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Mr. penumbra's 24-hour bookstore

A charming and hilarious adventure that has it all: secret societies, unbreakable codes, underground lairs, cutting-edge technology, the googleplex ... and lots of books! Welcome to Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore.

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  • "Mr. Penumbra's twenty-four-hour bookstore"
  • "Mister Penumbra's twenty-four hour bookstore"
  • "Mister Penumbra's twenty-four hour bookstore"@en
  • "Monsieur Pénombre, libraire ouvert jour et nuit"
  • "Señor Penumbra y su librería veinticuatro horas abierta"
  • "Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour bookstore"@it
  • "二十四小時神祕書店"
  • "Er shi si xiao shi shen mi shu dian"
  • "Mr Penumbra's twenty-four-hour bookstore"
  • "Mister Penumbra's 24-hour bookstore"
  • "Mr Penumbra's twenty-four hour bookstore"

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  • "Als Clay Jannon seinen Job als Webdesigner verliert, meldet er sich auf eine Stellenanzeige hin bei Mr. Penumbra, der in San Francisco eine alte, verstaubte Buchhandlung betreibt, die rund um die Uhr geöffnet ist. Clay übernimmt die Nachtschicht, und bald ist ihm klar, dass hier irgendetwas nicht stimmt: Die Kunden kaufen nichts, sondern leihen die Bücher nur aus, drei Stockwerke hohe Regale beherbergen riesige Folianten, die keine Texte beinhalten, sondern nur ellenlange Reihen aus Buchstaben. Nach und nach findet Clay heraus, dass Mr. Penumbra und seine Kunden einem uralten Geheimnis auf der Spur sind. Mit der Unterstützung seiner Freundin Kat und seines ältesten Kumpels Neel, sowie der Weisheit von Mr. Penumbra, macht sich Clay daran, dieses Geheimnis zu lüften. Ein Geheimnis, das bis in die Anfangszeiten des Buchdrucks zurückreicht. Die sonderbare Buchhandlung des Mr. Penumbra ist ein spannendes literarisches Rätsel und ein inspirierendes und philosophisches Buch voller einzigartiger Charaktere und visionärer Ideen. Robin Sloan wurde 1979 in der Nähe von Detroit geboren und hat an der Michigan State University Wirtschaftswissenschaften studiert. Er hat für Twitter und verschiedene andere Onlineplattformen gearbeitet und schreibt gerade an einem neuen Roman. Er lebt in San Francisco."
  • "A charming and hilarious adventure that has it all: secret societies, unbreakable codes, underground lairs, cutting-edge technology, the googleplex ... and lots of books! Welcome to Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore."@en
  • "After a layoff during the Great Recession sidelines his tech career, Clay Jannon takes a job at the titular bookstore in San Francisco, and soon realizes that the establishment is a facade for a strange secret."
  • "Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon out of his life as a San Francisco Web-design drone and has landed him a new job working the night shift at Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore. There are only a few customers, but they come in repeatedly and never seem to actually buy anything; instead they simply borrow impossibly obscure volumes from strange corners of the store, all according to some elaborate, long-standing arrangement with the gnomic Mr. Penumbra. The store must be a front for something larger, Clay concludes, and soon he's embarked on a complex analysis of the customers' behaviour."
  • "Dans la librairie de M. Pénombre, où Clay Jannon travaille de nuit, se réunissent les membres d'un club de lecture. Ils lisent de très vieux livres que le nouvel employé n'a pas le droit de toucher. Il désobéit et découvre que les écrits sont codés. Clay et trois de ses amis décident d'enquêter mais M. Pénombre a disparu.--[Memento]."
  • "Clay Jannon, twenty-six and unemployed, reads books about vampire policemen and teenage wizards. Familiar, predictable books that fit neatly into s section at the bookstore. But he is about to encounter a new species of book entirely : secret, strange and frantically sought after."
  • "Clay Jannon, the new night clerk at Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore, notices the strange behavior of the customers and is determined to find out what is really going on."@en
  • "Clay Jannon, twenty-six and unemployed, reads books about vampire policemen and teenage wizards. Familiar, predictable books. Books that fit neatly into a section at the bookstore. But he is about to encounter a new species of book entirely: secret, strange, and frantically sought-after."
  • "The Great Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon out of his life as a web-design drone, and serendipity, sheer curiosity and the ability to climb a ladder like a monkey have landed him a new gig working the night shift at Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore. But Clay begins to realize that this store is even more curious than its name suggests. There are only a few customers, but they come in repeatedly and never seem to actually buy anything. Instead they "check out" impossibly obscure volumes from strange corners of the store, all according to some elaborate, long-standing arrangement with the gnomic Mr. Penumbra. The store must be a front for something larger, Clay concludes, and soon he has embarked on a complex analysis of the customers' behaviour and roped his friends into helping him figure out just what's going on. But once they take their findings to Mr. Penumbra, they discover the secrets extend far beyond the walls of the bookstore.</ Evoking both the fairy-tale charm of Haruki Murakami and the enthusiastic novel-of-ideas wizardry of Neal Stephenson or Umberto Eco, <Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore</ is exactly what it sounds like'an establishment you have to enter and will never want to leave.</"@en
  • "Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon out of his life as a San Francisco Web-design drone - and serendipity, coupled with sheer curiosity, has landed him a new job working the night shift at Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore. But after just a few days, Clay begins to realize 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 they simply borrow impossibly obscure volumes from strange corners of the store, all according to some elaborate, long-standing arrangement with the gnom."@en
  • "The Great Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon out of his life as a San Francisco web-design drone and landed him a new gig working the night shift at Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour bookstore. But after just a few days on the job, Clay begins to realize 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. Soon he embarks on a complex analysis of the customers' behaviour and ropes his friends into helping him figure out just what's going on."@en
  • ""La crisis económica obliga a Clay Jannon a dejar atrás su vida como diseñador de páginas web en San Francisco y las casualidades, la curiosidad más absoluta y la habilidad de subir escaleras como si fuera un mono le llevan a empezar su nuevo trabajo en la librería permanentemente abierta del señor Penumbra. Después de unos días trabajando, Clay se da cuenta de que la librería es un lugar mucho más extravagante de lo que su nombre indica. Solo hay unos cuantos clientes, pero van continuamente y nunca compran nada. Lo que hacen es llevarse libros prestados, ejemplares misteriosos que se encuentran en los lugares más recónditos de la librería, todo de acuerdo a un trato especial que mantienen con Penumbra. Clay concluye que la tienda no es más que una tapadera para otro negocio y su curiosidad pronto le lleva a ponerse a analizar el complejo comportamiento de los clientes y a arrastrar a sus amigos para que le ayuden a descubrir qué es lo que realmente pasa en la librería. Sin embargo, cuando le llevan sus descubrimientos al Sr. Penumbra, acaban por descubrir que los secretos se extienden mucho más allá de las paredes de la librerá ..."--Jacket."
  • "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 gig working the night shift at Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore. But after just a few days on the job, Clay begins to realize 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, all according to some elaborate, long-standing arrangement with the gnomic Mr. Penumbra. 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. But once they bring their findings to Mr. Penumbra, it turns out the secrets extend far outside the walls of the bookstore.--"@en
  • "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."
  • "The Great Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon out of his life as a San Francisco web-design drone and landed him a new gig working the night shift at Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore. But after just a few days on the job, Clay begins to realize 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. Soon he embarks on a complex analysis of the customers' behaviour and ropes his friends into helping him figure out just what's going on."

