Author: Holly
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Dictate this!
Applied Secretarial Practice Gregg 1968 Typewriters? Dictation? “The Scrubbed and Shining Look”? I can see certain university libraries hanging on to a copy of this for historical purposes. Gregg is, after all, the guru of all things secretarial. I can see in WorldCat that several public libraries also own this…
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Teen Wheels
Your First Car Fremon 1981 “Hey, Suzie, great sweater!” “Thanks, George. Groovy car!” “She’s all mine! Paid for her with my checks from the roller skating rink.” “Totally tubular!” Weed it, please. Holly
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Home Ec-50’s style
Young Living Clayton 1959 This could be a fun book to browse…at a museum or archive of some sort. Sadly, there are quite a few public libraries listed in WorldCat that still have this book on their shelves. I love the page that this submitter scanned from the book. Now…
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A Philatelist’s Dream
Jewish Chess Masters on Stamps Berkovich and Divinsky 2000 If your library or your community has a very (VERY) active stamp collecting society, this might be an acceptable choice for your library. Even then, it is very obscure! There’s nothing wrong with it and I’m not suggesting weeding it. It’s just…
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Your brain injured child
What to do About your Brain-Injured Child Doman 1974 What you should do is get a newer book. This was submitted to ALB from 3 different people and I found a copy locally. This is such a serious subject and I cannot believe that it is still on the shelves…
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Waxing poetic
Wax in our World Russell 1966 Wax as a topic for a medium public library juvenile nonfiction section has got to be one of the oddest ideas ever. Just so you all know, I have no bias against the subject of wax. Hey, wax as a part of a craft…
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