(Baca) Books The Starless Sea
By Erin Morgenstern
13 hours and 30 minutesZachary Ezra Rawlins is a graduate student in
Vermont when he discovers a strange book hidden in the library stacks. As
he turns the pages, entranced by tales of lovelorn prisoners, key
collectors, and nameless acolytes, he reads something strange: a story
from his own childhood. Bewildered by this inexplicable book and
desperate to make sense of how his own life came to be recorded,
Zachary uncovers a series of clues ? a bee, a key, and a sword ? that lead
him to a masquerade party in New York, to a secret club, and through a
doorway to a subterranean library, hidden far below the surface of the
earth.What Zachary finds in this curious place is more than just a buried
home for books and their guardians ? it is a place of lost cities and seas,
lovers who pass notes under doors and across time, and of stories
whispered by the dead. Zachary learns of those who have sacrificed much
to protect this realm, relinquishing their sight and their tongues to
preserve this
