Category: Sports, Games, and Exercise
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Practical Knife Throwing
Knife Throwing: A Practical Guide McEvoy 1973 Submitter: We found this gem while weeding at a branch of the [Public Library]. “It’s fun to throw a knife”…um, yeah. I think this was published before lawn darts were banned. Eeek! Holly: A lot of public libraries own this book! As long…
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Get rid of those unsightly lumps, bumps and sags!
Miss Craig’s 10 Minute a Day Spot-Reducing Program Crowley and Wagner 1979 Gotta love these exercise books! Miss Craig’s exercises don’t look too bad. A good chunk of these I have done in a yoga class or two. However, I am pretty sure that “spot-reducing” is a myth. My favorite…
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Be a sexy woman with Debbie!
Dancercize Drake 1967 Submitter: I found this book while straightening up the stacks today. I knew it looked familiar, and browsing through your archives I found that Debbie had been in another posting for a different exercise book. As great as that one was, I have to say that this…
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Touched
Touched: The Jerry Sandusky Story Sandusky with Richeal 2000 Submitter: Hello, I’m a librarian in [NY] and a huge college football fan. Shortly after the sex abuse scandal at Penn State I decided to look on amazon and in our library catalog to see if we had anything by or…
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Man Crunches
Flatten Your Stomach for Men Only Consumer Guide 1987 Submitter: I ran across Flatten Your Stomach: For Men Only when I was sweeping the shelves for books that patrons had been browsing and put back in weird places. The fact that I found it out and about argues that someone…
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Tricky Discs
Tricky Discs: Frisbee Saucer Flying Olney 1979 This is a very cool idea for a book. I can see kids being interested in learning frisbee tricks. In fact, I could get into that! The pictures are soooo 1979, though, that it ruins the rest of the book. The guy in…
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