A Certain Hunger Romance_Gift_Guide Twenty-nine-year-old PhD student Ingrid Yang

Twenty-nine-year-old PhD student Ingrid Yang is desperate to finish her dissertation on the late canonical poet Xiao-Wen Chou and never read about “Chinese-y” things again

a role that earned her the nickname of the "Dear Abby of Death

and when Nathaniel sends the djinni out to steal the powerful Amulet of Samarkand

ingenious die-cut pages

bats that bite

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