BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//mrlib.org//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.30.10// CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH UID:9e2cb53f-b01b-4f50-8b35-c4490aaa42ee X-WR-CALDESC:You’re invited to join us for a virtual conversation with accl aimed author Kate Quinn about her latest fantastical work\, The Astral Lib rary\, which poses the question: Have you ever wished you could live insid e a book? Welcome to the Astral Library\, where books are not just objects \, but doors to new worlds\, new lives\, and new futures.\n\nAlexandria “A lix” 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\, Ali x takes nightly refuge in the high-vaulted reading room at the Boston Publ ic 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 d esperate and the lost escape to new lives...inside their favorite books.\n \nThe Librarian takes a dazzled Alix under her wing\, but before she can e scape 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 c ostume-shop owner\, Alix and the Librarian flee through the Regency drawin g rooms of Jane Austen to the back alleys of Sherlock Holmes and the champ agne-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?\n\nRegister now to hear more about The Astral Library \, crafted for all bookworms and lovers of literature. \n\nAbout the Autho r: Kate Quinn is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of hi storical fiction. A native of Southern California\, she attended Boston Un iversity\, where she earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in classical v oice. 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 fo ray into magic realism. She and her husband now live in Maryland with thei r rescue dogs.\n\nThe views expressed by presenters are their own and thei r appearance in a program does not imply an endorsement of them or any ent ity they represent. Reference to any specific product or entity does not c onstitute an endorsement or recommendation by Massanutten Regional Library . X-WR-RELCALID:4b7efa910475cf78fa6b7cbe94ae4fbf X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RDATE:20261101T020000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RDATE:20270314T020000 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:006a7abf-1e0b-4d5f-aa26-bd4044c2b1ac DTSTAMP:20260831T020026Z DESCRIPTION:You’re invited to join us for a virtual conversation with accla imed author Kate Quinn about her latest fantastical work\, The Astral Libr ary\, 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.\n\nAlexandria “Al ix” 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 Publi c 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 de sperate and the lost escape to new lives...inside their favorite books.\n \nThe Librarian takes a dazzled Alix under her wing\, but before she can e scape 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 c ostume-shop owner\, Alix and the Librarian flee through the Regency drawin g rooms of Jane Austen to the back alleys of Sherlock Holmes and the champ agne-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?\n\nRegister now to hear more about The Astral Library \, crafted for all bookworms and lovers of literature. \n\nAbout the Autho r: Kate Quinn is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of hi storical fiction. A native of Southern California\, she attended Boston Un iversity\, where she earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in classical v oice. 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 fo ray into magic realism. She and her husband now live in Maryland with thei r rescue dogs.\n\nThe views expressed by presenters are their own and thei r appearance in a program does not imply an endorsement of them or any ent ity they represent. Reference to any specific product or entity does not c onstitute an endorsement or recommendation by Massanutten Regional Library . DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260312T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260312T200000 LOCATION:https://libraryc.org/mrlib/114536 SUMMARY:Virtual Author Talk: Kate Quinn END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR