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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.

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.

Edgar Award-winning author Nancy Springer captivates young listeners with mysteries that feature Sherlock Holmes’ little sister Enola. Abandoned by her mother and fearing her brothers will exile her to a finishing school, 14-year-old Enola lives a lonely London existence. But when someone kidnaps her elderly landlady—the closest thing she has to family these days—the feisty heroine will do whatever it takes to find her.

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.

Enola Holmes—younger sister to Sherlock Holmes—is back on another case! As Enola searches for the missing Lady Blanchefleur del Campo, she discovers that her brother Sherlock is just as diligently searching for Enola herself! Sherlock and Enola must solve a triple mystery: What has happened to their mother? And to Lady Blanchefleur? And what does either have to do with their brother, Mycroft?

Dr. Watson, the right-hand man of master sleuth Sherlock Holmes, has gone missing. This prompts Sherlock to enlist the assistance of Enola Holmes, his intrepid younger sister. She investigates Watson's home just in time to witness the arrival of a bizarre bouquet blooming with convolvulus, hawthorn, and white poppies - flowers that symbolize death!

Nancy Springer captivates young listeners with mysteries that feature Sherlock Holmes' little sister Enola. Edgar Award-winning author Nancy Springer captivates young listeners with mysteries that feature Sherlock Holmes' little sister Enola. Abandoned by her mother and fearing her brothers will exile her to finishing school, 14-year-old Enola lives a lonely London existence.

After being set adrift at sea, baby Mordred is found by fisherfolk who raise him as their own. One day, a beautiful, magical lady appears to carry him back to his birth-mother's cold castle. There, alone but for his faithful dog, he comes of age and learns the horrible truth about his identity. Everyone knows Mordred as the dark, evil son who kills the noble King Arthur. But what would it be like to be born as Mordred, an unwanted child with a dreadful destiny?

Although the legend of King Arthur has been told many times, rarely have the villains of the tale been given voices. Here, the treacherous half-sister of Arthur tells the fantastic story of her life, from her tragic childhood to the moment she realizes her fated role in the King's downfall. This is the perfect companion to Nancy Springer's I Am Mordred, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults.

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.

In the ancient moors of Scotland, the king of Calidon lies on his deathbed, cursed by a ring that cannot be removed from his finger. When a mysterious fey stranger appears to save the king, he also carries a secret that could tear the royal family apart. The kingdom's only hope will lie with two young men raised worlds apart. Aric is the beloved heir to the throne of Calidon; Albaric is clearly of noble origin yet strangely out of place. The Oddling Prince is a tale of brothers whose love and loyalty to each other defies impending warfare, sundering seas, fated hatred, and the very course of time itself.

Enola Holmes es la hermana de Sherlock y Mycroft. Y al igual que ellos, posee inteligencia, habilidades e inclinaciones detectivescas. Cuando la señorita Letitia Glover, una mujer emancipada, acude a Sherlock para pedirle que averigüe qué ha ocurrido con su hermana gemela, es Enola quien la recibe. Al parecer, y según dice el breve mensaje que ha recibido, su hermana Felicity, casada con el conde de Dunhench, ha muerto. Pero Letitia Glover está convencida de que eso no es cierto: si su hermana hubiera fallecido, lo habría sabido, lo habría sentido en su interior.

En esta entrega, Enola Holmes se ve obligada a garantizar la seguridad de Lady Cecily, y también su libertad. El detestable Sir Eustace Alistair ha encerrado a su hija zurda en su dormitorio. Enola llevará a cabo una arriesgada pero exitosa maniobra de fuga a altas horas de la noche, y acogerá a Cecily en su propio alojamiento secreto. Sin embargo, alguien le pisa los talones: ¡Sherlock! Así da comienzo una emocionante aventura. ¿Cómo podrá Enola proteger a Lady Cecily de su padre? ¿Y qué hará Lady Cecily, plantarle cara o regresar a su personalidad diestra y obediente?

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.

1888. Le jour où Enola Holmes découvre que sa mère a disparu, elle pressent qu'elle seule pourra la retrouver. Elle qui a grandi libre, est alors soumise par ses frères à l'apprentissage des bonnes manières d'une lady, puis expédiée droit vers un pensionnat de jeunes filles. Mais la chère enfant a du cran et de la ressource et elle échappe à son détective de frère, plogeant dans les basfonds de la capitale.

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.

Le grand retour d'Enola Holmes, l'héroïne de Netflix ! Aidée de son frère Sherlock, Enola Holmes doit résoudre l'énigme de la disparition d'une jeune Lady. Son époux dit qu'elle est morte, mais elle aurait été emmenée par une mystérieuse calèche noire... Avec son culot et sa débrouillardise légendaires, Enola va devoir affronter la folie et le monde secret des asiles pour mettre au jour une grande conspiration !

Liana Clymer is running away - from her divorce, from her past, from herself. Leaving behind everything she knows, she finds herself ensconced in a fuchsia-colored cottage in the swampy hinterlands of the Florida panhandle. Far from the grown sons who don't return her calls, her only companion her dog, Liana decides to put her best foot forward and get to know whoever lives in the blue house across the street, the only neighbors within sight of her new home.

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.

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.