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Welcome to Book Bar's official Fantasy Book Club. For May, the selected book is The Astral Library by Kate Quinn(book description is located at the bottom of this listing).
So come out, grab a drink at our beverage bar, and join us for a lively book discussion! When you purchase this book club pick from us, your support will help us be here for a long time and put on more events! Purchasing options are below:
In Store: Stop by our location at 50 N. Railroad St. in Palmyra, PA!
Shipped: To purchase from Bookshop.org and get it delivered straight to your door, order from the following link (we will receive a percentage of this sale):
https://bookshop.org/a/98905/9780063244788
Ebook: Bookshop now offers ebooks. You can purchase the ebook here (we will receive a percentage of this sale): https://bookshop.org/a/98905/9780063244801
Audiobook: You can purchase audiobooks from us on Libro.fm. This audiobook can be easily found on our May 2026 Book Club Picks playlist here (we will receive a percentage of this sale):
https://libro.fm/playlists/11759?bookstore=bookbarus
We look forward to seeing you!
Book Description:
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?
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