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• Babel

  or the Necessity of Violence : An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution

  Kuang, R. F. (Rebecca F.)

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  "From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Cloisters

  a Novel

  Hays, Katy, 1982-

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  "When Ann Stilwell arrives in New York City, she expects to spend her summer working as a curatorial associate at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Instead she finds herself assigned to The Cloisters, a gothic museum and garden renowned for its…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Lesson in Vengeance

  Lee, Victoria (Author of young adult fantasy),

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  A dark, twisty thriller about a centuries-old, ivy-covered boarding school haunted by its history of witchcraft and two girls dangerously close to digging up the past. The dangerous romance and atmospheric setting makes it a perfect read for fans of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Atlas Six

  Blake, Olivie,

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  "The Alexandrian Society, caretakers of lost knowledge from the greatest civilizations of antiquity, are the foremost secret society of magical academicians in the world. Those who earn a place among the Alexandrians will secure a life of wealth,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Maidens

  Michaelides, Alex, 1977-

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  Edward Fosca is a murderer--of this Mariana is certain. But Fosca is untouchable. A handsome and charismatic Greek tragedy professor at Cambridge University, Fosca is adored by staff and students alike--particularly by the members of a secret…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ninth House

  Bardugo, Leigh

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  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.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bunny

  Awad, Mona,

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  Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Deadly Education

  a Novel

  Novik, Naomi

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  "Enter a school of magic unlike any you have ever encountered: There are no teachers, no holidays, and no friendships save strategic ones. Survival is more important than any letter grade, for the school won't allow its students to leave until they…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Catherine House

  a Novel

  Thomas, Elisabeth

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  Catherine House is a school of higher learning like no other. For those lucky few selected, tuition, room, and board are free--but acceptance comes with a price. Students are required to give the House three years, summers included, completely…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Secret History

  Tartt, Donna

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  Truly deserving of the accolade a modern classic, Donna Tartt?s novel is a remarkable achievement?both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful.Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I Have Some Questions for You

  Makkai, Rebecca

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  "A successful film professor and podcaster, Bodie Kane is content to forget her past--the family tragedy that marred her adolescence, her four largely miserable years at a New Hampshire boarding school, and the murder of her former roommate, Thalia…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Jawbone

  Ojeda, Mónica, 1988-

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  Fernanda and Annelise are so close they are practically sisters: a double image, inseparable. So how does Fernanda end up bound on the floor of a deserted cabin, held hostage by one of her teachers and estranged from Annelise? When Fernanda,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• If We Were Villains

  Rio, M. L.

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  Entreated to tell his side of the story to a detective who put him in prison a decade earlier for a murder he may not have committed, Oliver Marks describes his past as a Shakespearean actor in college whose rivalry with a castmate escalated in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Never Let Me Go

  Ishiguro, Kazuo, 1954-

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  From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, comes an unforgettable edge-of-your-seat mystery that is at once heartbreakingly tender and morally courageous about what it means to be human. Hailsham seems…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Vita Nostra

  Di͡achenko, Marina

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  Sasha Samokhina has been accepted to the Institute of Special Technologies. Or, more precisely, she's been chosen. Situated in a tiny village, she finds the students are bizarre, and the curriculum even more so. The books are impossible to read, the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Picture of Dorian Gray

  Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900

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  A beautiful young man, Dorian Gray, sits for a portrait. In the garden of the artist's house he falls into conversation with Lord Wotton, who convinces him that only beauty is worth pursuing. Gray wishes that his portrait, and not himself, might age…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

  Schwab, Victoria

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  Making a Faustian bargain to live forever but never be remembered, a woman from early eighteenth-century France endures unacknowledged centuries before meeting a man who remembers her name.

• Frankenstein

  the 1818 Text

  Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851

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  Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Though Frankenstein is very much a product of the Gothic and Romantic literary…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Piranesi

  Clarke, Susanna

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  From the author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, an intoxicating, hypnotic new novel set in a dreamlike alternative reality. Piranesi's house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Incendiaries

  Kwon, R. O.

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  In this "novel of violence, love, faith, and loss, ... a young woman at an elite American university is drawn into acts of domestic terrorism by a cult tied to North Korea"--Amazon.com.