Books by Nancy Davis and Complete Book Reviews
Nancy Davis, Author . Fireside $22.95 (271p) ISBN 978-0-7432-7640-5
The author, founder of the Center Without Walls (a medical research foundation), has written an inspirational book for anyone with multiple sclerosis (MS). When she was a mother of three small children, she was diagnosed with MS at the age of 33....
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Deborah Davis, Author, Nancy Davis, Author, Harold Davis, Author Atheneum Books $15 (192p) ISBN 978-0-689-31922-8
As forthright as its title, this first novel deals directly with the reality of AIDS-effectively and affectingly. Lacy, a 13-year-old who is an avid swimmer, learns that Jack, her gay older brother, has AIDS and is moving back home. Urged by her...
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Jane E. Gerver, illus. by Nancy Davis, S&S/ Little Simon, $5.99 (14p) ISBN 978-1-4169-9758-0
This stylish flap book features animals hiding in their homes. A grainy green page reads, "I curl up in a cozy burrow under the ground. Who's at home?" Opposite, a pink flap that blends into the background lifts to show the answer: "I'm a rabbit!"...
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Nancy Davis, Author, Kathy Hart, Author, Kathy Hart, Photographer University of North Carolina Press $14.95 (179p) ISBN 978-0-8078-1692-9
In a volume that is as much an anthropological study as a cookbook, Davis and Hart, who work with the Univ. of North Carolina's Sea Grant program, have collected recipes and reminiscences from 34 tar-heel cooks. Many of the recipes, such as Frances...
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Kathryn Lynn Davis, Author, Nancy Davis, Author Pocket Books $5.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-67269-0
Set in the 1800s, this is the flowery, romantic tale of three half-sisters, outcasts all, fathered by a roving Englishman. Bound by loss, anger and the gift of second sight, the trio convenes at their dying father's request. ``Scotland, China and...
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