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A gleeful and exhilarating tale of global conspiracy, complex code-breaking, high-tech data visualization, young love, rollicking adventure, and the secret to eternal life - mostly set in a hole-in-the-wall San Francisco bookstore.
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.
With irresistible brio and dazzling intelligence, Robin Sloan has crafted a literary adventure story for the 21st century, evoking both the fairy-tale charm of Haruki Murakami and the enthusiastic novel-of-ideas wizardry of Neal Stephenson or a young Umberto Eco, but with a unique and feisty sensibility that’s rare to the world of literary fiction. Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore is exactly what it sounds like: an establishment you have to enter and will never want to leave, a modern-day cabinet of wonders ready to give a jolt of energy to every curious listener, no matter the time of day.
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Ricky Desmond has been through this all before. If he could just get through to his mother, he could convince her that he doesn't belong at Brookline. From the man who thinks he can fly to the woman who killed her husband, the other patients are nothing like him; all he did was lose his temper just a little bit, just the once. But when Ricky is selected by the sinister Warden Crawford for a very special program - a program that the warden claims will not cure him but perfect him - Ricky realizes that he may not be able to wait for his mom a second longer.
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Wow!
- De Kindle Customer en 08-28-20
De: Madeleine Roux
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The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks
- De: Shauna Robinson
- Narrado por: Imani Jade Powers
- Duración: 9 h y 18 m
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When Maggie Banks arrives to run her best friend's struggling bookstore, she expects to sell bestsellers to the small-town clientele. But with the town on the map as a top literary destination and the tourist society bent on keeping businesses historic, Maggie is banned from selling anything written this century. So, when a series of mishaps suddenly tip the bookstore toward ruin, Maggie will have to get creative to keep the shop afloat. And in Maggie's world, bookish rules are made to be broken.
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Simple RomCom nothing more nothing less
- De Kelli en 09-01-23
De: Shauna Robinson
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Kingdom Keepers: The Return Book One Disney Lands
- Kingdom Keepers: The Return, Book 1
- De: Ridley Pearson
- Narrado por: MacLeod Andrews
- Duración: 6 h y 35 m
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With the defeat of the Overtakers behind them, the five teenagers known as the Kingdom Keepers should be celebrating. By all accounts they saved Disneyland from certain destruction. Why then did their mentor leave one last puzzle for them to decipher? The Keepers must solve a puzzle of the past, or be crushed under an evil that makes the Overtakers seem like gentle souls.
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Why do I keep buying these?
- De Rebecca en 04-04-16
De: Ridley Pearson
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Truly Devious
- A Mystery
- De: Maureen Johnson
- Narrado por: Kate Rudd
- Duración: 10 h y 12 m
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Ellingham Academy is a famous private school in Vermont for the brightest thinkers, inventors, and artists. It was founded by Albert Ellingham, an early 20th century tycoon, who wanted to make a wonderful place full of riddles, twisting pathways, and gardens. "A place", he said, "where learning is a game." Shortly after the school opened, his wife and daughter were kidnapped. The only real clue was a mocking riddle listing methods of murder, signed with the frightening pseudonym "Truly, Devious".
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I enjoyed it, but I’m pissed about the ending
- De Laura en 04-08-19
De: Maureen Johnson
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Learning to Swear in America
- De: Katie Kennedy
- Narrado por: Aaron Landon
- Duración: 8 h y 58 m
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An asteroid is hurtling toward Earth. A big, bad one. Maybe not kill-all-the-dinosaurs bad but at least kill-everyone-in-California-and-wipe-out-Japan-with-a-tsunami bad. Yuri, a physicist prodigy from Russia, has been recruited to aid NASA as they calculate a plan to avoid disaster. The good news is Yuri knows how to stop the asteroid - his research in antimatter will probably win him a Nobel Prize if there's ever another Nobel Prize awarded. But the trouble is, even though NASA asked for his help, no one there will listen to him.
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An Absolute gem of an audiobook. Well worth buying
- De Amiesbookreviews en 03-30-17
De: Katie Kennedy
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Firespell
- Dark Elite, Book 1
- De: Chloe Neill
- Narrado por: Mary Kane
- Duración: 7 h y 35 m
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From the author of the Chicagoland Vampires novels, a new series about a boarding school filled with something worse than homework. Lily's parents have sent her to a fancy boarding school in Chicago filled with the ultra-rich. If that wasn't bad enough, she's hearing and seeing bizarre things on St. Sophie's creepy campus. Her roommate, Scout, keeps her sane, but keeps disappearing at night. When one day Lily finds Scout running from real-life monsters, she learns the hard way that Scout is involved in a splinter group of rebel teens.They protect Chicago from demons, vamps, and dark magic users....
