Great Mysteries

In a stately West Village townhouse, a wealthy socialite and her secretary are murdered. In the 24 hours that follow, a flurry of activity circles around their shocking deaths: The head of one of the city's last tabloids stops the presses. A cop investigates the killing. A reporter chases the story. A disgraced hedge-fund manager flees the country. An Iraq War vet seeks revenge. And an angry young extremist plots a major catastrophe.

Leadership is a curious topic. It is most noted in its absence and most measured by its need. Leadership requires opportunity. The situation drives leadership; what worked in one situation may be disastrous in another. It requires skills to be able to direct the challenge at hand. Leadership is both an art and a science. It is theoretical and applied, cultural and contextual. Most importantly, leadership is about accomplishment and results.

Pete, a successful mayor, must make sense of what is going on in this world and the world to come. He is haunted by an unknown smell from the darkened anthropomorphic house he lives at, as well as a strange world he keeps reappearing in. Curious things keep happening, as this man is caught in a double life of weakness and strength. On the one hand, he is loved and people understand him as a powerful, prosperous man. On the other hand, he is secretly weak and lost, especially when around his house.

On Sunday 22nd June 1941, at 03.05, three and a half million Axis troops burst into the Soviet Union along a 1,800-mile front to launch Operation Barbarossa. The southern thrust of the attack was aimed at the Caucuses and the oil fields beyond. Kyiv was the biggest city to stand in their way. Within six weeks, the city was under siege. Surrounded by Panzers, bombed and shelled day and night, Soviet Commissar Nikita Krushchev was amongst the senior Soviet officials co-ordinating the defence.

Only the trio of returning Ark Lords has a prayer of stopping Nox, but they face problems of their own. Blair and Liz arrive in Northern California to find Angel Island deserted, and San Francisco controlled by a kingdom of deathless. Jordan and Trevor return to Peru where werewolves have founded a new religion worshiping the Mother. A religion that preaches that Trevor is the ancient enemy and must be destroyed. Only Jordan can save him, if he can finally learn to trust an old enemy.

Tom's eyes bored into Basil's. "I admire and respect you as a brilliant detective, but I must speak frankly. Your chances of capturing J. J. are practically zero. The obstacles are too many and too great. In my opinion, Basil, you're on an impossible mission!"

I gasped in horror. Would it be my friend's dreadful fate to perish in the swirling torrent below? "Take care! Take care!" I shouted. But my worst fears were realized. Ratigan went over the edge, dragging the detective with him!

Basil the mouse detective sets off on a journey to solve one of the greatest mysteries of mousedom: Do miniature cats exist? Leading mouse scientists aren't certain, but they believe answers can be found in the Far East. Thus begins the story of an unusual quest. As Basil sets sail for the Far East - and the lost island of Kataarh - danger stalks him at every turn. Our hero is determined to unravel the mystery of these mini cats and their mouse king!

The Great Zoodini—aka Radar the fennec fox—has never fit in. In fact, his only friend is a stuffed rabbit. Ever since his first family abandoned him, he’s had one goal: become world famous and show everyone how wrong they were about him. But no matter how many daring escapes Zoodini’s tried, he’s never even made the Association of Animal-Themed Attractions newsletter.

Basil of Baker’s Street, the masterful mouse detective who studied under Sherlock Holmes, is on his way to a school reunion with his old friends from Ratcliffe College. Along for the trip is his steadfast companion, Doctor Dawson. But all is not well, as they soon learn that the dastardly Ratigan has escaped from prison in London. Could the rat possibly be planning revenge against his old nemesis, Basil himself?

Marlborough House is the home of Edward, the Prince of Wales (second child and eldest son of Queen Victoria). He lives there with various children and family members. Unbeknownst to the human royals, there is a corresponding clan of noblemice living there as well. At the moment, the human royal family is hosting the visiting royal family of Bohemia, along with that family’s corresponding group of stowaway noblemice. However, the teen noblemice of both houses have vanished without a trace, and everyone fears that one of the royal dogs may be responsible. Can Basil help?

El antiguo inspector jefe Armand Gamache se ha pasado toda su carrera cazando asesinos y luchando contra la corrupción. Ahora, como nuevo comandante de la academia de la Sûreté, tiene la oportunidad de combatir las corruptelas y la brutalidad que se ha extendido como una plaga por este cuerpo policial. Sin embargo, tras encontrar asesinado a un antiguo colega y profesor de la academia, junto a un misterioso mapa de Three Pines, Gamache se ve ante una tarea aún más dura.

When his mother dies, Rob “Foss” Fossick - a 40-something photographer whose best days already seem to be behind him - discovers among her possessions a package addressed to a “Mr. Satoshi”. Tasked with locating this mysterious figure from his mother’s past - and with the urging of his agent, keen for him to return to work - Rob travels to Japan. There, with the help of a love hotel receptionist, he follows Mr. Satoshi’s trail from the bright lights of Tokyo to the northern city of Sapporo, where he must come to terms with his family’s ghosts - and his own.

Debbie Sue Overstreet and Edwina Perkins-Martin are two of the sassiest hairdressers in Salt Lick, Texas. But these two spunky ladies do more than spice up the do's of their gossipy patrons. They also moonlight as the Domestic Equalizers, P.I.s with the best hair in the Lone Star State. Not ones to turn down a juicy assignment, Debbie Sue and Edwina get involved in a case of missing horses.

Wombat and Jones are excited to attend the famous Boris Beaker's banana-bread baking class, and like many other friends in town, they can't wait to get to work on making scrumptious banana bread. However, there’s just one problem - before class gets underway, Boris discovers that all of the bananas have gone missing!

This book describes how a best-selling mystery writer seemed to drop off the earth in 1997. It includes her history, her successes, and her awards.

A potential worldwide catastrophe looms large, while CIA Officer Jennifer Lear waits in a Berlin café to meet with her agent who has critical information regarding the chilling emerging threat. But the agent is late, and the meeting turns into a frantic struggle to survive, generating many questions about how it all could have gone so wrong - the first being: Who exactly is Jennifer Lear?

Many people look to Ephesians 5 for its teaching on being filled with the Holy Spirit. Many think Ephesians 5-6 is all about marriage. But the main idea of Ephesians 5:15-6:9 is Christ's relationship with believers and their relationships in the church. This is the Great Mystery now revealed in 5:32.

Jessy was a married man, a retired Army Veteran, and a successful pipeline welder who finds love in a very unexpected time and place in his life. A native from East Texas, Jessy grew up in Conroe Texas and attended Conroe High School. This is where he met Bruce, Chuck, and Penny, his lifelong friends. Because of Jessy’s disability, “PTSD”, that he got while in the US Army during wartime, Jessy learned to drink rum and Pepsi to deal with his bouts of depression and mood swings.

Pero cuando conoce a John Watson, Shelby encuentra la respuesta a un misterio que siempre había sido un acertijo para ella: la amistad. De repente, desaparece el perrito que ganó el premio canino en Nueva York, y Holmes y Watson se sumergen en un caso de secuestro de perro que requerirá de trabajo en equipo y mucho talento para resolverlo.