Davis: 5083 books
Eyewitness: The rise and fall of Dorling Kindersley
The Inside Story of a Publishing Phenomenon
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2011
By the close of the last millennium Dorling Kindersley had become one of the most recognisable brands in publishing. Across the range of illustrated household reference titles, from children's books to travel guides, its distinctive look of colourful images cut out against a white background could...
The Trip
Andy Warhol's Plastic Fantastic Cross-Country Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
From the author of Strapless and Guest of Honor, a “jaunty romp through American pop-art history” (The Washington Post) about a little-known road trip Andy Warhol took in 1963, and how that journey profoundly influenced his life and art.
In 1963, up-and-coming artist Andy Warhol, along...
Marion Nicoll
Silence and Alchemy
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Marion Nicoll (1909-1985) is a widely acknowledged and important founder of Alberta art and certainly one of a dedicated few that brought abstraction into practice in the province. Her life and career is a story of determination, of dedication to her vision regardless of professional or personal challenges....
Old Gods Almost Dead
The 40-Year Odyssey of the Rolling Stones
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2001
The acclaimed, bestselling rock-and-roll biographer delivers the first complete, unexpurgated history of the world’s greatest band.
The saga of the Rolling Stones is the central epic in rock mythology. From their debut as the intermission band at London’s Marquee Club in 1962 through their...
Gold Dust Woman
The Biography of Stevie Nicks
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Stevie Nicks is a legend of rock, but her energy and magnetism sparked new interest in this icon. At 68, she's one of the most glamorous creatures rock has known, and the rare woman who's a real rock ‘n' roller.
Gold Dust Woman gives "the gold standard of rock biographers" (The...
Marine!
The Life of Chesty Puller
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
The gripping story of an extraordinary American hero, the most decorated man in US Marine Corps history, from a New York Times–bestselling author.
“We are flanked on both sides by an enemy that outnumbers us 29:1. They can’t get away from us now!” —Lewis B. “Chesty” Puller, USMC
In...
by Burke Davis
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
A New York Times–bestselling author’s account of the devastating military campaign that broke the Confederacy’s back in the last months of the Civil War.
In November 1864, just days after the reelection of President Abraham Lincoln, Gen. William T. Sherman vowed to “make Georgia howl.”...
The Pirates Laffite
The Treacherous World of the Corsairs of the Gulf
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
An “engrossing and exciting” account of legendary New Orleans privateers Pierre and Jean Laffite and their adventures along the Gulf Coast (Booklist, starred review).
At large during the most colorful period in New Orleans’ history, from just after the Louisiana Purchase through the War of...
by Kenneth S. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2017
As Allied commander during World War II and later as president of the United States, Dwight Eisenhower gave America the strength of a great reputation, a fine character, and an abiding sense of mission. He also provided Americans the chance to live up to their best. Few presidents have ever given more....
Kisses from Katie
A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
The New York Times bestslling account of a courageous eighteen-year-old from Nashville who gave up every comfort and convenience to become the adoptive mother to thirteen girls in Uganda.
What would cause an eighteen-year-old senior class president and homecoming queen from Nashville, Tennessee,...
Guest of Honor
Booker T. Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, and the White House Dinner That Shocked a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
In this revealing social history, one remarkable White House dinner becomes a lens through which to examine race, politics, and the lives and legacies of two of America’s most iconic figures.
In 1901, President Theodore Roosevelt invited Booker T. Washington to have dinner at the executive...
by Patti Davis
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011
Ronald Reagan’s daughter writes with a moving openness about losing her father to Alzheimer’s disease. The simplicity with which she reveals the intensity, the rush, the flow of her feelings encompasses all the surprises and complexities that ambush us when death gradually, unstoppably invades...
The Most Dangerous Man in America
Timothy Leary, Richard Nixon and the Hunt for the Fugitive King of LSD
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
From Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis, authors of the PEN Center USA award-winning Dallas 1963,comes a madcap narrative about Timothy Leary's daring prison escape and run from the law.
On the moonlit evening of September 12, 1970, an ex-Harvard professor with a genius I.Q. studies a twelve-foot...
Spare Parts
Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Four undocumented Mexican American students, two great teachers, one robot-building contest . . . and a major motion picture
In 2004, four Latino teenagers arrived at the Marine Advanced Technology Education Robotics Competition at the University of California, Santa Barbara. They were born...