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Welcome to Lyon Books!Shop for new books by using the search box below. Of course, we can special order just about anything. We are Chico’s full-service, family run, independent, downtown bookstore...available nationwide! |
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Author talk and book signing
Author talk and book signing
A big thank you to the authors, illustrators and poets who have appeared at Lyon Books this year:
Jerry Beisler: The Bandit of Kabul Georgeanne Brennan: A Pig in Provence Chico HS Students: Seven-Eighths Underwater Debbie Cobb & Steve Ferchaud: Gracie's Big Adventure Ceanne DeRohan: Feelings Matter Susan Kelly DeWitt: The Fortunate Islands Nick Ellena: Flashbacks--From Here and There Mike Graf: Adventures With the Parkers: Yosemite, Yellowstone, Bryce & Zion, Grand Canyon Dustin Heron: Paradise Stories Charney Herst: For Mothers of Difficult Daughters Lin Jensen: Pavement Dave Kaval: The Summer that Saved Baseball Barry McArdle: I Sold the Moon! Dorothy J. Parker: You too could go to Federal Prison! Carrie Watson: Quad Sela Weidmann Randazzo: Rock-Medicine Byron Wolfe: Everyday Deborah Woodard: Plato's Bad Horse Susan Wooldridge: Foolsgold Al Young: Coastal Nights and Inland Afternoons Paul Zingg: Harry Hooper Very best holiday wishes from all of us at Lyon Books.
 Our price: $35.00 Copious information about the corporate chemical companies—makers of war materials—and their successful efforts to push poisons into agriculture.  Our price: $14.00 A sweeping saga of the western frontier in the 1870s, filled with colorful characters, stark images, and absurd situations. Edward Turrentine Bayard III ("Turpentine"), a tubercular easterner, is sent to a Nebraska sanitarium to heal his lungs. Instead, through a series of mishaps and coincidences, this wide-eyed innocent is launched on a cross-country odyssey, involving wealthy entrepreneurs, Mormons, Indians, and a variety of rustic frontier types. There's no shortage of sudden death and grim gore, all of which remains comically on the surface. Characters come and go, often violently, but astonishingly, the sweetness of the story keeps it afloat.  Our price: $25.95 A Thousand Splendid Suns brings Hosseini's compassionate storytelling and his sense of personal and national tragedy to a tale of two women that is weighted equally with despair and grave hope.  Our price: $17.00 A super novel for tweens and teens. It is authentically written from the perspectives of two high school students, Walk and Kristen, in alternating chapters. Though the characters are in high school, it's mom-approved and readable for 5th grade and up. Set in affluent Mill Valley, the kids cope with issues of race, being "fat," difficult family relationships, academic pressure, class struggles, and mean "friends." They learn that each person has a unique contribution to make, and that trees always make a sound when they fall.  Our price: $8.99 Great, fun book for young children. Wonderful way to introduce young ones to the ideas of eating right and staying fit so they can be healthy and strong. |
 Our price: $15.00 A Tuesdays with Karen Book Group pick.  Our price: $15.00 A Lives of the Middle East Group pick.  Our price: $15.95 An artistic book featuring a unique blend of poetry and nature.  Our price: $15.95 Each chapter begins with a death toll and ends with his commentary. Like the chapter about the vigilante druggist in the early 20th century, Frank J. Quirin, who was forced to protect his store in Sacramento on J and 19th streets from violent thugs and criminals.  Our price: $19.95 The Chico User’s Guide is the most comprehensive book about Chico ever published. It has 356 pages of information and 875 color pictures.  Our price: $16.95 Great resource for recipes and nutrition.  Our price: $19.99 Explore Orland from the pre-Gold Rush 1840s when Granville Perry Swift selected the area for the adobe headquarters of his vast cattle operation. Contains 220 classic Orland photos dating from 1880s onward and is a delightful trip to earlier days.  Our price: $29.95 One of the best California wildflower guides I have seen. Features include beautiful full color photos & easy to understand descriptions arranged by plant families, plus a wealth of additional information such as name origin, lore & common uses. Nearly every wildflower in the state is found within the 5 geological areas represented in this book, making this a field guide for all of California. Also included are 21 wildflower trails complete with driving directions & best flowering times. - Heather Lyon  Our price: $29.95 Filled with fascinating facts about the Sutter Buttes, from its geological formation through minutia about the life histories of wild residents of the Buttes. The book offers a journey through this special place in the natural world with a most talented guide. Don't miss this most complete and enjoyable tour from the perspective of one who truly knows this place.  Our price: $24.95 From Richard Simmons to Stephen Covey, Beth Lisick spends a month on each self-improvement task and relates her experiences in a sharp, irreverent, and very funny way. She manages to expose the most absurd advice and distill the best—there are lessons here for all of us.  Our price: $19.95 America's Choice, America's Shame details the harrowing experience of almost losing a methamphetamine-addicted son. Bettencourt challenges society's acceptance of drug and alcohol use and the role big business plays in keeping Americans addicted.  Our price: $14.95 The novel recounts the adventures of a young runaway, the kid, who stumbles into the company of the Glanton Gang, outlaws and scalp-hunters who cleared Indians from the Texas-Mexico borderlands during the late 1840's under contract to territorial governors.  Our price: $10.00 Delightful children’s book.  Our price: $24.95 Gaia’s Garden brings the concept of permaculture to the lay person, teaching ways to design an ecological and renewable landscape or garden which will ultimately let nature do most of the maintenance work. Soil building, water conservation, and wildlife habitats are a few of the topics addressed in this interesting and user friendly guide to responsible stewardship.  Our price: $16.99 Oliver is a tabby cat who has a baby rabbit introduced into his domain. The exquisite charcoal drawings are perfectly suited to the sweet yet elegant story. This story about friendship and a bunny is perfect for Easter or any other springtime celebrations for children ages 2-8.  Our price: $23.00 Nim Chimpsky is a remarkable biography of a chimpanzee by Elizabeth Hess. Project Nim was a psychologist's experiment to refute Noam Chomsky's claim that language is an exclusively human trait. Nim was adopted by a human family living in a New York brownstone, and taught American Sign Language. A great deal was learned over the course of Nim's life, not the least of which is that chimps, though very intelligent, make terrible pets. This is a fascinating look at academia through the '70s, '80s, and '90s and the studies of linguistics, psychology, and animal science.  Our price: $24.95 An unexpectedly pregnant newlywed becomes the next-door-neighbor of an elegant wife of a famously philandering retired senator. They share a bond of strong women who compromise to accommodate babies and husbands' careers, and they form a complicated friendship. Reading about the life of the wife of a campaigning senator is an enjoyable peek backstage during this election season. Through gifted storytelling and bright use of language, Sue Miller brings these interesting women to life. |
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