The Library of Ever

Name: The Library of Ever
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Zeno Alexander
ISBN: 9781541416437

Author: Zeno Alexander

Series: Library of Ever #1

Narrator: Emily Lawrence

Unabridged: 3 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/11/2020

Categories: Children's Fiction, Fantasy Stories, Science Fiction Stories

Synopsis

The Library of Ever is an instant classic for middle grade listeners and booklovers everywhere—an adventure across time and space, as a young girl becomes a warrior for the forces of knowledge.

With her parents off traveling the globe, Lenora is bored, bored, bored—until she discovers a secret doorway into the ultimate library. Mazelike and reality-bending, the library contains all the universe's wisdom. Every book ever written, and every fact ever known, can be found within its walls. And Lenora becomes its newly appointed Fourth Assistant Apprentice Librarian.

She rockets to the stars, travels to a future filled with robots, and faces down a dark nothingness that wants to destroy all knowledge. To save the library, Lenora will have to test her limits and uncover secrets hidden among its shelves.

About Zeno Alexander

After emerging from the shadows of the past, his history yet to be fully explained, Zeno Alexander spent years exploring the world's libraries before settling down in his lavish underground bunker, where he regularly hosts exquisite dinner parties and tends to his collection of extinct plants. His friendship with the famous librarian Lenora has turned into a series of biographical works devoted to chronicling her adventures.

Reviews

Goodreads review by mads on August 22, 2021

Really cool idea, really odd execution. This was like if there was an Eloise videogame that jumped from one knowledge related task to the next, which somehow sounds more coherent than the book actually was. I read this to see if it was something my younger siblings would enjoy and I can't see it hol......more

Goodreads review by Jaimie on May 03, 2021

This is just the greatest concept for a middle grade fantasy. When I was 10, I would have been obsessed with an 11 year old librarian time traveling and talking to whales and transforming into a cat, all in the pursuit of information for her job as a librarian. The scope of the library and Lenora's......more

Goodreads review by Lorie on November 11, 2018

Okay. Wow. Wow. Wow. How to review without spoiling? Hmmmm. Well, you’ve read the synopsis. You know it’s a fantastical adventure about a precocious girl named Lenora that takes place in a library. But it’s SO. MUCH. MORE. It’s about knowledge vs. ignorance and darkness vs. light and reminds me so m......more

Goodreads review by Seema on December 22, 2019

This book was sort of if the Phantom Tollbooth was crossed with that series the Librarians. I don't want to give anything away, but I will say that this is an enjoyable, satisfying middle-grade book. Worth picking up for sure. It has the sort of tone of a latter-day old-timey book, like a Lemony Sni......more

Goodreads review by Beth on April 11, 2019

Oh my goodness, I adored The Library of Ever. This book is everything a cozy middle grade book should be. I wish I could go back in time and press it into the hands of my ten-year-old self with a conspiratorial wink. Lenora is ignored by her wealthy parents and her nanny, but this comes in useful som......more