Author Index

This list of the books in my collection is organized alphabetically by author. Where there is more than one author, the book has been listed multiple times (under all names). The book title links will take you to the full bibliographic citations. Of course, you can always go back to Miss Abigail's Bookshelf (organized by date) if you like.

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Laas, William
  ~ Good Housekeeping's Guide for Young Homemakers, 1966
Laird, Jean E.
  ~ Around the House Like Magic, 1967
Laitem, Helen
  ~ Experiences in Homemaking, 1960
Landers, Ann
  ~ Ann Landers Says Truth is Stranger..., 1968
  ~ Ann Landers Talks to Teen-Agers about Sex, 1963
  ~ Since You Ask Me, 1961
Landis, Judson T. and Mary G. Landis
  ~ Personal Adjustment Marriage and Family Living, 1950
Lang, Barbara
  ~ Boys and Other Beasts, 1965
Lanval, Marc
  ~ An Inquiry into the Intimate Lives of Women, 1950
Lawrence, Thomas Gordon
  ~ Your Health and Safety, 1963
Lawton, Shailer Upton
  ~ Sex Vices in America, 1953
Leach, Marion
  ~ What Every Army Wife Should Know, 1966
Leavell, Martha Boone
  ~ Christian Marriage, 1956
Leavitt, C. Franklin
  ~ Self Mastery Through Understanding, 1913
Lederer, William J.
  ~ The Mirages of Marriage, 1968
Lee, Babs
  ~ ABC's of Beauty, 1950
Lehner, George
  ~ Mental Hygiene in Modern Living, 1953
Lenz, Ludwig L.
  ~ Memoirs of a Sexologist, 1951
Lepp, Ignace
  ~ The Psychology of Loving, 1963
Leuba, Clarence
  ~ Ethics in Sex Conduct: A Manual on Youth, Sex, and Marriage, 1948
Levin, Oscar L.
  ~ The Care of the Face, 1927
Levine, Lena
  ~ The Emotional Sex: Why Women are the Way They are Today, 1964
Lewin, S. A.
  ~ Sex Without Fear, 1950
Lincoln, Miriam
  ~ You'll Live Through It: Facts about the Change of Life, 1950
Lindlahr, Victor
  ~ How Foods Can Help You To Have Lovely Hair, 1943
  ~ You Are What You Eat: How to Win and Keep Health With Diet, 1940
Lockridge, Norman
  ~ The Sexual Conduct of Men and Women, 1956
Loeb, Robert H.
  ~ Manners for Minors, 1964
  ~ She Cooks to Conquer, 1952
Long, H. W
  ~ Sane Sex Life and Sane Sex Living, 1919
Lopiccolo, Joseph
  ~ Becoming Orgasmic: A Sexual Growth Program for Woman, 1976
Lord, Daniel A.
  ~ Some Notes on The Guidance of Youth, 1938
Loth, David
  ~ The Marriage Counselor, 1952
  ~ American Sexual Behavior and the Kinsey Report, 1948
  ~ The Emotional Sex: Why Women are the Way They are Today, 1964
Lowry, E. B.
  ~ Truth Talks with a Boy, 1911
Lowry, Oscar
  ~ A Virtuous Woman: Sex Life in Relation to the Christian Life, 1938
  ~ The Way of a Man With a Maid: Sexology for Men and Boys, 1940
Lubowe, Irwin I.
  ~ A Teen-Age Guide to Healthy Skin and Hair, 1970
Lucy Freeman
  ~ Search for Love, 1957
Lundberg, Ferdinand
  ~ Modern Woman: The Lost Sex, 1947

