Description |
458 pages : illustration ; 25 cm |
Series |
Bardugo, Leigh.
Alex Stern ; v. 01.
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Alex Stern ; 01. |
Summary |
The mesmerizing adult debut from #1 New York Times bestselling author Leigh Bardugo Galaxý Aléx Stern is the most unlikely member of Yalés 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. By age twenty, in fact, she is the sole survivor of a horrific, unsolved multiple homicide. Some might say shés thrown her life away. But at her hospital bed, Alex is offered a second chance: to attend one of the worĺds most elite universities on a full ride. What́s the catch, and why her? Still searching for answers to this herself, Alex arrives in New Haven tasked by her mysterious benefactors with monitoring the activities of Yalés secret societies. These eight windowlesś tombś are well-known to be haunts of the future rich and powerful, from high-ranking politicos to Wall Street and Hollywoóds biggest players. But their occult activities are revealed to be more sinister and more extraordinary than any paranoid imagination might conceive. |
Subject |
Yale University -- Fiction.
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Secret societies -- Fiction.
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Fantasy -- Fiction.
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Genre |
Occult fiction.
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Suspense fiction.
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Fantasy fiction.
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ISBN |
9781250313072 (hardcover) |
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