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Shares recipes suitable for serving at social gatherings, including options for dips and breads, canapés, tea cakes, sandwiches, salads, and sweets.

delicious recipes to get the party started

Party food

The materials you need, the way to hold the hook, and directions for dozens of stitches: here is essential information for any newcomer to crochet. All of this and much more appear in this bountifully illustrated beginner’s guide. Start out learning the 3 basic crochet stitches and quickly move on to making geometric forms, lace patterns, edgings, and seams. By the time you’ve worked your way though the large selection of stitches and weaves, you’ll have mastered over 50 fundamental techniques.

A Complete Course

Crocheting School

Janice Eaton Kilby

Every sorcerer worth his wand knows you don't spend all your alone time making magic. You get together with friends to have fun, too! So the Wizard is sharing his tricks for throwing great theme parties and seasonal celebrations. Construct a Throne of the Realm for a Merlin's Birthday Parley, build a Merry Maypole for a Welcome Springtime Fairy Frolic, munch marvelous Mandrake Cupcakes, and much more!

In Which the Wizard Shares the Secrets of Creating Enchanted Gatherings

The Book of Wizard Parties

Gather close and let the Wizard tell you all of his secrets, for contained within these enchanting pages is everything you need to know to become the next great wizard, including directions for crafting a selection of marvelous gear, room decorations, concoctions, and good-luck spells. Use your special skills to make a hooded cloak as light as butterfly wings, an hourglass pendant for timing your potions, and your own homemade spell ingredients. Plus, the Wizard shares spine-tingling myths and legends of centuries past.

In Which the Apprentice Finds Spells, Potions, Fantastic Tales & 50 Enchanting Things to Make

The Book of Wizard Craft

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Puerto Rico in Pictures

Presents over five hundred and fifty basic and complex knitting stiches, which can be used to alter store-bought patterns or produce original designs.

Big Book of Knitting Stitch Patterns

Heather Quinlan

Don't rush to flush - have fun searching for words about astronomy, movies and monsters in 60 cool puzzle grids.

Word Searches

Sterling Publishing Co., Inc.

A child's first introduction to sports Game on! Perfect for parents to share with their toddlers, this simple board book introduces kids to very basic vocabulary associated with a favorite sport. The contemporary design features one word per page, a nice big photo, and a diverse selection of children in the pictures. Plus, the cover is appealingly tactile, with deep embossing and eye-catching spot gloss. Kids will grab hold of it again and again. From "hockey stick" to "GOAL!" this fun board book introduces toddlers to one of the most popular winter sports. Twenty words associated with the game--including "helmet," "puck," "goalie," and "slapshot"-- are paired with colorful photographs, and a bright, cheery design. Kids will feel all the excitement that takes place on the rink.

My First Hockey Book

Inc. Sterling Publishing Co.

Collects more than one hundred columns describing real-life love stories from "Cosmo girl" magazine.

Wild, Mushy, Hilarious Tales of Romance!

Crazy in Love

From Wonderland to a special secret garden, these tales are magical! For the first time, five of our most popular Classic Starts titles are available in paperback, packaged and shrink-wrapped in a beautifully designed, sturdy slipcase. Each all-time favorite novel is expertly abridged for easy reading and filled with all the enchantment that made the original story so beloved. Included are: Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass, Black Beauty, A Little Princess, Little Women, and The Secret Garden.

A Best-Loved Library

Classic Starts

Inc Sterling Publishing Co.

Sterling's successful "Scratch & Solve"(R) series has proven enormously popular, with "Hangman "selling over 400,000 copies to date. Now, fans of TRIVIAL PURSUIT(R) get their chance to improve their skills anywhere, anytime, with any number of people.It's simple: read the question, choose an answer, scratch off the circle next to that response, and see if you're right. And if not? Don't worry, because unlike other puzzle and game books, the fun's not over yet. Simply guess again and rub off another circle. The faster you pick correctly, the faster you rack up points. Best of all, you can either play alone or test yourself against someone else who also has the book. (c) 2007 Horn Abbot Ltd. and Horn Abbot International Limited. All rights reserved. The registered trademark TRIVIAL PURSUIT (R) and related proprietary rights are owned by Horn Abbot Ltd. and Horn Abbot International Limited. Used with permission.

TRIVIAL PURSUIT® Scratch and Play #1

A collection of over thiry accounts about ghosts and haunted houses.

Scary Stories for Campfires

Pamela Clark

A collection of elaborate cake recipes provides instructions for decorators of any skill level, offering step-by-step photographs that lay out the mechanics of decorating for a variety of special-occasion cakes and cupcakes.

Beautifully Decorated Cakes from Easy to Experienced to Expert

Decorating Cakes

It's love at first sight! Celebrate the cuteness of affectionate puppies and kittens as they cuddle, snuggle and tussle mischievously. Who knows - these endearing animals may even give humans some romantic ideas!

How Cute Puppies Meet

Puppy Love

Use it or lose it! Crosswords and other mind-flexing puzzles can perform an anatomical impossibility: They keep the brain on its toes! Stay mentally fit and max out your mind with these marvelous crosswords, created in association with AARP. The perfect brain-bending workout, they test your smarts on vocabulary and classic knowledge, not hip-hop allusions or esoteric clues. The puzzles feature an easy-to-read font, inviting solvers to dive right in on deciphering the clues. Each collection features 50 great puzzles in a spiral-bound book that lies flat as you solve.

Incredible Crosswords to Keep You Sharp

These beautiful Japanese papers will inspire you to create dozens of origami masterpieces. With instructions included for folding a crane and a masu box (a square box for measuring rice), you'll be hooked on this popular hobby in no time. In addition to 250 sheets of colorful papers in 16 traditional patterns, there are black-and-white patterned papers to color and fold. Book includes: - More than 250 sheets of beautiful origami paper in 16 traditional Japanese patterns - Basic folding instructions, hints, and illustrated instructions for folding a crane and a masu box

More Than 250 Sheets of Origami Paper in 16 Traditional Patterns

Japanese Origami Paper Pack

Offers a detailed study of the anatomical structure of the human body, and provides tips on motion, proportion, and shading the figures.

Art of Drawing the Human Body

Adam Ward

There's nothing more special to a little girl than her best friends--they giggle together, whisper secrets in each other's ear, and now they have a book that's all about them. Each friend gets two pages all her own, to write her address, birthday, pets, favorite teacher and book, and lots more. There's even space for a photo. Every spread is decorated with pastel drawings of animal pals that will really appeal to kids. It will be a favorite at sleepovers, parties, play dates--any time friends get together to have a good time. 32 pages (all in color), 7 7/8 x 10 5/8.

My Best Friends

Conceptis Puzzles

Easy-to-learn, addictive, and language-free sudokos have taken the world by storm—people just can’t seem to get enough of the endless fun and intellectual entertainment they provide. But here’s something to help mavens sate their sudoku hunger: rip-out puzzles so fans can always get their fix whenever they feel the need. An introduction shows newcomers eager to get in on the craze how sudoku works, and also offers some smart solving tips, from scanning to quickly eliminating certain numbers. There’s even some invaluable advanced advice for handling the super-challenging brainbusters. (And there are some of those in the pad, too!) Start easy, and work your way up to the harder ones as you go along.

Sudoku on the Flip Side

SHAZAAM! The 600-year-old Wizard is back--and he wants YOU to become his apprentice. So gather your bag of tricks and keep the magic going by learning an international array of show-stopping sleights of hand. Show off with The Card that Changes Its Spots; then change one thing into another; make objects fly, defy gravity, zip invisibly from one spot to another; and more!

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