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The Narrator OMG
- De Patricia_N_ en 08-20-16
De: Chloe Neill
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The Grimm Legacy
- De: Polly Shulman
- Narrado por: Julia Whelan
- Duración: 9 h y 36 m
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Elizabeth has just started working as a page at the New York Circulating Material Repository - a lending library of objects, contemporary and historical, common and obscure. And secret, too - for in the repository's basement lies the Grimm Collection, a room of magical items straight from the Grimm Brother's fairy tales. But the magic mirrors and seven-league boots and other items are starting to disappear.
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Great Story
- De Lady en 12-19-12
De: Polly Shulman
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The Cutting Room
- A Time Travel Thriller
- De: Edward W. Robertson
- Narrado por: Victor Bevine
- Duración: 8 h y 14 m
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In the future, there are many parallel Earths - but only one of them has time travel. Known as Primetime, its criminals break into the pasts of other worlds, far beyond the reach of conventional police. Blake Din is the top agent of the Cutting Room, the group tasked with stopping these trespassers. After a mission to undo the murder of a young boy, he uncovers extensive damage to another world's timeline - and a conspiracy that reaches all the way back to Primetime.
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Characters and their journeys mildly interesting
- De Sailfish en 09-27-16
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Con Academy
- De: Joe Schreiber
- Narrado por: Michael Hinton
- Duración: 6 h y 9 m
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It's his senior year, and Will Shea has conned his way into one of the country's most elite prep schools. But he soon runs into Andrea, a fellow con artist. With the school not big enough for the both of them, they make a bet that whoever can con Brandt Rush, the richest, most privileged student in the school, out of $50,000 gets to stay at the school. Will starts setting up his con (an online poker scam) with his uncle, who's one of the best grifters in the business, and with the unwanted help of his father.
De: Joe Schreiber
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Idoru
- De: William Gibson
- Narrado por: John McLain
- Duración: 8 h y 59 m
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Colin Laney is here looking for work. He is an intuitive fisher for patterns of information. But Laney knows how to sift for the dangerous bits. Which makes him useful - to certain people. Chia McKenzie is here on a rescue mission. Her idol is the singer Rez, of the band Lo,Rez. When the Seattle chapter of the Lo,Rez fan club decided that he might be in trouble in Tokyo, they sent Chia to check it out. Rei Toei is the idoru - the beautiful, entirely virtual media star adored by all Japan. Rez has declared that he will marry her. This is the rumor that has brought Chia to Tokyo.
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The narrator made me turn this off in 10 seconds
- De Rob en 12-02-18
De: William Gibson
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How Like a God
- De: Brenda W. Clough
- Narrado por: Bronson Pinchot
- Duración: 8 h y 54 m
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What would it be like, to get absolute power? Would you wear a cape and fight crime? Rule the planet? Or perhaps you would be like Rob Lewis, and watch your world collapse around you. Does absolute power corrupt absolutely? Rob is going to find out.
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At one point the main character rapes at 13 year old girl
- De Richard Davis en 05-29-21
De: Brenda W. Clough
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Off to Be the Wizard
- Magic 2.0, Book 1
- De: Scott Meyer
- Narrado por: Luke Daniels
- Duración: 10 h y 45 m
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It's a simple story. Boy finds proof that reality is a computer program. Boy uses program to manipulate time and space. Boy gets in trouble. Boy flees back in time to Medieval England to live as a wizard while he tries to think of a way to fix things. Boy gets in more trouble. Oh, and boy meets girl at some point.
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Hang in there
- De Kelly en 03-04-17
De: Scott Meyer
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Click'd
- De: Tamara Ireland Stone
- Narrado por: Suzy Jackson
- Duración: 5 h y 50 m
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Allie Navarro can't wait to show her best friends the app she built at CodeGirls summer camp. CLICK'D pairs users based on common interests and sends them on a fun (and occasionally rule-breaking) scavenger hunt to find each other. And it's a hit. By the second day of school, everyone is talking about CLICK'D. Watching her app go viral is amazing. But when Allie discovers a glitch that threatens to expose everyone's secrets, she has to figure out how to make things right.
