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SUMMARY:Virtual Author Talk - Book Portals and Journeys of Literary Magic 
 with Kate Quinn
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DESCRIPTION:You’re invited to join us for a virtual conversation with ac
 claimed author Kate Quinn about her latest fantastical work, The Astral Li
 brary, which poses the question: Have you ever wished you could live insid
 e a book? Welcome to the Astral Library, where books are not just objects,
  but doors to new worlds, new lives, and new futures.Alexandria “Alix”
  Watson has learned one lesson from her barren childhood in the foster-car
 e system: unlike people, books will never let you down. Working three dead
 -end jobs to make ends meet and knowing college is a pipe dream, Alix take
 s nightly refuge in the high-vaulted reading room at the Boston Public Lib
 rary, escaping into her favorite fantasy novels and dreaming of far-off la
 nds. Until the day she stumbles through a hidden door and meets the Librar
 ian: the ageless, acerbic guardian of a hidden library where the desperate
  and the lost escape to new lives...inside their favorite books.The Librar
 ian takes a dazzled Alix under her wing, but before she can escape into th
 e 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 ow
 ner, Alix and the Librarian flee through the Regency drawing rooms of Jane
  Austen to the back alleys of Sherlock Holmes and the champagne-soaked par
 ties of The Great Gatsby as danger draws inexorably closer. But who does t
 heir enemy really wish to destroy—Alix, the Librarian, or the Library it
 self?Register now to hear more about The Astral Library, crafted for all b
 ookworms and lovers of literature. About the Author: Kate Quinn is the Ne
 w York Times and USA Today bestselling author of historical fiction. A nat
 ive of Southern California, she attended Boston University, where she earn
 ed bachelor’s and master’s degrees in classical voice. A lifelong hist
 ory buff, she has written four novels in the Empress of Rome Saga and two 
 books set in the Italian Renaissance before turning to the 20th century wi
 th The Alice Network, The Huntress, The Rose Code, The Diamond Eye, and Th
 e Briar Club. The Astral Library is her first foray into magic realism. Sh
 e and her husband now live in Maryland with their rescue dogs.   
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