

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Online Author Event: Kate Quinn
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 12 Mar, 2026 at 11:00 pm – Fri, 13 Mar, 2026 at 12:00 am
- **Event Description**: Book Portals and Journeys of Literary Magic with Kate Quinn, New York Times Bestselling Author of The Alice Network and The Rose Code, Thursday, March 12 at 4PM
 
ONLINE EVENT--Registration is required, but the author talks are always free! 

You can also view the event another time if you miss it. 

Register and submit questions for the author here: 

https://libraryc.org/benicialibrary/114107

You’re invited to join us for a conversation with acclaimed author Kate Quinn about her latest fantastical work, The Astral Library, 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?
 
Register now to hear more about The Astral Library, crafted for all bookworms and lovers of literature. 
 
About the Author:

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.
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- **city**: Benicia, California
- **location**: Online event
- **full address**: Online event, 150 E L St, Benicia, CA 94510, United States, Benicia, California

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- **organizer**: Benicia Public Library (https://allevents.in/org/benicia-public-library/13439032)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Thu, 12 Mar, 2026 at 11:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Online event, 150 E L St, Benicia, CA 94510, United States, Benicia, California
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Benicia Public Library
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
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