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Great read!
- De Connie en 06-29-19
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Superheroes
- De: Peter S. Beagle, Daryl Gregory, James Patrick Kelly, y otros
- Narrado por: Oliver Wyman, Joe Barrett, Christina Delaine, y otros
- Duración: 17 h y 5 m
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Modern gods and goddesses, remote, revered - and like the pantheon of heroes and heroines of ancient myth - possessing great power tempered with flaws. Now, find within this anthology great tales by gifted and award-winning authors who move superheroes from the four-color panels of comic books to the fantastic pages of fiction, stories that will remind anyone who ever wanted to wear a cape or don a cowl of the extraordinary powers of the imagination!
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Pretentious tired old concepts
- De BookofJoy en 12-29-14
De: Peter S. Beagle, y otros
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Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library
- De: Chris Grabenstein
- Narrado por: Jesse Bernstein
- Duración: 6 h y 19 m
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Kyle Keeley is the class clown, popular with most kids, (if not the teachers), and an ardent fan of all games: board games, word games, and particularly video games. His hero, Luigi Lemoncello, the most notorious and creative game maker in the world, just so happens to be the genius behind the building of the new town library. Lucky Kyle wins a coveted spot to be one of the first 12 kids in the library for an overnight of fun, food, and lots and lots of games. But when morning comes, the doors remain locked.
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Instant hit with grandkids!
- De Kathi en 07-24-16
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Ajax Penumbra 1969
- De: Robin Sloan
- Narrado por: Ari Fliakos
- Duración: 1 h y 49 m
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Young Ajax Penumbra has not arrived in San Francisco looking for free love or a glimpse of the technological future. He is seeking a book: the single surviving copy of the Techne Tycheon, a mysterious volume that has brought and lost great fortune for anyone who has owned it. The last record of the book locates it in the San Francisco of more than a century earlier, and on that scant bit of evidence, Penumbra's university has dispatched him west to acquire it for their library.
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Penumbra Prequel Is Too Slight
- De Dubi en 03-06-14
De: Robin Sloan
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Sourdough
- A Novel
- De: Robin Sloan
- Narrado por: Thérèse Plummer
- Duración: 6 h y 47 m
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Lois Clary is a software engineer at General Dexterity, a San Francisco robotics company with world-changing ambitions. She codes all day and collapses at night, her human contact limited to the two brothers who run the neighborhood hole-in-the-wall from which she orders dinner every evening. Then, disaster! Visa issues. The brothers quickly close up shop. But they have one last delivery for Lois: their culture, the sourdough starter used to bake their bread. She must keep it alive, they tell her—feed it daily, play it music, and learn to bake with it.
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Read the print version if you are from SF Bay Area
- De Julie en 10-07-17
De: Robin Sloan
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Moonbound
- A Novel
- De: Robin Sloan
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman
- Duración: 10 h y 40 m
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It is eleven thousand years from now . . . A lot has happened, and yet a lot is still very familiar. Ariel is a boy in a small town under a wizard’s rule. Like many adventurers before him, Ariel is called to explore a world full of unimaginable glories and challenges: unknown enemies, a mission to save the world, a girl. Here, as they say, be dragons. But none of this happens before Ariel comes across an artifact from an earlier civilization, a sentient, record-keeping artificial intelligence that carries with it the perspective of the whole of human history.
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Now one of my favorite books
- De Leif Hansen en 07-06-24
De: Robin Sloan
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The Suitcase Clone
- De: Robin Sloan
- Narrado por: Pavi Proczko
- Duración: 2 h y 11 m
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James Bascule is adrift. College beckons—but not quite strongly enough to actually get him to campus. A trip to Europe showed him a world bigger than his Northern California upbringing—and yet, one broken heart later, Northern California is where he’s returned. Back to his old bedroom, paying his bemused parents rent with his new hobby, baking bread with the sourdough starter that is his only souvenir of what was apparently just a summer fling.
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Is it possible to smile through a whole book?
