Detective Donut and his partner, Mouse, set out to find Professor Drake, the world-famous archaeologist who has mysteriously disappeared

"Part comedy of manners, part treasure hunt, the first novel from the writer whom David Sedaris calls "perfectly, relentlessly funny" Kezia, Nathaniel, and Victor are reunited for the extravagant wedding of a college friend. Now at the tail end of their twenties, they arrive completely absorbed in their own lives Kezia the second-in-command to a madwoman jewelry designer in Manhattan; Nathaniel the former literary cool kid, selling his wares in Hollywood;...

Bunny and Jack, animal detectives, take a break from playing cards to look for Bernard Bear's missing messenger whistle

A bear almost gives up his search for his missing hat until he remembers something important

"Each disparate object described in this book-a Caspar David Friedrich painting, a species of tiger, a villa in Rome, a Greek love poem, an island in the Pacific-shares a common fate: it no longer exists, except as the dead end of a paper trail. Recalling the works of W. G. Sebald, Bruce Chatwin, and Rebecca Solnit, An Inventory of Losses is a beautiful evocation of twelve specific treasures that have been lost to the world forever, and that, taken...

"Splat notices that his favorite wooden ducks keep going missing--can Secret Agent Splat solve the mystery?"--

Someone lost a camera, and Franklin found it. Is it "finders keepers," or should Franklin try to find the owner?

While spending the day in the Robinson household, Wilbur's best friend joins in the search for Grandfather Robinson's missing false teeth and meets one wacky relative after another.

When a wolf cub and little girl are lost in a snowstorm they must find their way home.

Penny feels guilty after taking a beautiful blue marble that she sees in Mrs. Goodwin's grass, but gets a pleasant surprise when she goes to return it the next day