Is cabbage juice good for you?
What is cystic ovary syndrome?
Do you have any more picture books about fire trucks? He won’t read about anything but firetrucks.
Is chemotherapy an effective treatment for multiple sclerosis?
Do you have a book about condoms? I need to know who invented them.**
How do I know what size bra to buy?
How do you cure hams?
Was Rachel Carson married to Kit Carson?
How do you get to Gatesville, Texas?
How do you make cherry pie?
What did people eat in Victorian England?
What do you call the 125th anniversary of the founding of a city?
Is there a town called San Simon in Texas?
Do you have any stories with voices?
I need to know the names of some saints.
Do I have to wear a hat to a Catholic christening?
I need a list of scientists who’ve won the Nobel Prize.
What does the Federal Reserve do?
How many teeth does a giraffe have?
How do you make a Sally Lunn cake?
Where’s the book that was on that table the other day? It’s white.
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*Some of the above might be outside the official realm of the reference question. But they’re close.
*No, dear freshman boy, in this little school library in this conservative little town in this conservative big state, I do not have a book about who invented the condom, and I’m trying very hard not to guffaw while I tell you this. (And when the little school library became a little public library, I didn’t have a book about it then, either. But I had books that came close.)
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