Awards Books

I originally bought this book used for something like two bucks, expecting very little from it. Just another one of my fire-guy books that I like to read.

I was quite pleasantly surprised when I realized that many of the stories were ones I knew or had heard told and re-told in the fire academy and in the firehouse. They were well-researched and well-told versions of stories that I only ever knew the "gist" of. Famous rescues made by firefighters famous in the fire service: The woman they cut out of the collapse of a building also on fire during the 1989 San Francisco quake. Atlanta FF Matt Mosely rescuing a worker off a crane while dangling from a helicopter. The Worcester 6 in 1999. The double rope rescues made by Paddy Brown, Paddy Barr, and Kevin Shea in NYC in 1991 that was the inspiration for the rope rescue in the movie Ladder 49.

This is not a throw-away book, it's a must for anyone serious about the lore and legend of the fire service.

This excellent collection of books, that portrays the winner and finalists of the Mies van der Rohe Award for European architecture -a prize given in a biennial basis since 1988- is not out of print, except for the first edition. It shows the very best of the continent's architectural achievements. Between 20 and 35 buildings are accurately depicted in every catalogue, with pictures and technical information

So far, the awarded projects have been: 1st)Banco Borges e Irmão, by Álvaro Siza (1988); 2nd)Stansted Airport Terminal, by Norman Foster (1990); 3rd)Badalona Sport Stadium, by Esteve Bonell (1992); 4th)Waterloo Station, by Nicholas Grimshaw (1994); 5th)France National Library, by Dominique Perrault (1997); 6th)Bregenz Art Museum, Peter Zumthor (1999).

In 2001 it has become the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture-Mies van der Rohe Award.

The Mies van der Rohe Award for Latin American Architecture was set up in 1999 and has been won by the Televisa Canteen in Mexico DF, by TEN Arquitectos and the refurbishment of the São Paulo State Picture Library, by Paulo Mendes da Rocha. Both catalogues are also available.

This was a book I checked out from the library and enjoyed so much I decided to buy it. I read some of it out loud to my husband or told him the story as I read it. I let my mother-in-law borrow and read it too. We all enjoyed this great story. Laughing and crying and learning great life lessons as you read this book.

This book by Leslie Connor captures the life experience of a young immigrant woman who comes to the New World with only a shovel. We see through her eyes the ways her life changes through the years, as she uses the shovel to stake out a place for herself, marrying, having children, running a farm. Although it's not a long, complicated story, the richness of the book lies in its reflection of how life progresses and changes through the years, with both love and loss. I have read it to my children again and again, and each time I feel that Ms. Connor has captured some essence of life and change that will make this a book my kids will want to have for their entire lives. It's truly one of those books we'll treasure. The elegant pictures by Mary Azarian complement the story perfectly.

Joan Frank's first novel, Miss Kansas City (a wonderfully ironic title), is a masterpiece. I read her award-winning short story collection, Boys Keep Being Born, and loved her writing so much that I've been waiting for another book from her. Now, with this one, I am even more awed at her range. Along with the drama of love and loss and resilience (that quality - that almost infinite adaptability - which, uniquely, makes us human), she leaves us with a wealth of insight and of wisdom. She's wonderfully good at delineating what she calls the "unconscious male" (in spite of her love for those pesky trouble-makers). Yet she allows us into the inner spaces of both her male and female characters, each caught up in love (or obsession) and yearning. She opens us up to the gulf of loneliness within each isolated sex. She keeps us on our toes, surprises us. Then, reaching beyond the personal, she gives us wholly believable scenes of California's takeoff into its heady new computerized world, along with, already, intimations of its collapse. She's the true chronicler of our twentieth-century nation-state and of the human soul.

We enjoyed the musical Spamalot so much that my son wanted to get the music for the songs. This was the ideal entry book for him as it contained the melody in the music and wasn't just an accompaniment.

This is a workbook with perforated pages to make it easy to take out for duplicating copies for your Sunday School Class. It saves hours of prep time for the instructor. The book includes how-to's for craft projects, posters to color to help memorize bible verses. I also liked the awards and certificates I could photocopy to encourage and recognize a child's progress.

Gerry Gomez Pearlberg, who won the Lambda Award for her debut collection Marianne Faithfull's Cigarette, follows beautifully with Mr. Bluebird. Whether contemplating the ephemera of pop culture or final things, her poems are born of humor, pain, and an abiding love for language. "Death's the unpatented/gizmo built into all real beauty." She speaks with moving authority to us all.

If I were to make a list of some of my favorite books from my childhood, Mr. Silly would no doubt be on it! I'm lucky enough to own a hard cover copy of this (that colored in the back of when I was 3). I have also enjoyed reading this to kids now that I'm older--opportunity for interaction and critical thinking skills--What is "normal"? Not a work wearing a monacle and a bright necktie! What sound does a duck really make? One Sentence Summary: Mr. Silly's backward town is holding its annual competition for the silliest idea of the year. (But how can you really sum up a book in one sentence?) I'm really pleased to see Mr. Men and Little Miss books available on Amazon. They may not be fancy or award winners, but that's not really what makes a book great! Unfortunately, I'm not familiar with ALL of the stories of this series, but I CAN recommend Mr. Bump, Mr. Messy, Mr. Tickle and Little Miss Plump.

Mrs. Biddlebox woke up on the wrong side of the bunk. Birds gave her a headache, the furniture creaks, the breeze blew dank and dreary and mussied up her hair.

What's a witch to do? She decides to bake the rotten morning into a pie and eat it.

This is an interesting story which is aided by the artwork. You get to see Mrs. Biddlebox collect all the annoying things. She rolls up the sky and she collects the fog by twirling it on her broom like spaghetti. She bakes, she dances, eats the pie and goes to bed. With all the gloom eaten; it's a nice night.

It's a fun story with interesting artwork. My girl looked at it many times.

I would have liked more works [...].