Sign-In
Cart
Seven Leaves
Paperback
Science FictionGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Guy Roberts
Published: Aug 20 2025
Pages: 126
Weight: 0.34
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
When Julius Caesar's siege sets Alexandria aflame, a priestess-librarian named Neferet swears an oath to keep the House of Life-and its dangerous knowledge-alive. Admitted past the bronze doors by Cleopatra's sacred marriage, Caesar discovers a room that refuses his power and a woman who won't let him turn learning into a weapon. As wind drives sparks through book-filled lanes, Neferet raises a clandestine network: copyists who mislabel proofs as grain tallies, porters who ferry bundles by moonlight, mothers who hide scrolls behind prayer-filled walls. Into a star-marked chest she tucks a humble recipe-garlic, oil, greens, stale bread-a breadcrumb trail for the future.
Across centuries-through a monk who lies kindly, a linen-seller who saves a circle, a judge who pays scribes with supper, a French engineer who finds a stone that speaks three tongues, and a modern conservator who opens a wall that remembers fingers-the vow endures: Feed first. Copy next. Keep the room whole.
Blending battlefront immediacy with the quiet heroism of menders and readers, The Last Librarian is a luminous reimagining of the Library of Alexandria: a story of fire and patience, of a queen and a general, and of the harmless, hungry hands that carry civilization forward.
Also from
Roberts, Guy
Also in
General Fiction
Elizabeth Spencer: Novels & Stories (Loa #344): The Voice at the Back Door / The Light in the Piazza / Knights and Dragons / Stories
Spencer, Elizabeth
Hardcover
Anniversaries, Volume 2: From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl, April 1968-August 1968
Johnson, Uwe
Paperback
Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose, and Diary Excerpts
Plath, Sylvia
Paperback
Philip Roth: Novels 1967-1972 (Loa #158): When She Was Good / Portnoy's Complaint / Our Gang / The Breast
Roth, Philip
Hardcover
Selected Writings: Robert Musil: Young Torless, Three Women, the Perfecting of a Love, and Other Writings
Agee, Joel
Musil, Robert
Paperback