Davis: 5083 books
The Lonely Life
An Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Originally published in 1962, The Lonely Life is legendary silver screen actress Bette Davis's lively and riveting account of her life, loves, and marriages--now in ebook for the first time, and updated with an afterword she wrote just before her death.
As Davis says in the opening lines of...
by Burke Davis
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
A panoramic and spellbinding history of the last days of the Confederacy and the flight, capture, and imprisonment of Jefferson Davis
In April 1865, Richmond fell to the Union army and Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to his Northern counterpart, Ulysses S. Grant, at the Appomattox Court House....
Crisis Tales
Five Rules for Coping with Crises in Business, Politics, and Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
TELL IT ALL, TELL IT EARLY, TELL IT YOURSELF
Nobody ever calls Lanny Davis to give him good news. As a legal crisis manager, he’s the man public figures such as Bill Clinton, Martha Stewart, U.S. representative Charlie Rangel, and companies such as Whole Foods, among many others, rely on...
More Deadly Than War
The Hidden History of the Spanish Flu and the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
From bestselling author Kenneth C. Davis comes a fascinating account of the Spanish influenza pandemic 100 years after it first swept the world in 1918.
"Davis deftly juggles compelling storytelling, gruesome details, and historical context. More Deadly Than War reads like a terrifying...
Wheat Belly
Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Includes a sneak peek of Undoctored—the new book from Dr. Davis!
In this #1 New York Times bestseller, a renowned cardiologist explains how eliminating wheat from our diets can prevent fat storage, shrink unsightly bulges, and reverse myriad health problems.
Every day, over 200 million...
by Lydia Davis
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
Lydia Davis is one of our most original and influential writers. She has been called "an American virtuoso of the short story form" (Salon) and "one of the quiet giants . . . of American fiction" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Now, for the first time, Davis's short stories will...
The Human Story
Our History, from the Stone Age to Today
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Has there ever been a history of the world as readable as this?
In The Human Story, James C. Davis takes us on a journey to ancient times, telling how peoples of the world settled down and founded cities, conquered neighbors, and established religions, and continues over the course of history,...
Demonized
Hunted by the Darkness A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2020
A candid and unflinching memoir by the lead singer of multi-platinum rock band Korn.
After an unconventional childhood plagued with severe illnesses, family dysfunction, sexual abuse, and bullying, it's amazing that Korn frontman Jonathan Davis was able to overcome his demons to become one...
by Jefferson Davis
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
A Short History of the Confederate States of America is a memoir written by Jefferson Davis, completed shortly before his death in 1889. Davis wrote most of this book while staying at Beauvoir along the Mississippi Gulf Coast near Biloxi, Mississippi.
The book is much less a Davis memoir than...
by David Brion Davis
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
**Winner of the 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction
Shortlisted for the 2014 Cundill Prize in Historical Literature**
From the revered historian, the long-awaited conclusion of the magisterial history of slavery and emancipation in Western culture that has...
The Contractor
How I Landed in a Pakistani Prison and Ignited a Diplomatic Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
**A lot has been written about the time contractor Raymond Davis spent in a Pakistani jail in 2011. Unfortunately, much of it is misleading—or downright false—information. **
Now, the man at the center of the controversy tells his side of the story for the very first time. In The Contractor:...
by Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
B&R Samizdat Express edition with complete tables of contents and links to every item and every chapter. This file includes all seven volumes of The Writings of Abraham Lincoln, with links to every one of nearly 2000 items. With his speeches, letters, and telegrams it provides a vivid picture of history...
by Noah Davis
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Noah Davis was born into slavery in Virginia. Davis bought freedom for himself, his wife, and their two youngest children in 1851. In the subsequent years Davis bought the freedom for 3 of their remaining 5 enslaved children. He published a biography in 1859 in an attempt to raise enough money to free the last two sons that were still enslaved. This edition includes a table of contents.
Living and Dying in Brick City
Stories from the Front Lines of an Inner-City E.R.
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
A riveting personal exploration of the healthcare crisis facing inner-city communities, written by an emergency room physician who grew up in the very neighborhood he is now serving
Sampson Davis is best known as one of three friends from inner-city Newark who made a pact in high school to...