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An edition of Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour bookstore (2012)

Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore

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  • ★★★ ★ 3.7 (40 ratings) ·
  • 37 Want to read
  • 51 Have read

The Great Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon away from life as a San Francisco web-design drone and into the aisles of Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, but after a few days on the job, Clay discovers that the store is more curious than either its name or its gnomic owner might suggest. The customers are few, and they never seem to buy anything; instead, they "check out" large, obscure volumes from strange corners of the store. Suspicious, Clay engineers an analysis of the clientele's behavior, seeking help from his variously talented friends, but when they bring their findings to Mr. Penumbra, they discover the bookstore's secrets extend far beyond its walls.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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English

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Subjects

Fiction, contemporary, fantasy, Employees, Bookstores, Amerikanisches Englisch, Booksellers and bookselling, action & adventure"""", nyt:trade-fiction-paperback=2013-10-13, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed, Fantasy, contemporary, San francisco (calif.), action & adventure, Fiction, fantasy, contemporary, Booksellers and bookselling, fiction, San francisco (calif.), fiction, Fiction, thrillers, suspense, Fiction, action & adventure

People

Clay Jannon, Mr. Penumbra

Places

San Francisco, California, New York City

Times

Contemporary, 2012

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Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore
2012, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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First Sentence

"Lost in the shadows of the shelves, I almost fall off the ladder."

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If you get the actual book the cover glows in the dark.

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Other Titles
Mister Penumbra's twenty-four hour bookstore

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813/.6
Library of Congress
PS3619.L6278 M7 2012, PS3619.L6278 M77 2012, PS3619.L6278M7 2012

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Pagination
p. cm.

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OL25270703M
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mrpenumbras24hou00sloa
ISBN 13
9780374214913
LCCN
2012012357
OCLC/WorldCat
778422009

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