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Two scenes from the life of Queen Isabel of Portugal, a peacemaker of the Middle Ages. Illustrations include portraits of Isabel, a period painting of knights, the cover watercolor, and a detail of a vintage map. Ages 5 - 8.

A Mayan malcontent pioneering dissent in his young city; a jaded drug-sniffing dog; a Caribbean islander still complaining about the cold of the Midwest from beyond the grave; a sasquatch unaware of minimum wage laws; more. Eight stories.

A fish soup love potion; a theft of gold from an old man's mouth; a rum-powered boat launching; revolutionary washing machines; a dreadlocked baseball prodigy; more. Nine interconnected stories; 142 pages.

A young editor, thrilled to have secured his dream job with a prestigious small publisher in New York, watches in horror as the firm abandons its standards and begins printing all the lurid novels it can find. The publisher's new books offer Huckleberry Finn reimagined as a slave trader, Hester Prynne as an ax-wielding vigilante, and Robert Frost as a motorcycle gangster; plus the usual contemporary catalog of fur and fangs. As the publisher embarks on a campaign to conquer New Zealand-and pushes the editor's closest colleague into mental health rehabilitation-he has to decide whether to...