- De Maryb en 08-14-22
De: Robin Sloan
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Annabel Scheme
- De: Robin Sloan
- Narrado por: Robin Sloan
- Duración: 3 h y 10 m
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Annabel Scheme is a detective story set in an alternate San Francisco where the digital and the occult live side-by-side. It's a short listen, perfect for people who like Sherlock Holmes, Douglas Adams, ghosts and/or the Internet. In Scheme's San Francisco, an indie rocker's new tracks are climbing the charts, even though the rocker herself is long dead. A devout gamer has gone missing, and the only trace of him that remains is inside his favorite game, the blockbuster MMORPG called World of Jesus. And the richest man in the city, the inventor of the search engine called Grail, might just have made a deal with a devil.
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It could have been better
- De Juana Peralta en 11-21-19
De: Robin Sloan
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Parade
- A Novel
- De: Rachel Cusk
- Narrado por: Genevieve Gaunt
- Duración: 5 h y 40 m
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Midway through his life, the artist G begins to paint upside down. Eventually, he paints his wife upside down. He also makes her ugly. The paintings are a great success. In Paris, a woman is attacked by a stranger in the street. Her attacker flees, but not before turning around to contemplate her victim, like an artist stepping back from a canvas. At the age of twenty-two, the painter G leaves home for a new life in another country, far from the disapproval of her parents. Her paintings attract the disapproval of the man she later marries.
De: Rachel Cusk
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Ajax Penumbra 1969
- De: Robin Sloan
- Narrado por: Ari Fliakos
- Duración: 1 h y 49 m
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Young Ajax Penumbra has not arrived in San Francisco looking for free love or a glimpse of the technological future. He is seeking a book: the single surviving copy of the Techne Tycheon, a mysterious volume that has brought and lost great fortune for anyone who has owned it. The last record of the book locates it in the San Francisco of more than a century earlier, and on that scant bit of evidence, Penumbra's university has dispatched him west to acquire it for their library.
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Penumbra Prequel Is Too Slight
- De Dubi en 03-06-14
De: Robin Sloan
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Sourdough
- A Novel
- De: Robin Sloan
- Narrado por: Thérèse Plummer
- Duración: 6 h y 47 m
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Lois Clary is a software engineer at General Dexterity, a San Francisco robotics company with world-changing ambitions. She codes all day and collapses at night, her human contact limited to the two brothers who run the neighborhood hole-in-the-wall from which she orders dinner every evening. Then, disaster! Visa issues. The brothers quickly close up shop. But they have one last delivery for Lois: their culture, the sourdough starter used to bake their bread. She must keep it alive, they tell her—feed it daily, play it music, and learn to bake with it.
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Read the print version if you are from SF Bay Area
- De Julie en 10-07-17
De: Robin Sloan
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Moonbound
- A Novel
- De: Robin Sloan
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman
- Duración: 10 h y 40 m
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It is eleven thousand years from now . . . A lot has happened, and yet a lot is still very familiar. Ariel is a boy in a small town under a wizard’s rule. Like many adventurers before him, Ariel is called to explore a world full of unimaginable glories and challenges: unknown enemies, a mission to save the world, a girl. Here, as they say, be dragons. But none of this happens before Ariel comes across an artifact from an earlier civilization, a sentient, record-keeping artificial intelligence that carries with it the perspective of the whole of human history.
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Now one of my favorite books
- De Leif Hansen en 07-06-24
De: Robin Sloan
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The Suitcase Clone
- De: Robin Sloan
- Narrado por: Pavi Proczko
- Duración: 2 h y 11 m
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James Bascule is adrift. College beckons—but not quite strongly enough to actually get him to campus. A trip to Europe showed him a world bigger than his Northern California upbringing—and yet, one broken heart later, Northern California is where he’s returned. Back to his old bedroom, paying his bemused parents rent with his new hobby, baking bread with the sourdough starter that is his only souvenir of what was apparently just a summer fling.
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Is it possible to smile through a whole book?
- De Maryb en 08-14-22
De: Robin Sloan
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Annabel Scheme
- De: Robin Sloan
- Narrado por: Robin Sloan
- Duración: 3 h y 10 m
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Annabel Scheme is a detective story set in an alternate San Francisco where the digital and the occult live side-by-side. It's a short listen, perfect for people who like Sherlock Holmes, Douglas Adams, ghosts and/or the Internet. In Scheme's San Francisco, an indie rocker's new tracks are climbing the charts, even though the rocker herself is long dead. A devout gamer has gone missing, and the only trace of him that remains is inside his favorite game, the blockbuster MMORPG called World of Jesus. And the richest man in the city, the inventor of the search engine called Grail, might just have made a deal with a devil.
