David Handler (aka 1/2 of Russell Andrews w/Peter Gethers) Handler started his career as a New York journalist and writes two series: one about a film critic and the other about a celebrity ghostwriter and, for all of you dog lovers, his neurotic Basset Hound. http://www.cozy-mystery.com/Author_H.html

Russell Andrews is a pseudonym used by book editor Peter Gethers and mystery author David Handler. http://authors.omnimystery.com/andrews-russell.html

Norton, The Loveable Cat Who Travelled the World by Peter Gethers
Peter Gethers hates cats. That is until he meets Norton, a very cute, very friendly Scottish Fold kitten. Soon Peter and Norton are inseparable, travelling together on trains and boats, in planes and cars all over the world! Eating at restaurants, making new friends and meeting famous movie stars - read all about these and Norton's other real-life adventures in this wonderful true story.
http://nayusreadingcorner.blogspot.com/2011/05/norton-loveable-cat-who-travelled-world.html

catawampus (kat-uh-WOM-puhs) adjective
1. Askew; crooked.
2. Diagonally positioned: catercornered.
From cater (diagonally), from French word quatre (four). Ultimately from the Indo-European root kwetwer- (four), which also gave us four, square, cadre, quadrant, quarantine (literally, period of forty days). Earliest documented use: 1840. The word is also spelled as cattywampus.
syzygy (SIZ-uh-jee) noun
1. An alignment of three objects, for example, sun, moon, and earth during an eclipse.
2. A pair of related things.
From Latin syzygia, from Greek syzygia (union, pair). Ultimately from the Indo-European root yeug- (to join), which is also the ancestor of junction, yoke, yoga, adjust, juxtapose, rejoinder, jugular, and junta. Earliest documented use: 1656.
yob (yob) noun
A rude, rowdy youth.
Coined by reversing the spelling of the word boy. Earliest documented use: 1859.
There are not a lot of words in the English language that are coined from the backward spelling of another word. Another example is mho, the unit of electrical conductance, coined by reversing ohm, the unit of resistance. Fiction writers sometimes come up with names for their characters by spelling another name or word backwards.
spendthrift (SPEND-thrift) noun
A person who spends money wastefully.
adjective: Wasteful with money.
A spendthrift is, literally, one who spends his wealth, from Middle English thrift (prosperity), from Old Norse thrifast (to thrive), from thrifa (to grasp). Earliest documented use: 1601. Spendthrift is the longest word whose phonetic and normal spellings are the same. Two colorful synonyms of this word are dingthrift and scattergood. A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg

Erewhon: or, Over the Range is a novel by Samuel Butler, published anonymously in 1872. The title is also the name of a country, supposedly discovered by the protagonist. In the novel, it is not revealed in which part of the world Erewhon is, but it is clear that it is a fictional country. Butler meant the title to be read as the word Nowhere backwards, even though the letters "h" and "w" are transposed, therefore Erewhon is anagram of nowhere. The first few chapters of the novel, dealing with the discovery of Erewhon, are in fact based on Butler's own experiences in New Zealand where, as a young man, he worked as a sheep farmer for about four years (1860–1864) and explored parts of the interior of the South Island. One of the country's largest sheep stations, located near where Butler lived, is named "Erewhon" in his honour. In the preface to the first edition of his book, Butler specified: The author wishes it to be understood that Erewhon is pronounced as a word of three syllables, all short — thus, E-re-whon. Nevertheless, the word is occasionally pronounced with two syllables as 'air - one'. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erewhon

After a local farmer left a bowl of eggs on Joe Hutto’s front porch, his life was forever changed. Hutto, possessing a broad background in the natural sciences and an interest in imprinting young animals, incubated the eggs and waited for them to hatch. As the chicks emerged from their shells, they locked eyes with an unusual but dedicated mother. Deep in the wilds of Florida’s Flatlands, Hutto spent each day living as a turkey mother, taking on the full-time job of raising sixteen turkey chicks. Hutto dutifully cared for his family around the clock, roosting with them, taking them foraging, and immersing himself in their world. In the process, they revealed their charming curiosity and surprising intellect. There was little he could teach them that they did not already know, but he showed them the lay of the land and protected them from the dangers of the forest as best he could. In return, they taught him how to see the world through their eyes. Based on his true story, My Life as a Turkey chronicles Hutto’s remarkable and moving experience of raising a group of wild turkey hatchlings to adulthood. This program premiered on Nature at PBS on November 16.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/my-life-as-a-turkey/full-episode/7378/

President Abraham Lincoln first declared Thanksgiving as a national holiday in 1863, placing it on the last Thursday in November. But November sometimes has five Thursdays and big retailers during the Great Depression complained those Christmas shopping seasons were too short. So, President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939 set Thanksgiving as the fourth Thursday. Of course, others were unhappy, including calendar makers, whose products were printed years in advance. Finally, Congress settled it by law on Dec. 26, 1941, by making Thanksgiving the fourth Thursday of November. -- U.S. Census Bureau, various sources.
http://www.thecourier.com/Opinion/columns/2011/Nov/JU/ar_JU_112111.asp?d=112111,2011,Nov,21&c=c_13

U.S. sales of the Jeep Wrangler have set monthly records in each of the last five months, and the 14,500 dealer orders placed in the first 10 days of November already have surpassed the number of vehicles built there in three of the last four months. The plant also is nearing what union officials identify as its production capacity. "To me, this is going to be one of the biggest months we've ever had that we can remember," said Mr. Henneman. A Chrysler spokesman declined to assign a production capacity number for the plants, but Mr. Henneman said the Wrangler plant's two shifts of workers are producing about 630 vehicles a day. They would struggle to build more, he said. The success of the vehicle that dates to World War II and of a relatively new four-door version grabbing public attention was bolstered this fall with a new, more fuel-efficient engine.
http://www.toledoblade.com/Automotive/2011/11/20/Chrysler-races-to-meet-demand-for-iconic-SUV.html
All Jeep Wranglers sold worldwide are built at the Toledo Assembly complex.

The Nov. 21, 2011 issue of The New Yorker, with contributions by Calvin Trillin, Lauren Collins, Jane Kramer, Paul Theroux, Louis Erdrich and others, features food. In a cartoon, a chicken sits next to a roadside stand with a bowl of eggs. The stand has a sign that says, "Fresh-Squeezed Eggs." See the cartoon at:
http://www.condenaststore.com/-sp/A-chicken-sits-next-to-a-roadside-stand-with-a-bowl-of-eggs-The-stand-has-New-Yorker-Cartoon-Prints_i8575607_.htm