Holiday Bazaar
May 2010
Alfred Zector, Book Collector
By Kelly DiPucchio
Harper Collins Publishers
“In his warm, weathered house, stuffed in crannies and nooks, were heaps, rows, and stacks
of beloved bound books.” This rhyming story has a quickening pace as Alfred collects all the
books in town and must have them all, even trading one for his bike! As he grows older (and
his pet turtle grows old too), he has every book he could want, but something is missing.
“Surrounded by friends, Alfred Zector declared, the best kinds of books are the books that are
shared.”
A River in the Sky
By Elizabeth Peters
Harper Collins Publishers
In this thrilling mystery, Elizabeth Peters shows off her PhD in Egyptology. Although
recently banned from the area, Amelia Peabody is persuaded to go back to Palestine and help
in the search for vanished treasures, including the Ark of the Covenant. Pulling together the
three major religions, Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, Elizabeth Peters sets her characters
on a path to prevent a bloody holy war in her beloved Egypt, a politically volatile land.
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