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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl

175 reviews
Timothy Egan

Mariner Books, 2006

One of the best
I read a lot of non-fiction and history, and this is one of the best I've ever read. It's beautifully and powerfully written, sets the context for the dust bowl, and then describes the dust bowl itself in powerful and gripping imagery. My only tiny quibble is that I would have appreciated more epilogue (what happened to Dalhart? To Boise City? To Liberal?), but this is a tiny quibble in an ...

Bowls, Polls, and Tattered Souls: Tackling the Chaos and Controversy That Reign over College Football

11 reviews
Stewart Mandel

Wiley, 2008

A glorious and uniquely American bar brawl
"(NFL) scouts are to football what the third base coach is to baseball - an excuse for a whole bunch of old-timers to stay a part of the fraternity and collect a paycheck to boot." - Stewart Mandel There are two U.S. sport seasons: Football and No Football. As far as I'm concerned, it's even a finer point than that: College Football and No College Football. BOWLS, POLLS & TATTERED SOULS tells ...

Bowl of Cherries: A Novel

8 reviews
Millard Kaufman

Grove Press, 2008

Much like a bowl of cherries ...
... not too sweet, and not too tart; but a delicious mouthful bursting with both. This novel reads as a fun, satirical frolic with plenty of unexpected twists. I found myself avidly enjoying each chapter like a ripe cherry on a late summer's eve. There is a plentitude of $5 words which can lead you off on fun tangents of exploration in your handy dictionary; or like I did, one can underline them ...

Dust Bowl Diary

3 reviews
Ann Marie Low

University of Nebraska Press, 1984

An experience to read
This book is based on a diary which the author began in 1927, when she was 15 and a farm girl in North Dakota, and covers the years from 1927 ro 1937. She worked very hard and lived in grinding poverty. She went to college and then taught school and fended off marriage proposals, and never in the book says a good word for the man she married--who was courting her thru the last years she was ...

3 Bowls : Vegetarian Recipes from an American Zen Buddhist Monastery

24 reviews
Seppo Ed Farrey, Nancy O'Hara

Houghton Mifflin, 2000

Pretend you've no interest in Buddhism ...
Pretend you're the farthest thing from a vegetarian. Pretend you would never, in a million years, pick up some flaky, hippie cookbook. The recipe for Apricot-Sweet Potato Oatmeal is still worth the cover price, and you will NEVER bother to make a single batch. Double it every time. Apparently, eating simply does not at all preclude eating well, since these simple, nutritionally dense ...

The Golden Bowl (Oxford World's Classics)

28 reviews
Henry James

Oxford University Press, USA, 1999

The Golden Bowl: The Meaning of "Value"
Reading THE GOLDEN BOWL by Henry James can be either an exercise in frustration or of exhiliration. If after reading a few pages one deduces the former, then one has allowed an excessively convoluted and ornate prose style to interpose itself between a writer with a straightforward theme that is inextricably intertwined with a style that is its polar opposite with a reader who expects the ...

500 Bowls: Contemporary Explorations of a Timeless Design

12 reviews
Lark

Lark Books, 2003

Amazingly different
I am astonished that anyone could find this book a dissapointment! Only, not,when I read the reveiws that were not too great were written by people who wanted a more functional or traditional result,perhaps... I like it.Once again,this book opened up an area in my own artistic approach-to "think outside the Bowl"! If you are an artist,or sculptor that has been at it a good 10 or 15 years,as I ...

Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s

13 reviews
Donald Worster

Oxford University Press, USA, 2004

"Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s"
Donald Worster contends that the destruction of the southern plains was one of the most terrible ecological disasters in human history. Human beings, not nature, heaven, or hell, created this ecological tragedy. It was the result of unbridled greed and arrogance on the part of expansion driven Americans and their erroneous assumptions about soil, plants, and rain. According to Worster, the ...

Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp

8 reviews
Jerry Stanley

Crown Books for Young Readers, 1993

Connecting Childen to History
this book is an excellent companion to the historical ficiton book "Bud, Not Buddy." By reading aloud sections of Children of the Dustbowl, teachers could build some of the background knowledge that would help children understand how the daily lives of the average person changed as a result of the Great Depression and the 5-year drought in the Midwest. Given the devastation of Hurriicane ...

One Bowl: A Guide to Eating for Body and Spirit

4 reviews
Don Gerrard

Da Capo Press, 2001

A Path Back to Trusting Our Bodies
This book is a classic food book. It's first manifestation was way back in the 70s, a thin volume that nevertheless was packed with wisdom about how to get back in touch with our bodies and our nutritional needs. Nearly 30 years later its prescriptions, or perhaps I should say "non-prescriptions," still hold as true as ever. The author tells us, in a warm but informative way, how to read our ...

