Forsyth County Public Library: Do It Yourself: November 2025

The Bodyweight Blueprint: Over 70 Workouts to Achieve Your Training Goals
by Brad Kolowich Jr

The Bodyweight Blueprint offers over 70 simple and effective workouts, 86 exercises, and 39 stretches that rely on your weight instead of equipment. Regardless of age, fitness level, or experience, learn how to incorporate bodyweight exercises and build a more resilient body.

Creating a Modern Homestead: Traditional Skills for Real, Everyday Life
by Victoria Pruett

Learn the lost art of from-scratch cooking, practice food security by keeping a deep pantry, easily raise backyard chickens, experience the joy of growing your own food (even in a small space), preserve your own harvest by canning, freeze-drying, dehydrating, and more.

Be Prepared (20th Anniversary Edition): A Practical Handbook for New Dads
by Gary Greenberg

Fully updated for the digital age, the 20th anniversary edition of the bestselling Be Prepared is the must-have survival guide for men entering the trenches of fatherhood. Within these pages, you'll find all the tools you need to understand, nurture, and troubleshoot your tiny little sprout. Filled with hundreds of illustrations, helpful diagrams, and detailed instructions, Be Prepared is the ultimate guide for sleep-deprived, drool-encrusted fathers everywhere.

Craftland: In Search of Lost Arts and Disappearing Trades
by James Fox

Art historian and award-winning broadcaster Dr. James Fox explores the rapidly fading crafts and artisanal traditions of the world--such as coopering, basket-weaving, wheelwrighting, metalwork, and blacksmithing--that have shaped so much of our history through their alchemy of the hand-made human touch and generational wisdom.

For Dummies

Building DIY Websites for Dummies
by Jennifer DeRosa

Building DIY Websites For Dummies guides non-designers through the steps of creating an attractive and effective website using today's top web-based tools, no coding necessary. This book helps you launch or improve your website designed to boost your entrepreneurial endeavors, small business, or personal passion.

Essential Oils & Aromatherapy for Dummies
by Kathi Keville

In Essential Oils & Aromatherapy For Dummies you'll find simple and easy advice on everything from therapeutics to cosmetics, as well as the recreational use of essential oils. Internationally known herbalist and aromatherapist Kathi Keville offers straightforward remedies for dozens of common conditions you can use immediately to make yourself - or someone you love - feel better.

Welding for Dummies
by Steven Robert Farnsworth

This practical guide takes you from evaluating the material to be welded all the way through the step-by-step welding process, and everything in between. Plus, you'll get guidance on how to apply finishing techniques and advice on how to adhere to safety procedures. It explains each type of welding, including stick, tig, mig, and fluxcore welding, and required training and certification information.

Houseplants & Succulents for Dummies
by Steven A. Frowine

For new and seasoned plant owners alike, Houseplants & Succulents For Dummies is the ideal resource on plant care, growing cycles, unique plant varieties, and all the essentials you need to know about your rooted friends.