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Crafty Books for Holiday Gift Making and Ideas
Calling all crafters and non-crafters! Find 27 books of inspiration for what to make or get your friends, neighbors, and family this holiday season. Read on for at-home kids activities, ideas for gifts, and titles for specialized crafters interested in fabric arts, beauty products, beading, knitting, paper arts, and more. Most hands-on crafting making titles in the Lake Forest Library can be found around the 745 and 746 area of the Arts Room, with select titles on this list that are found elsewhere.
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New Fiction
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The Witching Tree -
The Ballerinas -
W. E. B. Griffin Rogue Asset by Andrews & Wilson -
Criminal Mischief -
The Winter Guest -
Sea Hawke -
Oh William! -
The Becoming -
The Postmistress of Paris -
Wish You Were Here -
Songs in Ursa Major -
Then She Vanishes -
Meadowlark -
Shallow Waters -
Crown of Cinders -
A Heart Divided -
Activation Degradation -
The Sentence -
Now Beacon, Now Sea -
Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone -
Five Tuesdays in Winter -
Clive Cussler's The Devil's Sea -
Shadow Life -
Notes from the Burning Age -
The Ninth Metal -
Legacy of Light -
Forgiven -
The Lincoln Highway -
Harlem Shuffle -
The Madness of Crowds -
Matrix -
An Indian Among Los Indígenas -
Half Sick of Shadows -
The Dark Net
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We Are Satellites -
Cici's Journal -
First, Become Ashes -
Day Zero -
Honeycomb -
The Night Tiger -
Shadowed Steel -
Semiosis -
The Haunting of Tram Car 015 -
Record of a Spaceborn Few -
An Unkindness Of Ravens -
Murder on Wall Street -
Dead of Winter -
The Whispering House -
Firefly: Blue Sun Rising Vol. 1 -
Afterlift -
Castle Skull -
A Fatal Lie -
Dead Even -
The Queen's Weapons -
Beneath the Keep -
Reflection -
The Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry -
The Mask Falling -
The Berlin Girl -
Magpie Lane -
Ocean Prey -
The Kindest Lie -
Fresh Water for Flowers -
The Committed -
Tales from the Umbrella Academy: You Look Like Death Volume 1 -
Snapdragon -
Murder at the Mena House -
Knock Knock -
Windhall -
Smoke -
Unfiltered Marketing -
The Mask of Mirrors -
Winter's Orbit -
Remote Control -
The Witch's Heart -
We Could Be Heroes -
The Lost Apothecary -
Klara and the Sun -
The Kitchen Front -
Ocean Prey
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Of Literature and Lattes -
Fangirl, Vol. 1 -
A Side of Murder -
Nighthawking -
An Extravagant Death -
Blood of Elves -
Bright and Dangerous Objects -
The Dark Archive -
Sleep Well, My Lady -
Bloodline -
The House on Vesper Sands -
Bait and Witch -
The Burning God -
Before the Coffee Gets Cold -
King of the Rising -
Sea Wife -
The Short, the Long and the Tall -
The Talented Miss Farwell -
The Low, Low Woods (Hill House Comics) -
Justice League: The Darkseid War (DC Essential Edition) -
Lazarus -
Olive Bright, Pigeoneer -
The House on Vesper Sands -
Death at a Country Mansion -
How to Raise an Elephant -
D (A Tale of Two Worlds) -
Armada -
The Awakening -
This Time Next Year -
The Law of Innocence -
Perestroika in Paris -
Cardiff, by the Sea -
Plunge (Hill House Comics) -
Wonder Woman: Dead Earth -
The Wicked Hour -
The Night of the Fire -
Snowdrift -
Cold Wind -
To Sleep in a Sea of Stars -
Our Dark Duet -
The Trouble with Goats and Sheep -
The Awakening
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Armada
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The Traveller and Other Stories -
The Lightness -
The Secret French Recipes of Sophie Valroux -
The Death of Vivek Oji -
The Thursday Murder Club -
The Book of Lamps and Banners -
And Now She's Gone -
He Started It -
The End of the Day -
Chosen Ones -
Burning Roses -
Sucker Punch -
Battle Ground -
Goldilocks -
Transcendent Kingdom -
The Lying Life of Adults -
Squeeze Me -
The Exiles -
Troubled Blood -
Anxious People -
