Books of Entertaining

  • 20 Party Tricks: To Amuse and Amaze Your Friends
    20 Party Tricks: To Amuse and Amaze Your Friends
    By Sophie Blackall

    Provides instructions for performing such tricks as floating the needle, the rising pushpin, exchanging wine for water, and bottling a hard-boiled egg This illustrated and easy to follow guide is the perfect gift for hosts wishing to stage ...

  • Twenty Party Tricks: To Amuse and Amaze Your Friends
    Twenty Party Tricks: To Amuse and Amaze Your Friends
    By Leith Hillard, Timothy King

    This is the book most people will keep hidden lest others learn the secret of their tricks.

  • Quick and Easy Menus for Entertaining: Secrets of a Savvy Cook
    Quick and Easy Menus for Entertaining: Secrets of a Savvy Cook
    By Andy King

    This menu-based cookbook presents 20 memorable meals that can be prepared quickly and easily. Not for men only, this cookbook will enable any busy person to entertain with style with...

  • Invitations
    Invitations
    By Marc Friedland

    BLANK ABONNE NICOLAS CAGE LE CHOW SOFA COPRON PHILIP CONVINS DA DEL DOSORIOS KARED HOST COMMITTEE THINK FORBIDDEN THOUGHTS GRANO MARC FRODEAND MINE GARE SUSE GUES WTFL MADO DEN MACY KINEMC MEDINA ROSO DONO TON PACHETE TO PETERS BRAN ...

  • Entertaining
    By Karen O'Connor

    A guide to inexpensive entertaining including choosing guests, planning the menu, and coping with the unexpected.

  • Party & Table Decorations
    Party & Table Decorations
    By Susy Smith, Karen Lansdown, Suzie Major

    D. Cut out the shape using sharp scissors . Join each set of lips together ... First , make a holly pattern from paper and use this to cut out two pieces of green felt and one of wadding for every sprig . Place two felt pieces together ...

  • Madam Piccolo
    By Mary, Kaila Kukla, McLoughlin

    Madam Piccolo

  • Hospitality Clues for the Clueless
    Hospitality Clues for the Clueless
    By Christopher D. Hudson

    ... something you learned in a class you're taking which leads into a discussion about the vacation you have planned over Christmas break which happens to be right around the New Year which sparks a conversation about the millennium .

  • Body Games
    By Robin Smith

    Body Games

  • New York Part-ease: A Directory of Party Sources
    New York Part-ease: A Directory of Party Sources
    By Patricia Smith Lefkowitz, Joy Stern Zimmer

    New York Part-ease: A Directory of Party Sources

  • The Georgetown Ladies' Social Club: Power, Passion, and Politics in the Nation's Capital
    The Georgetown Ladies' Social Club: Power, Passion, and Politics in the Nation's Capital
    By Clemens David Heymann

    A portrait of the political and social life of Georgetown cites the influence of such women as Katharine Graham, Lorraine Cooper, and Sally Quinn, while offering insight into Washington life in the late twentieth century.

  • A Passion for Parties: Your Guide to Elegant Entertaining
    A Passion for Parties: Your Guide to Elegant Entertaining
    By Laura Morton, David Tutera

    A guide to party planning shows how to select invitations, themes, menus, table settings, music, lighting, flowers, and decor for weddings, holiday parties, formal dinners, and cocktail parties.

  • How to Have Fun with Your Body
    How to Have Fun with Your Body
    By Michael Lester, Susan Subtle

    An exhaustive compendium of every silly party trick using the human body, whether to dazzle friends or humiliate relatives. 120 black-and-white photographs, illustrations.

  • Entertaining Fast and Fresh
    Entertaining Fast and Fresh
    By Susan E. Mitchell

    Entertaining Fast and Fresh

  • B. Smith: Rituals & Celebrations
    B. Smith: Rituals & Celebrations
    By Barbara Smith

    If you smell cork , the cork has disintegrated . 1 Look at the color of the wine . Hold the glass at the stem , not the bowl , so you won't get fingerprints on the glass and cloud your view , and so the warmth of your hand doesn't ...

  • Creative Hospitality
    Creative Hospitality
    By Nancy L. Van Pelt

    Colorful ribbon by the bolt adds a festive accent to a table centerpiece . Around a centerpiece of shiny red Christmas ornaments I wind yards and yards of two - inch plain Christmas ribbon , allowing it to fall as it may off the bolt to ...

  • Secrets of Entertaining from America's Best Innkeepers
    Secrets of Entertaining from America's Best Innkeepers
    By Gail Greco

    An encyclopedic treasury of helpful hints on decorating, entertaining, and renovation for the homeowner or the would-be country inn owner, compiled from the collective wisdom of hundreds of inn proprietors....

  • Parties, Parties
    Parties, Parties
    By Fran Chiles

    ... of turkey “ heart of Texas style , ” 68 Local foods and life styles , 10 , 36 Loire wine , 89 London beef roll , 86 Longmire , Barbara , 75 Lundelius , Lynn and Charles , 9 Lydick , Maurine and Joe , 48 M Hors d'oeuvres ( cont . ) ...

  • Instant Parties
    Instant Parties
    By Luann Grosscup, Jo O'Connor Tazelaar

    PROPS AND DÉCOR Even we could not begin to improve upon the backdrop of a full moon , starpeppered sky , and night filled with fireflies . MUSIC Bring a boom box or use your car's sound system . Choose music that transports you to a ...

  • The Complete Idiot's Guide to Entertaining
    The Complete Idiot's Guide to Entertaining
    By Holly Collins, Thomas Randleman

    Offers advice on choosing party themes, menus, equipping the kitchen, stocking the bar, recipes, and selecting, buying, or renting glassware, linen, and equipment