Historical fiction authors Kate Quinn and Janie Chang unite to each discuss their latest novels\, The Astral L ibrary and The Fourth Princess.
\nThe amazing team of Kate Quin n and Janie Chang\, authors of The Phoenix Crown\, return to Cambridge\, each with a new book. Together they will discuss the themes of their newes t novels and more details from behind the pages.
\nStop by the Woolf &\; Company (for merly Rookery Books) \;table to purchase titles by the author and have them signed as a memento of this special event.
\nDoors for thi s event will open at 6:00 pm.
\nRegistration is required to confirm attendance. Please register for everyone attending. Limited entry without registration may be available at the door\, but is not guaranteed.
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\nAbout Kate Quinn
\nKate Quinn \;is the \;New York Times \;and \;USA Today \;bestselling author of historical fiction. A native of Southern California\, she attend ed Boston University\, where she earned bachelor&rsquo\;s and master&rsquo \;s degrees in classical voice. A lifelong history buff\, she has written four novels in the Empress of Rome Saga and two books set in the Italian R enaissance before turning to the 20th century with \;The Alice Network \, \;The Huntress\, \;The Rose Code\, \;The Diamond Eye\, and& nbsp\;The Briar Club. \;The Astral \;Library \;is her first fo ray into magic realism. She and her husband now live in Maryland with thei r rescue dogs.
\nThe Astral Library
\nFrom&nb sp\;New York Times \;bestselling author Kate Quinn comes a gorgeously written fantastical adventure which poses the question: Have you ever wish ed you could live inside a book? \;Welcome to the Astral Library\, whe re books are not just objects\, but doors to new worlds\, new lives\, and new futures.
\nAlexandria &ldquo\;Alix&rdquo\; Watson has learned on e lesson from her barren childhood in the foster-care system: unlike peopl e\, books will never let you down. Working three dead-end jobs to make end s meet and knowing college is a pipe dream\, Alix takes nightly refuge in the high-vaulted reading 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 esca pe 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 ever helped protect. Aided by a dashing costume-shop owner\, A lix and the Librarian flee through the Regency drawing rooms of Jane Auste n to the back alleys of \;Sherlock Holmes \;and the champagne-soak ed parties of \;The Great Gatsby \;as danger draws inexorably clos er. But who does their enemy really wish to destroy&mdash\;Alix\, the Libr arian\, or the Library itself?
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\nAbout Janie Chang
\nJanie Chang \;is a \;Globe and Mail \; bestselling author of historical fiction. Born in Taiwan\, \;Chang&nbs p\;has lived in the Philippines\, Iran\, Thailand\, New Zealand\, and Cana da. Her novels often draw from family history and ancestral stories. She h as a degree in computer science and is a graduate of the Writer&rsquo\;s S tudio Program at Simon Fraser University. She is the author of \;Three Souls\, \;Dragon Springs \;Road\, \;The Library of Legends\, and \;The Porcelain Moon\; \;and co-author of the \;USA Today& nbsp\;bestseller \;The Phoenix Crown\, with Kate Quinn.
\nShanghai\, 1911. \;Lisan Liu is elated when her guardian allows her to take a job as secretary to wealthy American Caroline Stanton\, the new mistress of Lennox Manor on the outsk irts of Shanghai&rsquo\;s International Settlement. However\, the Manor ha s a dark reputation due to the previous owner&rsquo\;s suicide. Soon after her arrival\, Lisan&rsquo\;s childhood nightmares resurface and she is pl agued by haunting visions of a woman in red.
\nNewly-married Carolin e looks forward to life in China with her husband Thomas\, away from the s hadows of an earlier tragedy. But an unwelcome guest\, Andrew Grey\, atten ds her party and claims to know secrets she can&rsquo\;t afford exposed. A t the same party\, the notorious princess Masako Kyo approaches Lisan with questions about her past that the orphaned young woman is unable to answe r.
\nAs Caroline struggles with Grey&rsquo\;s extortion and Thomas&r squo\; sudden illness\, Lisan&rsquo\;s future is upended when her guardian finally divulges the truth about her past\, and why her identity has been kept a secret all these years. As the strange incidents around the mansio n begin to accelerate\, and Lisan feels unable to leave Lennox Manor until she solves one last mystery\, which has been communicated to her from bey ond the grave.
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