Nature Mysteries

Rome, 1948. Twenty women are brutally murdered, their throats slit and their faces removed with surgical precision. Then the murders stop as abruptly as they started, and the horrifying crimes and their victims are lost to history. Now over 60 years later, the killings have begun again. This time in America. It's up to homicide detectives Marcus Carter and Angela Darden to stop the murders, but how can they catch a serial killer who leaves no traces of evidence and no apparent motive?

From New York Times bestselling author and Emmy Award-winner Matt Goldman comes Liar's Creek, which asks how far we'll go to protect the people we love. Riverwood, Minnesota is a scenic town threaded with trout streams carving their way through limestone bluffs. But beneath its picturesque...

Herrmann "Zeke" Walter's life is falling apart. His father has just died and he has lost his job hosting a hunting show called Zeke Hunts the Big Boys. When he finds a package of letters from his grandfather among his father's belongings, he embarks on a journey to discover his ancestry. What initially starts as a simple mid-life rediscovery, quickly turns into a Pandora's box of murder and secret societies.

Hamsters and mice are disappearing from villages all over the countryside. It started last Christmas when Lord and Lady Hamster went on a holiday and were never heard from again. Now their daughters, Squeaks and Hamsteria, are all alone in Hamster Hall. When Hamsteria goes missing, Squeaks starts searching. She goes to their neighbor, Lord Mousington, to ask for help but he attacks her instead! Squeaks gets help from Uncle Fluffs and her cousins Tiny and Whiskers. Her new friend, Mr. Sammy Hammy, has an idea about how to find her family. They must hire a detective, a cat detective.

The Jules Rimet Trophy (“World Cup”), the most famous sporting trophy in the world, was loaned by Football Association of England (FA) to a Stamp Exhibition in Westminster Central Hall as a promotion for the upcoming 1966 World Cup games. From this location, a block from Scotland Yard, thieves stole the World Cup on Sunday March 20, 1966. My story explains how a group of soccer-loving kids found out about the proposed theft, and with the help of their dogs, outsmarted the robbers by stealing back the Cup through a spine-tingling adventure to save the day for England.

Ein Stubentiger im Tal der Könige. Ra liebt sein Faulenzerleben als Pharaos Katze: Nickerchen am Pool und jede Menge Snacks. Aber wenn es um das ewige Leben im Jenseits geht, kennt er plötzlich keinen Müßiggang mehr. Und so ist es nicht verwunderlich, dass Ra und seine Freunde, der Mistkäfer Khepri und die fusselige Straßenkatze Miu, Ermittlungen einleiten, als ein königliches Grab aufgebrochen und ausgeraubt wird. Eine pelzaufreibende Verfolgungsjagd im Tal der Könige beginnt.

It was a soft buzz, not sharp, and without warning, it stopped. Nine-year-old Lark opened her eyes. A honey bee had landed on her arm. First-year beekeeper Lark Oakmyer has been given the rare invitation to join her old friend, W, at his bee yard with thousands of honey bees. But then, through a series of strange occurrences, Lark, her brothers, and their friends find themselves discovering clues to a bigger mystery than the bees. Through their faith in God (and a bit of help from the bees), they make the impossible, possible.

Lily is not your usual terrier. In fact, she's not a terrier at all. She's a pterodactyl who has the power (among others) of clouding people's minds. Join Lily, her owner - 13-year-old Celeste, and the other members of PAWS (Private Army of Warrior Sleuths): Fuzzy Wally MacGee (a Chinese crested/rhino), Lucy Marmoset Higgins (a Great Dane/orangutan), and Prince Alphonse Saed (a miniature dachshund/mountain lion) as they fight crime wherever they encounter it.

The O’Malleys have fostered dozens of cats in their bookshop over the past several years, but a new arrival named Regular is unlike any of their previous feline guests. This is Regular’s tale, but it is also Mack and Mavis O’Malley’s. It is about two “finds of a lifetime”: Kris, their young apprentice, opens a box to reveal a book that may be so valuable that it could make national headlines, and the O’Malleys discover something even more wonderful that will change their lives forever.

CRIME ALERT BULLETIN When surly cop Spencer is killed on a cyber crime case, he finds himself stuck outside the gates of heaven. He can only redeem himself through the J.R.P. (The Jerk Redemption program.) His task is to return in the body of his K-9 Partner and help Justin, a troubled teenage boy and his dysfunctional family. But, when he learns that the cyber crime gang is framing the family, Spencer must, with the help of the teenage boy, take down the gang once and for all.

