Lyons Press: 836 books
Cowboys, Creatures, and Classics
The Story of Republic Pictures
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
Take one well-oiled effective killing machine, add a familiar hero on the ground, in the air, and on horseback; stir in a ghastly end that’s surely impossible to escape, add action, add passion, made on a shoestring budget at breakneck speed, and you’ve got the recipe for Republic Pictures. Who,...
Addison Mizner
The Architect Whose Genius Defined Palm Beach
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
In words and photographs, the story of visionary architect Addison Mizner
* Introduced the Mediterranean Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival styles to southern Florida
* Designed and developed the resort town of Boca Raton
* Designed the exquisite Everglades Club in Palm Beach
Addison...
by Robert W. Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
The Boston Red Sox are one of the most iconic baseball teams, representing not just a city or a state, but an entire region—it’s the only professional baseball team in New England. Baseball greats such as Cy Young and Babe Ruth wore the uniform early in their careers and many other players, including...
by Robert W. Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
The 50 Greatest Players in Green Bay Packers History examines the careers of the 50 men who made the greatest impact on one of the National Football League’s most iconic and successful franchises. Using as measuring sticks the degree to which they impacted the fortunes of the team, the extent to...
1969 Miracle Mets
The Improbable Story of the World's Greatest Underdog Team
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2006
In the popular 1977 movie “Oh, God!” George Burns, playing the deity, is asked in a courtroom to prove His divinity by performing a miracle. Burns tells the attorney, "The last miracle I did was the 1969 Mets. Before that, I think you have to go back to the Red Sea."
Man has engaged in...
We Die Alone
A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
We Die Alone recounts one of the most exciting escape stories to emerge from the challenges and miseries of World War II. In March 1943, a team of expatriate Norwegian commandos sailed from northern England for Nazi-occupied arctic Norway to organize and supply the Norwegian resistance. But they were...
Armchair Book of Gardens
A Miscellany
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
The Armchair Book of Gardens is a collection of indiviual essays focused on understanding gardens in a different light/perspective. The book concentrates on the emotional, social, spiritual, and politicial aspects of the garden.
Organic
A Journalist's Quest to Discover the Truth behind Food Labeling
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Part food narrative, part investigation, part adventure story, Organic is an eye-opening and entertaining look into the anything goes world behind the organic label. It is also a wakeup call about the dubious origins of food labeled organic. After eating some suspect organic walnuts that supposedly...
by Robert Nersasian, Randall Peffer
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Never to Return is the harrowing tale of the torpedoing and sinking of a Coast Guard ship and the loss of 171 Coast Guardsmen off the coast of Iceland during WWII.
TheUSS Leopold was a U.S. Coast Guard destroyer escort in a convoy of merchant ships carrying war materiel to England, on the lookout...
Singing Whales and Flying Squid
The Discovery Of Marine Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Two-thirds of this planet is covered by water inhabited by an incredible variety of living organisms, ranging in size from microbe to whale, and in abundance from scarce to uncountable. Whales and dolphins must surface to breathe, and some fishes occupy surface waters and can easily be seen from boats...
Horse Show Mom's Survival Guide
For Every Discipline
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
At some point in a mother's life, her child--most likely, her daughter--will smile sweetly and say, "Mommy, I want to learn to ride a horse. And then I want to win a blue ribbon."
What's a mother to do? (Or for that matter, a father, since he'll become involved too, even though ferrying the child...
Across the Line
Profiles In Basketball Courage: Tales Of The First Black Players In The ACC and SEC
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
In the 1960s, college sports required more than athletic prowess from its African American players. For many pioneering basketball players on 18 teams in the Atlantic and Southeastern conference, playing ball meant braving sometimes menacing crowds during the tumultuous era of civil rights. Perry...
by Rod Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
In Fly Fishing the Yucatan, Rod Hamilton offers nitty gritty specifics for the angler, including details such as exactly what rods, lines, reels and flies are must-haves, a battle plan for walking a flat and a course in presenting to and successfully plucking out fish in the most complex situations....
by Andrew Jensen
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
The King Salmon (a.k.a. Chinook Salmon) is the iconic symbol and state fish of Alaska. Yet annual spawning runs for this legendary species, which used to number in hundreds of thousands, have dwindled with no clear cause. In this compilation researched and written by the editors, journalists, and photographers...