Robin Sloan
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
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Description
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 have landed him a new gig working the night shift at Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore. But after 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...
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
"It is August 1969. Young Ajax Penumbra has arrived in San Francisco, the capital of counterculture, seeking neither psychedelic deliverance nor a fortune made in silicon. He is searching for a book, the single remaining copy of the Techne Tycheon, an ancient and mysterious volume reputed to have occult power. His quest is full of dispiriting dead ends -- but when he stumbles across a 24-hour bookstore, the possibilities before him expand exponentially."--Back...
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Description
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 close up shop, and fast. But they have one last delivery for Lois: their culture, the sourdough starter used to bake...
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