Alexandria &ldquo\;Alix&rdquo\; Watson has learned one lesson from her barren childhood in the foster-care system: u nlike people\, books will never let you down. Working three dead-end jobs to make ends meet and knowing college is a pipe dream\, Alix takes nightly refuge in the high-vaulted reading room at the Boston Public Library\, es caping into her favorite fantasy novels and dreaming of far-off lands. Unt il the day she stumbles through a hidden door and meets the Librarian: the ageless\, acerbic guardian of a hidden library where the desperate and th e lost escape to new lives...inside their favorite books.
\nThe 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 close r. But who does their enemy really wish to destroy&mdash\;Alix\, the Libra rian\, or the Library itself?
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\nAbout the Author: \;Kate Quinn \;is the \;New York Times \;and \;USA Today \;bestselling author of historica l fiction. A native of Southern California\, she attended Boston Universit y\, where she earned bachelor&rsquo\;s and master&rsquo\;s degrees in clas sical voice. A lifelong history buff\, she has written four novels in the Empress of Rome Saga and two books set in the Italian Renaissance before t urning to the 20th century with \;The Alice Network\, \;The Huntre ss\, \;The Rose Code\, \;The Diamond Eye\, and \;The Briar Clu b. \;The Astral \;Library \;is her first foray into magic real ism. She and her husband now live in Maryland with their rescue dogs.
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