Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore: A Novel
(Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read)
Author:
Published:
Scribner 2017
Format:
Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read
Status:
Available from OverDrive
Description
When a bookshop patron dies by suicide, his favorite store clerk must unravel the puzzle he left behind in this "shocking, charming, thrilling" (Associated Press) and award-winning debut novel.
Lydia Smith lives her life hiding in plain sight. A clerk at the Bright Ideas bookstore, she leads a meticulously ordered existence among her beloved books, eccentric colleagues, and the BookFrogs—the lost and lonely regulars who spend every day browsing the overwhelmed stacks.
But when a young BookFrog, Joey Molina, hangs himself in one of the upper rooms of the store, Lydia's life comes unglued. Inside one of Joey's pockets is a photograph of Lydia as a little girl. And when she flips through some of his books, she finds them defaced in ways both disturbing and inexplicable. They reveal the psyche of a young man on the verge of an emotional reckoning. The more she puzzles over them, the more they seem to contain a hidden message for her about his final days. What did Joey know? And what does it have to do with Lydia?
With "oddball characters and [a] layered plot" (Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review), Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore is "a smart, twisty crime novel set in a world that booklovers will adore" (Jess Walter, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins).
Lydia Smith lives her life hiding in plain sight. A clerk at the Bright Ideas bookstore, she leads a meticulously ordered existence among her beloved books, eccentric colleagues, and the BookFrogs—the lost and lonely regulars who spend every day browsing the overwhelmed stacks.
But when a young BookFrog, Joey Molina, hangs himself in one of the upper rooms of the store, Lydia's life comes unglued. Inside one of Joey's pockets is a photograph of Lydia as a little girl. And when she flips through some of his books, she finds them defaced in ways both disturbing and inexplicable. They reveal the psyche of a young man on the verge of an emotional reckoning. The more she puzzles over them, the more they seem to contain a hidden message for her about his final days. What did Joey know? And what does it have to do with Lydia?
With "oddball characters and [a] layered plot" (Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review), Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore is "a smart, twisty crime novel set in a world that booklovers will adore" (Jess Walter, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins).
Formats
Adobe EPUB eBook
Works on all eReaders (except Kindles), desktop computers and mobile devices with reading apps installed.
Kindle Book
Works on Kindles and devices with a Kindle app installed.
OverDrive Read
Need Help?
If you are having problem transferring a title to your device, please fill out this support form or visit the library so we can help you to use our eBooks and eAudio Books.
If you are having problem transferring a title to your device, please fill out this support form or visit the library so we can help you to use our eBooks and eAudio Books.
More Details
Street Date:
06/13/2017
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781501116865
ASIN:
B01MDTCBVZ
Reviews from GoodReads
Loading GoodReads Reviews.
Citations
APA Citation (style guide)
Matthew Sullivan. (2017). Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore: A Novel. Scribner.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Matthew Sullivan. 2017. Midnight At the Bright Ideas Bookstore: A Novel. Scribner.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Matthew Sullivan, Midnight At the Bright Ideas Bookstore: A Novel. Scribner, 2017.
MLA Citation (style guide)Matthew Sullivan. Midnight At the Bright Ideas Bookstore: A Novel. Scribner, 2017.
Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.
