Bob's Little Household Reference Library

Recipes

The Immortals	Palm Springs Dining	San Francisco Dining
Golden Orange Chicken Sweet and Sour Meatballs Pickled Lemons Cole Slaw and Dressing Peanut Butter Kisses Melting Moments Bourbon Shrimp Hungarian Cabbage and Noodles Mrs. Day’s Cranberry Sauce Cinfully Good Chili Italian Zucchini Crescent Pie Gram Osborn’s Thanksgiving Turkey Gram Osborn’s Thanksgiving Turkey: The Dressing Olive Balls Pickled Watermelon Rind Holiday Scent Bread Pudding Chinese Cookies Potato Chip Cookies Pickles Shrimp aux Champignons	Chicken Pacific Chop Suey Shrimp St. Pete Frozen Pineapple Salad Savory Mashed Turnips Bread-and-Butter Pickle Potato Salad Sauce Béarnaise Lemon-Poached Salmon Cucumbers with Dill The New Year’s Eve Menu from the Life Picture Cookbook (1958) Pittsburgh Meatloaf Rigatoni and Sauce Potato “Risotto” with Sausage and Greens Baked Dates in Cheddar-Rosemary Pastry	Mario's Meat Sauce Potage Crécy Roast Pork Tenderloin Cheeseburger Pie Chicken Marengo Egg Bake Celery Root Amatriciana sauce Poularde Pavillon

Aunt Elaine's Box of Jokes, Games, and Jesus

"Jokes"	Games	Jesus
English Signs in Other Countries Dear Pal Kindergarten Concordance The Sayings of Business People Geographical Ages of a Woman The Government Man Richard Nixon in the Hall of Fame President Nixon and the Call Girl Medicare "With fond regrets . . ." Happy Birthday Notice and However "If every pool in Eden . . ." "A new priest . . . " Bridge Party To All Employees The Secretary	How's Your Holiday Geography??? 14 Attractive Decorations and Accessories You Can Make With Selfix Plastic Doilies and Place Mats Calculation Game Rules of Sly Fox Solitaire Unscramble to Make Words A Three Minute Test	"I wonder if Christ had a little black dog . . . " The Weaver If Jesus Came To Your House "It Is All Right"

Reading Lists

2009 Jonathan Lethem, Motherless Brooklyn Martha Freeman, Who Stole Grandma’s Million-Dollar Pumpkin Pie? Abalbert Stifter, Rock Crystal Daniel Silva, The Secret Servant Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian Richard Stark, The Rare Coin Score John Ross MacDonald, Meet Me at the Morgue Earl Derr Biggers, The Chinese Parrot Frances Crane, The Indigo Necklace Aeschylus, Agamemnon Stieg Larsson, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Mignon G. Eberhart, The Chiffon Scarf Tracy Letts, August – Osage County Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Monday Starts on Saturday Mignon G. Eberhart, The Glass Slipper Maria Luisa Bombal, House of Mist William Bayer, Mirror Maze Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition Richard Stark, The Hunter Earl Derr Biggers, The House Without a Key John Kenneth Galbraith, The Great Crash, 1929 Sue Grafton, T is for Trespass Steven Millhauser, Little Kingdoms Sara Paretsky, Indemnity Only Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend Richard Stark, Butcher’s Moon J. S. Fletcher, Paradise Court Mignon G. Eberhart, R.S.V.P. Murder Robert Crais, Chasing Darkness 2008 Richard Stark, Firebreak Lewellys F. Barker, Time and the Physician Frances Crane, 13 White Tulips Chuck Palahniuk, Snuff Mignon G. Eberhart, Man Missing Mary Baker G. Eddy, Unity of Good and Unreality of Evil Ian Fleming, Moonraker William Faulkner, The Mansion Daniel Silva, The Mark of the Assassin John Lawton, Old Flames Frances Crane, The Shocking Pink Hat J. M. Coetzee, Elizabeth Costello Jean Giono, The Song of the World Margaret Yorke, Intimate Kill Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors Richard Stark, Dirty Money Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night William Bayer, Switch Marilyn Chase, The Barbary Plague James Collins, Beginner’s Greek Dick Francis, Come to Grief Richard Stark, The Green Eagle Score Arto Paasilinna, Prisonniers du paradis Stefan Zweig, Chess Story William Bayer, Blind Side J.M. Coetzee, Life & Times of Michael K Richard Stark, The Mourner Henry James, What Maisie Knew Frances Crane, Murder on the Purple Water

