Most Popular Books by Jon Davis

Not long ago there was prosperity. Every worker had a job and those whose fortunes weren''t on the rise held out hope that their day would soon come when they too joined the burgeoning league of millionaires that seemed to be produced overnight. This era is ending just as James is struggling to finish college. His dream of making a stylish, sophisticated life in the city isn''t going as planned. Debt is beginning to mount as he longs for hedonistic fun. It isn''t until James accidentally befriends a mysterious young woman who shares many of his tastes and aspirations does he begin to believe that things are turning around for him. She is Loren Anders, an heir to a global finance empire and aspiring fashion model. She is buoyant and fun, something James has longed to be. But as the Great Recession approaches, Loren''s realm of opulence and glamour begins to unravel. James is forced to find fulfillment by putting aside the illusions that promised happiness.

“Davis is as good as DeLillo at playing off our internal hunger for meaning against surface senselessness. And Davis catches the surface brilliantly.”—American Book Review Punctuated by subversive humor, verbal theatrics, and moments of strange, luminous beauty, Davis’ clear, unsentimental poems are meditations and mediations on contemporary existence and the unreliability of language, emotions, and the memory to gather it all in. Jon Davis, author of five collections of poetry, earned his MFA from the University of Montana. He has received a Lannan Literary Award and currently teaches at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

You love those peaceful, relaxing pontoon rides around the lake: the beautiful scenery, the smell of fresh air, the gentle breeze cooling you on a warm summer day. Make each memorable trip last even longer; bring along treats, drinks or even your next meal. Pontoon Food, by Jon and Erin Davis, is a collection of delicious, fun and family-tested recipes--with a focus on dishes that are easy to tote and even easier to serve. Find the basic ingredients at even the smallest of grocery stores. Prepare your food in advance, paying special attention to the authors'' serving tips and tricks. Then prepare for what''s sure to be your best day on the lake. Summer never tasted so good!

A mutant commander leads a desperate mission of revenge. A millennium away, a Sister of Entropy faces certain death. Will love triumph... or will all fall to the rot and the worm?

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Acclaimed novelist Marc Mullbery leaves the seclusion of his sleepy island vineyard to attend an annual yachting excursion with a group of colleagues and friends. As they set sail from Seattle, frictions emerge when Marc''s mistress, the notoriously impulsive poet Olive Snow, evades his advances and suddenly ends their longtime affair. Marc''s cravings are quickly reawakened by another passenger, the prolific chick lit author Katrin Zofield, daughter of the Nobel laureate Sir William Zofield. Marc''s attempt to work on a new piece of writing is averted when Olive''s husband, a film producer who turned one of Marc''s novels in to a cinematic catastrophe, confronts Marc about his affair with Olive. Marc''s confessions to Bryan are met with an equally shocking revelation. As the writers reconvene to ignite old arguments, opinions and attitudes clash wildly. When one of the writers is found dead, the narcissism and thirst for fame of those remaining is only heightened as they anticipate a media barrage awaiting them at the marina in San Francisco.''Thieves, Whores & Dinosaurs'' is a searing and hilarious satire of famous writers and the eccentric personalities they cultivate. It is the first book of the Marc Mulberry Series.

Two strangers find themselves inextricably tied together by inexplicable superpowers. Fighting their connection could mean destroying the world.

An analysis of OCD and strategies to combat it lead off this book, which chronicles the evolution of one man’s OCD over the course of his life. The argument presented is that everyone subconsciously has complete control over their OCD and decides their own rules and stipulations that wreak havoc on their daily lives. Because of this, it can be controlled. These issues are addressed in the introduction as OCD is analyzed. Ten strategies are then presented which will help those with OCD to keep it under control, or to “fight back”, so to speak. The book then takes on a lighter tone as Jon travels through his life story, explaining the evolution of his OCD, as well as recounting humorous and entertaining stories from his life. His childhood and teenage years are filled with tales of pranks and mild rebellion, while he found himself reciting strange chants in his mind and repeating actions to ward off bad luck. As he got older, his misadventures with drunken friends took the place of superstition, until he reached his twenties and faced some major life stressors. At that point OCD got out of control. He fought back with therapy, research, and medication, and slowly got it back under control. In the more recent years of his life, his nieces and nephew act as fodder for humorous tales. Because he has passed the point in his life in which he was forced to face severe OCD, he feels he can help others with their struggle.

