• Games People Play

    Games People Play

    More New Games…and Playful Ideas from the New Games Foundation Fluegelman 1981 Submitter: The book about new games is from the early 1980’s and to me it looks like it was put out by some dirty  hippies who wanted to play ‘games’ that taught lessons and allowed for lots of…

  • Perfecting your “come hither” look

    Perfecting your “come hither” look

    Lingerie and Sleepwear: 24 Original Designs You Can Make Yourself 1982 Submitter: My favorite lingerie pattern from this book is for a knitted bed jacket. I want to know what guy would actually find this attractive. It is the most hideous thing I’ve ever seen!! The book contains some really off-the-wall…

  • Dr. Johnny Fever is in the house

    Dr. Johnny Fever is in the house

    How to Be a Disc Jockey See 1980 Submitter: I was browsing in our adult oversize nonfiction shelves for some movie books last week, when I stumbled across this gem! To be fair, 90% of that collection should be weeded, so it’s not that hard to find an Awful Library…

  • One step beyond

    One step beyond

    Aliens From Space The Real Story of Unidentified Flying Objects Keyhoe 1973 Folks, I have been working on weeding in the zeros-100’s and I am still having trouble coming up with some solid criteria for those topics like UFOs, Bigfoot, crop circles and all sorts of other stuff that floats…

  • Romance in the Stacks

    Romance in the Stacks

      Jinny Williams Library Assistant Temkin and Hovell 1967 Can our young modern girl find love in her local library?  Our girl Jinny moves through the stacks looking for love in all the wrong places. Maybe it will be the cute guy downloading inappropriate material from the Internet. Maybe it…

  • It’s Raining Dogs and Turtles?

    It’s Raining Dogs and Turtles?

    Beyond Basic Dog Training Bauman 1988 Alert submitter said she couldn’t stop looking at this cover. For the love of all that is canine, why are turtles “jumping” barriers on the front cover?   Is the dog about to eat the turtles?  Are turtles capable of tricks like jumping over…