Category: Unexplained and Just Plain Crazy
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Face Facts
How To Read Faces Understanding Personality Through Faces Tao 1989 We had a housekeeping day at the library as part of our staff inservice. This gave us an opportunity to clean up, shelf read and do other chores around the library. Of course we found stuff. Take a look at…
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Serial Killer Training Manual
The Beginner’s Guide to Animal Autopsy Parker 1997 Submitter: This book had been sitting in our reference section for I don’t know how long. A while ago we weeded those books for space and the cover just made me flinch. Poor Teddy, sacrificed in the name of science! As you can see in the…
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I Want to Believe, Again
How to Defend Yourself Against Alien Abduction Druffle 1998 Gotta admit I love all of the alien, Bigfoot, and anything else residing over in 00’s of the Dewey Decimal System. It is a bunch of fun and a great icebreaker for any kind of nonfiction reader advisory. I haven’t got much…
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Aliens Identified
Photo credit: http://m.flickr.com/#/photos/exlibris/7989137069/sizes/m/ Men in the Flying Saucers Identified: Not a Mystery Grant 1950-1959? Huge thanks to @exlibris of The Little Big Blog for this amazing find. While she didn’t find it in a library, rest assured that it is alive and well (ok, alive and awful) at various libraries out…
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Out of the body or out of the library?
Beyond the Body Blackmore 1986, c1982. Submitter: I confess I just weeded this book from our HS library. I love the whirling astral projections! There are lots of holdings according to WorldCat. Hey, folks, at least update with the 1992 edition! The author has very eclectic interests, and no longer…
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Awesome Books – Not Awful
Pop-Up Book of Phobias Greenberg 1999 Once in a while Holly and I get submissions that are just awesome and wonderful. Do they fit in a library collection? Depends on your audience. I have a couple of these books that are just too fun not to talk about. Hint: these…
Awful Library Books 