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Macfadden, Berharr
 ~ Manhood and Marriage, 1929
 ~ Keeping Fit: Health, How Lost - How Regained, 1926
 ~ MacFadden's Encyclopedia of Physical Culture, 1928
 ~ Womanhood and Marriage, 1923
MacGibbon, Elizabeth Gregg
  ~ Fitting Yourself for Business, 1941
Mager, N.H. and S.K.
  ~ The Household Encyclopedia, 1968
Magner, James A.
  ~ The Art of Happy Marriage, 1947
Maroney, Frederick
  ~ Safeguards for Your Health, 1958
Marshall, J. Joseph
  ~ Living with a Husband and Liking It, 1942
Martin, Clement G.
  ~ Intimacy: Sensitivity, Sex and the Art of Love, 1971
Mason, Bernard S.
  ~ Party Games, 1946
Matthews, Mary Lockwood
  ~ Elementary Home Economics, 1928
  ~ Elementary Home Economics, 1925
Matthews, Robert
  ~ How We Raised Our Baby, 1877
Maxwell, Elsa
  ~ How to Do It, or, The Lively Art of Entertaining, 1957
McAndless, M. Thelma
  ~ Manners Today, 1943
McCall, Edith S.
  ~ Here We Go: Health Action Series, 1955
McCary, James Leslie
  ~ Human Sexuality, 1967
McCoy, Kathy
  ~ The Teenage Body Book, 1978
McDermott, Irene E.
  ~ Living For Young Moderns, 1956
McGinnis, Tom
  ~ A Girl's Guide to Dating and Going Steady, 1968
  ~ Your First Year of Marriage, 1967
McGloin, Joseph T.
  ~ Understanding Your Teenager, 1966
McGovern, Artie
  ~ The Secret of Keeping Fit, 1930
Mead, Margaret
  ~ Male and Female, 1949
Mears, Eleanor
  ~ Babies By Choice or By Chance, 1960
Melendy, Dr. Mary Ries
  ~ Vivilore: The Pathway to Mental and Physical Perfection, 1904
Michaels, Ruth
  ~ The Adopted Family, 1965
Mihanovich, Clement Simon
  ~ Marriage and the Family, 1952
Miles, David
  ~ Sex and Astrology, 1969
Milgram, Gail G.
  ~ The Teenager and Smoking, 1972
Miller, Catherine Atkinson
  ~ Eighteen: The Art of Being a Woman, 1933
  ~ Private Enemy Number One, 1938
Miller, Ella May
  ~ I Am a Woman, 1967
Miller, Frances
  ~ Experiences in Homemaking, 1960
Miller, J. R.
  ~ The Wedded Life, 1912
Miller, Mary Sue
  ~ Secrets of Charm, 1954
Minton, Lynn
  ~ Growing Into Adolescence, 1972
Mitchell, Elmer D.
  ~ Party Games, 1946
Mogel, Doris P.
  ~ The Early School Years, 1972
Montagu, Ashley
  ~ Sex, Man and Society, 1969
Montez, Madame Lola
  ~ The Arts and Secrets of Beauty, 1969
Montgomery, Elizabeth   
  ~ Five in the Family: Health and Personal Development Series, 1948
Mooney, Belle S.
  ~ How Shall I Tell My Child?, 1948
Morris, Hugh
  ~ How to Make Love: The Secret of Wooing and Winning the One You Love, 1936 (reprinted1987)
Moyer, C. Y.
  ~ The Business Manual, 1891
Mudge, E. Leigh
  ~ The Psychology of Early Adolescence, 1922
Munson, Mary Lou
  ~ Practical Etiquette for the Modern Man, 1964
Myers, Janet D.
  ~ 2002 Household Helps, 1942

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Narramore, Clyde M.
  ~ Life and Love: A Christian View of Sex, 1956
  ~ Young Only Once: Secrets of Fun and Success, 1957
Nash, Barbara, ed.
  ~ The Complete Book of Baby Care, 1978
Nash, Rev. A. S.
  ~ Education for Christian Marriage: Its Theory and Practice, 1940
Neisser, Edith G.
  ~ Guiding Your Preschooler, 1972
Newton, Sallie
  ~ How to Plan a Beautiful Wedding, 1939
Nicholas, Florence
  ~ Living For Young Moderns, 1956
Nichols, J. L.
  ~ Search Lights, or, Light on Dark Corners, 1911
Norris, Marion Lela
  ~ The Ways of a Business Woman, 1924

