Bøger af Jessica Brody

"An indispensable guide in the bestselling Save the Cat! story structure series that reveals the 15 essential plot points needed to make any young adult novel a success, from an accomplished novelist and the author of Save the Cat! Writes a Novel"--

When you can choose to be anyone, how do you know who you really are? From the author of Better You Than Me and I Speak Boy comes another fun and relatable book about new experiences and how staying true to yourself is the best way to be okay.Twelve-year-old Amelia Gray has changed schools thirty-nine times (!!!) because of her dad’s job, which doesn’t leave a lot of time for making friends. But that’s okay. Amelia loves her “life on the go” with Dad and their adorable supermutt, Biscotti. She’s been in enough middle schools to know that friendships are messy, and who needs that?But when her dad announces that he wants to stay in their new town for the whole summer—maybe even forever—Amelia realizes she’s going to have to do the one thing she’s never had to do: fit in.So she gives herself not one but three total makeovers, to try out a few personalities and hopefully find her “thing.” Is she Amie, a confident track star? Mellie, a serious journalist? Or Lia, a bold theater kid?Juggling three identities is hard, and Amelia soon finds herself caught in the kind of friendship drama she has always managed to avoid. Yet despite her best efforts, she still can’t answer the most important question of all: Who is the real Amelia Gray?

Les Misérables meets The Lunar Chronicles in the thrilling System Divine trilogy that’s an “explosion of emotion, intrigue, romance, and revolution” (Stephanie Garber, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Caraval series)—now together in a collectible hardcover boxed set.A thief. An officer. A guardian. Three strangers, one shared destiny… When the Last Days came, the planet of Laterre promised hope. A new life for a wealthy French family and their descendants. But five hundred years later, it’s now a place where an extravagant elite class reigns supreme; where the clouds hide the stars and the poor starve in the streets; where a rebel group, long thought dead, is resurfacing. Whispers of revolution have begun—a revolution that hinges on three unlikely heroes. Street-savvy Chatine, dutiful Marcellus, and mysterious Alouette all have a role to play in a dangerous game of revolution—and together they will shape the future of a planet. This gripping boxed set includes: Sky Without Stars Between Burning Worlds Suns Will Rise

Les Misrables meets The Lunar Chronicles in this thrilling conclusion to the System Divine trilogy that's an ';explosion of emotion, intrigue, romance, and revolution' (Stephanie Garber, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Caraval series).An heir. A renegade. A convict. A cyborg. A dfecteur. Five rebels. One revolution. It's been three months since the Patriarche was beheaded, leaving behind no known heir. Now, the planet of Laterre is unrecognizable. General Bonnefaon has cleaned up the streets, fed the hungry, and restored peace while the next leader is decided upon. From the outside, Laterre seems to be flourishing. But dangerous rifts threaten to shatter the planet from within. The Red Scar has been killing off anyone with a legitimate claim to the Regime, while the Vangarde are preparing for the return of their infamous leader. Then, it's revealed that the Patriarche had a daughter who is still alive. A missing Paresse heirAlouette has been locked in a secret facility for months, interrogated on the whereabouts of the General's renegade grandson. Marcellus is desperately searching for Alouette, knowing she's the key to the Vangarde's plan to overthrow the corrupt Regime, but unaware that he, himself, is being hunted by a new cyborg tasked with tracking down the planet's most wanted criminals. Meanwhile Chatine is growing restless, living underground with a rebel group she doesn't fit into. Until an old friend solicits her help to save the Dfecteur community from a mysterious, new threat. A threat that will tie them all together. When the general makes an explosive play for power, allegiances will shift, rebels will become leaders, barricades will rise, and the tinderbox of Laterre will finally ignite, launching a revolution five hundred years in the making.

Fifteen-year-old Brooklyn Pierce is notorious for making bad decisions. Now she's putting her fate in the hands of her blog readers.

This sweeping reimagining of Les Miserables tells the story of three teens from very different backgrounds who are thrown together amidst the looming threat of revolution on the French planet of Laterre.

Three years after making the decision to turn down her acceptance to an elite private school for the opportunity to date the boy of her dreams, eighteen-year-old high school senior Kennedy Rhodes walks in on that same boyfriend cheating with her best friend and wishes she had chosen differently.

