Category: Fine and Not So Fine Arts
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Your body is a wonderland

How to have fun with your body Lester 1986 Did you know that you can have fun with your body? This book is about making faces, performing tricks, and possibly grossing people out. I can also see some of this being used as an ice breaker at a meeting. (Pro…
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Jamming on the Harpsichord

The Harpsichord Owner’s Guide: A Manual for Buyers & Owners Kottick 1992 Submitter: Zero circs in about 9 years. Why on earth does this need to belong in a rural medium-sized library? Holly: This was published in 1992?? Was there some sort of harpsichord revival that I missed?
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Dance the night away

The Official Guide to Latin Dancing Dow 1980 I was weeding the 700s the other day and look what I found. This book is the companion to a we featured a while back. I am not a dancer although back in the 1970s I did attempt the Hustle and other…
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Clowns for Jesus

Clowning for Christ (Revised) Christensen 1986 Without a doubt, this is my worst nightmare in book form. I gotta say I am not a big fan of the clown as a Christian emissary. Maybe I am going out on a limb, but is this REALLY an effective ministry tool? If…
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Funny Ha Ha?

How to be Really Funny Stolzenberg 1988 I’m not sure a book can tell you how to be funny, whoops, I mean really funny, but this book does. It literally tells you what is funny. Example: simple mindedness also known as a “nice way to say stupid”. On the plus…
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Ah-One, Ah-Two!

Ah-One, Ah-Two: Life with My Musical Family Welk with McGeehan 1974 My America, Your America Welk with McGeehan 1976 Submitter: Here are two of the four Lawrence Welk biographies in our collection. The full color foldout of the whole cast is my favorite. Holly: There is a special place in…