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It could have been better
- De Juana Peralta en 11-21-19
De: Robin Sloan
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Parade
- A Novel
- De: Rachel Cusk
- Narrado por: Genevieve Gaunt
- Duración: 5 h y 40 m
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Midway through his life, the artist G begins to paint upside down. Eventually, he paints his wife upside down. He also makes her ugly. The paintings are a great success. In Paris, a woman is attacked by a stranger in the street. Her attacker flees, but not before turning around to contemplate her victim, like an artist stepping back from a canvas. At the age of twenty-two, the painter G leaves home for a new life in another country, far from the disapproval of her parents. Her paintings attract the disapproval of the man she later marries.
De: Rachel Cusk
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Sing Like Fish
- How Sound Rules Life Under Water
- De: Amorina Kingdon
- Narrado por: Angelina Rocca
- Duración: 8 h y 50 m
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For centuries, humans ignored sound in the “silent world” of the ocean, assuming that what we couldn’t perceive, didn’t exist. But we couldn’t have been more wrong. Marine scientists now have the technology to record and study the complex interplay of the myriad sounds in the sea. Finally, we can trace how sounds travel with the currents, bounce from the seafloor and surface, bend with the temperature and even saltiness; how sounds help marine life survive; and how human noise can transform entire marine ecosystems.
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Good solid science mixed with storytelling.
- De Hawaiian 54 en 10-04-24
De: Amorina Kingdon
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The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep
- A Novel
- De: H. G. Parry
- Narrado por: Calum Gittins
- Duración: 18 h y 3 m
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For his entire life, Charley Sutherland has concealed a magical ability he can't quite control: He can bring characters from books into the real world. His older brother, Rob - a young lawyer with a normal house, a normal fiancee, and an utterly normal life - hopes that this strange family secret will disappear with disuse, and he will be discharged from his life's duty of protecting Charley and the real world from each other. But then, literary characters start causing trouble in their city, making threats about destroying the world...and for once, it isn't Charley's doing.
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Exciting, Heartwarming, and Fun
- De Amazon Customer en 11-18-20
De: H. G. Parry
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She Rides Shotgun
- A Novel
- De: Jordan Harper
- Narrado por: David Marantz
- Duración: 6 h y 14 m
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Eleven-year-old Polly McClusky is shy, too old for the teddy bear she carries with her everywhere, when she is unexpectedly reunited with her father, Nate, fresh out of jail and driving a stolen car. He takes her from the front of her school into a world of robbery, violence, and the constant threat of death. And he does it to save her life. Nate made dangerous enemies in prison - a gang called Aryan Steel has put out a bounty on his head, counting on its members on the outside to finish him off.
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Loved this book
- De Andy Ruiz en 02-21-18
De: Jordan Harper
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The Invisible Library
- The Invisible Library, Book 1
- De: Genevieve Cogman
- Narrado por: Kristin Atherton
- Duración: 12 h y 2 m
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Irene is a professional spy for the mysterious Library, which harvests fiction from different realities. And along with her enigmatic assistant Kai, she's posted to an alternative London. Their mission - to retrieve a dangerous book. But when they arrive, it's already been stolen. London's underground factions seem prepared to fight to the very death to find her book. Adding to the jeopardy, this world is chaos-infested - the laws of nature bent to allow supernatural creatures and unpredictable magic. Irene's new assistant is also hiding secrets of his own.
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Female character harassed and *apologizes* for it
- De Rebecca Myers en 06-05-21
De: Genevieve Cogman
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Elatsoe
- De: Darcie Little Badger
- Narrado por: Kinsale Hueston
- Duración: 9 h y 1 m
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Imagine an America very similar to our own. It's got homework, best friends, and pistachio ice cream. There are some differences. This America has been shaped dramatically by the magic, monsters, knowledge, and legends of its peoples, those Indigenous and those not. Elatsoe lives in this slightly stranger America. She can raise the ghosts of dead animals, a skill passed down through generations of her Lipan Apache family. Her beloved cousin has just been murdered in a town that wants no prying eyes. But she is going to do more than pry.
