Lyons Press: 836 books
Orvis Vest Pocket Guide to Caddisflies
The Illustrated Reference To The Major Species Of North America
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
Based on the original Orvis Caddisfly Handbook, this wholly revised title is small and light enough to carry along for use on the water. Caddisflies are as crucial a trout food as mayflies or baitfish, and any serious trout angler needs to know these insects well. Detailed descriptions and photographs...
by Department of the Army
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
In a situation where survival is at stake, plants can provide crucial food and medicine. Their safe usage requires absolutely positive identification, knowing how to prepare them for eating, and a solid awareness of any dangerous properties they might have. Familiarity with the botanical structures...
Dressage Masters
Techniques and Philosophies of Four Legendary Trainers
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2006
Dressage Masters takes the reader into four of the greatest training stables in Europe. The master instructors express their philosophies and practices with regard to training horses and riders, and the state of dressage in the United States and elsewhere in the world. They also share fascinating...
Mitt Romney
An Inside Look at the Man and His Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
The 2012 race for the White House is racing along at full tilt. Mitt Romney is widely assumed to be the front-runner for the Republican nominee. Question is, can he hold the lead? Ron Scott provides the first independent (unauthorized) biographical profile of the possible Republican nominee. Mitt...
The Great Sweepstakes of 1877
A True Story of Southern Grit, Gilded Age Tycoons, and a Race That Galvanized the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
In 1877 the members of the United States Senate postponed all business for the day so that they might attend a horse race—the iconic, polarizing post-Civil War event at the center of this story. The nation, still recovering from the depredations of the Civil War and the Reconstruction that followed,...
It's No Accident
Breakthrough Solutions to Your Child's Wetting, Constipation, UTIs, and Other Potty Problems
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
Proven, practical advice for treating and preventing potty problems.
30 Days a Black Man
The Forgotten Story That Exposed the Jim Crow South
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
In 1948 most white people in the North had no idea how unjust and unequal daily life was for the 10 million African Americans living in the South. But that suddenly changed after Ray Sprigle, a famous white journalist from Pittsburgh, went undercover and lived as a black man in the Jim Crow South.
Escorted...
The Opening Kickoff
The Tumultuous Birth of a Football Nation
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
A New York Times Bestseller and Boston Globe Bestseller!
It’s America’s most popular sport, played by thousands, watched by millions, and generating billions in revenues every year. It’s also America’s most controversial sport, haunted by the specter of life-threatening injuries and...
Lefty Kreh's Presenting the Fly
A Practical Guide To The Most Important Element Of Fly Fishing
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
***Lefty Kreh's Presenting the Fly***details the most essential analysis in fly-fishing: how to get the right fly to the right fish, in the right way, at the right time. This vastly comprehensive, large-format volume explains the ways that shape, color, and weight of the fly can determine success under varying conditions.
Rivers of Sand
Fly Fishing Michigan and the Great Lakes Region
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Rivers of Sand is an exploration of the unique techniques needed to fish the waters of Michigan and the Great Lakes region, and a discussion of (and paean to) the region itself.
Real Lace Revisited
Inside the Hidden World of America’s Irish Aristocracy
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
Here is a revisitation--part tribute, part update--of Stephen Birmingham's much-loved Real Lace. James P. MacGuire, a member of one of Birmingham's Irish Families, creates his own entertaining portrait of life among the Irish Rich, further detailing and filling out this engrossing portion of America's...
Blood in the Hills
The Story of Khe Sanh, the Most Savage Fight of the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
A soldier’s eye view of Vietnam’s fiercest close-quarters battle upon its 50th anniversary
Khe Sanh’s Hill Fights of 1967—as experienced by co-author Bobby Maras and told in this hour-by-hour, day-by-day account—were carnage on the ground, much of it hand-to-hand fighting in the dark....
Terror in the City of Champions
Murder, Baseball, and the Secret Society that Shocked Depression-era Detroit
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
A New York Times Bestseller
Detroit, mid-1930s: In a city abuzz over its unrivaled sports success, gun-loving baseball fan Dayton Dean became ensnared in the nefarious and deadly Black Legion. The secretive, Klan-like group was executing a wicked plan of terror, murdering enemies, flogging...
by Aaron Adams
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Marine researcher Aaron Adams shares his knowledge about sea grass, mangroves, salt marshes, oyster bars, shorelines, beaches, sand flats, and coral reefs from the Caribbean to the Carolinas, the Gulf of Mexico to the Florida coast, to give reader swhat they need to know to fish for tropical, subtropical,...