Shields: 342 books
Border Wars of Texas: An Authentic Account of the Long, Bitter Conflict Between the Settlers and Indians of Texas
Texas Rangers Indian Wars, #4
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
"Border Wars of Texas: An Authentic Account of the Long, Bitter Conflict Between the Settlers and Indians of Texas," by James De Shields, recounts from original sources, including some of the Texans involved, the history of The Border Wars between the early American Texas Settlers &...
Southern Provisions
The Creation and Revival of a Cuisine
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
Southern food is America’s quintessential cuisine. From creamy grits to simmering pots of beans and greens, we think we know how these classic foods should taste. Yet the southern food we eat today tastes almost nothing like the dishes our ancestors enjoyed, because the varied crops and livestock...
by Carol Shields
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2010
With a Foreword by the Author
“Before becoming a playwright I was a novelist, and one who was often impatient with the requisite description of weather or scenery or even with the business of moving people from room to room. I was more interested in the sound of people talking to each other,...
by John Shields
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Twenty-five years ago, Chesapeake Bay Cooking with John Shields introduced the world to the regional cuisine of the Mid-Atlantic. Nominated for a James Beard Award, the book was praised for its inspiring heritage recipes and its then-revolutionary emphasis on cooking with local and seasonal ingredients....
And So It Goes
Kurt Vonnegut: A Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
A New York Times Notable Book for 2011
A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book for 2011
The first authoritative biography of Kurt Vonnegut Jr., a writer who changed the conversation of American literature.
In 2006, Charles Shields reached out to Kurt Vonnegut in a letter, asking...
I Think You're Totally Wrong
A Quarrel
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
An impassioned, funny, probing, fiercely inconclusive, nearly-to-the-death debate about life and art—beers included.
Caleb Powell always wanted to become an artist, but he overcommitted to life (he’s a stay-at-home dad to three young girls), whereas his former professor David Shields always...
by Doris Shields
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
The gift of love is the most beautiful gift, Even bestowed on man, Capture it, and share it, Just as much as you can! Do not be careless with Gods gift, This beautiful gift of love, It is delicate, tender, And as gentle as a dove!
Doris Shields lives life one day at a time, with help from God...
The Trouble with Men
Reflections on Sex, Love, Marriage, Porn, and Power
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2019
David Shields’s The Trouble with Men: Reflections on Sex, Love, Marriage, Porn, and Power is an immersion into the perils, limits, and possibilities of human intimacy. All at once a love letter to his wife, a nervy reckoning with his own fallibility, a meditation on the impact of porn on American...
Jane Austen
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2005
With the same sensitivity and artfulness that are the trademarks of her award-winning novels, Carol Shields explores the life of a writer whose own novels have engaged and delighted readers for the past two hundred years. In Jane Austen, Shields follows this superb and beloved novelist from her early...
by David Shields
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
“Reading How Literature Saved My Life is like getting to listen in on a really great, smart, provocative conversation. The book is not straightforward, it resists any single interpretation, and it seems to me to constitute nothing less than a new form.” ––Whitney Otto
In this wonderfully...
The Trouble with Men
Reflections on Sex, Love, Marriage, Porn, and Power
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2019
David Shields’s The Trouble with Men: Reflections on Sex, Love, Marriage, Porn, and Power is an immersion into the perils, limits, and possibilities of human intimacy. All at once a love letter to his wife, a nervy reckoning with his own fallibility, a meditation on the impact of porn on American...
That Thing You Do With Your Mouth
The Sexual Autobiography of Samantha Matthews as Told to David Shields
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
In That Thing You Do With Your Mouth, actress and voice-over artist Samantha Matthews offers—in the form of an extended monologue, prompted and arranged by New York Times bestselling author (and Matthews's cousin once removed) David Shields—a vivid investigation of her startling sexual history....
The Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel
John Williams, Stoner, and the Writing Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
When Stoner was published in 1965, the novel sold only a couple of thousand copies before disappearing with hardly a trace. Yet John Williams’s quietly powerful tale of a Midwestern college professor, William Stoner, whose life becomes a parable of solitude and anguish eventually found an admiring...
The Culinarians
Lives and Careers from the First Age of American Fine Dining
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
He presided over Virginia’s great political barbeques for the last half of the nineteenth century, taught the young Prince of Wales to crave mint juleps in 1859, catered to Virginia’s mountain spas, and fed two generations of Richmond epicures with terrapin and turkey.
This fascinating culinarian...