the Golden Age of Heavyweights (Ali—twice, Frazier—twice, Patterson, Norton), a racially and politically electric sports era, the thrills and excesses of fame, celebrities, love, hate, joy,...
475 Tax Deductions for Businesses and Self-Employed Individuals
An A-to-Z Guide to Hundreds of Tax Write-Offs
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Are you paying more taxes than you have to? The IRS is certainly not going to tell you about a deduction you failed to take, and your accountant is not likely to take the time to ask you about every deduction you’re entitled to. As former IRS Commissioner Mark Everson admitted, “If you don’t...
by Joseph Heywood
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Autumn 1960. Nikita Khrushchev is politically adept, visionary, and locked in a fight with the Politburo and a battle with Mao and the Chinese. His country and his political future are in trouble because he has opened doors to the West and espoused the doctrine of peaceful coexistence. Meanwhile,...
Red Jacket
A Lute Bapcat Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Woods Cop mystery author Joseph Heywood takes readers to an era when people had to be as hard as the lives they lived. Meet Lute Bapcat, orphan, loner, former cowboy, Rough Rider, beaver trapper, a man who in 1913, with the enthusiastic recommendation by Theodore Roosevelt, himself, becomes one of...
Modern Art Invasion
Picasso, Duchamp, and the 1913 Armory Show That Scandalized America
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
The story of the most important art show in U.S. history. Held at Manhattan’s 69th Regiment Armory in 1913, the show brought modernism to America in an unprecedented display of 1300 works by artists including Picasso, Matisse, and Duchamp, A quarter of a million Americans visited the show; most...
Doctor Who
A History
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Premiering the day after the JFK assassination, Doctor Who humbly launched one of the entertainment world’s first super-brands. We begin with a look at TV programming of the day and the original pitch documents before delving into the Daleks, which almost didn’t make the cut but inspired many...