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Patricia V. Davis's Books

Dec.06.2011
A very unusual blues guitarist gets into a barroom brawl on a distant asteroid. An autistic boy plays air guitar to an audience only his brother can see. A soul singer, paralyzed in a car accident, deals with the murder of his closest friend. A rock singer in the 1960s discovers the various meanings of “family values.” An ageing classical pianist remains young and beautiful beyond...
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May.08.2011
"The only thing you should be faking is confidence." Patricia V. Davis posted that piece of advice along with several others in the hopes that they'd help one of her 20-something readers save the precious time she was wasting by torturing herself needlessly, something too many young women do. That first simple post hit a nerve; within a week it turned into an internet phenomenon ─...
May.01.2008
A girl describes her history of fascination with the New York City subway system.
Apr.18.2008
A tongue-in-cheek look at modern child-rearing
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Oct.01.2007
When Patricia, the Italian-American, marries Gregori, the “gorgeous” Greek, she spends almost two decades in a sometimes tragic, sometimes uproarious pursuit of ‘Happily-Ever-After’. In a last-ditch effort to make their relationship work, Patricia moves with Gregori to Greece, where he insists he must be in order to be happy. Once there, she discovers that though she might not save...
An inside look at a former prosecutor
rationale for sex with a stranger
Published under the pen name, Patricia Akis, the narrative poem alludes to two works of literature, The Little Engine That Could and Jane Eyre to describe the disenchantments of a woman trapped in an unfullfilling, loveless marriage.