{"title":"Alex Stern Series","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"ninth-house-leigh-bardugo","title":"Ninth House","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe best fantasy novel I've read in years, because it's about real people. . . Impossible to put down.\" -Stephen King\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe smash\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ebestseller from Leigh Bardugo, a mesmerizing tale of power, privilege, and dark magic set among the Ivy League elite.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGoodreads Choice Award Winner\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLocus Finalist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGalaxy “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. By age twenty, in fact, 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 elite universities on a full ride. What’s the catch, and why her?\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eStill searching for answers to this herself, Alex arrives in New Haven tasked by her mysterious benefactors with monitoring the activities of Yale’s secret societies. These eight windowless “tombs” are well-known to be haunts of the future rich and powerful, from high-ranking politicos to Wall Street and Hollywood’s biggest players. But their occult activities are revealed to be more sinister and more extraordinary than any paranoid imagination might conceive.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e--\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eLeigh Bardugo \u003c\/b\u003eis a #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author and the creator of the Grishaverse (now a Netflix series) which spans the Shadow and Bone trilogy, the Six of Crows duology, \u003ci\u003eThe Language of Thorns\u003c\/i\u003e, and the King of Scars duology-\"with more to come. Her other works include \u003ci\u003eWonder Woman: Warbringer\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNinth House\u003c\/i\u003e (Goodreads Choice Winner for Best Fantasy 2019). 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Something deadly is at work in New Haven, and if she is going to survive, she’ll have to reckon with the monsters of her past and a darkness built into the university’s very walls.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThick with history and packed with Bardugo’s signature twists, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHell Bent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e brings to life an intricate world full of magic, violence, and all too real monsters.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e--\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLeigh Bardugo\u003c\/strong\u003e is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Ninth House and the creator of the Grishaverse (now a Netflix original series) which spans the Shadow and Bone trilogy, the Six of Crows duology, the King of Scars duology—and much more. 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Limited copies available.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe highly anticipated, explosive conclusion to the Ninth House trilogy from #1\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ebestselling author Leigh Bardugo.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHell is empty and all the devils are here…\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAlex Stern made it to hell and back more than once, but this time she left the door open behind her. Demons are creeping through the streets of New Haven and the Yale campus, feeding on the souls of the living, terrifying the dead. Alex and her allies can hunt them, but it’s only a matter of time before the gates to the underworld open and they face a war they cannot win. 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