The Private Life of the Cat Who...: Tales of Koko and Yum Yum from the Journal of James Mackintosh Qwilleran

Lilian Jackson Braun. G. P. Putnam's Sons, $10.95 (123pp) ISBN 978-0-399-15132-3

Feline fanciers will purr over The Private Life of the Cat Who...: Tales of Koko and Yum Yum from the Journals of James Mackintosh Qwilleran, by Lilian Jackson Braun, author of The Cat Who Brought Down the House (Forecasts, Dec. 16, 2002) and two dozen other titles in her best-selling cozy series. These anecdotal sketches include some enchanting verse.

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