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Ajax Penumbra 1969 (2012)

by Robin Sloan
(#1 in Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Prequel))

August 1969 San Francisco. Ajax Penumbra seeks 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. Late one night, after another day of dispiriting dead ends, he stumbles across a 24-hour bookstore, and the possibilities before him expand exponentially.