Every year, the famous International Cheese Cook-Off brings together the finest mouse chefs from every corner of the globe. When someone threatens the competition, Basil is called to Paris to investigate.

"In 1836, to call attention to his upstate New York farming community, Colonel Thomas S. Meacham gives a mammoth wheel of cheese to President Andrew Jackson. But after a year, the big cheese is still around, causing a big stink in the White House"-- Provided by publisher.

Prickles the cat, who likes to keep a spotless home, insists that Squeeky the mouse oust the dust bunnies he has befriended before The Big Cheese returns and finds them.

Ever use the expression "the big cheese"? Perhaps a friend used that phrase to refer to you? Wonder who first used the expression . . . and why . . . and when? Well, read on, Say What? has the answers—along with fun-to-read histories of more than 100 expressions in common use today. Drawn from the popular CALLIOPE world history magazine for kids department "Fun With Words," Say What is a fascinating read and a great source of fun facts for

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Edward Paul Wellen (1919-2011) wrote primarily short stories throughout his long career, primarily in both the mystery field, but also (especially early in his career) in science fiction magazines. This is the second collection of his science fiction stories we have published, and it's another good one. Included are: ORIGINS OF GALACTIC LAW THE BIG CHEESE ROOT OF EVIL THE VOICES THE WORLD IN THE JUKE BOX THE SUPERSTITION SEEDERS ...

More than just your typical career guide, this book not only incorporates career advice but also helps you understand and more effectively deal with the stresses of going to work. Topics such as challenging performance standards, increased workloads, role conflicts, and the feeling of being caught in a maze are addressed in this unique book. The realities of work today include other challenges such as office politics, bad things happening to good...

IT'S AN UNDERCOVER ADVENTURE! When a remote island's rain forest is threatened by the greedy timber com pany Loggocorp, the Humans Who Know (that mice have evolved) develop a secret plan to save the forest. And they need all the help they can get from the Big Cheese, Trey, and their other friends in the Mouse Nation. First, the team must unravel a centuries-old mystery: Who actually owns the rain forest? The mission to find that person brings Megan...

"Middle-aged Englishman and B&B owner Richard Ainsworth is living a quiet life in the Val de Follet--and that's the way he likes it. His quiet routine is suddenly disrrupted when scandal erupts in the nearby town of Saint-Sauver by way of its famous restaurant being downgraded from three 'Michelin' stars to two. The restaurant is shamed, the town is in shock and the leading goat's cheese supplier drowns himself in one of his own pasteurisation tanks....

Newly arrived in 1938 Los Angeles, Maggie Goodwin aims to bust down the doors at Harley Studios and become their very first lady-animator. But, her iron-fisted boss can't abide the idea of a woman joining the ranks of his top-men and sends her off to the Paint and Ink Room to color-in with the rest of his girls. There, Maggie befriends an eye-rolling agitator with an axe to grind, a bottle-blonde broad with a penchant for jewels, and sets about proving...