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• Enigma

  RuNyx (Novelist),

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  Salem Salazar is a Mortimer University legacy and the black sheep of her scandal-ridden, wealthy family. Obsessed with death, she arrives at Mortimer on the hunt for answers about what happened to her perfect, missing older sister. There, she…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Incandescent

  a School Story

  Tesh, Emily,

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  Doctor Walden is the Director of Magic at Chetwood School and one of the most powerful magicians in England. Her days consist of meetings, teaching A-Level Invocation to four talented, chaotic sixth formers, more meetings, and securing the school's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Rabbit Club

  a Novel

  Yates, Christopher J.,

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  When Ali McCain, an eighteen-year-old from Los Angeles, is accepted at Oxford, its a chance to fulfill his dreams. But not long after he arrives at the storied campus, Ali is drawn into a dark, disorienting world where events grow more and more…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Blood Over Bright Haven

  a Novel

  Wang, M. L. (Maya Lin),

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  For twenty years, Sciona has devoted every waking moment to the study of magic. When she finally achieves her ambition to become the first woman admitted to the High Magistry at the University of Magics and Industry, she finds herself undermined at…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Death in the Spires

  Charles, KJ,

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  1905. A decade after the grisly murder of Oxford student Toby Feynsham, the case remains hauntingly unsolved. For Jeremy Kite, the crime not only stole his best friend, it destroyed his whole life. When an anonymous letter lands on his desk,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Atlas Six

  Blake, Olivie,

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  Those who earn a place among the Alexandrians will secure a life of wealth, power, and prestige beyond their wildest dreams, and each decade, only the six most uniquely talented magicians are selected to be considered for initiation. Enter the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Babel

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

  Kuang, R. F. (Rebecca F.),

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  1828. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by the mysterious Professor Lovell. There, he trains for years in Latin, Ancient Greek, and Chinese, all in preparation for the day he'll enroll in Oxford University's…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

• Ace of Spades

  Àbíké-Íyímídé, Faridah,

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  At Niveus Private Academy, Devon and Chiamaka are the only students chosen to be Senior Prefects who are also black, which makes them targets for a series of anonymous texts revealing their secrets to the entire student body. Both students were on…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 society…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Library of the Dead

  Huchu, T. L.,

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  Ropa dropped out of school to become a ghostalker - and they sure do love to talk. Now she speaks to Edinburgh's dead, carrying messages to those they left behind. A girl's gotta earn a living, and it seems harmless enough. Until, that is, the dead…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Deadly Education

  a Novel

  Novik, Naomi,

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  The rules are deceptively simple: Don't walk the halls alone. And beware of the monsters who lurk everywhere. El is uniquely prepared for the school's dangers. She may be without allies, but she possesses a dark power strong enough to level…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

• The Library of the Unwritten

  Hackwith, A. J.,

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  Books that aren't finished by their authors reside in the Library of the Unwritten in Hell, but when restless characters who emerge from those unfinished stories escape, it is up to the Librarian to track them down...and keep the collection…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

• The Starless Sea

  Morgenstern, Erin,

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  Zachary Ezra Rawlins is a graduate student in Vermont when he discovers a rare book hidden in the stacks. As he turns the pages he reads something strange: a story from his own childhood. Bewildered and desperate to make sense of this, Zachary…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Incendiaries

  Kwon, R. O.,

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  Grieving and guilt-ridden, Phoebe is increasingly drawn into a religious group—a secretive extremist cult—founded by a charismatic former student, John Leal. He has an enigmatic past that involves North Korea and Phoebe's Korean American family.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Never Let Me Go

  Ishiguro, Kazuo, 1954-

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  As children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside. It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rules where teachers were constantly reminding their charges of how…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Secret History

  Tartt, Donna

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  Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries. But when…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Picture of Dorian Gray

  Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900

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  Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life, indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman in…Read moreRead more of this annotation