{"product_id":"the-astral-library","title":"The Astral Library","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"pt-m mb-l bs-ov-section\" id=\"overviewSection\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"bs-ov-cont\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"content overview-expandable-section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text--medium overview-content p-lg-4 p-sm-0 bookseller-cont\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"bs-content\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"overview-cntnt\" itemprop=\"description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003ebestselling author Kate Quinn comes a gorgeously written fantastical adventure 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, but doors to new worlds, new lives, and new futures.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlexandria “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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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. Aided by a dashing costume-shop owner, Alix and the Librarian flee through the Regency drawing rooms of Jane Austen to the back alleys of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSherlock Holmes\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eand the champagne-soaked parties of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Great Gatsby\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eas danger draws inexorably closer. But who does their enemy really wish to destroy—Alix, the Librarian, or the Library itself?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Silk \u0026 Spine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42243673194599,"sku":"9780063479753","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0637\/1249\/3671\/files\/IMG_2071.jpg?v=1780881162","url":"https:\/\/silkandspine.org\/products\/the-astral-library","provider":"Silk \u0026 Spine","version":"1.0","type":"link"}