Nature Mysteries

Crime is on the rise in Dogtown, and it’s all thanks to a doggone thief! It’s nearly time for the Dogtown Tennis Grand Slam, but all the balls have gone missing. Could Boris Barker, the famed international tennis pro, be behind it all? Or what about Steffi Gruff? Or Novak Dogavic? No matter who the culprit is, if they’re not stopped, the tournament will be ruined. So it’s time to call in the Underdog Detective Agency: with Barkley the German shepherd, Carl the Chihuahua, Dr. Spots the Dalmatian, and Fang . . . the cat. (Yes, a CAT!)

Crime is on the rise in Dogtown, and it’s all thanks to a mysterious art forger! They’ve stolen one of Puplo Picasso’s masterpieces out of a museum and swapped it with a fake. Such a big case would normally go to the Top Dog detectives, but they’re out of town on vacation. So it’s time to call in the Underdog Detective Agency: with Barkley the German shepherd, Carl the Chihuahua, Dr. Spots the Dalmatian, and Fang...the cat. (Yes, a cat!) What the Underdogs lack in skill, they make up for in grit and determination.

When Taddy the Tadpole goes missing, Detective Duck and her friends in the Pond Squad are on the case. What first seemed like a simple search and rescue mission gets more complicated when her friends find a pipe leaking a strange brown liquid along with a cluster of peculiar blue-green plants that make it difficult for the pond creatures to breathe.

What is the connection of "Fowl Relief" and an English golf-playing king? Does the nickname of Jimmy Douglas' great-great-grandfather have any significance? Tie these answers with the other clues and the mystery of the purple bird is solved, but not until Djuna, the brilliant young sleuth, and his pal Jimmy go through an ordeal that almost takes their lives. The boys tangle with an antique dealer and a tiger-skin diary - just to name a few of the events - in their struggle to solve the mystery.

Djuna and Ben weren't sure they believed in ghosts. The little girl who opened the door of the haunted house didn't look like a ghost, yet she vanished into thin air. They had to find out what happened to her. And they had to rescue Waterbury, the time-telling turtle who walked into the deserted house - and didn't walk out. Djuna found clues, and he added them all up to solve a case the secret service couldn't crack!

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.

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.

Inspector Alvarez is in a good mood, for once. The sun is shining, he has enjoyed an uniterrupted morning nap at his desk, his irasciable boss - Superios Chief Salas - is on holiday, and the local Mallorquin government’s proposal to increase tax on alcohol has been soundly defeated. But optimism, he soon has cause to reflect, is the road to disaster. In short order, he provokes the ire of Salas’ secretary and then of Salas himself - whose holiday does not seem to exclude phoning Alvarez to complain about his work. In no time at all, Alxvarez is mired down by a seemingly impossible task....

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.

Bald ist Weihnachten und ganz Gut Kaltenbach steht im Zeichen des jährlichen Adventsmarkts. Doch Mikas weihnachtliche Stimmung wird getrübt, als sie erfährt, dass einem Mädchen das Pony von der Weide gestohlen wurde. Mika und ihre beste Freundin Francesca stoßen auf eine unglaubliche Geschichte. Gemeinsam mit Ostwind stellen sie den Pferdedieben eine Falle.

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.

"Ostwind. Ein Freund für Feuersturm" - Abenteuerreihe Band 3. Das berühmte Rennpferd Feuersturm kommt zur Therapie nach Kaltenbach. Der Wallach hat plötzlich seine ganze Lebenslust verloren und weigert sich, die Bahn zu betreten. Sein Besitzer, ein alter Freund von Herrn Kaan, hat von Mikas Talent als Pferdeflüsterin gehört und bittet um Rat. Tatsächlich hat Mika bald eine Idee, wie sie gemeinsam mit Ostwind Feuersturm helfen kann. Doch dann bricht das Rennpferd über Nacht zusammen und Herr Kaan steht im Verdacht, es mit einer Kräutermischung vergiftet zu haben.

Setterpoo Sammy has a brilliant sense of smell. She can sniff out anything – watches, explosives, even parrots! But one day, Sammy sniffs some extra-hot chilli powder and loses her sense of smell completely. It’s up to Sammy’s Best Human Friend, Beanie, to help her get it back. And when Sammy finds out that someone is planning to steal a precious diamond, she’ll have to use all her instincts to save the day!

Honey Santana, impassioned, willful, possibly bipolar, self-proclaimed "queen of lost causes", has a scheme to help rid the world of irresponsibility, indifference, and dinnertime sales calls. She's taking rude, gullible Relentless, Inc., telemarketer Boyd Shreave and his less-than-enthusiastic mistress, Eugenie, into the wilderness of Florida's Ten Thousand Islands for a gentle lesson in civility.

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?

Dylan and his little sister, Emily, don’t go anywhere without Dylan’s detective kit. Their trusty dog, Theodore, is always by their sides, ready to lend a helping paw. While the kids are away at camp, the Camp Leaf games trophy goes missing. Together with some old friends and a few new ones, Dylan and Emily set off to track down the trophy.

Join the hilarious escapades of a quirky flock of millennial owned backyard chickens in this delightful short story perfect for elementary-aged kids. When a mysterious shadow crosses over the chicken coop, Marshmallow, Pumpkin, and Cinnamon must find a way to team up to solve the mystery of it's source. Their playful sibling antics and courage will have both kids and adults laughing out loud. Enjoy a heartwarming tale of friendship and teamwork that will entertain the whole family!

No one knows how certain pigs became so clever. But this very special one, Mabel the detective pig, has had a long lifetime of solving crime, and wants to be left alone to wallow in the mud. But when an anonymous tip-off says that Lady Farquar-Parker's jewels are going to be stolen in the middle of her own birthday party, Mabel is intrigued enough to go along, with her trusted sidekick Sergeant Perkins. Little does she suspect until she gets there, that the thief is her arch-nemesis Monsieur le Jambon, the infamous French criminal pig, who has decided to come out of retirement.

Ponys? Pferde? Über Blumenwiesen galoppieren? Nein, danke. Lotte fährt lieber Skateboard. Bis sie einen Schnupperreitkurs gewinnt...

Polly and Rex are delighted when the old toy dog stirs on the nursery shelf. But Skip wants to be left alone! Then Polly shows a new classmate around Penhallow, and she seems strangely drawn to the little dog, too. Could she be the friend Skip needs?