In the wild Lebombo Mountains of South Africa, Ralph and Robyn are on the run from the nefarious Josef Gerhard. His beastly man-made predasaurs have unleashed a deadly virus and only the Ballantynes have the evidence to prove it. They need to regroup and plan their next move if they want to stop him before it's too late and find a cure for the virus.

But deep in the forest, dangers lurk; poachers are circling, and Gerhard has a brand-new creation he wants to show off, if he can lure the Ballantynes to its lair.

England, 1888. Fourteen-year-old Indigo Taylor dreams of becoming a detective, which as a young child is what she thought her solicitor father was. A local murder that seems too quickly solved inspires Indigo to do some investigating of her own. The thread she finds leads to a dangerous chain of events. Meanwhile, Indigo is befriended by a group of circus artists who live a refreshingly different way of life than the stifling society in which finds herself. For fans of Sherlock Holmes, Flavia de Luce, and The Mysterious Benedict Society.

Edgar Allan Poe proposed that “the boundary line between instinct and reason is of a very shadowy nature” (1840). With its 21 stories of serial killers and sociopaths, fixations and fetishes, breakdowns and bad decisions crafted by authors as diverse as their writing styles, Shadowy Natures leads fans of psychological horror down dark and treacherous roads to destinations they will be too unsettled to leave.

Eine Höhle voll goldener Echsos, ein Haufen der verrücktesten Spielsachen, stinksaure Räuber, die ihre Beute wiederhaben wollen: Wie zum Echsenelend sollen unsere zwei Dino-Jungs aus dem Schlamassel nur wieder heil rauskommen? Dann kommt noch ein neuer Schüler in die Klasse. Er spricht anders, weil er aus einem fremden Land kommt, ist ein bisschen mopsig und schielt. Das ist natürlich ein gefundenes Fressen für unseren kleinen, frechen T-Rex. Aber Vorsicht, Ricky, wenn du den mal nicht GEWALTIG unterschätzt! Dino und Ricky gehen wieder in die Höhle, um nach dem Schatz zu sehen.

Was wäre, wenn Natur & Technik sich gegen uns verbünden? Tibor Rodes wissenschaftlich top recherchierter What-if-Thriller handelt von der Intelligenz der Pflanzen, selbstlernenden Algorithmen, einem zerstörerischen Ökosystem – und dem möglichen Ende der Menschheit. Der Wald schlägt zurück – ein packender Ökothriller. Weltweit sorgen anonym verschickte Postsendungen für Aufruhr: Tausende Menschen erhalten scheinbar harmlose Päckchen mit Saatgut. Zwar warnen die Behörden davor, die Samen einzupflanzen, doch da ist es schon zu spät.

In this gripping literary horror, Case’s best friend Drea goes missing, forcing her into a bizarre, cultlike—and possibly murderous world—perfect for fans of The Honeys and Mexican Gothic. Something bad happened here. When Case arrives at a run-down, ivy-covered house tucked deep in the...

The 101 fascinating natural wonders in this audiobook will forever transform your view of the animal and plant world. Come with Gary on a jaw-dropping journey across nature's most amazing and bizarre. You will learn about the mold that solves mazes, why the giant panda is lucky to be alive, how a fish with no mouth eats, why your brain is afraid of snakes, and why one microscopic creature is the most puzzling mystery in all zoology.

When those two enthusiastic fishermen, Djuna and his friend, Tommy, are offered a chance to spend the summer at fish-filled Silver Lake as the guests of Miss Annie Ellery, they are overjoyed. But great as the fishing proves to be, there is more in store: Silver Lake holds a mystery, and the boys find themselves swept up in a series of exciting and dangerous adventures, including an abandoned icehouse and two fires, as they help to solve it.

Mysteries have a way of finding Djuna, and this time a missing page from an old ship's log and the dead captain's haunted house start the ball rolling. Djuna has learned that Captain Beekman brought a treasure from his whaling trips. Who can have an interest in letting the boy get lost? Was Djuna close to the answer of the mystery?

Beautiful Australian birdlife is disappearing one by one as an international smuggling operation robs our rainforest. The thieves are after the exotic birds, including the master prize of the black cockatoo. Can five local heroes band together to battle a quad bike pursuit, a deadly snake, and a surprise traitor to release the birds and restore order to the forest?