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Em Enola Holmes: O caso do marquês desaparecido, Enola Holmes—irmã do famoso detetive Sherlock Holmes—descobre no dia de seu aniversário de catorze anos que sua mãe desapareceu. Por conta dessa descoberta, ela embarca em uma viagem a Londres em busca de pistas que indiquem o paradeiro da mãe. Mas nada poderia preparar Enola para o que a espera na cidade grande.

Enola & Sherlock : un duo de choc dans une nouvelle aventure inédite ! La jeune détective Enola Holmes et son frère Sherlock sont appelés à la rescousse pour retrouver un éditeur de renom qui a disparu... et qui n'est autre que le meilleur ami de Rudyard Kipling ! Durant leur enquête conjointe, Enola va devoir se frotter à des chiens enragés, à des savants fous, et à des confrérie mystérieuse portant la marque de la mangouste.

Meet Enola Holmes, teenaged girl turned detective and the younger sister to Sherlock Holmes. When Enola Holmes, sister to the detective Sherlock Holmes, discovers her mother has disappeared, she quickly embarks on a journey to London in search of her.

Widowed and without grandchildren, the loneliness becomes crippling for children's illustrator Beverly Vernon. So she begins a portrait of the ideal granddaughter, who is blonde, violet-eyed and smiling. Until she uncovers the bones of a young child in her back garden. Then Beverly's painting changes of its own accord; the girl's smiling expression turns grim. As Beverly endeavours to identify the child and how it died, her sanity is tested to the limit. While hunting for the truth in a dark past, Beverly risks everything in her present.

Buffy - a fat, 40ish, divorced mother - encounters a talking frog and, ignoring the warnings of fairy tales, does not turn the frog back into a prince. Trouble ensues when Buffy's rebellious teenage daughter Emily does kiss the frog; soon she and handsome Prince Adamus disappear into the enchanted land of Fair Peril. It is up to Buffy to rescue Emily and, in the process, learn that magic does exist in the most ordinary of lives.

Sherlock Holmes' Schwester ermittelt in einem neuen Fall. Mycroft und Sherlock wollen ihre Schwester in ein Internat stecken. Daher ist Enola in London untergetaucht und eröffnet unter falschem Namen ein Ermittlungsbüro. Einer ihrer ersten Klienten ist ausgerechnet Dr. John Watson! Seine Mission: die vermisste Enola Holmes zu finden. Währenddessen ermittelt Enola im Fall der verschwundenen Lady Cecily Alistair. Wurde sie entführt? Ist sie davongelaufen? Bergen die Zeichnungen der Linkshänderin ein Geheimnis? Gelesen von Luisa Wietzorek, einer Synchronstimme von Millie Bobby Brown.

Als Enola, die jüngere Schwester von Sherlock Holmes, entdeckt, dass ihre Mutter verschwunden ist, macht sie sich sofort auf die Suche nach ihr. Sie reist dafür heimlich nach London, aber nichts hätte sie darauf vorbereiten können, was sie hier erwartet: Sie wird in die Entführung eines Lords involviert, muss vor mörderischen Gaunern fliehen und sich gleichzeitig vor ihren beiden scharfsinnigen älteren Brüdern verstecken, die auf der Suche nach ihr sind, um sie in ein Internat zu stecken.

Band 3 der "Enola Holmes"-Reihe, bekannt durch die Netflix-Filme mit Millie Bobby Brown. Dr. Watson ist verschwunden und Meisterdetektiv Sherlock Holmes ist ratlos. Enola Holmes macht sich auf die Suche nach Dr. Watson, obwohl sie damit in Gefahr gerät, von ihren Brüdern Mycroft und Sherlock entdeckt und ins Internat gesteckt zu werden. Als sie einen Blumenstrauß in Dr. Watsons Haus bemerkt, dessen Blüten allesamt den Tod symbolisieren, muss sie schnell handeln. Denn offenbar ist Dr. Watson in Lebensgefahr. Kann sie Dr. Watson rechtzeitig aufspüren?

