Lyons Press: 836 books
Death of the USS Thresher
The Story Behind History's Deadliest Submarine Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2004
On the morning of April 10, 1963, the world's most advanced submarine was on a test dive off the New England coast when she sent a message to a support ship a thousand feet above her on the surface: experiencing minor problem . . . have positive angle . . . attempting to blow . . . Then came the sounds...
Treacherous Beauty
Peggy Shippen, the Woman behind Benedict Arnold's Plot to Betray America
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
Histories of the Revolutionary War have long honored heroines such as Betsy Ross, Abigail Adams, and Molly Pitcher. Now, more than two centuries later, comes the first biography of one of the war’s most remarkable women, a beautiful Philadelphia society girl named Peggy Shippen. While war was raging...
Unlikely Cat Lady
Feral Adventures In The Backyard Jungle
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
A Brooklyn woman who “has it all” gets a lot more than she bargained for when a family of wild cats moves into her backyard. This hilarious and heartwarming memoir follows author Nina Malkin's obsessive attempts to serve, protect, and befriend the feral colony as she reluctantly comes to terms...
Gaining Ground
A Story of Farmers' Markets, Local Food, and Saving the Family Farm
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
With humor and pathos, Forrest Pritchard recounts his ambitious and often hilarious endeavors to save his family’s seventh-generation farm in the Shenandoah Valley. Through many a trial and error, he not only saves Smith Meadows from insolvency but turns it into a leading light in the sustainable,...
Dog Named Leaf
The Hero from Heaven Who Saved My Life (New York Times Best Seller)
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
A New York Times bestselling book!
Allen and Linda Anderson adopted a traumatized one-year-old cocker spaniel who had been abandoned. Soon, the troubled dog they named “Leaf” turned their home into a war zone. Although Leaf and Allen were forging a friendship with visits to dog parks and...
How to Disappear
Erase Your Digital Footprint, Leave False Trails, and Vanish without a Trace
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
***How to Disappear***is the authoritative and comprehensive guide for people who seek to protect their privacy as well as for anyone who’s ever entertained the fantasy of disappearing—whether actually dropping out of sight or by eliminating the traceable evidence of their existence.
Written...
Good Luck Cat
How a Cat Saved a Family, and a Family Saved a Cat
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Lissa Warren’s father needed a retirement companion while his wife and daughter were at work. Enter Ting, a seven-pound Korat who changed his life, and the life of the family. All kittens are mischievous, but Ting “the cat grenade” was real trouble. She was also smart, endearing, and the soul...
by Department of Defense
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Learn how to train your dog exactly as the U.S. military trains its canine soldiers. This manual is the Department of Defense’s principle source of information on care, conditioning, and training of our nation’s Military Working Dogs – such as “Cairo,” the canine who served in the raid...
Medicine Dog
The Miraculous Cure That Healed My Best Friend and Saved My Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Julia Szabo was a nationally-recognized pet reporter when her dog Sam collapsed from osteoarthritis. Diligently researching how to restore his quality of life, she discovered Vet-Stem, a service that provides cutting-edge regeneration therapy for pets, using stem cells harvested from animals' own...
Mark of the Grizzly, 2nd
Revised and Updated with More Stories of Recent Bear Attacks and the Hard Lessons Learned
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Every year, millions of people travel to grizzly country, hoping for a glimpse of the Great Bear. And every year, somebody is attacked. The power of the grizzly is almost mythical and has become the stuff of legend.
IronFit Secrets for Half Iron-Distance Triathlon Success
Time-Efficient Training for Triathlon's Most Popular Distance
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2013
Why is the Half Iron-Distance the most popular triathlon distance? Because it is the perfect length for busy athletes with demanding career and family responsibilities. Full Iron-Distance races require such painstaking planning and sacrifice that it’s difficult to keep life in balance. The Half...
Southern Italian Farmer's Table
Authentic Recipes and Local Lore from Tuscany to Sicily
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
The Southern Italian Farmer’s Table is a sumptuously illustrated cookbook featuring authentic recipes from over thirty agriturismi (working family farms that provide room & board to travelers) in central and southern Italy, where the cuisine served epitomizes the farm-fresh movement underway in the United States, the UK, and beyond.
Chasing Alaska
A Portrait of the Last Frontier Then and Now
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Alaska looms as a mythical, savage place, part nature preserve, part theme park, too vast to understand fully. Which is why C. B. Bernard lashed his canoe to his truck and traded the comforts of the Lower 48 for a remote island and a career as a reporter. He soon learned that a distant relation had...
In the Shadows of the Morning
Essays on Wild Lands, Wild Waters, and a Few Untamed People (Signed by the author)
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Philip Caputo's passion for travel and adventure was inspired by the works of Joseph Conrad, Jack London, and Herman Melville, and through the years this passion led to a rugged writer's life, filled with hair-raising experiences in the jungles of Vietnam, the rubble of Beirut, and the savannas of Africa....