02094cam a2200385 i 4500 2725166169 TxAuBib 20260407120000.0 260305s2026||||||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 9780063474963 paperback $36.00 0063474964 paperback $36.00 (OCoLC)1569481279 TxAuBib rda Quinn, Kate, author. The Astral Library [Large Print]. First William Morrow Large Print edition. New York, NY : William Morrow Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2026] ©2026. 408 pages (large print) ; 23 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."-- Provided by publisher. 20260407. Libraries Fiction. Ex-foster children Fiction. Poor women Fiction. Books and reading Fiction. Boston (Mass.) Fiction. Fantasy fiction. lcgft Portal fantasy fiction. lcgft Magic realist fiction. Action and adventure fiction. lcgft TXMLR