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Ninth house
Ninth house
Bardugo Leigh (Bardugo Leigh)
SKU: VV1632132 ISBN: 9781250785947 Pages: 512 Paperback year: 2020 Publicher: Pan Macmillan (Pan Macmillan) Price: $69.33 ship 24-25
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| The mesmerizing adult debut from Leigh Bardugo, a tale of power, privilege, dark magic, and murder set among the Ivy League eliteGalaxy «Alex» Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale's freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug-dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse. In fact, by age twenty, she is the sole survivor of a horrific, unsolved multiple homicide. Some might say she's thrown her life away. But at her hospital bed, Alex is offered a second chance: to attend one of the world's most prestigious universities on a full ride. What's the catch, and why her?Still searching for answers, Alex arrives in New Haven tasked by her mysterious benefactors with monitoring the activities of Yale's secret societies. Their eight windowless «tombs» are the well-known haunts of the rich and powerful, from high-ranking politicos to Wall Stre |