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The midnight library

Haig, Matt 1975- (author.).

Summary: "'Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices... Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?' A dazzling novel about all the choices that go into a life well lived, from the internationally bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and How To Stop Time. Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better? In The Midnight Library, Matt Haig's enchanting new novel, Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. Faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist; she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place"--

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780525559498 (paperback)
  • ISBN: 0525559477 (hardcover)
  • ISBN: 9780525559474 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 288 pages ; 22 cm
    print
  • Publisher: [New York, New York] : Viking, 2020.
Subject: Libraries Fiction
Future life Fiction
Choice (Psychology) Fiction
Genre: Science fiction.
Fantasy fiction.

Available copies

  • 3 of 29 copies available at Kenton County.

Holds

  • 2 current holds with 29 total copies.
Show Only Available Copies
Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Covington Branch HAIG M (Text) 33126018810832 Adult Fiction Checked out 05/14/2024
Covington Branch HAIG M (Text) 33126018810873 Display Available -
Covington Branch HAIG M (Text) 33126024087789 Perennial Reads Available -
Covington Branch HAIG M (Text) 33126024087797 Perennial Reads Checked out 04/29/2024
Covington Branch HAIG M (Text) 33126024087805 Perennial Reads Checked out 05/03/2024
Covington Branch HAIG M (Text) 33126024727525 Adult Fiction Checked out 05/25/2024
Covington Branch HAIG M (Text) 33126025966452 Perennial Reads Checked out 05/01/2024
Erlanger Branch HAIG M (Text) 33126018810840 Adult Fiction Checked out 05/19/2024
Erlanger Branch HAIG M (Text) 33126018810857 Adult Fiction Checked out 05/11/2024
Erlanger Branch HAIG M (Text) 33126024087847 Perennial Reads Checked out 04/30/2024

  • Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2020 October

    If you could live your life over again, would you make the same choices? Nora Seed is depressed: Her best friend has ghosted her from the other side of the world; she is estranged from her brother; she just got fired; and her cat died. Suicide seems to be the answer, but instead of dying, she awakens in a library of infinite books, all about the lives she could have lived. There she meets her school librarian, who guides her first to her "Book of Regrets," where she sees every choice she made, while the rest of the books take her on journeys to visit her potential lives. What if, instead of quitting the band, she became a rock star? Or instead of leaving school, she became a world-renowned glaciologist? Nora gets to live these alternative lives, the goal being to find the life that will make her happy. But happiness, even in this fantasy, still proves elusive; perhaps that wasn't the goal after all. VERDICT Haig (How To Stop Time) takes readers on a journey of quantum physics that will have them feeling that they actually understand the theory. Most reminiscent of Ken Grimwood's Replay.—Stacy Alesi, Eugene M. & Christine E. Lynn Lib., Lynn Univ., Boca Raton, FL

    Copyright 2020 Library Journal.

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