Skyhorse Publishing: 874 books

A behind-the-scenes look into the minds of modern American presidents in troubling times, and a “fascinating study of how presidents handle crises” (Jonathan Karl, Chief White House Correspondent for ABC News). When faced with a crisis, every American president longs to take bold and decisive...

The true story of the world’s most wanted international terrorist, who sold his services to everyone from Saddam Hussein to Fidel Castro. On the night of August 14, 1994, French counterespionage officers seized the world’s most wanted terrorist from a villa in the Sudan. His given name...

A collection of essays on power and the American presidency from a journalist who personally knew the men inside the Oval Office.   An academic and journalist, Max Lerner dedicated his life to studying American presidents. He not only wrote about the men in the Oval Office, but knew them personally,...

“A searing memoir in fluid, conversational prose [that] adds to the pool of personal testimonies of China’s historical nightmare” (Publishers Weekly).   At the outbreak of the Cultural Revolution in 1966 China, thirteen-year-old Nanchu watched as the Red Guards burst into her home and arrested...

“A compelling, dramatic account of a remarkable career” in public service, as a prosecutor, comptroller, and US congresswoman (Publishers Weekly).   In 1973, Elizabeth Holtzman became the youngest woman ever elected to congress, one of the milestones in a long public service career. Who Said...

Originally censored by the US government—“a diverse sampling of contemporary Iranian letters,” fiction, prose, novel excerpts and poetry (Kirkus Reviews). Since the Iranian revolution of 1979, the United States has been virtually cut off from that country’s rich and diverse culture....

A “bold and eye-opening” new theory about when Christ lived, set out with “meticulous and clear” scholarship by the author of The Jesus Mystery (Professor Robert Eisenman, author of The New Testament Code). While researching the historical Jesus, a Swedish scholar discovered a strangely...

An “honest, gripping, and eye-opening” portrait of a family in crisis and a “must-read for any parent of a child who is ‘different’” (Randye Kaye, author of Ben Behind His Voices).   When Jenny Lexhed and her husband have their first child, Lucas, they are living the dream. They’re...

The Pulitzer Prize–nominated author chronicles navigating the traditional western medical system during his wife’s battle with a brain aneurysm.   Brainstorm is the candid and powerful memoir of a couple’s harrowing experience of an aneurysm and their road to recovery. It is a journey of love,...

A provocative reexamination of Galileo’s prosecution by the Catholic Church—one of the great turning points in the history of science. The modern understanding of the notorious 1633 trial of Galileo Galilei is that of Science and Reason persecuted by Ignorance and Superstition—of Galileo...

The amazing true story of famous naturalist and zoologist Raymond Ditmars and his obsession with a mysterious and deadly reptile**.** Bushmaster tells the story of Raymond Ditmars, the first curator of reptiles at New York’s famous Bronx Zoo, a remarkable man who brought cold-blooded animals...

“Alexander’s comic tales of quitting the rat race to find meaning have a deep lesson for all of us—get back in that race and run like hell!” (Stephen Colbert)   Have you dreamed about quitting your job and starting over? Well, Prioleau Alexander lived that dream . . . just long enough...

An Episcopal priest imagines how St. Paul the Apostle might counsel modern American Christians in today’s trying times.   For almost two thousand years, Christians have asked two essential questions: “What would Jesus do?” and “What would Paul say?” Saint Paul wrote more of the New Testament...

Passed down through generations, the insights of a renowned Hasidic master from a tiny Polish shtetl.   Whoever believes in miracles is an imbecile. Whoever does not is an atheist.   Rabbi Menahem Mendl was the spiritual leader of the Jews in a small village called Kotzk in a corner of Poland. Yet...