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Help! My Apartment Has a Dining Room Cookbook: How to Have People Over Without Stressing Out

9 reviews
Kevin Mills, Nancy Mills

Houghton Mifflin, 2006

I'm an amateur chef and loved this book!
My cooking experience includes making boxed macaroni and cheese and toast. I received this book as a gift last year but just recently put it to use. Over the last month, I have worn it out! I am a vegetarian but also wanted to cook for friends who are meat-eaters. The book includes many receipes for everyone. The receipes are easy to understand and fun to read. Kevin and Nancy Mills have a ...

The 39 Apartments of Ludwig Van Beethoven

6 reviews
Jonah Winter

Schwartz & Wade, 2006

Bravo!
This book begins with a musical score in Beethoven's own hand. The end papers are an actual photograph of Beethoven's working manuscript for the Grosse Fuge in B flat major, Op. 134. Jonah Winter recounts the story of Beethoven's pianos and the thirty-nine apartments where he lived in Vienna. So often children's "non-fiction" blurs the line between fact and speculation. Not so in this book. ...

No children, no pets (Borzoi books for young people)

7 reviews
Marion Holland

Knopf, 1956

No Children, No Pets
I loved this book when I was a girl. I remember re-reading it several times. I liked the interactions between the kids and especially was intrigued by the little mystery. This is a wonderful book for both boys and girls.

Sunset Terrace

8 reviews
Rebecca Donner

MacAdam/Cage, 2003

different side of LA
I grew up on Sawtelle in LA and was reminded of things I had forgotten while reading this book. Very evocative.

Getting Lucky

11 reviews
Kamryn Donavan

Urban Soul, 2007

Oh Drama!!
the residents at macon street apartments have more than enough drama. there's peaches, the resident stripper, who's addicted to the glamorous life. she has to learn the hard way that everything that glitters isn't gold. after having three kids, jewel has let herself go. her man, romello, has clearly grown tired of her and has his sights on their sexy neighbor peaches. from the outside, one would ...

Essential Survival Guide to Living on Your Own

9 reviews
Sharon B Siepel

Howard Books, 2008

Essential Survival Guide to living On Your Own
Regardless of your age, there is always something new to learn -- like "Techno Lingo" or "essential emoticon list"; and it's always great to get another opinion of the essentials for the pantry, refrigerator, etc. The overall theme seems to be a mix of "getting organized" and learning how to cope with the many responsibilities of life -- and to take on those responsibilities by knowing the ...

Clementine

23 reviews
Sara Pennypacker, 2008

Grades 2 & 3
Great book to begin the year with students as a read aloud. I teach 3rd graders which this book contains appropriate language and is great as an easy listening book.

Life, a User's Manual

33 reviews
Georges Perec

David R. Godine Publisher, 1987

BEST and WORST book ever read!
This book is really a rare one. If you are not ready to spend a long time with a complex book, find another one. This book takes time and patience. But as stated in the title, I think this not only my worst but also my best read. If you are to read the book, it is nice to know that Perec was a member of the Oulipo philosophical group in France, who believed in constrained writing. Constrained ...

The Doorman: A Novel

9 reviews
Reinaldo Arenas

Grove Pr, 1991

fantastic
I love every one of Arenas' works, but this one might be my favorite if only for its comedy, absurdity and depth-- all wielded with perfect balance and execution. A great and often overlooked work by a seriously overlooked writer.

Olivia Kidney

10 reviews
Ellen Potter

Topeka Bindery, 2004

Olivia Kidney
Olivia Kidney is a great book about a girl that needs a friend. She has a good imagination and is a very good listener. She is able in just an ordinary everyday apartment house to use her skills and find herself in her own amazing adventures. She is like a good friend I would have if I knew her in real life! Check it out! Maya, age 8

High Rise Low Down

5 reviews
Denise LeFrak Calicchio, Eunice David, ...

Barricade Books, 2007

High Rise Low Down
If you are a New Yorker like I am and enjoy history of New York buildings, this book is for you. It will be one I read over and over and even imspired me to go around to all the buildings and take my own pictures of them. I LOVE NEW YORK and especially the buildings. I thank the ladies who wrote this book as they did a very good job. I have always been in love with New York buildings. You ...

Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn: The Connected Farm Buildings of New England

6 reviews
Thomas C. Hubka

UPNE, 2004

Powerful debunker of Maine myth!
If you have ever wandered around Maine, you will have noticed a unique form of farm architecture. But ask most people why 19th century Maine farmers made such a concerted effort to physically connect the structures on their farms and the answer is "they needed a way to get to the barn through the winter snow." Trust me, I have gone around and asked current dwellers of Maine farmsteads. ...

Apartment Stories: City and Home in Nineteenth-Century Paris and London

4 reviews
Sharon Marcus

University of California Press, 1999

a cogent and generous work of scholarship
In an elegantly written and persuasively argued volume, Sharon Marcus uses the idea of the apartment building as a tool to comb out two sets of terms that tend to clump together in discussions about the 19th century: man=city=public, woman=home=private. In a work made pleasurable to the general reader through her clear and careful writing and her judicious use of footnotes, Marcus proposes a ...

New York Apartments

6 reviews
Jamee Gregory, Charles Davey

Rizzoli International Publications, 2005

Visually Stunning
This is simply an haute couture guide for homes. Stunning photography showcase these magnificent homes and provide a peek into a world few of us will ever actually inhabit. More than just a glamorous photo book, this is a must have for anyone interested in traditional, luxury interior design or looking for elegant styles to emulate. The 25 apartments featured in the book are beautifully ...

Luxury Apartment Houses of Manhattan: An Illustrated History

5 reviews
Andrew Alpern

Dover Publications, 1993

A MUST FOR NEW YORKERS!
An interesting overview of the design and evolutions of apartment bulidings in NYC, originally published as the very hard to find 'APARTMENTS FOR THE AFFLUENT.' Cretainly good fun for todays real estate conscious New Yorker with photos, floorplans and even original selling prices of NY's tonier buildings.

New York's Fabulous Luxury Apartments: with Original Floor Plans from the Dakota, River House, Olympic Tower ...

5 reviews
Andrew Alpern

Dover Publications, 1987

Floor plans of New York's luxury apartment buildings
Originally published under the title 'Apartments for the Affluent,' this book is aimed at a very narrow audience indeed. Alpern takes us through 75 luxury Manhattan apartment houses in chronological order, from 1869 to 1974. Each building has a full-page b&w photograph, a diagram of a typical floor plan, and a quarter-page-or-so description. Alpern explains the reasoning behind the various room ...

The New City Home: Smart Design for Metro Living

6 reviews
Leslie Plummer Clagett, Leslie Clagett

Taunton, 2002

One of the best in this class
I've browsed about twenty different contemporary interior books, and I've found this to be most interesting and slightly more inspiring. One piece of advice: I don't think any of the contemporary interior books have as much variety as one might expect. Make sure to browse the physical books before making a final decision - don't base you decision on these reviews alone. I've done this with many ...

Apartment 3B

4 reviews
Patricia Scanlan

Bantam Books, 1997

Storytelling at its best
This is the first book by Patricia Scanlan I have read and I want to read more. It truely is storytelling at it's best, the characters are exceedingly well developed to the extent that by the end of the book you feel that, love them or hate them you know them intimately - highly recommended

Apartment Book

4 reviews
Richard Platt

DK CHILDREN, 1995

Neat book
This is a really fun book. It shows the happenings of the inhabitants of an apartment building: 3 families, 1 movie star, an artist, and a scientist. Plus, you get to follow the days of the 2 workmen. Watch as the scientist's apartment blows up, reporters interview the movie star, one family has a party, another moves in, and many, many more events. This book is fun to look at again and ...

Chicago Apartments: A Century of Lakefront Luxury (Urban Domestic Architecture Series)

5 reviews
Neil Harris

Acanthus Press, 2004

Gold Coast Chicago
This is a gorgeous book, I really can't say enough about the quality of books Acanthus Press puts out, they are amazing. The black and white photos are beautiful, they are crisp and vivid. The book is quite thorough, and I found the text to be scholarly and highly informative. I was pleased that exterior as well as interior photos where used, the reader really gets a feel for the buildings and ...

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