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Ryan Douglass

    Ryan Douglass est un auteur dont le premier roman pour jeunes adultes explore les complexités de l'identité et du passage à l'âge adulte. Son œuvre se caractérise par un aperçu pénétrant de la vie intérieure des personnages et de la manière dont ils forgent leur place dans le monde. Le style de Douglass est à la fois intime et troublant, incitant les lecteurs à réfléchir à leurs propres expériences. À travers ses histoires, il explore les thèmes de l'appartenance et de la recherche de la vérité.

    The Taking of Jake Livingston
    • The Taking of Jake Livingston

      • 256pages
      • 9 heures de lecture

      Sixteen-year-old Jake sees dead people, but when one ghost starts menacing him, Jake soon realises he's out of his depth. Get Out meets Holly Jackson in this YA social thriller where survival is not guaranteed. Sixteen-year-old Jake Livingston sees dead people everywhere. But he can’t decide what’s worse: being a medium forced to watch the dead play out their last moments on a loop or being at the mercy of racist teachers as one of the few Black students at St Clair Prep. Both are a living nightmare he wishes he could wake up from. But things at St Clair start looking up with the arrival of another Black student – the handsome Allister – and for the first time, romance is on the horizon for Jake. Unfortunately, life as a medium is getting worse. Though most ghosts are harmless, Sawyer Doon wants much more from Jake. In life, Sawyer was a troubled teen who shot and killed six kids at a local high school before taking his own life. Now he’s a powerful, vengeful ghost and he has plans for Jake. High school has become a different kind of survival game – one Jake is not sure he can win.

      The Taking of Jake Livingston2021
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