The following list of Library Titles You May have Missed was
compiled during the 1994 calendar year.

In my job I encounter a lot of bizzare titles.Some chronicle such
nebulous subject matter, or are so odd that they are worth
preserving. All of the books on this list are real.



I called him babe : Elvis Presley's nurse remembers.

The great guano rush

When Elvis died.

The celery stalks at midnight.

Tom Slick and the search for the yeti.

The ghost of Liberace.

A leech book or collections of medical recipes of the 15th century.

Bibliomania in the Middle Ages.

Twilight of the gods : the Beatles in retrospect.

And there i stood with my piccolo.

Fun in a chinese laundry : an autobiography.

Charles fort never mentioned wombats.

Sponges in time and space.

The electric geshia.

Not June Cleaver.

Carding and spinning: a book for praactical millmen.

The buttons keep coming off.

Quack!, Quack!

The 6,000 beards of Athos.

Men women and pianos : a social history.

Lively membranes.

Michael Jackson dancing the dream : poems and reflections.

Constipation.

Turtles, termites, and traffic jams.

The meaning of Nolan Ryan. (Yes the baseball player)

The meaning of fuchsias.

The meaning of meaninglessness.

Australian weevils.

Finitudes score: essays for the end of the millenium.

Innovative world of concrete.

Studies on Middle English nicknames.

Isatope man

Introduction to algae.

The panther woman : five tales from the tape recorder.

The politics of dreaming in the Caroligian Empire. (This book is dedicated to analysing dreams by people living under Emperor Charlemagne)

Has anyone seen my harem pants?

Animal parasite research. (This book is about animal parasites -- it is not research BY animal parasites, which is what the title implies.)

Airport pavement innovation : theory to practice.

Your servant the molecule.

Oedipus at Fenway Park : What rights are and why there are any.

Trumpets from the tower : English Puritan printing in the Netherlands1600-1640.

--- And last but surely not least, what may be the most esoteric
title of1994.On second thought, this may be the most esoteric
title of All time.....

Suspended music : chime-bells in the culture of Bronze Age China. (I am not making this up!)

I hope you all enjoyed this years list. now that 1995 is here I
will begin a new list. You all can look forward to that one in
1996. -- yours Jim Elfers



© 2000 James Elfers