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O'Brian, John A.
  ~ Happy Marriage, 1957
O'Neil, Robert P.
  ~ Sexuality and Moral Responsibility, 1968
O'Neill, Nena and George
  ~ Open Marriage: A New Life Style for Couples, 1972
O'Rell, Max
  ~ Her Royal Highness Woman and His Majesty Cupid, 1901
Ogg, Elizabeth
  ~ Decorating the Small Apartment, 1949
Oliver, John Rathbone
  ~ The Ordinary Difficulties of Everyday People, 1935
Ostrander, Sheila
  ~ Etiquette Etc.: A Concise Guide with a Fresh Look, 1967
Otto, James
  ~ Modern Health, 1963
Overton, Frank
  ~ General Hygiene, 1913
Overton, Grace Sloan
  ~ Living with Parents, 1954
  ~ Living with Teeners, 1950

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Pace, Dorothy
  ~ The Complete Home Encyclopedia, 1947
Packard, Vance O.
  ~ How to Pick a Mate: The Guide to a Happy Marriage, 1946
Palmer, Rachel Lynn
  ~ Facts and Frauds in Woman's Hygiene, 1936
Paolone, Clementina
  ~ Practical Birth Control, 1937
Parkinson, Virginia
  ~ Manners, 1943
Peale, Norman Vincent
  ~ Sin, Sex and Self-Control, 1965
Pearson, Gerald H. J.
  ~ Emotional Problems of Living: Avoiding the Neurotic Pattern, 1955
Peck, Ellen
  ~ How to Get a Teen-Age Boy and What To Do With Him When You Get Him, 1969
Pemberton, Lois
  ~ The Stork Didn't Bring You: Sex Education for Teen-Agers, 1965
Peters, Lulu Hunt
  ~ Diet and Health, with Key to the Calories, 1918
Phelps, William Lyon
  ~ Marriage, 1940
Picken, Mary Brooks
  ~ The Secrets of Distinctive Dress, 1918
Pierce, Beatrice
  ~ The Young Hostess, 1938
Pierson, Irene
  ~ Campus Cues, 1956
Pike, James A.
  ~ If You Marry Outside Your Faith, 1954
Pitkin, Walter B.
  ~ Life Begins at 40, 1934
Podolsky, Edward
  ~ Sex Today in Wedded Life, 1947
  ~ Secrets of Love and Marriage, 1939
Pollack, Jack Harrison
  ~ Your Child's Development, 1958
Pomeroy, "Brick"
  ~ Sense, or Saturday Night Musings and Thoughtful Papers, 1868
Pomeroy, Wardell B.
  ~ Boys and Sex, 1968
  ~ Girls and Sex, 1969
Popenoe, Paul
  ~ Sex, Love, and Marriage, 1963
Post, Emily
  ~ 101 Common Mistakes in Etiquette, 1939
  ~ Children are People, and Ideal Parents are Comrades, 1940
  ~ Etiquette: The Blue Book of Social Usage, 1937
  ~ Etiquette: The Blue Book of Social Usage, 1945
Potter, Stephen
  ~ Lifemanship, 1950
Powell, John
  ~ The Secret of Staying in Love, 1974
Powers, David Guy
  ~ The First Book of How to Make a Speech, 1963
Powers, John Robert
  ~ Secrets of Charm, 1954
Prentice, Barbara
  ~ The Back to Work Handbook for Housewives, 1971
Price, Eugenia
  ~ Find Out For Yourself, 1963
Price, Lita
  ~ Maidcraft: A Guide for the One-Maid Household, 1937
Putnam, Mabel Raef
  ~ What Every Woman Should Know About Finance, 1954

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Quigley, Margery Closey
  ~ Etiquette, Jr., 1939

