02010cam a2200373 i 4500 2730804927 TxAuBib 20260416120000.0 260203s2026||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780063479753 hardcover $ 30.00 0063479753 hardcover $ 30.00 (OCoLC)1570838500 TxAuBib rda Quinn, Kate, author. The Astral Library : a novel / Kate Quinn. First edition. New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2026] ©2026. 297 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Alexandria 'Alix' Watson has learned one lesson from her barren childhood in the foster-care 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 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 escape to new lives--inside their favorite books. The 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." -Dust jacket. 20260416. Libraries Fiction. Librarians Fiction. Poor women Fiction. Books and reading Fiction. Boston (Mass) Fiction. Fantasy fiction. fast Portal fantasy fiction. lcgft Magic realist fiction. lcgft Action and adventure fiction. lcgft