Kathryn Davis: 17 books

Book cover of The Silk Road

The Silk Road

A Novel

by Kathryn Davis
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019

A spellbinding novel about transience and mortality, by one of the most original voices in American literature The Silk Road begins on a mat in yoga class, deep within a labyrinth on a settlement somewhere in the icy north, under the canny guidance of Jee Moon. When someone fails to arise from...
Book cover of Labrador

Labrador

A Novel

by Kathryn Davis
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019

Back in print, Kathryn Davis’s riveting debut about the indelible pacts and hidden hatreds of sisterhood Labrador is the story of two unforgettable sisters. Willie, the eldest, is willful, beautiful, and wayward; to Kitty, the youngest, she is the radiant center around which everything revolves....
Book cover of Duplex

Duplex

A Novel

by Kathryn Davis
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013

* A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year * A San Francisco Chronicle, Kansas City Star, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, New Hampshire Public Radio, Flavorwire, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Largehearted Boy, and Slaughterhouse 90210 Best Book of the Year * * A New York Times Book Review Editors'...
Book cover of Mr. Ferris and His Wheel
by Kathryn Gibbs Davis
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014

Capturing an engineer’s creative vision and mind for detail, this fully illustrated picture book biography sheds light on how the American inventor George Ferris defied gravity and seemingly impossible odds to invent the world’s most iconic amusement park attraction, the Ferris wheel. A fun, fact-filled...
Book cover of Kiss of the Red Scorpion
by Suzan Tisdale, Genevieve Jack, Kathryn Lynn Davis
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2019

Join New York Times, USA Today, and Bestselling Authors, Suzan Tisdale, Genevieve Jack, Kathryn Lynn Davis, T.M. Cromer, KC Bateman, and Sara Whitney for six never before published tales of love and thrilling suspense. A deadly curse. When two goddesses clash, a cursed object is hurled...
Book cover of The Influence Effect

The Influence Effect

A New Path to Power for Women Leaders

by Mary Davis Holt, Jill Flynn, Kathryn Heath
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017

Women hold over half of all professional jobs today, yet they represent just four percent of CEOs in the S&P 500. Even worse, that percentage has barely budged in a decade. That's where *The Influence Effect comes in. Based on recent research by the authors of the New York Times bestseller Break...
Book cover of Liberty in Jane Austen’s Persuasion
by Kathryn E. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016

Liberty in Jane Austen’s Persuasion is a meditation on Persuasion as a text in which Jane Austen, writing in the Age of Revolution, enters the conversation of her epoch. Poets, philosophers, theologians and political thinkers of the long eighteenth century, including William Cowper, George Gordon...
Book cover of The Human Tradition in the New South
by David L. Anderson, Paul K. Conkin, Cita Cook
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2005

In The Human Tradition in the New South, historian James C. Klotter brings together twelve biographical essays that explore the region's political, economic, and social development since the Civil War. Like all books in this series, these essays chronicle the lives of ordinary Americans whose lives...
Book cover of Lean on Me

Lean on Me

Ten Powerful Steps to Moving Beyond Your Diagnosis and Taking Back Your Life

by Kathryn Lynn Davis
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2006

The prognosis you give yourself is the only one that's important. You can't allow yourself to become the victim of a negative prognosis. At the young age of thirty-three, Nancy Davis was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. The finality of the neurologist's prognosis was devastating: "There is...
Book cover of Pickers and Poets

Pickers and Poets

The Ruthlessly Poetic Singer-Songwriters of Texas

by Joe Nick Patoski, Robert Earl Hardy, Bob Livingston
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016

Many books and essays have addressed the broad sweep of Texas music—its multicultural aspects, its wide array and blending of musical genres, its historical transformations, and its love/hate relationship with Nashville and other established music business centers. This book, however, focuses on...
Book cover of Break Your Own Rules

Break Your Own Rules

How to Change the Patterns of Thinking that Block Women's Paths to Power

by Jill Flynn, Kathryn Heath, Mary Davis Holt
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011

New York Times Bestseller How women can make it to the top by adopting the new rules of leadership Women hold just 11 percent of the most senior-level leadership positions in U.S. Corporations—a number that hasn't changed in over 30 years. How can women break through? Break Your Own...
Book cover of Perspectives on Flourishing in Schools
by Peter Bates, Bob Bayles, Wilfred Beckford
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018

This book provides perspectives and insights across the educational system for how we might move toward living out this wish in all schools. The chapters provide perspectives on fundamental questions that have been guiding recent research on wellbeing in schools: How do school communities flourish...
Book cover of Approaches to Teaching Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
by Peter G. Beidler, Bethany Blankenship, Michael Calabrese
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014

Chaucer's Canterbury Tales was the subject of the first volume in the Approaches to Teaching series, published in 1980. But in the past thirty years, Chaucer scholarship has evolved dramatically, teaching styles have changed, and new technologies have created extraordinary opportunities for studying...
Book cover of Civil War Writing

Civil War Writing

New Perspectives on Iconic Texts

by Keith Bohannon, William C. Davis, Matthew Gallman
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2019

Civil War Writing is a collection of new essays that focus on the most significant writing about the American Civil War by participants who lived through it, whether as civilians or combatants, southerners or northerners, women or men, blacks or whites. Collectively, as contributors show, these writings...
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