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SUMMARY:Virtual Author Visit: Book Portals and Journeys of Literary Magic 
 with Kate Quinn
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DESCRIPTION:Join the Virtual Author Talk from home, on a computer or smart
  phone. Internet access is required. Register and ask questions of the aut
 hor here.You’re invited to join us for a virtual conversation with accla
 imed author Kate Quinn about her latest fantastical work, The Astral Libra
 ry, which poses the question: Have you ever wished you could live inside a
  book? Welcome to the Astral Library, where books are not just objects, bu
 t doors to new worlds, new lives, and new futures.Alexandria “Alix” Wa
 tson has learned one lesson from her barren childhood in the foster-care s
 ystem: unlike people, books will never let you down. Working three dead-en
 d jobs to make ends meet and knowing college is a pipe dream, Alix takes n
 ightly refuge in the high-vaulted reading room at the Boston Public Librar
 y, 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 an
 d the lost escape to new lives...inside their favorite books.The Librarian
  takes a dazzled Alix under her wing, but before she can escape into the p
 ages of her new life, a shadowy enemy emerges to threaten everyone the Ast
 ral Library has ever helped protect. Aided by a dashing costume-shop owner
 , Alix and the Librarian flee through the Regency drawing rooms of Jane Au
 sten to the back alleys of Sherlock Holmes and the champagne-soaked partie
 s of The Great Gatsby as danger draws inexorably closer. But who does thei
 r enemy really wish to destroy—Alix, the Librarian, or the Library itsel
 f?Register now to hear more about The Astral Library, crafted for all book
 worms and lovers of literature. About the Author: Kate Quinn is the New Y
 ork Times and USA Today bestselling author of historical fiction. A native
  of Southern California, she attended Boston University, where she earned 
 bachelor’s and master’s degrees in classical voice. A lifelong history
  buff, she has written four novels in the Empress of Rome Saga and two boo
 ks 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 B
 riar Club. The Astral Library is her first foray into magic realism. She a
 nd her husband now live in Maryland with their rescue dogs. The views exp
 ressed by presenters are their own and their appearance in a program does 
 not imply an endorsement of them or any entity they represent. Reference t
 o any specific product or entity does not constitute an endorsement or rec
 ommendation by Carnegie-Stout Public Library.  
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 ook-portals-and-journeys-literary-magic-kate-quinn-20428
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