Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
Robin Sloan 2012
- What it is
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A book about books · an adventure with plenty of laughs
- Genre
- Fantasy Mystery Science fiction
Everything below shares at least two of these traits, or sits with it in some reader's stack. We tell you why as you go.
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