Courtney Summers
1) Sadie
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When popular radio personality West McCray receives a desperate phone call from a stranger imploring him to find nineteen-year-old runaway Sadie Hunter, he's not convinced there's a story there; girls go missing all the time. But when it's revealed that Sadie fled home after the brutal murder of her little sister, Mattie, West travels to the small town of Cold Creek, Colorado, to uncover what happened. Sadie has no idea that her journey to avenge...
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When sixteen-year-old Georgia Avis finds the dead body of thirteen-year-old Ashley James outside the gates of an exclusive resort, she teams up with Ashley's older sister Nora to find the killer, and she is thrown into a world of unimaginable wealth and privilege--and the fight for her life.
3) The project
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"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...
4) Sadie
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Una chica desaparecida en busca de venganza. Un periodista de radio que sigue las pistas que ella ha dejado. Y un final del que no podrás dejar de hablar.
Sadie no ha tenido una vida fácil. Ha crecido sola y ha criado a su hermana Mattie en un pueblo pequeño y remoto, haciendo todo lo posible por ofrecerle una vida normal y mantenerse a flote.
Pero un día encuentran a Mattie muerta y el mundo de Sadie se derrumba por completo. Tras ver que...
Sadie no ha tenido una vida fácil. Ha crecido sola y ha criado a su hermana Mattie en un pueblo pequeño y remoto, haciendo todo lo posible por ofrecerle una vida normal y mantenerse a flote.
Pero un día encuentran a Mattie muerta y el mundo de Sadie se derrumba por completo. Tras ver que...
6) Sadie
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Dans la petite ville de Cold Creek, Sadie, 19 ans, ne peut compter que sur elle-même pour élever Mattie, 13 ans. Abandonnées par leur mère toxicomane, les deux sœurs font de leur mieux pour garder la tête hors de l'eau. Le monde de l'aînée s'écroule quand Mattie est sauvagement assassinée.
La police n'a aucune piste sérieuse. Sadie, elle, est convaincue de connaître l'identité du tueur. Partie sur les traces de celui dont elle a juré...
7) All the rage
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St. Martin's Griffin
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2015.
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After being assaulted by the sheriff's son, Kellan Turner, Romy Grey was branded a liar and bullied by former friends, finding refuge only in the diner where she works outside of town, but when a girl with ties to both Romy and Kellan goes missing and news of him assaulting another girl gets out, Romy must decide whether to speak out again or risk having more girls hurt.
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Two girls. Two secrets. Two gritty, critically acclaimed novels in one.
For Parker, perfection is all that matters. No one will know how wrong she is inside if everything she does ends up right. But when the pressure proves too much, she makes a devastating mistake she'll do anything to keep hidden-even if it means becoming a perfect mess. For Regina, popularity comes with a price. When she's kicked out of her clique, she finds out what it's like...
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In Please Remain Calm, the gripping sequel to Courtney Summers' This is Not a Test, Rhys and Sloane are headed for a safe haven when they get separated along the way. Rhys is determined to reunite with Sloane until he discovers people who might need him more--people who offer him the closest he'll get to everything he's lost, if they can just hold on long enough. Rhys thinks he has what it takes to survive and find Sloane, but in a world overrun by...
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La policía encuentra a Romy al costado de una carretera. Herida. Con la ropa revuelta. Algo atroz escrito con lápiz de labios en su estómago. Y sin poder recordar nada. No fue la única chica desaparecida esa noche, aunque sí la única en regresar a casa. ¿Por qué ella sí y la otra chica no?
Al estrés postraumático, a la desesperación por recordar y a la necesidad por descubrir al culpable, se le sumará el rechazo de todo el mundo. Porque,...
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From the author of Cracked Up to Be and Some Girls Are comes Courtney Summers's Fall or Anything, a gripping story about one girl's search for clues into the mysterious death of her father.
When Eddie Reeves's father commits suicide her life is consumed by the nagging question of why? Why when he was a legendary photographer and a brilliant teacher? Why when he seemed to find inspiration in everything he saw? And, most important, why when he had...
12) Cracked up to be
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High school senior Parker Fadley has quit the cheerleading squad, broken up with her popular boyfriend, and is in danger of not graduating with her class, but she refuses to tell anyone what has precipitated this sudden change in her attitude and behavior, insisting that she only wants to be left alone.
13) Some girls are
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St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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Regina, a high school senior in the popular--and feared--crowd, suddenly falls out of favor and becomes the object of the same sort of vicious bullying that she used to inflict on others, until she finds solace with one of her former victims.
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Professional Book Nerds
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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Bestselling Young Adult author Courtney Summers returns to discuss her new book I'm the Girl. She shares with Jill the inspiration behind her book, writing books about teen girls for teen girls, the cultural systems in place that perpetuate violence against girls and women, and what it was like slipping a Sadie easter egg into the story.
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Professional Book Nerds
Pub. Date
2021
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English
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New York Times bestselling author Courtney Summers joins Jill to discuss her new book The Project. Along with discussing the fictional cult The Unity Project as seen in her book, Courtney discusses the research she did on real-life cults as part of her process, including Jonestown and The People's Temple.
16) Violent Ends
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
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2015
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English
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In a one-of-a-kind collaboration, seventeen of the most recognizable YA writers—including Shaun David Hutchinson, Neal and Brendan Shusterman, and Beth Revis—come together to share the viewpoints of a group of students affected by a school shooting.
It took only twenty-two minutes for Kirby Matheson to exit his car, march onto the school grounds, enter the gymnasium, and open fire, killing six and injuring five others.
But...
It took only twenty-two minutes for Kirby Matheson to exit his car, march onto the school grounds, enter the gymnasium, and open fire, killing six and injuring five others.
But...