Copy Details
| Library | Owned | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Shared Digital Collection | 1 | 1 |
| Steamboat Springs Schools | 0 | 0 |
Staff View
Grouped Work ID:
cd1952b7-54be-56c6-4eaa-e570707a4728
Needs Update?:
No
Date Added:
May 30, 2017 18:34:05
Date Updated:
Apr 29, 2022 06:47:09
Last Metadata Check:
Apr 21, 2024 07:25:37
Last Metadata Change:
Mar 19, 2024 09:01:45
Last Availability Check:
Apr 21, 2024 07:25:44
Last Availability Change:
Apr 17, 2024 10:55:23
Last Grouped Work Modification Time:
Apr 26, 2024 20:47:33
OverDrive Product Record
- images
- cover:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0439-1/{B37EE92A-1AE6-4B28-9D17-F443E4DDCBCA}IMG100.JPG
- thumbnail:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0439-1/{B37EE92A-1AE6-4B28-9D17-F443E4DDCBCA}IMG200.JPG
- cover150Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0439-1/{B37EE92A-1AE6-4B28-9D17-F443E4DDCBCA}IMG150.JPG
- cover300Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0439-1/{B37EE92A-1AE6-4B28-9D17-F443E4DDCBCA}IMG400.JPG
- cover:
- formats
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781501116865
- name: Adobe EPUB eBook
- id: ebook-epub-adobe
- identifiers:
- identifiers:
- type: ASIN
- value: B01MDTCBVZ
- name: Kindle Book
- id: ebook-kindle
- identifiers:
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781501116865
- name: OverDrive Read
- id: ebook-overdrive
- identifiers:
- mediaType
- eBook
- primaryCreator
- role: Author
- name: Matthew Sullivan
- title
- Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore
- dateAdded
- 2017-05-30T23:00:00Z
- contentDetails
- href: https://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=162&titleID=3022459
- type: text/html
- account:
- name: Marmot Library Network (CO)
- id: 1201
- sortTitle
- Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore A Novel
- crossRefId
- 3022459
- subtitle
- A Novel
- id
- B37EE92A-1AE6-4B28-9D17-F443E4DDCBCA
- starRating
- 3.8
OverDrive MetaData
- isPublicDomain
- False
- formats
- fileName: MidnightattheBrightI_9781501116865_3022459
- partCount: 0
- fileSize: 3008195
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781501116865
- rights:
- type: Copying
- value: 0
- type: Printing
- value: 0
- type: Lending
- value: 0
- type: ReadAloud
- value: 0
- type: ExpirationRights
- value: 0
- name: Adobe EPUB eBook
- isReadAlong: False
- id: ebook-epub-adobe
- onSaleDate: 6/13/2017
- samples:
- source: From the book
- formatType: ebook-overdrive
- url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=b37ee92a-1ae6-4b28-9d17-f443e4ddcbca&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- fileName: MidnightattheBrightI_3022459
- partCount: 0
- fileSize: 0
- identifiers:
- type: ASIN
- value: B01MDTCBVZ
- name: Kindle Book
- isReadAlong: False
- id: ebook-kindle
- onSaleDate: 6/13/2017
- samples:
- source: From the book
- formatType: ebook-overdrive
- url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=b37ee92a-1ae6-4b28-9d17-f443e4ddcbca&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- fileName: MidnightattheBrightI_9781501116865_3022459
- partCount: 0
- fileSize: 3023109
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781501116865
- name: OverDrive Read
- isReadAlong: False
- id: ebook-overdrive
- onSaleDate: 6/13/2017
- samples:
- source: From the book
- formatType: ebook-overdrive
- url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=b37ee92a-1ae6-4b28-9d17-f443e4ddcbca&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- keywords
- value: female protagonist
- value: murderer
- value: Fiction
- value: suspense
- value: Suicide
- value: Denver
- value: psychological thriller
- value: mystery
- value: Thriller
- value: grief
- value: puzzles
- value: bookshop
- value: loss
- value: bookstore
- value: bookseller
- value: Dark Past
- value: books about books
- value: literary mystery
- value: book lovers
- value: award-winner
- value: debut fiction
- value: indie next pick
- value: jess walter
- value: Nina George
- value: Mr. Penumbra
- value: emotional breakdown
- value: barnes & noble discover pick
- value: Tattered Cover
- value: estranged parent
- value: goodreads debut author
- value: the storied life of aj fickry
- value: detective harry moberg
- value: matthew sullivan new book
- value: midnight cycle series
- value: midnight in the orchard by the lake
- value: the midnight cycle
- creators
- role: Author
- fileAs: Sullivan, Matthew
- bioText: Matthew Sullivan is the author of the novel Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore, which was an IndieNext pick, a Barnes & Noble Discover Pick, a GoodReads Choice Award finalist, and winner of the Colorado Book Award. His writing has appeared inThe New York Times, The Daily Beast, The Spokesman-Review, Sou'wester and elsewhere, and his stories have been awarded the Florida Review Editor's Prize and the Robert Olen Butler Fiction Prize. He grew up in a family of eight raucous kids in Aurora, Colorado, and received his BA from the University of San Francisco and his MFA from the University of Idaho. After working as a bookseller at Tattered Cover Book Store in Denver and at Brookline Booksmith in Boston, he spent twenty years as a tenured instructor teaching writing, literature, and film at a rural HSI community college in the high desert of central Washington State. He is married to a librarian and now lives in Anacortes, on Fidalgo Island in the Northwest corner of Washington. His new stand-alone mystery novel, Midnight in the Orchard by the Lake, is forthcoming from HarperCollins/Hanover Square Press.