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  • "Adventure stories"
  • "Action and adventure fiction"@en
  • "Americké romány"
  • "Online-Publikation"
  • "Suspense fiction"
  • "Suspense fiction"@en
  • "American fiction"
  • "Ausgabe"
  • "Adventure fiction"
  • "Adventure fiction"@en
  • "Spanish language materials"
  • "Humorous fiction"
  • "Erzählende Literatur"
  • "Materials en español"
  • "Audiobooks"@en
  • "General fiction"
  • "Fantasy fiction"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Fantasy fiction"@en
  • "Text"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"@es
  • "Large type books"

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  • "El Sr. penumbra y su libreria 24 horas abierta"@es
  • "Mr. penumbra's 24-hour bookstore"@en
  • "24小時神秘書店"
  • "El Sr. Penumbra y su librería 24 horas abierta"@es
  • "El Sr. Penumbra y su librería 24 horas abierta"
  • "24小時神祕書店"
  • "Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour bookstore"
  • "Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour bookstore"@en
  • "Mr Penumbra's 24-hour bookstore"
  • "P'enǒmbǔra ǔi isipsasi sǒjǒm"
  • "Die sonderbare Buchhandlung des Mr. Penumbra Roman"
  • "<&gt"@he
  • "24 xiao shi shen mi shu dian"
  • "Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour bookstore : a novel"@en
  • "Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour bookstore : a novel"
  • "Het geheim van Penumbra's boekwinkel : 24 uur open"
  • "Hr. Penumbras døgnåbne bogbutik"@da
  • "M. Pénombre : libraire ouvert jour et nuit"
  • "חנות הספרים ללא הפסקה של מר פנומברה"
  • "Die sonderbare Buchhandlung des Mr. Penumbra : Roman"
  • "Nonstop knihkupectví pana Penumbry"
  • "Il segreto della libreria sempre aperta : romanzo"
  • "Il segreto della libreria sempre aperta : romanzo"@it
  • "La llibreria del senyor Penombra, oberta les 24 hores"
  • "M. Pénombre, libraire ouvert jour et nuit : roman"
  • "La Llibreria del senyor Penombra, oberta les 24 hores"@ca
  • "M. Pénombre, libraire ouvert jour et nuit"
  • "Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour bookstore : [a novel]"
  • "Ḥanut ha-sefarim lelo hafsaḳah shel mar Penumbrah"
  • "Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore"@en
  • "Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore"@en
  • "페넘브라 의 24시 서점"
  • "Die sonderbare Buchhandlung des Mr. Penumbra"

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