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Ramee, MaRue Carson
  ~ How You Plan and Prepare Meals, 1962
Raymond, Louise
  ~ Good Housekeeping's Book of Today's Etiquette, 1965
Rayner, Claire
  ~ The Shy Person's Book, 1973
Redmond, Catherine
  ~ Handbook for Army Wives and Mothers, 1944
Reiff, Florence M.
  ~ Steps in Home Living, 1966
Reuben, David
  ~ Any Woman Can, 1971
  ~ Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sex ~ But Were Afraid to Ask, 1969
Reynolds, Debbie
  ~ If I Knew Then, 1962
Rice, John R.
  ~ Divorce: The Wreck of Marriage, 1946
Rice, Wayne
  ~ Way-Out Ideas for Youth Groups, 1973
Richardson, Frank Howard
  ~ For Boys Only: The Doctor Discuss the Mysteries of Manhood, 1952(reprinted1970)
  ~ For Young Adults Only: The Doctor Discusses Your Personal Problems, 1961
Richmond, Winifred V.
  ~ An Introduction to Sex Education, 1934
Robie, W. F.
  ~ The Art of Love, 1925
Robinson, William J.
  ~ Birth Control, or the Limitation of Offspring by Prevenception, 1929
  ~ Sex, Love and Morality, 1928
  ~ Sexual Problems of To-day, 1921
  ~ Sexual Truths Versus Sexual Lies, Misconceptions and Exaggerations, 1937
  ~ Woman: Her Sex and Love Life, 1932
Rodale, J. I.
  ~ Health Builder, 1957
Rogers, Donald I.
  ~ Teach Your Wife to Be a Widow, 1953
Rondell, Florence
  ~ The Adopted Family, 1965
Roosevelt, Eleanor
  ~ Book of Common Sense Etiquette, 1962
Rorvik, David M.
  ~ Your Baby's Sex: Now You Can Choose, 1970
Rossiter, Frederick M.
  ~ The Torch of Life: A Key to Sex Harmony, 1932
Roth, Arthur
  ~ The Teen-Age Years, 1960
Rubin, Herman H.
  ~ Eugenics and Sex Harmony, 1944
Rubinstein, Helena
  ~ The Art of Feminine Beauty, 1930
Rusk, Howard
  ~ Living with a Disability: At Home - At Work - At Play, 1953
Rutgers, J.
  ~ How to Attain and Practice the Ideal Sex Life, 1940
Ruth, John A.
  ~ Decorum: A Practical Treatise on Etiquette and Dress of the Best American Society, 1880

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Sakol, Jeanne
  ~ What About Teen-age Marriage?, 1961
Sanger, Margaret
  ~ Happiness in Marriage, 1940
Sangster, Margaret E.
  ~ The Art of Home Making, 1898
Sapirstein, Milton R.
  ~ Emotional Security, 1951
Sargent, Mary
  ~ All About Entertaining, 1966
Sattler, Henry V.
  ~ Parents, Children and the Facts of Life, 1956
Saxe, Louis P.
  ~ Sex and the Mature Man, 1964
Scanzoni, Letha
  ~ Youth Looks at Love, 1965
Schmalhausen, Samuel D.
  ~ Why We Misbehave, 1928
  ~ Sex in Civilization, 1929
Schmidt, J. E.
  ~ Cyclopedic Lexicon of Sex, 1967
Schnepp, Brother Gerald J.
  ~ Marriage and the Family, 1952
Schreiber, Joanne, ed.
  ~ Here's How, 1967
Schuller, Robert H
  ~ Self-Love, 1978
Schwarz, Oswald
  ~ The Psychology of Sex, 1951
Scott, James Foster
  ~ The Sexual Instinct: Its Use and Dangers As Affecting Heredity and Morals, 1899
Scott-Maxwell, Florida
  ~ Women and Sometimes Men, 1957
Seabury, David
  ~ How to Worry Successfully, 1936
Seranne, Ann
  ~ Happy Living! A Guidebook for Brides, 1965
Shacter, Helen
  ~ You and Others, 1954
Shacter, Helen
  ~ You're Growing Up, 1950
Shain, Merle
  ~ Some Men are More Perfect Than Others, 1973
  ~ When Lovers are Friends, 1978
Shannon, T. W.
  ~ Nature's Secrets Revealed: Scientific Knowledge of The Laws of Sex Life and Heredity, or Eugenics, 1916
Shedd, Charlie W.
  ~ The Stork is Dead, 1968
Sheen, Fulton J.
  ~ Three to Get Married, 1951
Shryock, Harold
  ~ On Becoming a Woman, 1951
Shultz, Gladys Denny
  ~ It's Time You Knew, 1955
  ~ Letters to Jane, 1960
  ~ Courtship, Engagement and Marriage, 1953
Sisley, Emily
  ~ The Joy of Lesbian Sex, 1977
Skousen, W. Cleon
  ~ So You Want to Raise a Boy?, 1962
Smart, Mollie Stevens and Russell Cook Smart
  ~ Living in Families, 1958
Smiles, Samuel
  ~ Character, 1878
Smiley, Dean
  ~ Keeping Healthy, 1935
Spalding, Arthur Whitefield
  ~ Growing Boys and Girls, 1931
Spock, Benjamin
  ~ Problems of Parents, 1962
  ~ A Teenagers Guide to Life and Love, 1970
Sprague, W. D.
  ~ Sexual Behavior of American Nurses, 1963
Sproat, Nancy
  ~ The School of Good Manners, 1822
Stall, Sylvanus
  ~ What a Young Boy Ought to Know, 1909
Starrett, Helen E.
  ~ After College, What? For Girls, 1896
Stein, Sara Bonnett
  ~ Making Babies, 1974
Steincrohn, Peter J.
  ~ How to Stop Killing Yourself, 1950
Stekel, Wilhelm
  ~ Marriage at the Crossroads, 1931
Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle)
  ~ On Love, 1947
Stevens, Agnes, ed.
  ~ How Men Propose: The Fateful Question and Its Answer, 1888
Stephenson, C. Eugene
  ~ How to Decorate and Light Your Home, 1955
Stokes, Walter R.
  ~ Modern Pattern for Marriage, 1948
  ~ Your Sex Life, 1948
Stone, Hannah and Abraham
  ~ A Marriage Manual , 1953
  ~ A Marriage Manual , 1965
Stopes, Dr. Marie C.
  ~ Married Love, 1927
  ~ Enduring Passion, 1931
  ~ The Human Body, 1926
Strain, Frances B.
  ~ New Patterns in Sex Teaching, 1941
  ~ Teen Days: A Book for Boys and Girls, 1946
Strang, Ruth
  ~ Keeping Healthy, 1935
Strange, Julian
  ~ Adventures in Nakedness, 1942
Stuart, Freda
  ~ The Working Wives' (Salaried or Otherwise) Cook Book, 1963
Swartz, Oretha D.
  ~ Service Etiquette, 1977
Swift, Edith Hale
  ~ Step by Step in Sex Education, 1947
Swift, Henry and Elizabeth
  ~ Running a Happy Family, 1960

