Lyons Press: 836 books
Best Advice Ever Given
Life Lessons for Success In the Real World
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
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,...
Hide & Seek
The Irish Priest in the Vatican Who Defied the Nazi Command
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Hide & Seek chronicles the intensely personal war between wartime Rome’s Nazi SS Chief Herbert Kappler and the Vatican’s Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty, a fiercely fought rivalry that culminated in Kappler attempting to kidnap and murder his Irish opponent, who was determined to fight Rome’s Nazi...
Conning Harvard
The True Story of the Con Artist Who Faked His Way into the Ivy League
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
In 2011 a 24-year-old man pled guilty to falsifying his application to Harvard University, bilking the world’s most prestigious university out of more than $45,000 in prizes and scholarships. Using forged SAT scores, transcripts, and letters of recommendation, Adam Wheeler outsmarted Harvard's admissions...
The Dogs Who Found Me
What I've Learned from Pets Who Were Left Behind
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
Ken Foster knows that a dog can change a person’s life. And that several dogs can change even more. For THE DOGS WHO FOUND ME the author appeared in major media interviews such as NPR’s “Fresh Air” with Terry Gross, and received hundreds of letters and stories about other karmic canine rescues....
Makeup Man
From Rocky to Star Trek The Amazing Creations of Hollywood's Michael Westmore
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Headline: A peak behind the Hollywood mask by one of its foremost makeup artists
In Hollywood’s heyday, almost every major studio had a Westmore heading up the makeup department. Since 1917, there has never been a time when Westmores weren’t shaping the visages of stardom. For their century-long...
Say It Loud!
My Memories of James Brown, Soul Brother No. 1
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2008
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...
Ty Cobb
Safe At Home
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2008
Distantly related to a Confederate general, Ty Cobb was a strapping Augusta youth who became a star for the Detroit Tigers. Long revered as a great hitter and an incredibly fast baserunner, Cobb often has been remembered as a hated athlete, a bitter man who died nearly 50 years ago. No biographer...
Bonefish Fly Patterns
Tying, Selecting, and Fishing all the Best Bonefish Flies from Today's Best Tiers
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
This new and revised edition of Bonefish Fly Patterns is the most comprehensive collection of bonefish flies ever published, displaying fly designs from such world-class flats anglers and guides as
Winston Moore, Jim Orthwein (four-time bonefish world record holder), Steve Huff, Harry Spear,...
Captain Dad
The Manly Art of Stay-at-Home Parenting
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Pat Byrnes worked at home and made his own hours. His wife’s job (Illinois Attorney General) was not so flexible. So when the first baby came, he naively volunteered to go where few men have gone before and stay home with the kids. On one condition. He wouldn’t be called Mr. Mom, but . . . Captain...
The Forgotten Storm
The Great Tri-State Tornado of 1925
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
The amazing true story of the deadliest tornado in American history, as told by a survivor.
by J. Wayne Fears
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
This cooking handbook shows you the basic cooking skills that can convert any fireplace, woodstove, or patio into an alternate-energy cooking site. J. Wayne Fears records the old ways of cooking that are slowly disappearing, and passes along recipes that are created by those with less complicated...
Fishing Ohio
An Angler's Guide To Over 200 Fishing Spots In The Buckeye State
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
The only guide with fishing information for every public lake and stream in the state, home to more than 800,000 anglers. Brand-new, this book covers the state—region by region—from the steelhead springs in the northeast to the walleye spawning in the western river basins, with a special section...
Eyewitness to Infamy
An Oral History of Pearl Harbor
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor changed the lives of almost every American, and began the process of putting 17 million of them in uniform to fight in World War II. Yet in the long and fascinating body of literature about this terrible event, most historians have neglected the compelling and moving...
Devil's Causeway
The True Story of America's First Prisoners of War in the Philippines, and the Heroic Expedition Sen
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012