Author Event: Kate Quinn

Please join Page 158 Books as we welcome best-selling author Kate Quinn to celebrate her new novel, The Astral Library. Kate will be in conversation with Laura Beth Vietor aka @LBtheLoverofBooks.

**Please note this is a ticketed event. The event will be held off site at the Wake Forest Magnet Elementary School, 406 S. Main St.**

From New York Times bestselling 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.

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. 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 Sherlock Holmes and the champagne-soaked parties of The Great Gatsby as danger draws inexorably closer. But who does their enemy really wish to destroy—Alix, the Librarian, or the Library itself?

Kate Quinn is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of historical fiction. A native of Southern California, she attended Boston University, where she earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in classical voice. A lifelong history buff, she has written four novels in the Empress of Rome Saga and two books set in the Italian Renaissance before turning to the 20th century with The Alice Network, The Huntress, The Rose Code, The Diamond Eye, and The Briar Club. The Astral Library is her first foray into magic realism. She and her husband now live in Maryland with their rescue dogs.

Laura Beth Vietor aka @LBtheLoverofBooks lives outside if Greensboro, NC. Like most of you, she likes reading in her spare time and that includes lots of genres. She has had the awesome opportunity to virtually interview over 80 debut to best-selling authors, including Ann Napolitano, Bonnie Garmus, Shelby Van Pelt, Chris Whitaker and Lisa See. She has had the awesome opportunity to moderate over 30 in-person conversations with authors such as Kate Quinn, Safiya Sinclair, Karin Slaughter, Jojo Moyes, Kirsten Miller, Terah Shelton Harris, Brendan Slocumb, Kristy Woodson Harvey, Megan Miranda with Marjan Kamali coming up.

Event information:

This event features an in-conversation talk with audience Q&A and PHOTO LINE ONLY to follow (no signing/personalization). Tickets include pre-signed copy of The Astral Library. NO titles brought from home will be allowed or signed.