The Book Elves...

...love a good New Year’s Eve bash, and surprisingly (shockingly) everything went quite well this year. The dancers and levitating tigers all performed without a hitch, nobody called the fire department when the bonfire flames soared above

treetop level, the fireworks went off when (and where) they were supposed to— and nobody from Homeland Security or the FBI showed up to investigate the debris field afterwards.

It was, in short, a completely successful party, a feat which is unprecedented in Book Elf history. Even the singer stayed away from the Book Elves’ ‘funny brownies’ long enough to perform a near-flawless, technically glitch-free set. Her equipment even all worked, which was astonishing really, since the Book Elves had picked it up dirt-cheap off the back of a truck in New York (it was all much-used and stenciled "Property of M. Carey").

Anyway, before they pulled off a great party without any (lasting) harm to anyone, the Book Elves finished our latest catalog—

“Catalog #368: The Orient”