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Taber, C. W.
  ~ Economics of the Family, 1923
Talmage, Reverend T. DeWitt
  ~ The Wedding Ring: A Series of Sermons, 1892
Talmey, Bernard S.
  ~ Love: A Treatise on the Science of Sex-Attraction, 1919
Taylor, Eugene
  ~ Living with a Disability: At Home - At Work - At Play, 1953
Tenenbaum, Joseph
  ~ The Riddle of Woman: A Study in the Social Psychology of Sex, 1936
Tether, J. Edward
  ~ Modern Health, 1963
Thomas, John L.
  ~ Understanding Your Teenager, 1966
Thomas, Rev. John T.
  ~ Marriage and the Family, 1952
Thomas, Kay
  ~ Secrets of Loveliness, 1969
Throop, Lucy Abbot
  ~ Furnishing the Home of Good Taste, 1920
Thurber, James
  ~ Is Sex Necessary? or, Why You Feel The Way You Do, 1929
Tietz, Esther B.
  ~ The Art and Science of Marriage, 1938
Tree, Viola
  ~ Can I Help You?, 1937
Tridon, Andre
  ~ Psychoanalyses and Love, 1922
Trott, Lona L
  ~ Red Cross Home Nursing, 1942
Troubridge, Lady (Laura)
  ~ The Book of Etiquette, 1926
Tyrer, Alfred Henry
  ~ Sex Satisfaction and Happy Marriage, 1946

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Unger, Art
  ~ The Cool Book: A Teen-Ager's Guide to Survival in a Square Society, [1961?]
  ~ First Dates and Other Disasters: Stories from Datebook Magazine, 1965

