Nature Mysteries

I'd been living on the streets for around eight months before I lost count. It wasn't easy, but it was still preferable to what I had to deal with at home. In all that time, unable to trust anyone, I had been alone (I knew from experience that people always failed you). Then one day, while out searching for food, I stumbled upon this mangy dog being attacked. It wasn't a big deal to help him, but then he ended up saving my life which is when I realized there was something special about him: Muttface wasn't a normal dog - he was crazy intelligent.

Award-winning author Paul Griffin is renowned for his spot-on dialogue and affecting characterization. Stay With Me features the unlikely romance between 15-year-olds CeCe, a sensitive "A" student, and Mack, a high school dropout. With every moment that passes, CeCe and Mack grow closer as they bond over a rescued dog and share their most intimate secrets. But when Mack makes a terrible mistake, their shared vision of the future begins to crumble.

When Evelyn, her brother Elliot, and their loyal dog Ozzy meet the mysterious old groundskeeper Thomas, they stumble into a centuries-old secret hidden deep beneath the ruins of Tynemouth Priory. What begins as a moonlit adventure soon becomes a race against time as riddles, secret tunnels, and a locked stone chest lead them to a powerful relic once fought over by pirates and monks. But someone else is hunting the treasure too—a shadowy figure who will stop at nothing to claim it.

After a break-in at their London home, Kat Wolfe and her veterinarian mum decide it’s time to move to the country. Dr. Wolfe’s new job on England’s Jurassic Coast comes with a condition: they have to adopt Tiny, a huge Savannah who resists Kat’s best attempts at cat whispering. Kat starts a pet-sitting agency to make pocket money, but then the owner of her first client, an Amazon parrot, vanishes from his gadget-filled mansion.

Grace Delaney and her fellow dance students are en route to perform on a South Pacific cruise ship when a freak storm hits and they find themselves stranded on a seemingly deserted island. With the tropical heat rising, passions and tensions swell to breaking point. And the island itself is quietly steaming with a terrible secret....

From the swamplands near Bishopville, South Carolina, come reports of a seven-foot-tall, scaly humanoid creature the locals call the “Lizard Man”. Over the years, the creature has been seen by numerous witnesses, including a teenager who claimed it attacked him one night near a remote area called Scape Ore Swamp. The young man’s testimony and physical evidence was so compelling, it not only launched a serious investigation by the local sheriff’s office, but an all-out monster hunt that drew hundreds of people to the small town.

Sixteen of America's favorite author-anglers spin tales of mystery and fishing in this collection. From the tragic to the comic with many stops in between, these stories reflect the authors' passions for both making stories and catching fish. Michael Connelly, Ridley Pearson, John Lescroart, Don Winslow, Melodie Johnson Howe, Victoria Houston, and others all share a mysterious affection for things piscatorial when not busy writing best-selling books.

When a landslide on the Jurassic Coast reveals a rare "dragon" dinosaur, best friends Kat Wolfe and Harper Lamb are thrilled, especially when stars and scientists come flocking to sleepy Bluebell Bay. But after they begin investigating a suspicious death, events spiral quickly out of control for detectives Wolfe and Lamb. Worse still, Kat’s wild cat is in trouble. Can they solve the mystery—and save the cat’s life—before it’s too late?

In The Golden Toad, Trevor and Kyle set off to investigate an environmental mystery with unexpected revelations, a story that speaks to our own collective and uncertain future. Guided by Costa Rican naturalists—including the last person to have seen the golden toad alive—Trevor searches for survivors while Kyle hunts the killer, and their paths lead them through an imperiled forest, a deadly pandemic, and a changing climate, intertwining at the site of the golden toad's last emergence deep in Monteverde's Bosque Eterno de Los Niños.

