Lyons Press imprint: 837 books
Saving What Remains
A Holocaust Survivor's Journey Home to Reclaim Her Ancestry
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2009
When Livia Bitton-Jackson returned in 1980 to her childhood town of Šamorín, Czechoslovakia, on the Danube River, she was no ordinary tourist: thirty-six years earlier, as a thirteen-year-old girl in what was then the Hungarian town of Somorja, she and her family had been deported to Auschwitz. In...
Long Walk
M/TV
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
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The classic adventure story that inspired the new major motion picture The Way Back, directed by Peter Weir
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“I hope The Long Walk will remain as a memorial to all those who live and die for freedom, and for all those who for many reasons...
Massacre on the Merrimack
Hannah Duston's Captivity and Revenge in Colonial America
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Early on March 15, 1697, a band of Abenaki warriors in service to the French raided the English frontier village of Haverhill, Massachusetts. Striking swiftly, the Abenaki killed twenty-seven men, women, and children, and took thirteen captives, including thirty-nine-year-old Hannah Duston and her...
At the Mercy of the Mountains
True Stories of Survival and Tragedy in New York's Adirondacks
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2008
In this compelling book, award-winning adventure writer and former Lower Adirondack Search and Rescue team member Peter Bronski chronicles true stories of survival and tragedy, from famous historical cases during the early 20th century, to modern tales of harrowing struggle in the mountains and wilderness. ...
Chicago Chef's Table
Extraordinary Recipes from the Windy City
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Once considered a city simply of steakhouses and deep-dish pizza joints, Chicago has morphed into a vibrant and rich collection of second-generation, energetic chefs seeking to forge strong relationships with local producers and the diners they look to inspire. Master Chef Rick Bayless, Stephanie...
How to Walk a Puma
And Other Things I Learned While Stumbling through South America
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
On his nineteenth birthday, Peter Allison flipped a coin. One side would take him to Africa and the other to South America, the two places he wanted to explore before he died. He recounted his time spent as a safari guide in Africa to much acclaim in Whatever You Do, Don’t Run and Don’t Look Behind...
Charm
The Elusive Enchantment
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Joseph Epstein takes on that most enchanting (and, alas, increasingly rare) of human gifts, charm. “Almost everyone will recognize when he or she is in the presence of charm,” he writes. “Charm is magic of a kind; it casts a spell. In the presence of charm the world seems lighter and lovelier....
In Bear Country
Adventures among North America's Largest Predators
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
They terrify and fascinate us. They are moving closer to us as climate change, deforestation, and rural development diminish their habitats. Once considered rare, romantic creatures, bears are now as common in some places as raccoons. Some say we should leave them alone; others argue that responsible...
Crosscurrents
A Fly Fisher's Progress
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2002
One of the most eccentric and riveting voices to be heard in the world of fly fishing has his say on just about every aspect of angling.
To the Sea Again
Classic Sailing Stories
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Few people would want to test their mettle in an ice-encrusted boat with Ernest Shackleton, sail the Straits of Magellan with Joshua Slocum, or watch with Owen Chase as an angry whale sends his ship to the bottom, thousands of miles from the nearest land. But it's quite another thing to read these...
by Steven Price, Tom McCarthy
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
Saddle up for a wild ride through those thrilling days of yesteryear. In Stories of the Old West, Steven Price serves up a heapin’ helpin’ of tales of America’s frontier days: ranches and rodeos, lawmen and desperadoes, saloons and gunslingers, wilderness exploring and range warfare, and everything...
by Tom McCarthy
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Heroism and valor in the sky!
* A new title in the relaunch of our successful Greatest Stories Ever Told franchise.
* Air combat has captured the imaginations of people since the fighter plane was first introduced during WWI.
* Stories of aces such as Eddy Rickenbacker and Captain...
by Tom McCarthy
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
In The Greatest Medal of Honor Stories Ever Told, editor Tom McCarthy has pulled together some of the finest writings about heroes awarded the highest military honor that capture readers imaginations. The one thing the heroes in this collection have in common—from the bloody battlefields of the...
In Praise of Chickens
A Compendium of Wisdom Fair and Fowl
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
What follows is a compact miscellany of chicken wisdom—a lively and amusing collection of quotations from past authorities on all things chicken, interspersed with brief editorial comments and complemented by wonderful illustrations. Whether a single sentence or several paragraphs, selections are...