The Bowl Is Already Broken: A Novel

20 reviews
Mary Kay Zuravleff

Picador, 2006

Witty and wise
Mary Kay Zuravleff is a talented writer with a wry sense of humor. She captures the nuances of life in Washington, D.C. and behind the scenes at an Asian art museum (very much like the Freer and Sackler Galleries) with style and wit. Her characters are real and not caricatures. While some readers may view this story as satire, for those of us who live in the nation's capital, the prospect of a ...

Rose Bowl Dreams: A Memoir of Faith, Family, and Football
Adam Jones

Thomas Dunne Books, 2008

Advance Praise for Rose Bowl Dreams : "No true football fan should miss Adam Jones' Rose Bowl Dreams . It's more than a football book; it's an inspiring commentary on life itself." --Winston Groom "Adam Jones had the good sense to be born into the middle of four generations of a football-lovin' Texas family, and now that I think about it, that's probably redundant. Rose Bowl Dreams reads as if Jones just pulled up a chair, popped open a ...

Five Loaves and Two Bowls of Borscht

3 reviews
Janice Lemke

Winepress Publishing, 2000

True look at missionary life
This book was very truthful about the struggles that go on in the life of an overseas missionary. She definetly didn't hold back anything. My husband and I are hoping to go to Kazakhstan in 2002 and this was a great look at what we might experience. Great book if you are thinking about going into missions or if you want to know what struggles the missionaries you know are going through so you ...

Big Bowl Noodles and Rice: Fresh Asian Cooking from the Renowned Restaurant

6 reviews
Bruce Cost

William Morrow Cookbooks, 2000

At long last the book is finally here...
While the Bay Area has an abundance of Asian restaurants few compare to Big Bowl in the Mid-West. The books aesthetics are very pleasing and the format is easy to follow. The special ingredients section was very informative in explaining the origins and use, as well as pointing out which recipes call for them. What makes this book such a great reference is the emphasis on using quality ...

Cover-up: Mystery at the Super Bowl

7 reviews
John Feinstein

Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2007

great book
This was a really great book i think all of jhon feinstein's fiction books. Cover Up was the graetest yet though it has some character for the readers that like that type of book yet thier is a lot of action for readers that like that.All in all it was one of the best books I have ever read

The Blood Bowl Omnibus (Blood Bowl)

1 review
Matt Forbeck

Games Workshop, 2007

The first three books in the Blood Bowl saga.
Book One: BLOOD BOWL Welcome to a twisted fantasy world where humans, elves, goblins, ogres and all other species work out their aggressions on the football field instead of the battlefield. It is called BLOOD BOWL! (Actually, the sport began under a different name, but everyone just began calling the sport after the most important match, Blood Bowl.) In this game, it is only cheating if you ...

Breaking the Bowls: Degendering and Feminist Change (Contemporary Societies)
Judith Lorber

W. W. Norton & Company, 2005

In Breaking the Bowls , the sequel to Paradoxes of Gender , Judith Lorber shows the cracks, anomalies, and resistances that are breaking down the gendered social order in Western post-industrial societies and lays out how we can take this process further by deliberate degendering. Lorber argues that it is time to rebel against gender as a social institution—to challenge its basic processes and practices. Feminists have tried to ...

Fast, Fun and Easy Fabric Bowls: 5 Reversible Shapes to Use and Display (Fast, Fun & Easy)

10 reviews
Linda Johansen

C&T Publishing, 2003

Very original idea - quick to make and fun to give!!
I took a class on how to make the square bowl three days ago and have been at my sewing machine ever since! The book is very easy to follow and once you get the basics down you can make any of the bowls. These make great gifts and are also a great way to use fat quarters.

500 Wood Bowls: Bold & Original Designs Blending Tradition & Innovation (500 Series)

5 reviews

Lark Books, 2004

500 Wood Bowls is worth 500 Stars!!!!
This book is beyond awesome!! What a fine collection of bowls, from the most intricate to the outlandishly uncommon. This book has the most incredible collection of innovative turning, carving, and transforming of wood that I have even seen. From intricate inlays to woodburned accents, including segmented to free form with every unbelievable artistic vision and extra-ordinary form of artwork in ...

Giant: The Road to the Super Bowl

2 reviews
Plaxico Burress, Jason Cole

HarperEntertainment, 2008

RICK "SHAQ" GOLDSTEIN SAYS: "UNCENSORED!...UNFILTERED!... STRAIGHT TALK FROM PLAXICO BURRESS!"
If you're a real pro-football fan and have ever dreamed of having an NFL star come over to your house and spend the weekend... have a couple of beers... talk about all the stuff that really goes on in the clubhouse... on the field... in their private lives... what their childhood was like... and just shoot the "crap" with each other... just like you and I do with our buddies all year long... then ...

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