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VVan Buren, Abigail
  ~ Dear Abby, 1958
Van de Velde, Th. H.
  ~ Ideal Marriage: Its Physiology and Technique, 1950
Vander, L.
  ~ The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Sex, 1950 (revised 1967)
Van Duzer, Adelaide Laura
  ~ Everyday Living for Girls, 1936
Van Evera, Jean
  ~ How to be Happy While Single, 1949
Vanderbilt, Amy
  ~ Amy Vanderbilt's Everyday Etiquette, 1956
  ~ New Complete Book of Etiquette: Guide to Gracious Living, 1967
Vermes, Hal G.
  ~ The Boy's Book of Physical Fitness, 1961
Von Gagern, Frederick
  ~ Difficulties in Married Life, 1953

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Wagner, Charles
  ~ The Simple Life, 1901
Walker, Kenneth
  ~ The Physiology of Sex, 1952
Walker, Mrs. A
  ~ Female Beauty, as Preserved and Improved by Regimen, Cleanliness and Dress, 1840
Wall, Pert
  ~ The Magic Power of Grooming in a Man's World, 1965
Wallace, Lily Haxworth
  ~ Just for Two: A Handbook of Cookery for the Small Household, 1942
Wallin, Paul
  ~ Courtship, Engagement and Marriage, 1953
Wardall, Ruth A.
  ~ Economics of the Family, 1923
Watts, Alan W.
  ~ Nature, Man and Woman, 1958
Weber, Eric
  ~ How to Pick Up Girls!, 1970
Webster, Doris
  ~ I've Got Your Number! A Book of Self-Analysis, 1936
  ~ I've Got Your Number! A Book of Self-Analysis (First Series), 1927
  ~ Marriage Made Easy, 1928
Wedeck, Harry E.
  ~ Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, 1961
Weichert, Charles K.
  ~ The Art and Science of Marriage, 1938
Weisman, Abner
  ~ Woman's Change of Life, 1951
Welch, Scotty  
  ~ What Every Young Man Should Know, 1962
Wells, John and Enid
  ~ You Can Fix It: An Encyclopedia of Home Repairs, 1935
Wells, Richard A.
  ~ Manners, Culture and Dress of the Best American Society, 1891
Wernick, Robert
  ~ The Family, 1974
White, E. B.
  ~ Is Sex Necessary? or, Why You Feel The Way You Do, 1929
Whitman, Jason
  ~ The Young Lady's Aid, to Usefulness and Happiness, 1838
Wibbelsman, Charles
  ~ The Teenage Body Book, 1978
Wilcox, Charlotte E.
  ~ Here We Go: Health Action Series, 1955
Wilcox, Ella Wheeler
  ~ Men, Women and Emotions, 1897
Williams, Bertrand
  ~ Christian Girl's Problems, 1943
Williams, J. F.
  ~ Personal Hygiene Applied, 1939
Williams, R. Ewart
  ~ Practical Information for All, 1939
Willke, Jack and Barbara
  ~ The Wonder of Sex: How to Teach Children, 1964
Willy, A.
  ~ The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Sex, 1950 (revised 1967)
Wilson, Angela and David
  ~ Cosmopolitan's Living Together (Married or Not) Handbook, 1974
Wilson, Margery
  ~ Pocket Book of Etiquette, 1940
  ~ The New Etiquette, 1940
  ~ The Woman You Want to Be, 1942
Winship, Beth
  ~ Ask Beth: Questions and Answers About the Things That Concern Girls, 1972
Witt, Elmer N.
  ~ Life Can Be Sexual, 1967
Wolfe, W. Beran
  ~ A Woman's Best Years: The Art of Staying Young, 1946
Wood-Comstock, Belle
  ~ Growing Boys and Girls, 1931
Woods, Marjorie Binford
  ~ Off to the Right Start in Choosing Your Household Treasures, 1955
Wright, Helena
  ~ The Sex Factor in Marriage, 1956
Wydro, Kenneth
  ~ Flying Solo: Being Happy Being Single, 1978

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Yaconelli, Mike
  ~ Way-Out Ideas for Youth Groups, 1973
Young, Nancy
  ~ Glamour's How to Do Anything Better Book, 1977

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Zavin, Theodora
  ~ The Working Wives' (Salaried or Otherwise) Cook Book, 1963
Zenner, Philip
  ~ Education in Sexual Physiology and Hygiene, 1910
Zimbardo, Philip
  ~ Shyness: What it Is, What to Do About It, 1977

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