Skyhorse imprint: 3212 books
The Gift of Success and Happiness
Transforming Your Life Through Business Process Principles
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
The Gift of Success and Happiness offers a set of simple systems-based on the world’s most reliable business principles-that empowers readers to meet and overcome challenges posed by money, work, relationships, and other factors, most of which impede our success and impinge on our happiness. Based...
Aretha Franklin
The Queen of Soul
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2012
An authoritative look at the life of a music legend from “the Number One Best-selling Pop Biographer” (Publishers Weekly).
A frank examination of Aretha Franklin, Mark Bego’s definitive biography traces her career accomplishments from her beginnings as a twelve-year-old member of a church...
Common Ground
Lessons and Legends from the World?s Great Faiths
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
As the spice maker’s cabinet is full of many herbs, so should a scholar be full of Scripture, Talmud, and Legend-an ancient Jewish proverb
This reference to legend-or the teaching tales used by the sages-is a remarkable testimony to the power of story and its place in the history, development,...
The Hands of War
A Tale of Endurance and Hope, from a Survivor of the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Marione Ingram grew up in Hamburg, Germany, in the late 1930s and early 1940s. She was German. She was Jewish. She was a survivor. This is her story.
As a young girl, Marione was aware that people of the Jewish faith were regarded as outsiders, the supposed root of Germany’s many problems. She grew...
Marcel's Letters
A Font and the Search for One Man's Fate
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Finalist for the 2018 Minnesota Book Award
A graphic designer’s search for inspiration leads to a cache of letters and the mystery of one man’s fate during World War II.
Seeking inspiration for a new font design in an antique store in small-town Stillwater, Minnesota, graphic designer Carolyn...
by Joseph Conrad, Henry James, Wilkie Collins
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2011
Tales of spooks and spirits that have taught generations of readers what it means to be afraid of the dark—by authors from H. G. Wells to Willa Cather.
Before movies, television, and teams of high-tech “ghost hunters” running around darkened houses, there was only one sure-fire way to scare...
Country Grit
A Farmoir of Finding Purpose and Love
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
In this memoir filled with heart, hope and “abundant humor” a wife and husband give up their suburban existence and buy a farm in Oregon (The Oregonian).
Scottie Jones was living a comfortable suburban life in Arizona until her husband, Greg, got into a near-fatal car accident. While recovering,...
The Court-Martial of Corporal Nutting
A Memoir of the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
The firsthand account of a young Marine court-martialed for marijuana use during his tour of duty in Vietnam.
Changing marijuana laws are one of the pivotal issues in the country today. As some politicians and advocates push for the drug’s legalization—and work to clear marijuana convictions—the...
Charles Darwin
Destroyer of Myths
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
“This rich perspective is an excellent introduction to the breadth of Darwin’s achievements”—from the biographer of Winston Churchill and Adolf Hitler (Publishers Weekly).
Charles Darwin did not deliberately set out to be the “destroyer of mythical beliefs,” some of which, in his early...
Curiosities of Literature
A Feast for Book Lovers
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
“A thoroughly engaging compendium of literary arcadia.” —Nicholas Basbanes, author of A Gentle Madness
When did cigarettes start making an appearance in English literature? Which author’s heart was purportedly eaten by a cat? One of our best-known and best-loved literary critics turns...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Many first-time horse owners start out thinking they’ll teach their animals a thing or two; but eventually most horse lovers end each day impatient to find what their horse will teach them next. Share in hundreds of pearls of horse wisdom and discover what the pros have learned from these mighty...
The Snark Bible
A Reference Guide to Verbal Sparring, Comebacks, Irony, Insults, and So Much More
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
An uproarious collection of sick burns from the Merchant of Venom himself!
The lord of snark, Lawrence Dorfman, is back! With this treasury of backhanded compliments, sarcastic insults, and catty comebacks, Dorfman gives us transformative wisdom that’s sure to change your life—or at least...
by Peter Graham
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
On June 22, 1954, teenage friends Juliet Hulme—better known as bestselling mystery writer Anne Perry—and Pauline Parker went for a walk in a New Zealand park with Pauline’s mother, Honora. Half an hour later, the girls returned alone, claiming that Pauline’s mother had had an accident. But...
Iranian Rappers and Persian Porn
A Hitchhiker's Adventures in the New Iran
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Iran looms large in the psyche of modern America. For decades, it has been the enemy,” its government taunting us and attacking our Western, secular lifestyle. That is largely the Iranian government, however, not the Iranian people. Here’s the proof.
When Jamie Maslin decides to backpack...