Lyons Press: 836 books
Florida Keys & Key West Chef's Table
Extraordinary Recipes from the Conch Republic
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Surrounded by water, the Florida Keys yields a bounty that easily could qualify as the eighth wonder of the world. The Keys can confidently boast that nowhere else in the continental US will you find fresher, more innovatively prepared fish and seafood. Special natural resources, from stone crabs...
Austin Chef's Table
Extraordinary Recipes from the Texas Capital
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Austin is an oasis of creativity in Texas. Food ranges from mom-and-pop eateries and eclectic food trailers to high-end, chef-driven restaurants, and all of them have received a warm welcome from the community. East Austin is home to taquerias and barbecue joints, while north Austin claims some of...
An Obama's Journey
My Odyssey of Self-Discovery across Three Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
In this revealing and beautifully written memoir, Mark Obama Ndesandjo, recounts his complex relationship with his older half-brother, President Barack Obama, including their first meeting in Kenya over twenty years ago. The book also offers the author's inspiring personal story about identity and...
Faraway Horses
The Adventures and Wisdom of One of America's Most Renowned Horsemen
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2003
"I've started horses since I was 12 years old and have been bit, kicked, bucked off and run over. I've tried every physical means to contain my horse in an effort to keep from getting myself killed. I started to realize that things would come much easier for me once I learned why a horse does what...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2005
In this witty collection you will find quotations grouped in categories that reflect the range of human existence, hopes, and achievement:
Life and Death (And Some of What Happens in Between)
“Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.”
—James Thurber
Love...
The Algonquin Round Table New York
A Historical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2015
"That is the thing about New York," wrote Dorothy Parker in 1928. "It is always a little more than you had hoped for. Each day, there, is so definitely a new day." Now you can journey back there, in time, to a grand city teeming with hidden bars, luxurious movie palaces, and dazzling skyscrapers....
Under a Flaming Sky
The Great Hinckley Firestorm Of 1894
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
On September 1, 1894 two forest fires converged on the town of Hinckley, Minnesota, trapping over 2,000 people. Daniel J. Brown recounts the events surrounding the fire in the first and only book on to chronicle the dramatic story that unfolded. Whereas Oregon's famous "Biscuit" fire in...
Cornbread Mafia
A Homegrown Syndicate's Code of Silence and the Biggest Marijuana Bust in American History
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
In the summer of 1987, Johnny Boone set out to grow and harvest one of the greatest outdoor marijuana crops in modern times. In doing so, he set into motion a series of events that defined him and his associates as the largest homegrown marijuana syndicate in American history, also known as the Cornbread...
Mac Baldrige
The Cowboy in Ronald Reagan's Cabinet
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Ronald Reagan assumed the presidency at a time when Japan and Europe, fully recovered from wartime devastation, threatened America’s position as the number one economy in the world. Manufacturing was in decline; traditional industries were being beaten by foreign competitors; many American industries...
The Runner-Up Presidency
The Elections That Defied America's Popular Will (and How Our Democracy Remains in Danger)
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
An entertaining and important account of presidential elections in which the winner of the popular vote lost or came all too close to losing, focusing on the Constitutional Convention in 1787, the disputed elections of 1876 and 2000, the deadlocks of 1800 and 1824 (when the elections were thrown to...
Almost President
The Men Who Lost the Race but Changed the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Veteran political journalist Scott Farris tells the stories of legendary presidential also-rans, from Henry Clay to Stephen Douglas, from William Jennings Bryan to Thomas Dewey, and from Adlai Stevenson to Al Gore. He also includes concise profiles of every major candidate nominated for president...
The Craft of Intelligence
America's Legendary Spy Master on the Fundamentals of Intelligence Gathering for a Free World
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
If the experts could point to any single book as a starting point for understanding the subject of intelligence from the late twentieth century to today, that single book would be Allen W. Dulles's The Craft of Intelligence. This classic of spycraft is based on Allen Dulles's incomparable experience...
TR's Last War
Theodore Roosevelt, the Great War, and a Journey of Triumph and Tragedy
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
A riveting new account of Theodore Roosevelt’s impassioned crusade for military preparedness as America fitfully stumbles into World War I, spectacularly punctuated by his unique tongue-lashings of the vacillating Woodrow Wilson, his rousing advocacy of a masculine, pro-Allied “Americanism,”...
Radical
My Journey out of Islamist Extremism
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Maajid Nawaz spent his teenage years listening to American hip-hop and learning about the radical Islamist movement spreading throughout Europe and Asia in the 1980s and 90s. At 16, he was already a ranking member in Hizb ut-Tahrir, a London-based Islamist group. He quickly rose through the ranks...