2007 Mignon G. Eberhart, Melora F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night Robert Terrall, Kill Now, Pay Later Dick Francis, Longshot Mignon G. Eberhart, Postmark Murder Carlos Fuentes, The Crystal Frontier William Bayer, Peregrine Giuseppe di Lampedusa, The Leopard Hubert Selby, Jr, Waiting Period Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Roadside Picnic Lawrence Block, The Burglar on the Prowl Mignon G. Eberhart, Fair Warning Margaret Yorke, Dangerous to Know William Bayer, Punish Me with Kisses Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policeman’s Union Mignon G. Eberhart, Hasty Wedding J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Erle Stanley Gardner, The D.A. Takes a Chance John Le Carré, The Spy Who Came in From the Cold Mignon G. Eberhart, Wings of Fear A. A. Fair, Widows Wear Weeds Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human (1) John D. Kelly, The American Game: Capitalism, Decolonization, World Domination, and Baseball Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees Erle Stanley Gardner, The Case of the Shapely Shadow Lindsay Waters, Enemies of Promise: Publishing, Perishing, and the Eclipse of Scholarship James Elkins, What Happened to Art Criticism? Richard Rorty, Derek Nystrom, Kent Puckett, Against Bosses, Against Oligarchies Robert Crais, The Watchman J. Storer Clouston, The Lunatic at Large Mignon G. Eberhart, Wolf in Man’s Clothing Richard Stark, Lemons Never Lie Richard Stark, Ask the Parrot Mignon G. Eberhart, Danger in the Dark A. A. Fair, Crows Can’t Count Larry McMurtry, All My Friends Are Going to be Strangers A. A. Fair, Some Slips Don’t Show Past reading lists Focus author reference lists Legacy library acquisition book list Cookbooks

Short Fiction

Author	Title	Source	Plot	Date Added
Joyce Carol Oates	Grandpa Clemens and Angelfish 1906	McSweeney’s 21	Mark Twain woos adolescent girl	12/12/2006
Erle Stanley Gardner	Singing Sands	Pay Dirt	Men set out into Yaqui country in search of missing woman	12/12/2006
Erle Stanley Gardner	The Land of Painted Rocks	Pay Dirt	Men set out into desert in search of Indian treasure	2/24/2007
Erle Stanley Gardner	The Big Circle	Pay Dirt	Nevada men admit murder once stranded in desert	2/24/2007
Nathaniel Hawthorne	The Gray Champion	Twice Told Tales	Ghostly old-timer staves off British brutality in colonial Boston	1/1/2008

New Year's Eve Movies

2008

Burn After Reading (2008)

After the Thin Man (1936)

Mamma Mia! (2008)

2007

The Sweet Ride (1968)

The Awful Truth (1937)

2005

Bell, Book and Candle (1958)

The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)

2004

Kill Bill, Volume 2 (2004)

2003

Holiday (1938)

The Apartment (1960)

2001

Les parapluies de Cherbourg (1964)

Rear Window (1954)

General Moviestream

Wanted List

San Francisco Restaurant Choices

À Côté

Anchor

Anjou

Baker Street Bistro

Boulevard

Brazen Head

Café Claude

Canteen

Chez Papa

Firefly

Grand Café

La Ciccia

Neiman-Marcus

Oliveto

Pauline’s Pizza

Pizzeria Picco

Poggio

Presidio Social Club

Range

Salt House

Scala’s

Sociale

South Park Café

Suppenkuche

Tadich Grill

Taylor’s Automatic Refresher

Ti Couz

Troya

Universal Café

Zuni

Last updated October 16, 2009