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    “
    Rachel Caine transports the reader to an imaginary future world where a Great Library controls all knowledge and the private ownership of printed books is a radical, dangerous practice.
    – Deborah Harkness, #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Discovery of Witches
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    Dark, riveting, heart-in-the-throat storytelling, with characters who caught me up and hold me even now. A don't-miss read!
    – New York Times Bestselling Author Tamora Pierce
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    Caine has always given readers entertaining and interesting books…Fans will fall in love with Jess and want the next book out immediately.
    – USA Today
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    “
    Caine’s elegantly detailed descriptions bring Jess’s world to vivid life in a fast-paced, action-oriented plot that will leave readers breathlessly anticipating not just the next page but the next book in the Great Library Series.
    – Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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    A thrill-a-minute adventure…This first entry into the Great Library series has pieces that mirror the excitement and bitterness of the Hunger Games series and contains some of the psychological elements of the Harry Potter books.”
    – Booklist (starred review)
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    A modern masterpiece…Fellow bibliophiles, expect to be some variation on struck—awestruck, dumbstruck, starstruck, maybe even thunderstruck…A new series to thrill every bookworm’s heart!
    – Christian Science Monitor
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    “
    Caine's world where books and libraries dominate is not for the faint of heart...What's not to love? Imagine Harry Potter where the real magic is found within the pages of ancient texts. This book proves the adage that knowledge is power.
    – RT Book Reviews (4½ stars, top pick)
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The New York Times bestselling series


In our world, in the time of Roman Emperor Julius Caesar, the Great Library of Alexandria burned, and began a slow decline to complete destruction. Over a million original works, vanished into nothing.

But what if, instead, the Great Library had survived? What if it had formed alliances with other storehouses of knowledge around the world, and emerged as the greatest power ever built?

Would it be benevolent? Or something else?

Jess Brightwell belongs to a family of book smugglers, and they're constantly being hunted by soldiers and automata of the Great Library. But his father sends him to train at the Great Library itself, in Alexandria. But Jess has no love for his father, and discovers a new set of vibrant, challenging friends in a city he quickly grows to love. But when one of them discovers an invention that can destroy the Great Library's power forever … it's war.

Ink and Bone was a selection by to Texas Library Association to the Texas Lone Star List (2016)



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Jess Brightwell is sent to apprentice at the Great Library of Alexandria. But he and his friends will light a fire that can't be quenched.

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Jess has lost a friend to the Great Library's revenge … or has he? A reckless rescue will spark a confrontation that he and his friends must survive … or die.

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Exiled to the Burner city of Philadelphia, Jess and his friends are prisoners … and the Great Library's Archivist will do anything to burn it all.

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Escape only means more danger—and a daring plan to bring down the corrupt leadership of the Great Library. But at what cost?

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THE EPIC CONCLUSION
SEPTEMBER 2019

After suffering a terrible loss, Jess and his friends must find their strengths to save the Great Library.

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