Jennifer Hunter is an expert on men. She can tell if they're single, married or lying...She runs a company which specialises in conducting fidelity inspections for those who suspect their loved ones are capable of infidelity. Boyfriend behaving badly? Suspect your husband of straying? Then Jennifer can supply the ultimate test.Some might call it entrapment but to Jennifer it's business pure and simple. And business is booming. But every success brings inevitable backlash and with each new challenge, Jen finds it harder and harder to stay in "e;retirement,"e; despite the promises she has made to her new boyfriend, Jamie to leave the actual 'seductions' to her employees.Unfortunately, Jamie is one of the few men that Jennifer's never been able to 'read'. But after seeing so many men fail the fidelity tests, can Jennifer let herself believe in one good man?

'My mission has been clear from day one. Uncover the truth. Give women a chance to move on with their lives. But not everyone sees this job as a worthy cause...They'd see me as a woman who knowingly flirts with married men and then breaks up relationships. Ruins families. Tears people apart. And that's why I keep it to myself.'Working under the code name 'Ashlyn', Jennifer Hunter leads a double life. Her friends and family all think she's an investment banker who's too busy to date. In reality, Jennifer is a professional honey-trap, hired by suspicious wives and girlfriends to test the fidelity of the men in their lives. Her job has made her pretty cynical about her own love life. But just as she's ready to swear off men for ever, Jennifer meets sexy, sophisticated Jamie Richards, a man who might just past her fidelity test. However, before she retires her secret agent self forever, she takes on one last assignment - a job which will permanently alter her perceptions of trust, honesty, and love.

Sera har undergået en ny hukommelsesændring hos Diotech og er nu en lydig og loyal tjener af doktor Alixter og den magtfulde virksomhed, som skabte hende. Hun er lykkeligt forelsket i Kaelen, og hendes tid sammen med Zen er nu kun et fjernt minde fra en rebelsk fortid. Men da Sera og Kaelen tager på landsturne for at promovere Diotechs nye produktlinje, begynder hendes sind at gøre oprør. Hun kan ikke længere stoppe de minder om Zen, som trænger sig på.Efterhånden som flere hemmeligheder afdækkes, nye fjender afsløres, og sandheden om en Diotech-kontrolleret verden bliver mere og mere tydelig, må Sera vælge, hvor hendes sande loyalitet ligger. Men det er et valg, som kan koste hende alt, hun nogensinde har elsket.Tredje og sidste bog i trilogien "Unremembered"..

Sera og Zen befinder sig i år 1609, hvor de gemmer sig hos en lille bondefamilie. De er flygtet tilbage i tiden for at kunne være i sikkerhed langt væk fra Diotechs udspekulerede videnskabelige eksperimenter. Men nye farer truer, da Sera får sværere ved at skjule sine særlige evner, og Zen pludselig bliver angrebet af en mystisk og nedbrydende sygdom. Sera må endnu engang rejse langt gennem tid og rum – men Diotech har fremstillet et nyt og overraskende våben til at få fat i hende. Hvis Sera skal redde Zen fra døden og bekæmpe den virksomhed, der skabte hende, må hun søge dybt ind i sit eget sind for at finde hemmeligheden. En hemmelighed, som flere vil slå ihjel for at få fat i.UDEN MINDER og UDEN GLEMSEL er de to første bøger i Unremembered-trilogien. Glæd dig til tredje og sidste bog, som udkommer i 2016.

“ Freedom Airlines’ flight 121’s tragiske styrt over Stillehavet i aftes er fortsat omgærdet af mystik. Eksperter arbejder i døgndrift på at identificere den foreløbig eneste overlevende passager, en sekstenårig pige. Læger på hospitalet i Los Angeles, hvor den unge kvinde er indlagt, bekræfter, at hun lider af omfattende hukommelsestab og ikke kan huske noget forud for ulykken.”Ingen ved, hvem pigen er, hvordan hun slap fra flystyrtet med livet i behold, og hvorfor hun hverken står opført på passagerlisten eller i nogen offentlige registre.Netop som hun er ved at forlige sig med, at hun er helt alene i verden, dukker en ung mand op ud af den blå luft. Han påstår, at de kendte hinanden før flystyrtet. Og at de var forelskede. Men kan hun stole på ham …?UDEN MINDER er første bog af Unremembered-trilogien.