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Not Bad
- De Gabriel en 12-04-22
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Matterhorn
- A Novel of the Vietnam War
- De: Karl Marlantes
- Narrado por: Bronson Pinchot
- Duración: 21 h y 11 m
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Why we think it’s a great listen: A performance so poignant, we gave Bronson Pinchot (yes, Balki from Perfect Strangers) our inaugural Narrator of the Year award.... In the monsoon season of 1968-69 at a fire support base called Matterhorn, located in the remote mountains of Vietnam, a young and ambitious Marine lieutenant wants to command a company to further his civilian political ambitions. But two people stand in his way.
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A First For Me . . . And The Last
- De Glen en 05-24-10
De: Karl Marlantes
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The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry
- De: Gabrielle Zevin
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 7 h y 2 m
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The irascible A. J. Fikry, owner of Island Books - the only bookstore on Alice Island - has already lost his wife. Now his most prized possession, a rare book, has been stolen from right under his nose in the most embarrassing of circumstances. The store itself, it seems, will be next to go. One night upon closing, he discovers a toddler in his children’s section with a note from her mother pinned to her Elmo doll: I want Maya to grow up in a place with books and among people who care about such kinds of things. I love her very much, but I can no longer take care of her.
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The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry
- De teatime en 05-07-14
De: Gabrielle Zevin
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The Deep Sky
- A Novel
- De: Yume Kitasei
- Narrado por: Sarah Skaer
- Duración: 12 h y 15 m
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It is the eve of Earth’s environmental collapse. A single ship carries humanity’s last hope: eighty elite graduates of a competitive program, who will give birth to a generation of children in deep space. But halfway to a distant but livable planet, a lethal bomb kills three of the crew and knocks The Phoenix off course. Asuka, the only surviving witness, is an immediate suspect.
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The synopsis was better than the story
- De Faisal Sultan en 07-22-23
De: Yume Kitasei
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Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
- De: Hwang Bo-reum, Shanna Tan - translator
- Narrado por: Rosa Escoda
- Duración: 8 h
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Yeongju is burned out. With her high-flying career, demanding marriage, and busy life in Seoul, she knows she should feel successful, but all she feels is drained. Yet an abandoned dream nags at her, and in a leap of faith, she leaves her old life behind. Quitting her job and divorcing her husband, Yeongju moves to a small residential neighborhood outside the city, where she opens the Hyunam-dong Bookshop.
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Really resonated
- De Aebell en 04-18-24
De: Hwang Bo-reum, y otros
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The Little Paris Bookshop
- A Novel
- De: Nina George
- Narrado por: Steve West, Emma Bering, Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 10 h y 55 m
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Monsieur Perdu calls himself a literary apothecary. From his floating bookstore in a barge on the Seine, he prescribes novels for the hardships of life. Using his intuitive feel for the exact book a reader needs, Perdu mends broken hearts and souls. The only person he can't seem to heal through literature is himself; he's still haunted by heartbreak after his great love disappeared. She left him with only a letter, which he has never opened.
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Feels like a debut novel
- De Molly-o en 09-25-15
De: Nina George
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The Library Book
- De: Susan Orlean
- Narrado por: Susan Orlean
- Duración: 12 h y 9 m
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On the morning of April 29, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. As the moments passed, the patrons and staff who had cleared out of the building realized this was not the usual false alarm. As one fireman recounted later, “Once that first stack got going, it was good-bye, Charlie.” The fire was disastrous: It reached 2,000 degrees and burned for more than seven hours. By the time it was extinguished, it had consumed 400,000 books and damaged 700,000 more.
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Had To Turn It Off
- De Meg en 01-17-19
De: Susan Orlean
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Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore
- A Novel
- De: Matthew Sullivan
- Narrado por: Madeleine Maby
- Duración: 9 h
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Lydia Smith lives her life hiding in plain sight. A clerk at the Bright Ideas bookstore, she keeps a meticulously crafted existence among her beloved books, her eccentric colleagues, and the BookFrogs - the lost and lonely regulars who spend every day marauding the store's overwhelmed shelves. But when Joey McGinty, a young, beguiling BookFrog, kills himself in the bookstore's back room, Lydia's life comes unglued.
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Here's a bright idea....
- De Erin S en 07-15-17
De: Matthew Sullivan
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
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- Maria Lara-Whelpley
- 03-11-15
A feel-good fun read!
Charming story with nice, slightly quirky phrasing ("...the little eccentric that could."). All in all a very good vacation read.
