Add creative flourishes to your handwritten notes, signs, or artwork by using the techniques in Harry Potter Hand Lettering! Learn to write the alphabets for all four Hogwarts houses, draw the official house crests, and even create a house crest of your own in this 176-page instruction book. You’ll find useful information on font selection, must-have supplies, practice techniques, and step-by-step directions that yield spectacular results. Spellbinding sections include Spells, Charms & Potions, Quidditch, and Magical Creatures, where you’ll learn how to draw your own creatures inspired by the Wizarding World and combine them with lettering to create amazing compositions. Plus there are plenty of blank pages for practice!

In The Book of Fun, Polygon co-founder Russ Frushtick divulges the hidden backstories and fascinating facts about your favorite video games, theme parks, festivals, sports, and more. With 80+ digestible, entertaining entries, it's not just fodder for your next dinner party -- you might also discover your next great pastime, be it jousting, stunt acting, cheese rolling, or Swedish Bunny Hopping. For fans of pop-history, pop-science, and the many things mankind has invented to waste time, The Book of Fun explores: * Board Games: The world's oldest tabletop games (Senet, Go, Chess) and its most enduringly popular (Monopoly, Dungeons & Dragons, Settlers of Catan) * Toys: The history of your favorite playthings, like Barbie, Beanie Babies, Slinky, Furby, and LEGO * Video Games: The console wars of the '90s, the birth of game streaming, and unexpected Pokemon Go consequences * Theme Parks: Stories behind Coney Island's Cyclone, Disneyland's opening-day woes, and the bizarre parks built in a nuclear power plant and a Soviet bunker * Sports: The most fascinating athletic endeavors across the globe, from gladiatorial battles to Lucha Libre, pumpkin boat racing, and sumo wrestling * Stunts: Harry Houdini, Evel Knievel, Jackie Chan, and the incredible stunt artists you may not know * Festivals: From Carnival celebrations around the world to the stories of Woodstock, Burning Man, and a Spanish baby-jumping festival * Dressing Up: The origins of jesters, Halloween, cosplay, drag queen style, and more. * Roadside Attractions: Wacky spectacles like the 65-foot-tall Lucy the Elephant in New Jersey, the Mystery Hole in West Virginia, and the Cabazon Dinosaurs in California

Use The Simple Art of Napkin Folding to duplicate those beautiful napkin folds you've admired at elegant restaurants and memorable events. It's easy with Linda Hetzer's detailed step-by-step directions and illustrations.  Using cloth or paper napkins, create standing triangular-shaped folds (the "Tavern") for dinner parties.  A few accordion pleats transforms a piece of cloth into the "Poinsettia." Need festive ideas for a children's birthday party?  Make "Sailboats" or "Paper Airplanes." Graduate to more intricate designs that combine napkins with silverware, flowers, and wineglasses.

Special features include

• A stain removal guide for heirloom linens and synthetic fabrics
• Easy-to-follow instructions for making napkin rings
• Graphs for embroidering initials on napkins
• Instructions for stenciling your own napkins

Filled with inspired ideas, The Simple Art of Napkin Folding turns any square of fabric into a work of art.

Southern folk pottery from pug mills, ash glazes, and groundhog kilns to face jugs, churns and roosters; mule swapping, chicken fighting, and more are included in this eighth volume.

This revised and expanded second edition of the bestselling The Game Console contains brand new content, with coverage of 50 more consoles, variants, and accessories in 50 added pages. The Game Console 2.0 is a gorgeous coffee table book for geeks and gamers that brings together highly detailed photos of more than 100 video game consoles and their electronic interiors spanning nearly five decades.

Quotes have the power to inspire us, crack us up, make us think twice - and sharing them only spreads the joy (just look at the virality of quote posts on Instagram, or the enormous success of The Stupidest Things Ever Said Page-A-Day Calendar). Now comes a compendium of funny, inspirational, and zany remarks with a twist - Who Said That? combines the pleasure of quotes with the fun of a multiple-choice trivia quiz. Here are hundreds of witticisms, musings, words of encouragement, and canny observations from iconic figures, philosophers, comedians, writers, and beyond - and each one comes with a list of four possible speakers. Each quiz also includes information about quote context and speakers. Divided by theme - from Aging to Motivation - Who Said That? is the perfect thing to bring to a party, or leave on a coffee table for an entertaining, actually-learn-something browse. Because even if you didn't know who Gore Vidal was referring to in this quote - 'A genius with the IQ of a moron.' (A. Andy Warhol, B. William F. Buckley, C. Norman Mailer, or D. Andy Kaufman?) - you'll never forget it now. Answers: A, C, A

With the internet focused intently on the Karen meme, two real­life Karens offer thoughts on how and when to be a Karen, and how and when to shut up. With short humorous articles covering a range of social situations, lists of dos and don’ts for anything from bring’n’braais to PTAs to the queue at Woolies, and quotes from wellknown local Karens such as Karen Zoid and Karen Meiring, this social satire also serves as a tongue­in­cheek etiquette guide. After all, sometimes you might actually need to speak to the manager.

Along with memes, humour and pop culture, the book explores how we go about lubricating the wheels of social interaction in a world that is big and wide and more diverse than any of us have space for in our daily lives

This innovative take on poker reimagines the classic card game as a fast and easy competition between friends. Each five-card hand is cut as a single card, letting players enjoy a quick hand or a speedy smack-down tournament. This compact and travel-friendly package comes with everything players need to swiftly get a game of poker going, wherever they are!

Popular artist Denyse Klette is back with another intricate, whimsical coloring book, Zendoodle Coloring Presents: Birds in the Forest. Let your imagination take flight in stunning color!

Delight in the fine art of coloring while you dance among flower-filled treetops with dozens of charismatic parrots, expressive owls, and colorful cockatoos. Imagine their cheerful chirps as you float along meandering rivers and nap on vine-wrapped branches with contented bears.

Lose yourself in the playful beauty of each hand-illustrated scene while you bring color and life to Birds in the Forest!

• Wander through a sanctuary of quirky birds with more than 60 enchanting illustrations
• Keep an eye out for mischievous friends from other coloring adventures
• Apply your artistic touch to each charming creature and peaceful scene

Our largest crossword puzzle book yet, it's stuffed with more than 300 easy to challenging puzzles. This huge puzzle collection is the perfect companion for crossword fans who can't get enough of these addicting pencil puzzlers. This mammoth collection starts with mildly tricky puzzles, then challenges readers with more difficult puzzles, all the way up to "Perplexing Puzzles." This book is sure to excite gamers of all ability levels, while helping to improve vocabulary, memory, and problem-solving skills.