02363cam a2200397 i 4500 1262065370 TxAuBib 190427s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2019019855 9781250313072 hardcover 1250313074 hardcover (OCoLC)19966 DLC eng rda DLC ORX GK8 CHY OI6 RB0 IH9 TCH WKM NZAUC FMG OCLCF YDX CNCAR OCLCO GYG PUL TxAuBib rda Bardugo, Leigh, author. Ninth house / Leigh Bardugo. 9th house. First U.S. edition. New York, NY : Flatiron Books, 2019. ©2019. 458 pages : map ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references. ""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."" -- Provided by publisher. Yale University Fiction. Women college students Fiction. Secret societies Fiction. Magic Fiction. Fiction. Paranormal fiction. Connecticut Fiction. Occult fiction. Thrillers (Fiction.) Horror fiction.