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

 

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

2008

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

 

 

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

 

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

 

Last updated September 25, 2008