{"product_id":"9780063244788","title":"ASTRAL LIBRARY (DELUXE LTD EDITION","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis stunning DELUXE LIMITED EDITION is only available on the first printing while supplies last! The collector's hardcover features stenciled edges, illustrated endpapers, and jacket effects.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\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\/b\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\u003ci\u003eSherlock Holmes\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eand the champagne-soaked parties of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Great Gatsby\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\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":"Publisher Coming Soon (Author: Author Coming Soon)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50147537322341,"sku":"9780063244788","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0852\/0538\/5573\/files\/imageloader_43528fac-aa8b-40a1-a750-05a20b7ce3fe.jpg?v=1770204090","url":"https:\/\/paralleluniversebooks.com\/products\/9780063244788","provider":"Parallel Universe Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}