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The Midnight Library - by Matt Haig
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"A feel-good book guaranteed to lift your spirits."—The Washington Post
#1 New York Times bestseller | Winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction | A Good Morning America Book Club Pick!
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 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.
#1 New York Times bestseller | Winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction | A Good Morning America Book Club Pick!
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 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.
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Number of Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Author: Matt Haig
Language: English
Street Date: May 9, 2023
TCIN: 88430060
UPC: 9780525559498
Item Number (DPCI): 059-04-0974
Origin: Made in the USA
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Estimated ship dimensions: 0.94 inches length x 5.01 inches width x 7.71 inches height
Estimated ship weight: 0.53 pounds
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Q: Is Matt Haig Midnight Library in large print?
submitted by Eija - 3 years ago
A: No. I have the hardcover and the orint us standard size print. The book 📖 is smaller 8.5" x 5.75". My other 📚 books are 9.5" x 6.25"
submitted byRiver - 3 years ago
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