Name: Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore - Robin Sloan
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Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore – Robin Sloan

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Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan follows a young man named Clay who ends up working in the store by chance. The bookstore is normal at first, a room filled with shelves, the shelves filled with books, and the books filled with pages, but things start to appear strange when Mr. Penumbra tells him that he may not read any of the books.As all great stories begin, tempted by the forbidden fruit, Clay peeks and discovers that books are part of a great puzzle, and that he has stumbled into the center of an elaborate secret. Condition: Good

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Global conspiracy, complex code-breaking, high-tech data visualization, young love, the secret to eternal life. Mostly in a hole-in-the-wall San Francisco bookstore.

Clay Jannon tells how serendipity, sheer curiosity, and the ability to climb a ladder like a monkey has sent him from Web Drone to night shift at Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore. After just a few days on the job, Clay realizes just how curious this store is.

A few customers come in repeatedly without buying anything. Instead they “check out” obscure volumes from strange corners of the store. All runs according to some elaborate, long-standing arrangement with the gnomic Mr. Penumbra. The store must be a front for something larger, Clay concludes.

He embarks on a complex analysis of the customers’ behavior and ropes in friends to help. Once they bring their findings to Mr. Penumbra, it turns out the secrets extend far outside the walls of the bookstore. A quest to New York City dips in a world conspiracy for eternal life. The current of romance pulls Clay onward.