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By (author) Quinn Kate

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Have you ever wished you could live inside a book?

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Have you ever wished you could live inside a book?

Welcome to the Astral Library, where books are doors to new worlds.

Alix Watson knows one thing: unlike people, books will never let her down. Working dead-end jobs to make ends meet, she takes nightly refuge in the reading room at the Boston Public Library, dreaming of far-off lands.

Until she stumbles through a hidden door and is transported to The Astral Library, a place where the lost find sanctuary within their beloved stories.

But when a shadowy enemy threatens to destroy the library, Alix must flee from danger through the Regency drawing rooms of Jane Austen and the back alleys of Sherlock Holmes’ London as danger closes in …

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Praise for Kate Quinn:

‘Recommend it to all lovers of smart historical fiction’ Booklist

‘Exciting … historical fiction fans will be riveted’ Publishers Weekly

‘Readers looking for a new and unique viewpoint of World War II with a mystery to solve and a light touch of romance will dive deep into this story’ Library Journal

Biographical note:

Kate Quinn is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of historical fiction. A native of southern California, she attended Boston University where she earned a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Classical Voice. She has written five novels in the Empress of Rome saga, and two books set in the Italian Renaissance, before turning to the 20th century with The Alice Network, The Rose Code and The Diamond Eye. All have been translated into multiple languages. Kate and her husband now live in Maryland with three rescue dogs.

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A new fantastical adventure novel from the #1 bestselling author

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A new fantastical adventure novel from the #1 bestselling author

• Something different from Kate Quinn – a gloriously bookish fantastical adventure novel where books are not just objects, but doors to new worlds, new lives, and new futures

• Kate is an international bestselling author, a Reese’s Book Club pick for The Alice Network, a Canadian #1 and New York Times #2 bestseller and winner of the NetGalley Historical Novel of the year for The Rose Code.

• Comps: The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah (HB 4,157), Homecoming by Kate Morton (HB 19,628), The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid (PB 624,550)

Competition: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, The Tattooist of Auchwitz; The Rose Code; The Beekeeper of Aleppo; German Midwife; Duaghters of War; Homecoming;. Lucinda Riley; Kristin Hannah; Gill Paul; Rachel Hore; Dinah Jefferies; Heather Morris; Christy Lefteri; Taylor Jenkins Reid;