Courtney Summers

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

"A powerful, suspenseful, and heartbreaking thriller about identity, sisterhood, and belonging." - Kirkus (Starred Review) "Masterfully written and pulling no punches...Summers creates and sustains almost unbearable tension, exploring sacrifice, loss, forgiveness, miracles, surrender, grief, and lies. A gripping, flawless psychological thriller ready to leave readers shattered." - School Library Journal (Starred Review) "In this compelling and absorbing YA novel, two sisters make the most painful of choices based on their love for one another." - Shelf Awareness From Courtney Summers, the New York Times bestselling author of the 2019 Edgar Award Winner and breakout hit, Sadie, comes a sensational follow-up—another pulls-no-punches thriller about an aspiring young journalist determined to save her sister from a cult. "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. "This book is brave and raw and exciting and wise--wise about girls and women, weakness and strength, and the bittersweet beauty of being human."--Melissa Albert, New York Times bestselling author of The Hazel Wood Series

A Novel

The Project

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.

All the Rage

A reissue of New York Times bestselling author Courtney Summers's award-winning debut! The high price of perfection is one 'Perfect' Parker Fadley always believed she was willing to pay until the devastating events at a party during junior year fractures the lives of her family and friends. A terrible thing has happened and only Parker knows it's her fault. If being a perfect daughter, student, friend and girlfriend couldn't keep her from making an unforgivable mistake, Parker hopes becoming a perfect mess will at least keep her loved ones from discovering the truth--until the arrival of a curious new student and the unexpected return of an old enemy threaten her tenuous grip on control. Parker will do anything to keep her secret from surfacing . . . but this time the cost might be more than she can afford. The book featuring the unforgettable character that started it all, now with a new foreword from the author.

Cracked Up to Be

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

All sixteen-year-old Georgia Avis wants is everything, but the poverty and hardship that defines her life has kept her from the beautiful and special things she knows she deserves. When she stumbles upon the dead body of thirteen-year-old Ashley James, Georgia teams up with Ashley's older sister Nora, to find the killer before he strikes again, and their investigation throws Georgia into a glittering world of unimaginable privilege and wealth--and all she's ever dreamed. But behind every dream lurks a nightmare, and Georgia must reconcile her heart's desires with what it really takes to survive. As Ashley's killer closes in and their feelings for one another grow, Georgia and Nora will discover when money, power, and beauty rule, it's not always a matter of who is guilty but who is guiltiest--and the only thing that might save them is each other.

A spiritual successor to the breakout hit Sadie, I’m the Girl is a brutal and illuminating 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 question: if this is the way the world is, do you accept it?

I'm the Girl

Climbing to the top of the social ladder is hard—falling from it is even harder.  Regina Afton used to be a member of the Fearsome Fivesome, an all-girl clique both feared and revered by the students at Hallowell High... until vicious rumors about her—and her best friend's boyfriend—start going around.  Now Regina's been frozen out, and her ex-best friends are out for revenge.  If Regina were guilty, it would be one thing, but the rumors are far from the terrifying truth, and the bullying is getting more intense by the day.  She takes solace in the company of Michael Hayden, a misfit with a tragic past whom she herself used to bully.  Friendship doesn't come easily for these onetime enemies, and as Regina works hard to make amends for her past, she realizes Michael could be more than just a friend...if threats from the Fearsome Foursome don't break them both first.

Some Girls Are

Hannah Moskowitz

Neal Shusterman

Beth Revis

Shaun David Hutchinson

Kendare Blake

Tom Leveen

Steve Brezenoff

Delilah S. Dawson

Cynthia Leitich Smith

Mindi Scott

Blythe Woolston

Christine Johnson

E. M. Kokie

Elisa Nader

Margie Gelbwasser

Brendan Shusterman

Relates how one boy--who had friends, enjoyed reading, playing saxophone in the band, and had never been in trouble before--became a monster capable of entering his high school with a loaded gun and firing on his classmates, as told from the viewpoints of several victims. Each perspective is written by a different writer of young adult fiction.

