The Cat Who Brought Down The House by Lilian Jackson Braun
There's a lot going on in Pickax these days - a new film club has been founded, Koko the Siamese cat is making his stage debut in a musical revue to benefit animal rescue and five Amazon parrots have been abducted. To say nothing of a suspicious compulsive gambler lurking in the background.
The book on knitting doll clothes from PUPS to large. 40 original models: dresses, suits, jackets, coat, jacket with hood, vest, slippers, shawls, hats, ties, and also can decorate a dollhouse table cloth, mat, blanket and cradle for the others to each project is accompanied by illustrations and instructions schemes do not, so language skills required.
Althalus - burglar, armed robber and occasional murderer - is commissioned to steal a book by a mysterious cloaked stranger named Ghend. Althalus sets off to the House at the End of the World where the book is kept - after stealing Ghends cloak; after all, winter is coming on. At the House at the End of the World. in the same room as the book Ghend described, he finds a talking cat. What he can't find once he's in the house is the door by which he entered...
George Sylvester Viereck (1884 - 1962), remembered today chiefly for his contributions to fantasy literature, was born in Germany, emigrated to the United States with his family at age 11. He was editor of a magazine, The Fatherland, which advocated fair play for the Central Powers when World War I came out. The magazine quickly became very popular, reaching a circulation of 100,000, and changed its name to American Monthly when the US broke with Germany.
Democratic congressman Paul Latham's candidacy for Secretary of State ends in an uproar when he is accused of sexual harassment by a woman who winds up dead.
