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Courtney Summers

    Courtney Summers crée des histoires captivantes et atmosphériques qui explorent souvent les aspects plus sombres de l'adolescence. Son style d'écriture est percutant et direct, plongeant les lecteurs dans l'esprit de ses personnages et les forçant à faire face à des vérités inconfortables. Summers n'hésite pas à aborder des thèmes complexes, et ses œuvres sont reconnues pour leur profondeur émotionnelle et leur réalisme troublant. Sa capacité à créer des protagonistes féminines inoubliables et complexes lui a valu une place de choix dans la littérature contemporaine pour jeunes adultes.

    Courtney Summers
    Project
    Cracked Up to Be
    This is not a Test
    All the Rage
    Sadie
    The Dead and the Dark
    • The Dead and the Dark

      • 384pages
      • 14 heures de lecture
      4,0(8971)Évaluer

      Il se passe des choses étranges et terribles à Snakebite, Oregon. Des adolescents disparaissent, et tous les soupçons se portent sur les chasseurs de fantôme les plus populaires de l'écran, qui viennent de débarquer en ville.Leur fille Logan comprend vite que si elle veut les innocenter, elle va devoir mener l'enquête de son côté. Car depuis leur arrivée à Snakebite, ses pères semblent multiplier les secrets...De son côté, Ashley, la petite amie du premier garçon à avoir disparu, croit sentir son fantôme la suivre... et comprend que la mystérieuse Logan est peut-être la seule qui puisse l'aider à obtenir des réponses.Unissant leurs forces pour tenter de découvrir quels êtres hantent Snakebite, les deux adolescentes découvrent, au fil de leur enquête, des vérités sur la ville, sur leurs propres familles et sur elles-mêmes, auxquelles ni l'une ni l'autre n'était préparée. Tandis que le danger s'intensifie, ce qui naît entre elles pourrait bien être une lumière au milieu des ténèbres...

      The Dead and the Dark
    • Sadie

      • 320pages
      • 12 heures de lecture
      4,1(110715)Évaluer

      Told from the alternating perspectives of nineteen-year-old Sadie who runs away from her isolated small Colorado town to find her younger sister's killer, and a true crime podcast exploring Sadie's disappearance.

      Sadie
    • All the Rage

      • 336pages
      • 12 heures de lecture
      3,9(198)Évaluer

      Available now: I'M THE GIRL, the new "brutally captivating" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) queer thriller from Courtney Summers, based loosely on The Epstein case and "not for the faint of heart" (The New York Times) Named a "Best Book of 2015" by Bustle, Book Riot, Chicago Public Library, Quill and Quire, and the B&N Teen Blog! The sheriff's son, Kellan Turner, is not the golden boy everyone thinks he is, and Romy Grey knows that for a fact. Because no one wants to believe a girl from the wrong side of town, the truth about him has cost her everything—friends, family, and her community. Branded a liar and bullied relentlessly by a group of kids she used to hang out with, Romy's only refuge is the diner where she works outside of town. No one knows her name or her past there; she can finally be anonymous. But when a girl with ties to both Romy and Kellan goes missing after a party, and news of him assaulting another girl in a town close by gets out, Romy must decide whether she wants to fight or carry the burden of knowing more girls could get hurt if she doesn't speak up. Nobody believed her the first time—and they certainly won't now—but the cost of her silence might be more than she can bear. With a shocking conclusion and writing that will absolutely knock you out, Courtney Summers' new novel All the Rage examines the shame and silence inflicted upon young women in a culture that refuses to protect them.

      All the Rage
    • Barricaded in Cortege High with five other teens while zombies try to get in, Sloane Price observes her fellow captives become more unpredictable and violent as time passes although they each have much more reason to live than she has.