If Walt Whitman had come back to face America at the end of the 20th Century, these are the poems he might have written. Whether adapting the long Whitmanian line, reinventing the prose poem, or alternating lyric and prose meditations, Jon Davis has taken the measure of these times and found a world where virtue has been devoured by appetite, where the private and familial have been invaded by the tawdry, the commercial, and the vicious, as if our lives were hotwired to our television sets, our minds crackling with the loose electricity of an experiment gone wrong. In poems that are ambitious and political without being sententious or partisan, Davis turns to the power of words for a way to reconcile the irreconcilable, praising language as a rich, entangled, and inexhaustible source of solace and meaning. With Scrimmage of Appetite, Jon davis has fulfilled Wallace Stevens''s image of a poet merciless / To accomplish the truth in his intelligence.

Witches, spiders, and gremlins! In Davis'' author-illustrator debut, Small Blue is scared of the dark. Can Big Brown help her see the nicer things at night? Full color.

This AICPA-compatible edition picks up where the Business Entities text leaves off. It covers a wide range of advanced business entities and taxation topics - from multi-jurisdictional and end-of-life issues for individuals, to in-depth coverage of state and local taxation issues. As a result, Volumes 4 & 5 combine to make a two-semester textbook sequence which is in compliance with the AICPA model tax curriculum.

A fascinating study of the reforms of British central government in the post-war years, from Harold Macmillan to Edward Heath. The book also looks in detail at the relationship between the Civil Service and ministers, including the Fulton Report of 1968 and the war it caused in Whitehall. Meticulously researched and written by an expert in the field.

Tony Blair was the political colossus in Britain for thirteen years, winning three elections in a row for New Labour, two of them by huge majorities. However, since leaving office he has been disowned by many in his own party, with the term ''Blairite'' becoming an insult. The election of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour Party leader in 2015 seemed to be, if not an equal, at least an opposite reaction to Blair''s long dominance of the centre and left of British politics. Drawing on new contributions from most of the main players in the Blair government, including Tony Blair himself, Jon Davis and John Rentoul reconsider the history and common view of New Labour against its record of delivering moderate social democracy. They show how New Labour was not one party but two, and how it essentially governed as a coalition, much like the government that followed it. This book tells the inside story of how Tony Blair worked out, late in the day, his ideas for improving the NHS and school reform; how he groped towards, and was eventually defined by, a foreign policy of liberal interventionism; how he managed a difficult relationship with his Chancellor for ten years; and how Gordon Brown finally took over just as the boom went bust and the New Labour era came to an end. Rentoul and Davis reveal how the governing tribes dealt with each other in the New Labour years: not simply the ''Blairites'' and the ''Brownites'', but the ''temporary'' ministers and the ''permanent'', under-reported civil servants who worked alongside them. Many of the arguments that raged within and around the Blair government of 1997-2007 remain very much alive: reform of public services; the right course for the divided Labour Party; and the Iraq war. The Blair Government Reconsidered aims at a balanced account of how decisions were made, to allow the reader to make up their own mind about controversies that still dominate politics today.

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An Amiable Reception for the Acrobat, Jon Davis''s sixth full-length collection of poems, is jarring and beautiful, and in both cases necessarily so. In her praise of its wisdom and irreverence, Pam Houston has described these poems as "a map to hold in our hands as we fly off the end of the world." We advise keeping a copy handy.

The story of the beautiful stepdaughter who goes to the ball given by the handsome prince with the aid of her Fairy Godmother.