Violent Ends

From the author of Cracked Up to Be and Some Girls Are comes 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 a daughter who loved him more than anyone else in the world? When she meets Culler Evans, a former student of her father's and a photographer himself, an instant and dangerous attraction begins. Culler seems to know more about her father than she does and could possibly hold the key to the mystery surrounding his death. But Eddie's vulnerability has weakened her and Culler Evans is getting too close. Her need for the truth keeps her hanging on...but are some questions better left unanswered?

Fall for Anything

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 the dead, there are no guarantees and the next leg of his journey will test him in unimaginable ways...

A Novella

Please Remain Calm

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, al parecer, no hay mayor pecado que el que una chica aparezca con vida mientras otra sigue perdida. Y deberá pagar por ello. La harán pagar por ello. Con toda la furia es un libro poderoso y cargado de dolor que explora los prejuicios sociales hacia las victimas que se animan a alzar la voz y exigir justicia.

Las disculpas no reviven a las chicas muertas

Con toda la furia

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 to be those she’s bullied and destroyed. Everyone says she has it coming . . . but is there something they don’t know? There is more to these two girls than meets the eye. With unflinching honesty and a razor sharp voice, Courtney Summers brings the tensions of high school terrifyingly alive in What Goes Around.

Two Books In One: Cracked Up to Be & Some Girls Are

What Goes Around

Secretul feteiperfecte

Sadie heeft geen makkelijke jeugd gehad. Sinds haar moeder uit beeld raakte, voedt Sadie haar zusje Mattie zelf op in hun afgelegen dorpje, en doet ze haar best om Mattie een normaal leven te bieden. Wanneer Mattie op een dag dood wordt aangetroffen, stort Sadies wereld in elkaar. Na een mislukt politieonderzoek is Sadie vastbesloten om haar zusje te wreken en gaat ze zelf op pad om Matties moordenaar te vinden. Wanneer West McCray - een radiopersoonlijkheid die werkt aan een programma over kleine, vergeten steden in Amerika - Sadies verhaal op een lokale nieuwszender hoort, raakt hij geobsedeerd met het vermiste meisje. Hij begint zijn eigen podcast om Sadies sporen te traceren en haar te vinden voordat het te laat is. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie.

Project

Includes an exclusive short story epilogue to Courtney Summers's breakout thriller, Sadie. 2023 ITW Thriller Award Finalist THIS WORLD WAS MADE BY MEN. Hidden in the mountains, beyond the poverty and hardship that defines sixteen-year-old Georgia Avis’s life, lies Aspera, an exclusive members-only resort catering to the nation’s wealthy elite. Aspera makes beautiful promises to beautiful girls willing to serve and keep its secrets, and Georgia’s dream comes true when she’s offered the chance to be one of them. But behind every dream lurks a nightmare and the grisly discovery of murdered thirteen-year-old Ashley James points to a killer amongst Aspera’s powerful membership. When Ashley’s older sister and Georgia’s long-time crush, Nora, enlists Georgia’s help proving it, the two will discover when power, money, and beauty rule, it's not always a matter of who is guilty, but who is guiltiest--and as the killer closes in, Georgia must reconcile her heart's desires with what it really takes to survive.

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El proyecto

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 la policía no logra sacar nada en claro, Sadie está determinada a llevar ante la justicia al asesino de su hermana y abandona su hogar para seguir las pocas pistas y encontrarlo. La historia de Sadie llega a oídos de West McCray, un conocido presentador de radio, quien se obsesionará con encontrar a la joven desaparecida. Pone en marcha su propio podcast conforme sigue los pasos de Sadie e intenta averiguar qué sucedió, con la esperanza de encontrarla antes de que sea demasiado tarde. «Un thriller fascinante sobre un viaje peligroso y lleno de emoción.» Stephanie Perkins, autora best seller de Hay alguien en tu casa. «Un thriller apasionante y lleno de tensión. Una historia de crecimiento personal y madurez, tan cruda como sensible. Un emotivo drama sobre el amor y la pérdida. Sadie es todo esto: una novela para todos los públicos y una protagonista inolvidable. Absolutamente deslumbrante.» A. J. Finn, autor de La mujer en la ventana.

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