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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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.