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- Kshelby406
- 05-07-18
Excellent story!
great story and so easy to listen to. loved the narrator. listened to it in one day as I went about my chores and couldn't stop listening! highly recommended.
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- Shaun
- 09-08-17
All around great!
This was a very fun read...OK, a fun listen. The narrator was perfect for the story. The story was entertaining, and quirky, and well paced.
I want to find a book store like this! I want to go on quests with these characters. I want to live in this world.
If you're looking for fun, read this book!!!
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- Buffy
- 03-18-16
Delightful read
This book was a delight to read. A little long and convoluted; but entertaining and fun. Somewhat lightweight--which was actually a nice change of pace from murder and mayhem novels.
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- Angela M. Dokos
- 11-19-15
Interesting and entertaining
This isn't a book I would have probably chosen on my own, so I am glad it was recommended to me. I really enjoyed it. Different from what I usually read. It is very interesting. It's a fun read! I liked it.
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- S. Harris
- 01-24-15
This was precisely what I needed!
A thoroughly enjoyable production: narration, direction, production value, and the story. Definitely fun, thought provoking, adventurous, light, maybe a tiny dash of too-perfect-plot but I certainly haven't written a book, so why not just enjoy ? It was a perfect read for after the incredibly sad, "The Worst Hard Time."
meaningful (?) reads.
Today is Jan 24 so Happy National Readathon Day!
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- L. B.
- 02-05-15
Entertaining. A page turner, A mystery, Quirky.
What made the experience of listening to Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore the most enjoyable?
I liked his descriptions of people. He brought them to life. I liked the discussions of current technology. I'm an amateur tech person even though I'm nearer 80 than 70. Can Google really do all that stuff? AND driverless cars. It's a new world.
What did you like best about this story?
I was a journalism major a half century ago. I once worked in a newspaper with a flatbed press. I have hand set type. The author brings together the publishing world of the 16th century and the 21st century in a fun way,.
What about Ari Fliakos’s performance did you like?
There are different voices for different characters. Great fun.
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
There were lots of moments that I just had to hear the next chapter.
Any additional comments?
I rarely listen to fiction-except very old classics. I bumbled into this one--it was probably one of those two for one sales, And I loved it. I have recommended it to several people, I was so taken in that I Googled the name of a company that turned out to be part of the author's fantasy. Apparently a lot of the readers did just what I did. The author drew me into his created world and convinced me it was real.
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- N. Martin
- 02-23-15
Very.... Googly
It was refreshingly up to date with modern technologies and it was pleasant that the author didn't try to obscure the involved companies. Lots of fun.
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- Jessica
- 12-12-13
Can EVERY book be this book?
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
I have recommended it to many people already. It is charming and funny and so clever. I love all the little pop culture references and the pacing of the book. It's engaging and never boring and is so different and unique that you can't help but love it.
Who was your favorite character and why?
That's really difficult... of course I love Clay and Penumbra and Kat, but I have to say that I really loved Neel too. He's my favorite... probably.
Which scene was your favorite?
The scene in the reading room when Clay is all alone.
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
The amphitheater scene at Google. Heart. Broken.
Any additional comments?
Give this book a chance even if it sounds like it's not your thing. It's so smart and fun and different, it will charm you and win you over.
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- Chris
- 06-04-13
Fun, light-hearted; one of my favorites
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
I would absolutely recommend this to a friend. The plot is a bit fantastical but the passion and excitement in the storytelling and the enthusiasm of the characters involved overcomes any immersion issues.
What other book might you compare Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore to and why?
I honestly don't have any other books to compare it to and that originality is one of the book's most redeeming values.
What does Ari Fliakos bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
His vocal changes for each character were bright and clear. He added a level of tone and shading to the characters that I could never have hoped to by just reading the book. His voice for Mr. Penumbra was perfect.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
I tend to listen to audiobooks as I commute to and from work and the sign of a good audiobook is one where I continue listening for 10-15 minutes after I arrive at my destination. That happened almost every time I listened to this book. So, if I had infinite time, I would have loved to listen to the whole thing in one sitting.
Any additional comments?
I'm a software developer by trade, so I have a pretty good handle on a lot of the technical details in this book. My best advice for anyone like me who understands the technology they talk about is to to just let go and try not to pick it apart. This story is a wonderful, optimistic look at the possibilities of the human race's technological advancement and if you spend too much time focusing on inaccuracies you'll miss the point and won't enjoy the story as much.
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