- name: Matthew Sullivan
- publishDate
- 2017-06-13T00:00:00-04:00
- isOwnedByCollections
- True
- title
- Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore
- fullDescription
- When a bookshop patron dies by suicide, his favorite store clerk must unravel the puzzle he left behind in this "shocking, charming, thrilling" (Associated Press) and award-winning debut novel.
Lydia Smith lives her life hiding in plain sight. A clerk at the Bright Ideas bookstore, she leads a meticulously ordered existence among her beloved books, eccentric colleagues, and the BookFrogs—the lost and lonely regulars who spend every day browsing the overwhelmed stacks.
But when a young BookFrog, Joey Molina, hangs himself in one of the upper rooms of the store, Lydia's life comes unglued. Inside one of Joey's pockets is a photograph of Lydia as a little girl. And when she flips through some of his books, she finds them defaced in ways both disturbing and inexplicable. They reveal the psyche of a young man on the verge of an emotional reckoning. The more she puzzles over them, the more they seem to contain a hidden message for her about his final days. What did Joey know? And what does it have to do with Lydia?
With "oddball characters and [a] layered plot" (Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review), Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore is "a smart, twisty crime novel set in a world that booklovers will adore" (Jess Walter, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins). - popularity
- 1382
- links
- self:
- href: https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1ByAAAAA2r/products/b37ee92a-1ae6-4b28-9d17-f443e4ddcbca/metadata
- type: application/vnd.overdrive.api+json
- self:
- id
- b37ee92a-1ae6-4b28-9d17-f443e4ddcbca
- starRating
- 3.8
- images
- cover:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0439-1/{B37EE92A-1AE6-4B28-9D17-F443E4DDCBCA}IMG100.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- thumbnail:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0439-1/{B37EE92A-1AE6-4B28-9D17-F443E4DDCBCA}IMG200.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- cover150Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0439-1/{B37EE92A-1AE6-4B28-9D17-F443E4DDCBCA}IMG150.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- cover300Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0439-1/{B37EE92A-1AE6-4B28-9D17-F443E4DDCBCA}IMG400.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- cover:
- isPublicPerformanceAllowed
- False
- languages
- code: en
- name: English
- subjects
- value: Fiction
- value: Literature
- value: Mystery
- value: Thriller
- publishDateText
- 06/13/2017
- otherFormatIdentifiers
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781501116858
- mediaType
- eBook
- shortDescription
- When a bookshop patron dies by suicide, his favorite store clerk must unravel the puzzle he left behind in this "shocking, charming, thrilling" (Associated Press) and award-winning debut novel.
Lydia Smith lives her life hiding in plain sight. A clerk at the Bright Ideas bookstore, she leads a meticulously ordered existence among her beloved books, eccentric colleagues, and the BookFrogs—the lost and lonely regulars who spend every day browsing the overwhelmed stacks.
But when a young BookFrog, Joey Molina, hangs himself in one of the upper rooms of the store, Lydia's life comes unglued. Inside one of Joey's pockets is a photograph of Lydia as a little girl. And when she flips through some of his books, she finds them defaced in ways both disturbing and inexplicable. They reveal the psyche of a young man on the verge of an emotional reckoning. The more she puzzles over them, the more they seem to contain a hidden message for her about his final days. What did... - sortTitle
- Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore A Novel
- crossRefId
- 3022459
- subtitle
- A Novel
- publisher
- Scribner
- bisacCodes
- code: FIC019000
- description: Fiction / Literary
- code: FIC022000
- description: Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General
- code: FIC030000
- description: Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense