When acclaimed Washington Post writer Wil Haygood had an early hunch that Obama would win the 2008 election, he thought he'd highlight the singular moment by exploring the life of someone who had come of age when segregation was so widespread, so embedded in the culture, as to make the very thought of a black president inconceivable. He struck gold when he tracked down Eugene Allen, a butler who had served no fewer than eight presidents, from Harry...

With the help of alley cat Tom O'Malley, a family of Parisian cats set to inherit a fortune from their owner try to make it back home after the greedy butler kidnaps them and leaves them in the country.

"The moment the plane touched down at Ministro Pistorini Airport in Buenos Aires, Joachim von Hartmann knew in every fiber of his being that he was home. It was almost as if his heart and soul, and even his body, knew it. He had left as a boy of seventeen, twenty-five years before, when he moved to France with his mother, and new French stepfather. Eight years later, he went to England on a lark, which turned into a worthy career for the past seventeen...

"Yukiharu Izumi just wants one thing--to be a normal high school student. But homeless, penniless, and with nobody else to rely on, he finds himself begging on his knees in front of...shape-shifting cats? They're willing to take him in--but only if he waits on their every whim. And so start his chaotic days as the catlords' manservant!"--Provided by publisher.