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Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour bookstore
Format:
Book (large print)
Title:
Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour bookstore
Other title(s):
Mister Penumbra's twenty-four hour bookstore
ISBN:
9781611736090
Publication:
Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, 2012.
Physical Description:
383 pages ; 23 cm.
Contents:
The bookstore -- The library -- The tower -- Epilogue.
Summary:
The Great Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon out of his life as a San Francisco web-design drone - and serendipity, sheer curiosity, and the ability to climb a ladder like a monkey has landed him a new job working the night shift at Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore. After just a few days on the job, Clay finds that this store is even more curious than the name suggests. There are only a few customers, but they come in repeatedly and never seem to actually buy anything, instead "checking out" impossibly obscure volumes from strange corners of the store. The store must be a front for something larger, Clay concludes, and soon he's embarked on a complex analysis of the customers' behavior and roped his friends into helping to figure out just what's going on.
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