Welcome to the Astral Library\, where book s are not just objects\, but doors to new worlds\, new lives\, and new fut ures. Alexandria &ldquo\;Alix&rdquo\; Watson has learned one lesson from h er barren childhood in the foster-care system: unlike people\, books will never let you down. Working three dead-end jobs to make ends meet and know ing college is a pipe dream\, Alix takes nightly refuge in the high-vaulte d reading room at the Boston Public Library\, escaping into her favorite f antasy novels and dreaming of far-off lands. Until the day she stumbles th rough a hidden door and meets the Librarian: the ageless\, acerbic guardia n of a hidden library where the desperate and the lost escape to new lives ...inside their favorite books.
\nThe Librarian 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 eve r helped protect. Aided by a dashing costume-shop owner\, Alix and the Lib rarian flee through the Regency drawing rooms of Jane Austen to the back a lleys of Sherlock Holmes and the champagne-soaked parties of \;The Gre at Gatsby \;as danger draws inexorably closer. But who does their enem y really wish to destroy&mdash\;Alix\, the Librarian\, or the Library itse lf?
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\nAbout the Author: \;Kate Quinn \;is the \;New York Times \;and \ ;USA Today \;bestselling author of historical fiction. A native of Sou thern California\, she attended Boston University\, where she earned bache lor&rsquo\;s and master&rsquo\;s degrees in classical voice. A lifelong hi story buff\, she has written four novels in the Empress of Rome Saga and t wo books set in the Italian Renaissance before turning to the 20th century with \;The Alice Network\, \;The Huntress\, \;The Rose Code\, \;The Diamond Eye\, and \;The Briar Club. \;The Astral \; Library \;is her first foray into magic realism. She and her husband n ow live in Maryland with their rescue dogs.
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