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by Edward Wagenknecht
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2010
Praise for the original edition
“Theodore Roosevelt in all his infinite variety—the vitality of him, the charm, the humor, the intellectual avidity, the love of people, the flattering devotion to his country. To a surprising degree the personality flashes before the reader as it flashed...
Flirting with Mermaids: The Unpredictable Life of a Sailboat Delivery Skipper
Lyons Press Maritime Classics
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Over the course of twenty years of delivering sailboats to far-flung quaysides, John Kretschmer has had innumerable adventures, both humorous and terrifying. in Flirting with Mermaids, he recounts the most memorable of them.
He crosses the Western Caribbean with a crew of eccentric Swedes researching...
Basketball's Game Changers
Icons, Record Breakers, Rivalries, Scandals, and More
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
A brand new, fast-paced, fully illustrated history of basketball through its flashpoints, innovations, and innovators
The third book in the Lyons Press Game Changers sports series answers the questions: What were the 50 most revolutionary personalities, rules, strategies, rivalries, controversies,...
by Department of the Army, Matt Larsen
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Modern combat is chaotic, intense, and shockingly destructive. A soldier will experience confusing and often terrifying sights, sounds, smells, and dangers—and he must learn to survive and win despite them.
This field manual, containing the essential combat skills the U.S. Army teaches its...
Classic Ghost Stories
Eighteen Spine-Chilling Tales of Terror and the Supernatural
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2003
Even now, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, when science has largely replaced superstition as our way of viewing the world, who among us does not hesitate, however briefly, before entering a darkened room? Who does not feel an involuntary shiver at the sound of footfalls somewhere back there?...
Great American Hunting Stories
Lyons Press Classics
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2019
For hunters, listening to the accounts of kindred spirits recalling the drama and action that go with good days afield ranks among life's most pleasurable activities. Here, then, are some of the best hunting tales ever written, stories that sweep from charging lions in the African bush to mountain...
Fishing the Texas Gulf Coast
An Angler’s Guide To More Than 100 Great Places To Fish
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2009
Texas offers tremendous angling opportunities—and its nearly 400-mile coast along the “Mediterranean of the Americas” offers everything from flounder, speckled trout, redfish, and other species inshore, to kingfish, cobia, and blue-water big game offshore. In this all new addition to The Lyons...
The Book of Donkeys
A Guide to Selecting, Caring, and Training
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
Donkeys are gaining in popularity across the country. They are used in trail riding, as pets, to guard livestock from coyotes and wild dogs, and as show animals. Donkeys are also used to breed mules, which are a hybrid produced by crossing a male donkey with a female horse. In The Book of Donkey,...
Great American Baseball Stories
Lyons Press Classics
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Before multimillion-dollar salaries, luxury boxes, and player strikes became synonymous with professional sports, there existed the belief in playing simply "for the love of the game." Nothing captures that spirit better than these twenty classic pieces about America's favorite pastime.
Collected...
Heroic Dogs eBook Bundle
Three ebooks about dogs, military dogs, and police dogs
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
Attention dog lovers! Read up on heroic dogs in this heart-touching collection of the bravest canines ever. Readers get three books telling the tales of soldiers in Afghanistan befriending and adopting the dogs of war to a brave bloodhound tracking down criminals in the states. This eBook collection delivers hours of great storytelling.
Princess
The Early Life of Queen Elizabeth II
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
In November 2017 the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary. As a 13-year-old Princess, she fell in love with Prince Philip of Greece, an ambitious naval cadet, and they married when she was 21; when she suddenly became Queen at 25, their lives changed forever. Philip...
Theodore Roosevelt for Nature Lovers
Adventures with America's Great Outdoorsman
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
For history and nature fans
Theodore Roosevelt is one of the most beloved U.S. presidents of all time.
Handsomely designed with more than 40 illustrations and photographs.
A nice gift for history buffs and naturalists.
In addition to being a politician, frontiersman, and rancher, Roosevelt...
Rhythm of the Wild
A Life Inspired by Alaska's Denali National Park
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
Rhythm of the Heart is a compelling memoir about Kim Heacox’s 30+ year relationship with the most iconic landscape in Alaska, a sister book to his 2005 Lyons book The Only Kayak, a PEN USA Literary Award finalist now in its seventh printing.
Woven throughout the personal narrative will be...
by Douglas B. Lyons, Who's Who In Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
In celebration of the 100th issue of Who’s Who in Baseball—one of the game’s most venerable publications—comes a century's worth of the annual's iconic covers, insightful breakdowns of the players featured on those covers, and informative accounts of the baseball history tied to each year’s...