In this first collection of librarian adventures, Rex must confront the powerful Space Warlord Vaglox and retrieve the overdue Principia Mathematica while his fellow librarians attempt to fend of a manifestation of blood-thirsty Vandals set on burning down the Middleton Library to the ground.

Considered the greatest satire ever written in English, Gulliver’s Travels chronicles the fantastic voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, principally to four marvelous realms: Lilliput, where the people are six inches tall; Brobdingnag, a land inhabited by giants; Laputa, a wondrous flying island; and a country where the Houyhnhnms, a race of intelligent horses, are served by savage humanoid creatures called Yahoos.

In an age that has seen the wildest speculations of science become reality, Jules Verne is regarded as both a technological prophet and one of the most exciting masters of imagination the world has ever known. This extraordinary voyage into the depths of the unknown aboard the legendary submarine Nautilus-commanded by the brilliant, tragic Captain Nemo-explores both the limitless possibilities of science and the twisted labyrinth of the human mind.

For centuries, the legend of the Queen Jade has captivated the minds of explorers and scholars of the New World. The legend recounts the tragic tale of a king, a witch, and a giant blue jade stone whose beauty is intoxicating and whose possessor is said to be granted a life filled with power. Lola Sanchez’s archaeologist mother Juana believes that she has discovered the key to unlocking the mystery and has gone into the jungles of Guatemala to find the stone-the same week that Hurricane Mitch tears through Central and South America, uncovering a Rhode Island-sized mine of blue jade and accelerating the centuries-long hunt for the Queen Jade.

A tale of adventure told in twenty-five illustrated plates. Delilah Dirk, English-Greek heroine and master of forty-seven different sword-fighting techniques, has been captured breaking into the palace in Constantinople. Her goal: to “repatriate” several of His Majesty’s prized ancient scrolls. But how will she accomplish that from the dungeon? And what does her arrival mean for mild-mannered, dutiful and loquacious Captain Selim?