All twelve issues of American Fireworks News 2009 have been compiled into a handy book. If you don't subscribe, this is what you missed last year.

• Christmas crackers

• A test review of a new remote firing system

• A method to making an improved titanium sparkler

• The hazards of using a staple gun

• Making a visco punch

• An improved method for safely cutting visco

• Sky lantern safety

• Hail rocket surprise

• A new use for bottle rockets

• Technical history of the Brock-spoulette

• Safety in rocket motor hydraulic pressing

• More on spoulettes

• Comparing gum arabic & guar gum

• NFPA 2012: a legal review

• The Chinese new year - a city pyro's paradise part 1, 2

• More on flash powder

• Designing port fires

• A review of the newest 500gr cakes

• Perk charcoal

• A simple method for making "Battle in the Clouds"

• Sequencers add creativity to your displays

• Festival ball comets

• Quickly igniting a flight of small rockets

Ok, you are probably as tired of reading this list as I am of typing it. (THIS IS ONLY THE FIRST HALF OF THE YEAR!)