{"product_id":"9780063479753","title":"The Astral Library (Standard Edition)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom \u003cem\u003eNew York Times \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\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\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 \u003cem\u003eSherlock Holmes \u003c\/em\u003eand the champagne-soaked parties of \u003cem\u003eThe Great Gatsby \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","brand":"Kate Quinn","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":50230848782693,"sku":"9780063479753","price":37.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0851\/2651\/2997\/files\/BNCImageAPI_9d10999e-47bc-4048-9563-60c7904fc095.jpg?v=1776954332","url":"https:\/\/www.commonplaceingersoll.ca\/products\/9780063479753","provider":"Commonplace Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}