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One ill-fated evening at the Reform Club, Phileas Fogg rashly bets his companions that he can travel around the entire globe in just eighty days -- and he is determined not to lose. Breaking the well-established routine of his daily life, the reserved Englishman immediately sets off for Dover, accompaned by his hot-blooded manservant Passepartout. Traveling by train, steamship, sailboat, sledge, and even elephant, they must overcome storms, kidnappings,...

Forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan investigates religious-cult murders in a monkey preserve in North Carolina. She learns of a planned massacre in Quebec, where the novel's climax comes during a snow storm. By the author of Déjà Dead.

Three works deal with a concentration camp survivor, a hostage holder in Palestine, and a recovering accident victim.

Phileas Fogg, an English gentleman, bets 20,000 pounds that he can travel around the world in only eighty days.

Thirty-eight years later, a housewife who moonlighted as a prostitute and a former client meet again, instigating past resentments.

When a young superhero-in-training gets hurt, she discovers that mothers have superpowers, too.

"February 20, 1933: on an unremarkable day during a harsh Berlin winter, a meeting of twenty-four German captains of industry and senior Nazi dignitaries is being held in secret in the plush lounges of the Reichstag. They are there to "stump up" funding for the accession to power of the National Socialist Party and its fearsome Chancellor. This inaugural scene sets the tone of consent which will lead to the worst possible repercussions. March 12,...

"A new collection of stories by American master Joyce Carol Oates, mysterious and surreal, and perfectly pitched for the confusion of the current political landscape"--

In graphic novel format this book tells the story of Phileas Fogg's wager that he could travel around the world in eighty days.