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Sexy Therapy

Should a Therapist Have Intercourse With Patients? Seagull Psychology Today [197-?] Submitter: This surprising 35 min cassette recording could have been compressed into a 5 second recording comprised of 1 word : NO Holly: Was this actually something that the profession was questioning in the 1970s? It gives “sex therapy”…
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Friday Fiction: Boy with the Dinosaur Hands

The Boy with Dinosaur Hands: Nine Tales of the Real and Unreal Carusone 1998 Submitter: There are so many things going on with this book…a kid with dinosaur hands, horrible writing, crazy chapter titles, and the illustrations! The worst part is that we have TWO copies of it in our…
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Miss Mary Mack, Mack, Mack

Jump Rope Rhymes McGee 1968 Submitter: This was a donation, apparently removed from some other library many years ago, and someone thought we just might like it. It looks ancient and dirty (I had to majorly improve some of the images so they’re readable), smells very strongly (and not in…
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Pinocchio and his killer nose

Pinocchio, Vampire Slayer Jensen and Higgins 2009 Submitter: So, Pinocchio is avenging Geppetto’s death by killing vampires with his nose. Yes, really. We were weeding in our young adult graphic novels, and for some reason this particular tome hasn’t circulated in several years. It’s time to let it go and…
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Getting Older Growing Younger

Getting Older, Growing Younger Cartland 1984 Submitter: I love that Barbara Cartland’s most important take away from Birth of a Nation was how entrancing Lillian Gish was. I scanned a few paged of medical advice she gives as well. Holly: I’m sure we all had this book in our public…
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Get Cancer and a Pony!

No Longer Afraid Sanford 1992 Our pal Doris is back with another in depth look at childhood cancer as part of the Children of Courage series. (Please check the category of “Doris Hall of Infamy” for more examples.) Our child hero is Jaime is diagnosed with cancer and had to…