02644cam a2200385 i 4500 623674130 TxAuBib 20191212120000.0 190808s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2019035003 9781432872137 large print; hardcover 1432872133 large print; hardcover (OCoLC)1112141288 DLC DLC eng eng rda rda rda DLC rda OCLCO DLC OCLCF TXG KAA BKL TXKPL TxAuBib OCLCO OCLCF TXG KAA BKL TXKPL TxAuBib rda Bardugo, Leigh, author. Ninth House / By Leigh Bardugo. 9th house. Large print edition. Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2019. 681 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Galaxy "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 Street's biggest players. But their occult activities are more sinister and more extraordinary than any paranoid imagination might conceive. They tamper with forbidden magic. They raise the dead. And, sometimes, they prey on the living. Ninth House is the long-awaited adult debut by the beloved author of Shadow and Bone and Six of Crows. Leigh Bardugo will take her place alongside Lev Grossman and Deborah Harkness as one of the finest practitioners of literary fantasy writing today"-- Provided by publisher. 20191212. Yale University Fiction. Women college students Fiction. Secret societies Fiction. Magic Juvenile fiction. Horror fiction. Occult fiction. Thrillers. Fiction. TXKPL