One by One -
All the Devils Are Here -
Burn -
A Peculiar Peril -
Burn Our Bodies Down -
Three Hours in Paris -
Hit List -
A Good Neighborhood -
Walk the Wire -
Redhead by the Side of the Road -
Masked Prey -
Simon the Fiddler -
Godshot -
One Fatal Flaw -
The Book of Lost Friends -
The Outsider -
Leverage in Death -
Inland -
Alternate Side -
Field of Bones -
Things You Save in the Fire -
Florida -
I Owe You One -
Ask Again, Yes -
Grist Mill Road -
A Place for Us -
Never Tell -
The New Iberia Blues -
Hellbent -
CIRCE -
The Age of Light -
Big Bang -
The Great Alone -
The Favorite Sister -
The Border -
The War Outside -
The 17th Suspect -
There There -
The Chef -
Criss Cross -
After Anna -
The Great Believers -
The Girl in the Glass Box -
The Confession Club -
The Family Gathering -
Conan Doyle for the Defense -
The Huntress -
The Revisioners -
Twenty-One Days -
Lake Success -
The Lost Man -
The Starless Sea -
The Female Persuasion -
Crudo -
A Better Man -
The Accomplice -
Adjustment Day -
Your Duck Is My Duck -
Contraband -
The Andromeda Evolution -
The Perfect Mother -
Transcription -
The Last Widow -
The Family Upstairs -
High Tide Club -
The Wildlands -
The Return of the Key -
A Christmas Gathering -
Love and Ruin -
Ponti: A Novel -
The Nickel Boys -
The Other Lady Vanishes -
My Struggle -
Chances Are ...
New Nonfiction
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Run -
Murder Book -
Leonard Cohen -
A Sailor, A Chicken, An Incredible Voyage -
Midnight in Washington -
Brothers in Arms -
Watching Darkness Fall -
Bright Lights, Prairie Dust -
Imperfect Democracies -
Pure Narco -
Boys Enter the House -
Atlas of the Heart -
Everything I Have Is Yours -
Pessoa: A Biography -
Cheated -
The Gallery of Miracles and Madness: Insanity, Art and Hitler’s first Mass-Murder Programme -
Frank L. Wright and the Architects of Steinway Hall -
Power, for All -
Good Business -
The Contrarian -
The Complete Guide to ETF Portfolio Management: The Essential Toolkit for Practitioners -
Gold, Oil and Avocados -
Being You -
Being a Human -
Courage Is Calling -
Call Us What We Carry -
The New York Times Book Review -
The New Yale Book of Quotations -
Around the World in 80 Books -
The Age of AI -
The House of Fragile Things -
A Land As God Made It -
The American Story -
The Way She Feels: My Life on the Borderline in Pictures and Pieces -
Menopause -
The End of Bias: A Beginning -
The Genome Defense -
Justice on the Brink: The Death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Rise of Amy Coney Barrett, and Twelve Months That Transformed the Supreme Court -
How the Other Half Eats -
We're Going to Need More Wine -
The Cost of Living -
The Two Kinds of Decay -
The Next Everest -
A Spectator Is an Artist Too -
Glory Days -
Flamin' Hot -
Let Them Lead -
Go Where There Is No Path -
Happy Not Perfect -
The No-Nonsense Meditation Book -
The Extended Mind -
Mental Floss: The Curious Reader -
What Just Happened -
Baggage -
These Precious Days -
Orwell's Roses -
How to Live. What to Do -
The Sinner and the Saint -
Graceland, at Last -
Cranial Fracking -
When You Wonder, You're Learning -
The Survival Guide for Kids with Autism Spectrum Disorders (And Their Parents) -
The Art of Preserving -
At the Chinese Table -
Seed to Dust -
The Ecological Gardener -
Sitting in the Shade -
Horse Girls -
The Ultimate Guide to Running with Your Dog -
What Is a Dog? -
Counting Down with You -
We Have Always Been Here -
Million Dollar Demon -
Mean...moody...magnificent! -
Sometimes I Trip on How Happy We Could Be -
Things I Learned From Falling -
Inside Pee-Wee's Playhouse -
Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades Revisited -
Boyz N the Void -
The Digital Darkroom -
Unraveled -
Payoff -
The Genius Zone -
A Radical Awakening -
Full Spectrum -
A River Runs Again -
In a Different Key -
Between Hope and Fear -
Growing Flowers -
How to Catch a Mole -
How to Cook That -
Zoë Bakes Cakes -
Sweet Nature -
Poole's -
Paris Without Her -
Mean...moody...magnificent!
