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SUMMARY:Virtual Author Talk
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DESCRIPTION:You’re invited to join us for a live\, virtual conversa
 tion with the acclaimed author about her latest fantastical work\, which p
 oses the question: Have you ever wished you could live inside a book?.\nht
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p style="text-align: justify\;">Welcome to t
 he Astral Library\, where books are not just objects\, but doors to new wo
 rlds\, new lives\, and new futures.</p>\n<p style="text-align: justify\;">
 Alexandria &ldquo\;Alix&rdquo\; Watson has learned one lesson from her bar
 ren childhood in the foster-care system: unlike people\, books will never 
 let you down. Working three dead-end jobs to make ends meet and knowing co
 llege is a pipe dream\, Alix takes nightly refuge in the high-vaulted read
 ing room at the Boston Public Library\, escaping into her favorite fantasy
  novels and dreaming of far-off lands. Until the day she stumbles through 
 a hidden door and meets the Librarian: the ageless\, acerbic guardian of a
  hidden library where the desperate and the lost escape to new lives ... i
 nside their favorite books.</p>\n<p style="text-align: justify\;">The Libr
 arian takes a dazzled Alix under her wing\, but before she can escape into
  the pages of her new life\, a shadowy enemy emerges to threaten everyone 
 the Astral Library has ever helped protect. Aided by a dashing costume-sho
 p owner\, Alix and the Librarian flee through the Regency drawing rooms of
  Jane Austen to the back alleys of Sherlock Holmes and the champagne-soake
 d parties of The Great Gatsby as danger draws inexorably closer. But who d
 oes their enemy really wish to destroy&mdash\;Alix\, the Librarian\, or th
 e Library itself?</p>\n<p style="text-align: justify\;">Register now to he
 ar more about <em>The Astral Library</em>\, crafted for all bookworms and 
 lovers of literature.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p class="heading4">About the Author</p>
 \n<p style="text-align: justify\;">Kate Quinn is the <em>New York Times</e
 m> and <em>USA Today</em> bestselling author of historical fiction. A nati
 ve of Southern California\, she attended Boston University\, where she ear
 ned bachelor&rsquo\;s and master&rsquo\;s degrees in classical voice. A li
 felong history buff\, she has written four novels in the <em>Empress of Ro
 me Saga</em> and two books set in the Italian Renaissance before turning t
 o the 20th century with <em>The Alice Network</em>\, <em>The Huntress</em>
 \, <em>The Rose Code</em>\, <em>The Diamond Eye</em>\, and <em>The Briar C
 lub</em>. <em>The Astral Library</em> is her first foray into magic realis
 m. She and her husband now live in Maryland with their rescue dogs.</p>\n<
 hr />\n<p style="text-align: justify\;"><em>Brought to you in partnership 
 with the Library Speakers Consortium. <a href="https://libraryc.org/westla
 kelibrary" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Visit our site</a> to see all ev
 ents\, register and explore recordings of past events.<br /></em></p>\nhtt
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