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Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour BookstoreSeries

This series plunges readers into a world where ancient books and modern technology collide, unraveling mysteries of eternal life and cryptic conspiracies. Follow a young protagonist as he deciphers secret codes and navigates a hidden society connected to a peculiar bookstore. It's a thrilling adventure exploring friendship, love, and the quest for knowledge in the digital age.

Ajax Penumbra 1969
Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore

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    Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore

    • 288 pages
    • 11 hours of reading
    3.7(177613)Add rating

    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.

    Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore

  • Ajax Penumbra 1969

    • 99 pages
    • 4 hours of reading
    4.2(32)Add rating

    San Francisco, 1969. The summer of drugs, music and a new age dawning. A young, earnest Ajax Penumbra has been given his first assignment as a Junior Acquisitions Officer - to find the single surviving copy of the Techne Tycheon, a mysterious volume that has brought and lost great fortune for anyone who has owned it. After a few weeks of rigorous hunting, Penumbra feels no closer to his goal than when he started. But late one night, after another day of dispiriting dead ends, he stumbles upon a 24-hour bookstore and the possibilities before him expand exponentially. With the help of his friend's homemade computer, an ancient map, a sunken ship and the vast shelves of the 24-hour bookstore, Ajax Penumbra might just find what he's seeking...

    Ajax Penumbra 1969