Taking up a challenge from his whist partners, a mysterious English gentleman named Phileas Fogg wagers half his fortune and abandons his quiet domestic routine to undertake a daring feat: to circle the globe in a mere 80 days, an achievement unheard of in the Victorian world. Fogg and Passepartout, his devoted manservant, avail themselves of virtually every known means of transportation in their wild race against time. All the while, a devious detective...

In his latest tour of the earth's remote, exotic, and dismal places, the author of Road Fever and A Wolverine Is Eating My Leg sleeps with a grizzly bear, witnesses demonic possession in Bali, and survives a run-in with something called the Throne of Doom in Guatemala. Vivid and outrageously funny.

A young woman is innocently caught up in a terrorist organization that is under surveillance by an army major she once loved at age fifteen.

In 1872 Phileas Fogg wagers that he can circle the earth in eighty days; and traveling by steamer, railway, carriage, sledge, and elephant he wins his bet in seventy-nine days, twenty-three hours, and fifty-seven minutes.

Novel written for adults chronicles the adventures of a group of rabbits searching for a safe place to establish a new warren where they can live in peace.

This nineteenth-century tale of an electric submarine, its eccentric captain, and the undersea world, anticipated many of the scientific achievements of the twentieth century. The adventures of a French scientist and his companions who travel the seven seas as prisoners in the submarine of the mysterious Captain Nemo.

Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to Switzerland when the dead body of a physicist turns up bearing the distinguishing mark of the ancient brotherhood of the "Illuminati." Soon, Langdon suspects this mysterious cult is determined to destroy Catholicism with an unimaginably powerful new weapon.

The adventures of Mowgli, man-child, reared by the jungle wolf packs and educated by wild animals. Includes other classic jungle stories by Kipling.

Marter terrorist Sean Dillon has slipped through the hands of authorities on every continent, hiding in the anonymity of the underworld. But it is during the Gulf War, when British and American forces are closing in on Saddam Hussein, that Dillon once again re-emerges in the eye of Saddam's storm. As Dilllon's skills surpass those of famed international fugitive "Carlos, the Jackal," Hussein's operatives hire him to plot an attempt on Margaret

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In a small South American state, a silver mine owner, Charles Gould, puts a consignment of silver in the charge of a foreman. The foreman buries the silver and pretends that the boat in which he shipped it sank.