Henry Gross and His Dowsing Rod Roberts 1951 Submitter: My local library has three copies of Henry Gross and His Dowsing Rod. We all chuckled at the title. Apparently some of us still have dirty minds. Three copies? That seems a bit
Category: Unexplained and Just Plain Crazy
Unexplained, aliens, ghosts, weird stuff, and of course the category defying label of WTF.
Face Facts
How To Read Faces Understanding Personality Through Faces Tao 1989 We had a housekeeping day at the library as part of our staff inservice. This gave us an opportunity to clean up, shelf read and do other chores around the
Serial Killer Training Manual
The Beginner’s Guide to Animal Autopsy Parker 1997 Submitter: This book had been sitting in our reference section for I don’t know how long. A while ago we weeded those books for space and the cover just made me flinch. Poor Teddy, sacrificed
I Want to Believe, Again
How to Defend Yourself Against Alien Abduction
Druffle
1998
Gotta admit I love all of the alien, Bigfoot, and anything else residing over in 00’s of the Dewey Decimal System. It is a bunch of fun and a great icebreaker for any kind of nonfiction reader advisory. I haven’t got much in the way of expertise on aliens, but given my exciting career in public libraries, I am convinced that maybe there are aliens that walk among us. They are the ones who threaten staff over a 10 cent fine, ask me to decide which Facebook profile picture is “sluttier”, and keep asking for Larry King’s mailing address so they can inform him of the coming apocalypse, or what we in public libraries call Wednesday.
Aliens Identified
Photo credit: http://m.flickr.com/#/photos/exlibris/7989137069/sizes/m/ Men in the Flying Saucers Identified: Not a Mystery Grant 1950-1959? Huge thanks to @exlibris of The Little Big Blog for this amazing find. While she didn’t find it in a library, rest assured that it is alive
Out of the body or out of the library?
Beyond the Body
Blackmore
1986, c1982.
Submitter: I confess I just weeded this book from our HS library. I love the whirling astral projections! There are lots of holdings according to WorldCat. Hey, folks, at least update with the 1992 edition! The author has very eclectic interests, and no longer studies the paranormal.
Awesome Books – Not Awful
Pop-Up Book of Phobias Greenberg 1999 Once in a while Holly and I get submissions that are just awesome and wonderful. Do they fit in a library collection? Depends on your audience. I have a couple of these books that
Read My Face
Unmasking the Face: A guide to recognizing emotions from facial expressions Ekman and Friesen 1975, 1984 Submitter: Unmasking the Face’s cover is very Scaramouche, Scaramouche, can you do the fandango? Holly: Second row from the top, right-hand side just stepped