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Take My Wife, Please!
How to live a Neurotic Wife Baker 1970 If you think times haven’t changed, this book might make you feel otherwise. The humor is so old school, I keep hearing Henny Youngman saying “take my wife, please.” Reading this you might think women were vapid, self-centered creatures, hell bent on…
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RIP Anne of Green Gables
Anne of Green Gables Montgomery 1987 (paperback) original copyright 1908 A friend sent me some scans of this poor book from an elementary school library. It was only recently weeded, but had looked awful for years. This paperback had been in the collection for years and had great circulation. Obviously…
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Please Throw it Away!
Don’t Throw It Away! Abell 1973 Another gorgeous craft book from an unnamed public library’s craft section. (No, as of this writing it was NOT weeded.) I had no trouble guessing that this was direct from the 1970s. The harvest colors are a dead giveaway. Everything was harvest gold, avocado…
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My Real Family
My Real Family Sanford 1993 Long time readers of this blog will immediately recognize these illustrations. Yes, we have YET ANOTHER one of these special books. (Note to self: I need to restrict these titles to only a certain number a year or my head will explode.) This time our…
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Say My Name
How Did We Get Our Names? Bethers 1966 Submitter: This book would be out-of date at any library, but at our library, it’s both out of date and out-of sync with patron demographics. We are a bilingual private school in the Persian Gulf. The vast majority of our students are…
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Live like the Jetsons!
Future Travel Abels 1980 Submitter: This book is nonfiction. Yes, really. It was in our 629s, and now it is at my desk so I can show it to all the teachers who wonder where all the “lovely books” have gone. The lovely ones are still on the shelves. Books…
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