      This is not a Test
    • Cracked Up to Be

      A Novel

      • 224pages
      • 8 heures de lecture
      3,8(14866)Évaluer

      In this young adult novel debut, the story of a girl too smart for her own good who, after one tragic night, decides to reject the popular life in exchange for one of solitude. Perfect Parker Fadley isn't so perfect anymore. She's quit the cheerleading squad, she's dumped her perfect boyfriend, and she's failing school. Her parents are on a constant suicide watch and her counselors think she's playing games...but what they don't know, the real reason for this whole mess, isn't something she can say out loud. It isn't even something she can say to herself. A horrible thing has happened and it just might be her fault. If she can just remove herself from everybody--be totally alone--then everything will be okay...The problem is, nobody will let her. “Cracked Up To Be gives you Parker, her world, her friends, straight up, no chaser. You won't forget her.” —Kathe Koja author of Kissing The Bee

      Cracked Up to Be
    • 3,5(12676)Évaluer

      "The Unity Project saved my life."Lo Denham is used to being on her own. After her parents died, Lo's sister, Bea, joined The Unity Project, leaving Lo in the care of their great aunt. Thanks to its extensive charitable work and community outreach, The Unity Project has won the hearts and minds of most in the Upstate New York region, but Lo knows there's more to the group than meets the eye. She's spent the last six years of her life trying - and failing - to prove it."The Unity Project murdered my son."When a man shows up at the magazine Lo works for claiming The Unity Project killed his son, Lo sees the perfect opportunity to expose the group and reunite with Bea once and for all. When her investigation puts her in the direct path of its charismatic and mysterious leader, Lev Warren, he proposes a deal: if she can prove the worst of her suspicions about The Unity Project, she may expose them. If she can't, she must finally leave them alone.But as Lo delves deeper into The Project, the lives of its members, and spends more time with Lev, it upends everything she thought she knew about her sister, herself, cults, and the world around her--to the point she can no longer tell what's real or true. Lo never thought she could afford to believe in Lev Warren . . . but now she doesn't know if she can afford not to.Welcome to The Unity Project.

      Project
    • A BRUTALLY ILLUMINATING, GROUNDBREAKING NEW THRILLER FROM NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AND EDGAR AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR COURTNEY SUMMER.When sixteen-year-old Georgia Avis discovers the dead body of thirteen-year-old Ashley James, she teams up with Ashley's older sister, Nora, to find and bring the killer to justice before he strikes again. But their investigation throws Georgia into a world of unimaginable privilege and wealth, without conscience or consequence, and as Ashley’s killer closes in, Georgia will discover when money, power and beauty rule, it might not be a matter of who is guilty—but who is guiltiest.A spiritual successor to the 2018 breakout hit, Sadie , I'm the Girl is a masterfully written, bold, and unflinching account of how one young woman feels in her body as she struggles to navigate a deadly and predatory power structure while asking readers one if this is the way the world is, do you accept it?

      I'm the Girl
    • Sadie

      Stirbt sie, wird niemand die Wahrheit erfahren

      4,0(212)Évaluer

      Ihre kleine Schwester Mattie ist das einzige, was für Sadie wirklich zählt. Ihr möchte sie die Geborgenheit geben, die ihr selbst immer gefehlt hat. Als Mattie tot aufgefunden wird, bricht Sadie der Boden unter den Füßen weg. Nach ergebnislosen Polizeiermittlungen macht sie sich selbst auf die Suche nach Matties Mörder. Koste es, was es wolle. Journalist West McCray widmet Sadies Verschwinden einen True-Crime-Podcast, der zu einer fieberhaften Spurensuche wird. Kannte Sadie den Mörder? McCray muss herausfinden, was passiert ist, und hofft, dass er nicht zu spät kommt. Ein fesselnder Thriller um Rache und Gerechtigkeit, den man so schnell nicht mehr vergisst!

      Sadie
    • Sie fand ihn schön. Sie hatte ein bisschen zu viel getrunken. Er brachte sie an die frische Luft. Dıe Ladefläche seines Pick-ups war kalt unter ihrem Rücken... Nicht einmal ihre beste Freundin Penny glaubt Romy, dass der Sohn des Sheriffs sie vergewaltigt hat. Stattdessen wird Romy von ihren Mitschülern als Lügnerin verhöhnt. Mit einer Rüstung aus rotem Nagellack, Lippenstift und Wut schützt sie sich vor den Anfeindungen und dem Loch in ihrem Inneren. Als Penny von einer Party nicht nach Hause kommt, spürt Romy, dass Pennys Verschwinden etwas mit ihr zu tun hat. Sie muss sich ihrer Erinnerung stellen. Kompromisslos und voll poetischer Kraft.

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