Books from Skyhorse
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What a Life!: A Memoir
By Donald JacobsWhile there she met Glenn, the son of a Mennonite bishop in the Delaware Valley and his wife, Luke and Miriam Stoltzfus. Glenn was a medical student interning at a hospital in Philadelphia at the time, the city in which he grew up.
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Augusts in Africa: Safaris into the Twilight: Forty Years of Essays and Stories
By Thomas McIntyreWriter Thomas McGuane has given the Hunkpapa leader Sitting Bull the words “when the buffalo are gone, we will hunt mice, for we are hunters and we want our freedom.” In what way that applies to Africa, I am not quite sure, ...
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Once There Were Giants: The Golden Age of Heavyweight Boxing
By Jerry IzenbergWasn't it Bugsy Siegel who irrigated (with mob money) that slice of land under the neon sun, which then morphed into the Las Vegas Strip? Wasn't it the same mob that regained control of its investment by murdering him?
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LBJ: The Mastermind of the JFK Assassination
By Phillip F. NelsonLyndon B. Johnson: A Memoir. New York: Andrews and McMeel, Inc., 1982. ... Russell, Dick. On the Trail of the JFK Assassins—A Revealing Look at America's Most Infamous Unsolved Crime. New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2008. Russell, Dick.
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They Shall Not Have Me: The Capture, Forced Labor, and Escape of a French Prisoner in World War II
By Jean HelionThis serious adventure tale begins with Hélion’s infantry platoon fleeing from the German army and warplanes as they advanced through France in the early days of the war.
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I Am a Bacha Posh: My Life as a Woman Living as a Man in Afghanistan
By Ukmina ManooriFor "Ukmina warrior" that price was her life as a woman. This is a stunning and brave memoir about a little known practice that will challenge your perceptions about gender and the courage it takes to live your life to the fullest.
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An Angle on the World: Dispatches and Diversions from the New Yorker and Beyond
By Bill Barichprosecution team—and perhaps to avoid any suspicion of bias—St. Vincent and the Grenadines had imported from Trinidad and Tobago the highly regarded Queen's Counsel Karl Hudson-Phillips and his partner, Gerald Stewart.
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A Shadow on the Wall: A Novel
By Jonathan AycliffeDr Hastings says she must rest a little. She may receive you this evening if her sleep restores her sufficiently.” “I'm content to wait.” “Well,” he said, flicking the whip lightly as we moved away, “it is perhaps fortunate.
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The Most Dangerous Man in the World: The Explosive True Story of the Lies, Cover-ups, and Conspiracies He Exposed
By Andrew FowlerThe battle lines are drawn: freedom of speech against the control of the State. The Internet is the battle ground. In this war there will be only one winner. In The Most Dangerous Man in the World, award-winning journalist Andrew Fowl
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No Substitute for Victory: Successful American Military Strategies from the Revolutionary War to the Present Day
By David Rigby83 Washington to Gates, October 30, 1777, as reprinted in Frank E. Grizzard, Jr., ed., and David R. Hoth, Assist. Ed. The Papers of George Washington: Revolutionary War Series, Vol. 12, October–December 1777—hereinafter Papers of George ...
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Bad Medicine: The Horrors of American Healthcare
By Stephen SolowayUltimately, Dr. Soloway has a diagnosis for all Americans: Our healthcare system—and our country as a whole—is headed for disaster. The prescription? Read this book to find out.
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Modern American Manners: Dining Etiquette for Hosts and Guests
By Michael Gold, Fred MayoSamuel Davies, David DeHoff, Irena Demchenko, Anthony DiGregorio, Megan Donahue, Maurice Dorsey, Marie-Louise Enderle, Robert Enderle, Evgin Eraslaw, Selin Erkan, Erman Erturhan, Ali Eyuboglu, Yigit Eyuboglu, Ezra Favas, Armagan Fererci ...
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The Tangled Web: The Life and Death of Richard Cain-Chicago Cop and Hitman
By Michael CainThe Tangled Web tells the dramatic story of Detective Richard Cain, the man the FBI described as “possibly the most corrupt police official in the history of Chicago.” Cain led a double life—at once a chief investigator and a ...
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Night Fighter: An Insider's Story of Special Ops from Korea to SEAL Team 6
By Charles W. Sasser, William H. HamiltonRandolph Scott, Jimmie Stewart, Henry Fonda, Robert Mitchum, Susan Hayward. . . . The Night of the Grizzly, God Is My Copilot, Bend in the River, The African Queen with Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn on Lake Tanganyika where I ...
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God Bless America: The Origins of Over 1,500 Patriotic Words and Phrases
By Robert HendricksonDisney called his creation Mortimer Mouse at first, but changed the name when his wife suggested Mickey Mouse instead. The cartoonist was Mickey's voice in the early Mickey Mouse cartoons. In Disney's words, “He was my firstborn and the ...
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Plants You Can't Kill: 101 Easy-to-Grow Species for Beginning Gardeners
By Stacy TornioIt’s time to put those experiences behind you and finally grow something in your empty and bare spots. This is the only gardening book you’ll ever need with more than 100 plant picks for every situation. You want veggies? We have ’em.
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Bloodroot: A Novel
By Robert F. JonesFrom the acclaimed author of Blood Sport and Blood Tide, comes another impressing, original work of twisted fiction.
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Deadville: A Novel
By Robert F. JonesWith the help of a Shawnee trapper and scout, a runaway slave-turned–mountain man, and a beautiful American Indian warrior, the brothers battle the unexpected setbacks and obstacles that life in the West throws their way, and endeavor to ...
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Slade's Glacier: A Novel
By Robert F. JonesSlade’s Glacier is a tale of discovery and destruction, betrayal and revenge, set in the rugged “Great Land” of Alaska.
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Mystery on the Isles of Shoals: Closing the Case on the Smuttynose Ax Murders of 1873
By J. Dennis RobinsonFor the first time, the full story of a crime that has haunted New England since 1873.