Knife Throwing: A Practical Guide McEvoy 1973 Submitter: We found this gem while weeding at a branch of the [Public Library]. “It’s fun to throw a knife”…um, yeah. I think this was published before lawn darts were banned. Eeek! Holly:
Category: Sports, Games, and Exercise
Coaching, games, puzzles, sports, working out and training.
Get rid of those unsightly lumps, bumps and sags!
Miss Craig’s 10 Minute a Day Spot-Reducing Program Crowley and Wagner 1979 Gotta love these exercise books! Miss Craig’s exercises don’t look too bad. A good chunk of these I have done in a yoga class or two. However, I
Be a sexy woman with Debbie!
Dancercize Drake 1967 Submitter: I found this book while straightening up the stacks today. I knew it looked familiar, and browsing through your archives I found that Debbie had been in another posting for a different exercise book. As great
Touched
Touched: The Jerry Sandusky Story
Sandusky with Richeal
2000
Submitter: Hello, I’m a librarian in [NY] and a huge college football fan. Shortly after the sex abuse scandal at Penn State I decided to look on amazon and in our library catalog to see if we had anything by or about Jerry Sandusky. There are 14 copies of his unfortunately titled autobiography, Touched, floating about according to WorldCat.
Penn State University Library owns a copy of Touched and it looks like they put the book in protective custody in “nocirc” archives. http://cat.libraries.psu.edu/uhtbin/cgisirsi/gDK2F6pVmM/UP-PAT/123900211/123
I think the autobiography of an accused child molester called “Touched” qualifies as an awful library book.
Man Crunches
Flatten Your Stomach for Men Only Consumer Guide 1987 Submitter: I ran across Flatten Your Stomach: For Men Only when I was sweeping the shelves for books that patrons had been browsing and put back in weird places. The fact
Tricky Discs
Tricky Discs: Frisbee Saucer Flying Olney 1979 This is a very cool idea for a book. I can see kids being interested in learning frisbee tricks. In fact, I could get into that! The pictures are soooo 1979, though, that
Getting Your Baby in Shape
The Baby Exercise Book Levy 1973 I really do worry about baby muscle definition and if they look “ripped”. I would hate to have another baby kick sand in my baby’s face. Well worry no more! This is your book.
Sweatin’ to an oldie!
The Natural Way to Keep in Shape Voak 1973 Exercise books are so much fun! This one cracked me up. I could hardly gather the kind of exercise from the pictures and the fashion just about made me laugh out