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I Ain't Studdin' Ya -
Fierce Poise -
Nöthin' But a Good Time -
What Made Maddy Run -
The Ultimate Guide to Hiking -
How Boards Work -
Be Exceptional -
Addiction by Design -
The Truth About Lies -
Full Spectrum
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Body Talk -
Heart of Fire -
Paris Without Her
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Lilyville -
Rethinking Competitive Advantage -
Risk Management -
Believe IT -
The Lost Art of Doing Nothing -
The Inevitable -
Notes on Grief -
Between Hope and Fear
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On Extinction -
The Plague Cycle -
The Premonition -
Letter to a Young Female Physician: Notes from a Medical Life -
Come on Over -
The No-Fuss Family Cookbook -
World Travel -
Poole's
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Mother Grains -
The New Enlightenment and the Fight to Free Knowledge -
Give Them Lala -
Sacrifice -
The Price of Peace -
Women in White Coats -
Get Big Things Done -
The Carrot Principle -
The Reindeer Chronicles -
Every Conversation Counts -
Wintering -
The Way of Integrity -
The Quarter-Life Breakthrough -
How to Do the Work -
Bringing Up Race -
Fourteen Talks by Age Fourteen -
Driven -
Thomas Day -
The Miracle of Castel Di Sangro -
The Mighty Bean: 100 Easy Recipes That Are Good for Your Health, the World, and Your Budget (Countryman Know How) -
Kill Shot -
Vaccines Did Not Cause Rachel's Autism -
How to Be Animal -
How to Feel -
What Do I Eat Now? -
Marbles -
The Secret to Superhuman Strength -
The Comic Book Guide to Growing Food -
Hard Line -
Murder at the Mission -
The Wisdom of Crowds -
We Are Each Other's Harvest -
The Art of Punch Needle Embroidery -
Runner's World Run Less Run Faster -
The Musical Human -
Light in the Dark -
Atlas of a Lost World -
Bee People and the Bugs They Love -
Brave Green World -
Into the Deep -
Ida B. the Queen -
Mixed Plate -
Think Like a Breadwinner -
Resetting the Table -
Don't Go Broke in Retirement -
One Decision -
When Nietzsche Wept -
This Book Will Make You Kinder -
My Houseplant Changed My Life -
SAM -
Liftoff -
When Your Child Has a Chronic Medical Illness -
My House Is Killing Me! -
The Food of Oaxaca -
Oasis -
The New York Times Cooking No-Recipe Recipes -
Simplicity at Home -
And Now I Spill the Family Secrets
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Our Team -
The Oak Park Studio of Frank Lloyd Wright -
My Year Abroad -
The Iconic American House -
Brave Green World
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Children Under Fire -
Quantum Reality -
The Wise Men -
Under Our Roof -
Betting on You -
Kings of Crypto -
The Devil You Know -
Black Boy Out of Time -
Hello, Habits: A Minimalist's Guide to a Better Life -
I'm Judging You -
Like Streams to the Ocean -
The Complete Practical Woodworker -
Wild Sweetness -
Beautiful Salads -
The Last Course -
Already Toast -
The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine -
Breath Taking -
Stampede -
Blood and Treasure -
Let's Pretend This Never Happened -
And Now I Spill the Family Secrets
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The Black Panther Party -
Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction -
Life's Edge -
The Dialogues -
Space Atlas -
Hole in My Life -
Comeback Season -
Star Wars: Knitting the Galaxy -
Empowered Embroidery -
Abstract Art -
Your Fully Charged Life -
The Happiness Hypothesis -