Bigi and Lala just landed their first real job at Shell & Associates—one’s cautiously prepared, the other’s just here for snacks. Their mission? Solve financial mysteries in the pond, like missing kelp bundles, vanishing pearls, and maybe an eel with too many secrets. With a mix of sibling chaos, underwater antics, and laugh-out-loud moments, this audiobook dives into the wild world of fish who probably shouldn’t be in charge of anything. Perfect for listeners who love quirky adventures, lovable disasters, and learning that “adulting” is mostly pretending to know what you’re doing.

Elsa is finding it difficult to make new friends after her family moves house. Then she hears strange, scratching noises at night and discovers a kitten living in the attic! The little cat has gorgeous black fur and so Elsa names him Pepper. Elsa is desperate to keep her lovely new kitten friend. Dad thinks Pepper belonged to the previous owner, but who would leave behind such a beautiful kitten?

The Aldens travel to Everglades National Park to help find a park ranger who has been missing for days. However, everyone they talk to seems angry and secretive instead of worried. Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny are determined to solve this mystery, even if it means following the trail deep into the spooky Everglades.

The four Aldens like visiting the large old museum owned by their grandfather's friend. But then Jessie sees a huge, scary shadow moving in the room where the dinosaur skeletons are on display. And bones from the enormous Tyrannosaurus rex disappear. They must find the missing bones and solve the mystery before an exhibit is scheduled to open - or there might not be a dinosaur exhibit at all!

When we turn our attention to the subject of elemental Intelligences or Nature-Spirits, we are confronted by this immediate difficulty, that we are led at the very beginning beyond and behind the world which we know through the channels of the senses. Sense perception does not help us at all in our study of that mysterious realm of life which constitutes the invisible background of physical manifestation. Madame Blavatsky warned us long ago that to describe Nature-Spirits or Elementals as having definite and corporeal form was likely to lead into great error.

Something sleeps within her. Starting over in your hometown is like getting a tattoo removed. There’s a cost, there’s pain, and there’s a scar. Who knew moving forward after your mother’s murder would mean rewriting your past? Tru Parker traded one kind of crazy for another. Werewolves and vampires? Real. No kidding. But no magic and no virus like in the movies. And they have different names - Usemi and Akharu. It’s almost too much, but she can’t stick her head in the sand any more because she’s changing into something else. Not sure what yet.

Alice Russell y cuatros compañeras de trabajo participan en una actividad para ejecutivos en la zona boscosa de Giralang Ranges, al este de Melbourne. Los directivos de la empresa, una prestigiosa compañía de contabilidad que el agente federal Aaron Falk está investigando por un presunto delito financiero, pretenden con esta acción fomentar el espíritu de equipo. Sin embargo, todo se tuerce cuando Alice, testigo clave en las pesquisas y confidente de Falk, desaparece y éste tiene que sumergirse en el corazón de una naturaleza exuberante y estigmatizada por el fantasma de un asesino en serie.

Fishing guide and award-winning author Randy Spencer weaves a spell with quirky, colorful residents, fish-out-of-water tourists, native traditions, and a large helping of absolute wonder. Written on Water is an extraordinary collection of tales about the part of Maine that truly is, as those who reside there call it, "back of the beyond".

What will happen when a fully-fueled bomber from the Air Force base just outside a large Texas city and piloted by a woman named Rory is flung by a fierce tornado into the country's largest, busiest shopping mall? Begin the day with the mall manager, his assistant, the chief security officer, and Howard the Weatherman - whose predictions are always uncannily accurate, and in this case - deadly.

Vivienne embarks upon the summer of her dreams as one of the few students selected for a training program back east at Liberty Farms. But as focused as she is on her riding, Vivvie also has a secret agenda: to investigate the death of Joel Parker, her friend who she believes was tragically murdered. Vivvie has hardly set foot in the state-of-the-art barns before things start to go amiss.

The lifelong unravelling of the truth about reality and how we as humans are Multiversal sentient beings currently having a human experience. I go through some of my many experiences of paranormal phenomena, personal experiences with ET's showing how we are more than just physical beings and that our sentient consciousness exists before life here and continues on after.