Rachel Caine
NY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR
THE GREAT LIBRARY SERIES: YA SCIENCE FICTION
Deborah Harkness, #1 NYT bestselling author of A Discovery of Witches
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.
New York Times Bestselling Author Tamora Pierce
Dark, riveting, heart-in-the-throat storytelling, with characters who caught me up and hold me even now. A don’t-miss read!
USA Today
Caine has always given readers entertaining and interesting books…Fans will fall in love with Jess and want the next book out immediately.
Publisher's Weekly (Starred Review)
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.
Booklist (Starred Review)
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.
Christian Science Monitor
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!
RT Book Reviews (4½ stars, top pick)
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.
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)
Ink and Bone
Book 1 of the Great Library series
In this exhilarating series, New York Times bestselling author Rachel Caine rewrites history, creating a dangerous world where the Great Library of Alexandria has survived the test of time.…
Ruthless and supremely powerful, the Great Library is now a presence in every major city, governing the flow of knowledge to the masses. Alchemy allows the Library to deliver the content of the greatest works of history instantly—but the personal ownership of books is expressly forbidden.
Jess Brightwell believes in the value of the Library, but the majority of his knowledge comes from illegal books obtained by his family. Jess has been sent to be his family’s spy, but his loyalties are tested in the final months of his training to enter the Library’s service.
When his friend inadvertently commits heresy by creating a device that could change the world, Jess discovers that those who control the Great Library believe knowledge is more valuable than any human life—and soon both heretics and books will burn….
Paper and Fire
Book 2 of the Great Library series
In Ink and Bone, bestselling author Rachel Caine introduced a world where knowledge is power, and power corrupts absolutely. Now she continues the story of those who dare to defy the Great Library—and rewrite history…
Jess Brightwell has survived his introduction to the sinister, seductive world of the Library, but serving in its army is nothing like he envisioned. His life and the lives of those he cares for have been altered forever.
Embarking on a mission to save one of their own, Jess and his band of allies make one wrong move and suddenly find themselves hunted by the Library’s deadly automata and forced to flee Alexandria, all the way to London.
But Jess’s home isn’t safe anymore. The Welsh army is coming, London is burning, and soon Jess must choose between his friends, his family, and the Library, which is willing to sacrifice anything and anyone in the search for ultimate control…
Ash and Quill
Book 3 of the Great Library series
The unforgettable characters from Ink and Bone and Paper and Fire unite to save the Great Library of Alexandria from itself in this electrifying adventure in the New York Times bestselling series.
Hoarding all the knowledge of the world, the Great Library jealously guards its secrets. But now a group of rebels poses a dangerous threat to its tyranny….
Jess Brightwell and his band of exiles have fled London, only to find themselves imprisoned in Philadelphia, a city led by those who would rather burn books than submit. But Jess and his friends have a bargaining chip: the knowledge to build a machine that will break the Library’s rule.
Their time is running out. To survive, they’ll have to choose to live or die as one, to take the fight to their enemies—and to save the very soul of the Great Library….
Smoke and Iron
Book 4 of the Great Library series
To save the Great Library, the unforgettable characters from Ink and Bone, Paper and Fire, and Ash and Quill put themselves in danger in the next thrilling adventure in the New York Times bestselling series.
The opening moves of a deadly game have begun. Jess Brightwell has put himself in direct peril, with only his wits and skill to aid him in a game of cat and mouse with the Archivist Magister of the Great Library. With the world catching fire, and words printed on paper the spark that lights rebellion, it falls to smugglers, thieves, and scholars to save a library thousands of years in the making…if they can stay alive long enough to outwit their enemies.
Sword and Pen
Book 5 of the Great Library series
With the future of the Great Library in doubt, the unforgettable characters from Ink and Bone must decide if it’s worth saving in this thrilling adventure in the New York Times bestselling series.
The corrupt leadership of the Great Library has fallen. But with the Archivist plotting his return to power, and the Library under siege from outside empires and kingdoms, its future is uncertain. Jess Brightwell and his friends must come together as never before, to forge a new future for the Great Library…or see everything it stood for crumble.
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