Lyons Press imprint: 837 books
Inside the Star Wars Empire
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Bill Kimberlin may refer to himself as “one of those names on the endless list of credits at the close of blockbuster movies.” In reality though, he’s a true insider on some of the most celebrated and popular movies and franchises of the past century. Jurassic Park. Star Trek. Jumanji. Schindler’s...
Say It Loud!
The Life of James Brown, Soul Brother No. 1
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
When Don Rhodes took his seat not far behind Michael Jackson at the funeral of the “Godfather of Soul” on December 30, 2006, it marked the close of a forty-year friendship. In Say It Loud! Rhodes pays tribute to James Brown and his storied career, with a close and comprehensive look at the life of...
Gray's Sporting Journal's Noble Birds and Wily Trout
Creating America's Hunting and Fishing Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
A history of hunting and fishing through excerpted documents and as “narrated” by Gray's Sporting Journal columnist Will Ryan.
Mad Trapper of Rat River
A True Story Of Canada's Biggest Manhunt
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2005
"The Arctic trails do indeed have their secret tales, and one of the best is that of The Mad Trapper of Rat River, equal to the legends of Bonnie and Clyde or John Dillinger. Now author Dick North (of course) may have solved the mystery of the Mad Trapper's true identity, thereby enhancing the...
Find 'Em, Chase 'Em, Sink 'Em
The Mysterious Loss of the WWII Submarine USS Gudgeon
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Now in paperback, revised and updated, the stirring and authoritative account of one of World War II's most highly decorated submarines
Find 'Em, Chase 'Em, Sink 'Em is the first book to recount the tragic and mysterious loss of the World War II submarine USS Gudgeon. In April 1944, the highly...
The Santa Claus Man
The Rise and Fall of a Jazz Age Con Man and the Invention of Christmas in New York
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
The true story of John Duval Gluck, Jr., who in 1913 founded the Santa Claus Association, which had the sole authority to answer Santa's mail in New York City. He ran the organization for 15 years, gaining fame for making the myth of Santa a reality to poor children by arranging for donors to deliver...
Gangland Boston
A Tour Through the Deadly Streets of Organized Crime
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Welcome to Boston’s criminal underworld
Author covers crime for the Boston Globe
An entire chapter dedicated to Whitey Bulger: “Whitey’s World”
150 photos from author’s own Boston crime archives and more
Organized criminals have haunted Greater Boston’s history, lurking just around...
by Steven Price
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
In need of a bit of good advice? Well here is the best advice ever recorded--a compendium of personal tips, traditional proverbs, and clever observations from the literary, political, and entertainment world. The Best Advice Ever Given covers such diverse topics as life, love, success, forgiveness,...
The Invisibles
The Untold Story of African American Slaves in the White House
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
The Invisibles chronicles the African American presence inside the White House from its beginnings in 1782 until 1862, when President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation that granted slaves their freedom. During these years, slaves were the only African Americans to whom the most...
Minding the Manor
The Memoir of a 1930s English Kitchen Maid
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2013
Born in 1916 in Norfolk, Mollie Moran is one of the few people still alive today who can recall working "downstairs" in the golden years of the early 1930's before the outbreak of WWII. She provides a rare and fascinating insight into a world that has long since vanished. Mollie left school...
26.2 Miles to Boston
A Journey into the Heart of the Boston Marathon
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
117 years Strong…and Counting!
This all-new edition, which follows the Boston Marathon into the 21st century and through the tragedy of the 2013 race, is a colorful and moving portrait of what it feels like to run the world’s oldest annual marathon, escorting the reader through the past,...
An Unlikely Trust
Theodore Roosevelt, J.P. Morgan, and the Improbable Partnership That Remade American Business
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
At the dawn of the twentieth century*,* Theodore Roosevelt and J. Pierpont Morgan were the two most powerful men in America, perhaps the world. As the nation’s preeminent financier, Morgan presided over an elemental shift in American business, away from family-owned companies and toward modern corporations...
Under One Roof Again
All Grown Up and (Re)learning to Live Together Happily
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
As nest eggs shrink, parents are moving in with their adult children and grandchildren in record numbers. Similarly, with jobs scarce and unemployment high, more and more adult children, be they recent college grads (77% of them in 2009) or on their own for a while, are returning home to their parents....
Ice Hunter
A Woods Cop Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2008
In a brilliant debut to a thrilling series, Grady Service gets news that his nemesis, the head of an incestuous clan of poachers, is to be released from prison. But something even more sinister is afoot in the Mosquito Wilderness. Service must call upon his every reserve to track, stalk, and capture...