Be My Guest -
Julian Bond's Time to Teach -
The Unusual Suspect -
How to Fight Racism: Courageous Christianity and the Journey Toward Racial Justice -
The IPO Playbook -
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Book -
The Best of Me -
Plunder -
The Girl Explorers -
Grace & Steel -
What's My Teenager Thinking -
Parenting While Working from Home -
What Cats Want -
In Praise of Walking -
The End of Illness -
Eat Smarter -
Decluttering For Dummies -
Mend it, Wear it, Love it! -
Sewing Face Masks, Scrub Caps, Arm Slings, and More -
The Great British Baking Show -
100 Cookies -
Homemade Yogurt & Kefir -
The Book Tour -
Into the Streets -
Math Without Numbers -
Extraterrestrial -
What Is Life?: Five Great Ideas in Biology -
Probable Impossibilities -
The Spirit of Music -
Crossing the Line -
42 Today -
Dog's Best Friend -
How to Sleep -
The Future of Nutrition -
Yoga Where You Are -
The Growing Season -
How to Attract Birds to Your Garden -
Adventures in Eden -
The Great British Baking Show
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The Flavor Equation -
Even Better Brownies -
The Man Who Ate Too Much: The Life of James Beard -
Consent -
American Wolf -
Set the World on Fire -
Code Name: Lise -
The Leader's Guide to Unconscious Bias -
Loved and Wanted -
We Gather Together -
Creativity -
How to Have Impossible Conversations -
Magic: A History -
Sunny Rolls the Dice -
The World Between Blinks #1 -
Stuck -
The Anxiety First Aid Kit -
White Hot Light -
Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds -
Wear, Repair, Repurpose -
At Home with Dogs -
The Art of Training Your Dog -
The Rise -
Eat a Peach -
Pie Academy -
Chaat -
The Vegucated Family Table -
Ottolenghi Flavor -
The Book on Pie -
Solutions and Other Problems -
Notes on a Thesis -
Wild Minds -
Craft Your Own Happy -
Mini Amigurumi Animals -
From Hang Time to Prime Time -
Our Livable World -
The Grizzly in the Driveway -
Black Hole Survival Guide -
Fossils and Fossil Collecting, the Illustrated Guide To -
Wake Up Grateful -
The Secret Gratitude Book -
Happiness Becomes You -
The Crown in Crisis -
Dog Flowers -
The Night Lake -
Happiness in This Life -
The Little Book of Life Skills -
Sewing Machine Reference Tool -
Darning -
Cooking for One -
FOOD52 Your Do-Anything Kitchen -
Christmas Baking -
The Front Steps Project -
Can't Slow Down -
The Mutant Project -
Future Sea -
Mudlarking -
Eleanor -
The Loop -
Mediocre -
Unsinkable -
Wintering -
Let Me Tell You What I Mean -
Cult Writers -
25 Great Sentences and How They Got That Way -
Oak Flat -
What Cats Want -
Punch Needle Embroidery for Beginners -
Adventures in Eden
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Rugged Access for All -
The 99% Invisible City -
Metazoa -
Ghostways -
Fossil Men -
A Series of Fortunate Events -
The Zealot and the Emancipator -
Begin Again -
Agent Sonya -
When You're Not OK -
This Just Speaks to Me -
Magic: A History -
Good Guys -
Subprime Attention Crisis -
A Good Time to Be Born: How Science and Public Health Gave Children a Future -
Relax and Renew -
Storey's Curious Compendium of Practical and Obscure Skills -
Simply Living Well -
Pieometry -
New World Sourdough -
Winging It: Stop Thinking, Start Doing -
Better, Not Perfect -
Craigslist Confessional -
Conditional Citizens -
This Is All I Got -
Good Time Party Girl -
Brag Better -
Power Your Profits -
Dying for an IPhone -
Lonely Planet's Ultimate Travel List 2 -
The Daughters of Yalta -
