Alexander Short, a reference librarian with a rocky marriage to a French pop-up book author, is hired by bibliophile Henry James Jesson III to do after-hours research on the life of a mysterious eighteenth-century inventor who left a cabinet full of wonders that chronicle his life, with one maddeningly empty shelf.
A rhyming story in which Santa Claus and his six elves help a lonely librarian and her suffering library on Christmas Eve, arriving suddenly in a flying red bookmobile and setting to work.
Presents a collection of the author's Library Media Connection columns, offering his perspective on school media, effective ways libraries can use technology, and the role of the library media specialist.
Rex Libris, Head Librarian of Middleton Public Library, uses his aresenal of high technology weapons to fight ignorance and darkness, confronting the Space Warlord Vaglox, Principia Mathematica, and blood-thirsty vandals.
Clare and Henry, deeply in love, try desperately to maintain normal lives even though he has been diagnosed with Chrono-Displacement Disorder, a condition in which his genetic clock periodically resets, pulling him through time to the past or future.