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Uncle Willy
Uncle Willy’s Tickles: A Child’s Right to Say No Aboff 2003 Submitter: Creepy! Holly: …Aaaaand we’re back to this subject. What a horrible title! There’s a fine line between making a serious subject “approachable” to kids through a title they can understand and making light of the issue itself. This…
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Making Pigeons Pay
Making Pigeons Pay Levi 1972 Submitter: Here are a couple of scans of a book that, yes, we still own. I can’t help but hear the title announced in a Mafia guy voice. And how do they pay? See the killing rack – yikes! It is a 1946 copyright (1972…
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TV Trivia Teasers
TV Trivia Teasers: 1004 Totally Tubular Brain-Twisters Casey 1984 Submitter: Found this gem while weeding our TV collection. Not only are all of the TV shows and movies in the questions from the 40s-early 80s, among those featured in the “Photo Teasers” are Rock Hudson, George Burns, Shelley Long and…
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How to Be a Ski Bunny
How to Ski Just a Little Bit Bennett 1970 Submitter: Here is a gem that we found in our book sale. According to the dust jacket, two stylish ski bunny librarians June Biermann and Barbara Toohey from Los Angeles Valley College wrote it! I checked WorldCat and several libraries still…
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Clownseling
Clown Ministry: a how-to manual and dozens of skits for service and worship Shaffer 1984 Submitter: This bizarre book includes makeup tips, skits based on Bible verses, and other odd ideas – I included scans of my two favorites, “clownseling” & Marriage enrichment. Thankfully for those scared of clowns, the…
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Long John Silverstein
Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean Kritzler 2008 It’s International Talk Like a Pirate Day! (Click here if you want the official website.) Now, before everyone gets mad, let me just say that this isn’t a bad book at all. It’s actually very interesting, and I read a bit of it…
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