Is This Anything? -
Stakes Is High -
Cross of Snow -
Fictive Fathers in the Contemporary American Novel -
A Fish Growing Lungs -
Here We Are -
The Fifth Risk -
Caste -
An American Summer -
Being Mortal -
Between the World and Me -
Superman's Not Coming -
His Truth Is Marching On -
The Smallest Lights in the Universe -
A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes -
Vesper Flights -
Beauty in the Broken Places -
Successful Aging -
Dark Towers -
Open Book -
You're Not Listening -
My Wife Said You May Want to Marry Me -
Do Nothing -
The Splendid and the Vile -
Our House Is on Fire -
This Is Big -
Joy at Work -
Build Your Dream Network -
Crushing It! -
The Perfectionists -
Girl, Stop Apologizing -
Barnum -
Calypso -
Zucked -
The Book of Delights -
The Year of Less -
Becoming -
Carrie Fisher: A Life on the Edge -
The Monk of Mokha -
Sick -
Gmorning, Gnight! -
Dear Girls -
Tell Me More -
And Then We Danced -
Homebody -
All Blood Runs Red -
When -
Small Fry -
Dare to Lead -
Finding Chika -
Brave -
Fashion Climbing -
Parkland -
Edison -
Everything Happens for a Reason -
The Real Lolita -
The Bold World -
Blink -
The Spy and the Traitor -
The Source of Self-Regard -
Facism -
Dopesick -
Coventry -
The Girl Who Smiled Beads -
Billion Dollar Whale -
How to Be an Antiracist -
Rocket Men -
The Poison Squad -
Into the Planet -
Look Alive Out There -
The Good Neighbor -
Travel Light, Move Fast -
The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind -
The Comeback -
The Last Ocean -
How to Change Your Mind -
A Very Late Story -
Vern Yip's Vacation at Home -
Robin -
Shoot for the Moon -
Amazing Decisions
New Movies
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Driveways -
The Truffle Hunters -
Blithe Spirit -
12 Mighty Orphans -
A Dark Foe -
City of Lies -
The Suicide Squad -
Don't Breathe 2 -
Free Guy -
Here Today -
In the Heights -
Joe Bell -
Old -
Peter Rabbit 2 -
Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins -
Those Who Wish Me Dead -
The Protege -
Stillwater -
French Exit -
The Courier -
Lady of the Manor -
Son of the South -
Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar -
Judas and the Black Messiah -
The Little Things -
The Marksman -
Nomadland -
The Nest -
Our Friend -
The Mauritanian -
The Informer -
Above Suspicion -
Supernova -
Guest Artist -
Misbehavior -
A Rainy Day in New York -
Honest Thief -
Bad Education -
Mulan -
The Irishman -
Made in Italy -
Unhinged -
The Times of Bill Cunningham -
Midway -
Richard Jewell -
Bombshell -
1917 -
The Turkey Bowl -
Pain and Glory -
Joker -
Parasite -
The Mustang -
The Art of Racing in the Rain -
Hotel Mumbai -
The Art of Self Defense -
Killers Anonymous -
Yesterday -
Book Club -
The Hustle -
Operation Finale -
Tolkien -
Vice -
The Command (Kursk) -
If Beale Street Could Talk -
Styx -
Mary Poppins Returns -
Armstrong -
Free Solo -
Rocketman -
Dragged Across Concrete -
The Biggest Little Farm -
On the Basis of Sex -
The Professor and the Madman -
The Mule -
Red Joan -
Apollo 11 -
Deadwood -
Isn't It Romantic -
Wild Rose -
They Shall Not Grow Old -
Where'd You Go, Bernadette -
Fighting with My Family -
The Farewell
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User Guide
Getting Started with the LinkedIn Learning app
How to access
| ⬤ | App available, search for "linkedin learning" in your app store |
| ⬤ | Works on iOS, Android, smartphones, tablets ... just install the app |
| ⬤ | Works in computer browser |