Enola Holmes is the much younger sister of her more famous brothers, Sherlock and Mycroft. But she has all the wits, skills, and sleuthing inclinations of them both. When a young professional woman, Miss Letitia Glover, shows up on Sherlock's doorstep, desperate to learn more about the fate of her twin sister, it is Enola who steps up. It seems her sister, the former Felicity Glover, married the earl of Dunhench and, per a curt note from the earl, has died. But Letitia Glover is convinced this isn't the truth, that she'd know - she'd feel - if her twin had died.

Lionel won't learn to fight, so he is banished by his warrior father, Lionclaw. The boy soon finds a home in Sherwood Forest with a band of outcasts led by Rowan Hood, daughter of Robin. But when Lionclaw vows to destroy them, Lionel knows he must finally fight for what is right. A sequel to the award-winning Rowan Hood, this action-packed adventure is sure to delight all young readers.

When Enola learns of a missing left-handed artist, she uses a series of clever disguises to brave lurking dangers and follow cryptic clues that lead to the young Lady Cecily.

The younger sister of Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes, 14-year-old Enola is no slouch herself when it comes to sleuthing. This time, she must team with Sherlock to rescue Lady Cecily Alistair from a dreadful arranged marriage.

La jeune détective Enola Holmes est appelée à la rescousse de Lady Cecily, son amie de longue date, sous l'emprise d'un père abusif. Enola l'aide à s'évader, mais se confronte bien vite à un grave problème. Gauchère contrariée, Cecily a développé deux personnalités imprévisibles : l'affranchie et la fille sage. Charge à Enola et à son frère Sherlock de remettre la main sur la jeune femme, ce dernier ayant été mandaté par le père de Cecily.

Enola Holmes, the much younger sister of Sherlock, is now living independently in London and working as a scientific perditorian (a finder of persons and things). But that is not the normal lot of young women in Victorian England. They are under the near absolute control of their nearest male relative until adulthood. Such is the case of Enola's friend, Lady Cecily Alastair. Twice before Enola has rescued Lady Cecily from unpleasant designs of her caddish father, Sir Eustace Alastair, Baronet.

To their neighbors, Dorrie and Sam White are a contented couple in America's heartland, with steady jobs, a suburban home, and plenty of community activities to keep them busy. But they're not quite what they seem. For plain, hard-working Sam hides a depth of devotion for his wife that no one would suspect. And Dorrie is living a lie - beset by physical ailments, alone within herself...and secretly following the comings and goings of the 16-year-old daughter, Juliet, she gave up for adoption when she was hardly more than a child herself. Then one day at the mall, Dorrie watches horror-stricken as Juliet is abducted; forced into a van that drives away....

Thirteen-year-old Donnie is so upset over her parents' divorce that she gets into increasingly serious trouble at school and does not recognize how much her older sister is hurting as well.

At the age of 15, a girl who has spent most of her life moving around the country with her father and brother remembers her real name, Sherica, and is moved to search the Internet to learn the truth about her mother and her own past.

Two-time Edgar Award winner Nancy Springer has written a chilling psychological thriller about a teenage girl possessed by her dead brother. Quiet, cautious Jessie had always lived in the shadow of her dynamic younger brother - her mother's clear favorite. His recent death leaves Jessie and her mother numb with grief. That is, until the morning Jessie cuts her hair and dresses in Jason's clothes, swaggering out of the house in an uncanny imitation of her brother.

Since their parents' divorce, 16-year-old Rig and his sister, Karma, have drifted apart. Now she is in college - too busy to even return Rig's calls. So one day he Googles her and discovers a website "shrine" filled with photos of his sister. His mother thinks it's romantic, but Rig finds the whole thing creepy; and much to his surprise, his judgmental, estranged father shares Rig's concerns. Together, they fly out to Karma's college to investigate. The website grows increasingly disturbing, with voyeuristic photos and angry rants. Then Rig is attacked at knifepoint.

Dussie always knew puberty was going to be confusing, but she never realized it was going to be catastrophic - until she wakes up one morning to find that her hair has turned into a writhing mass of slithering snakes and discovers the real truth about her family: her mother is a Gorgon--right out of Greek mythology--and she was named after her mother's younger sister, Medusa.