Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore: A Novel
(OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, OverDrive Listen)

Book Cover
Author:
Sullivan, Matthew
Narrator:
Maby, Madeleine
Published:
Simon & Schuster Audio 2017
Format:
OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, OverDrive Listen
Edition:
Unabridged
ISBN:
9781508236047
Status:
Checked Out
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).
More Like This
Citations
APA Citation (style guide)

Matthew Sullivan. (2017). Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore: A Novel. Unabridged Simon & Schuster Audio.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)

Matthew Sullivan. 2017. Midnight At the Bright Ideas Bookstore: A Novel. Simon & Schuster Audio.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)

Matthew Sullivan, Midnight At the Bright Ideas Bookstore: A Novel. Simon & Schuster Audio, 2017.

MLA Citation (style guide)

Matthew Sullivan. Midnight At the Bright Ideas Bookstore: A Novel. Unabridged Simon & Schuster Audio, 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.
More Copies In Prospector
Loading Prospector Copies...
More Details
Street Date:
06/13/2017
Language:
English
Staff View
Grouped Work ID:
cd1952b7-54be-56c6-4eaa-e570707a4728
Go To Grouped Work
Needs Update?:
No
Date Added:
Jun 14, 2017 19:23:29
Date Updated:
Oct 26, 2020 06:39:21
Last Metadata Check:
Apr 16, 2024 16:16:02
Last Metadata Change:
Mar 22, 2024 05:53:32
Last Availability Check:
Apr 16, 2024 16:16:08
Last Availability Change:
Apr 16, 2024 16:16:08
Last Grouped Work Modification Time:
Apr 18, 2024 20:53:41

OverDrive Product Record

images
    • cover:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/5054-1/{DC3523D4-7DA5-4B39-BADB-7E3AAC09C31E}Img100.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
    • thumbnail:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/5054-1/{DC3523D4-7DA5-4B39-BADB-7E3AAC09C31E}Img200.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
    • cover150Wide:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/5054-1/DC3/523/D4/{DC3523D4-7DA5-4B39-BADB-7E3AAC09C31E}Img150.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
    • cover300Wide:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/5054-1/DC3/523/D4/{DC3523D4-7DA5-4B39-BADB-7E3AAC09C31E}Img400.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
formats
      • identifiers:
            • type: 8
            • value: simonandschuster_audio#9781508236047
            • type: ISBN
            • value: 9781508236061
      • name: OverDrive MP3 Audiobook
      • id: audiobook-mp3
      • identifiers:
            • type: 8
            • value: simonandschuster_audio#9781508236047
            • type: ISBN
            • value: 9781508236061
      • name: OverDrive Listen
      • id: audiobook-overdrive
mediaType
Audiobook
primaryCreator
    • role: Author
    • name: Matthew Sullivan
title
Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore
dateAdded
2017-06-14T20:18:00-04:00
contentDetails
      • href: https://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=162&titleID=3027598
      • type: text/html
      • account:
          • name: Marmot Library Network (CO)
          • id: 1201
sortTitle
Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore A Novel
crossRefId
3027598
subtitle
A Novel
id
dc3523d4-7da5-4b39-badb-7e3aac09c31e
starRating
3.6

OverDrive MetaData

isPublicDomain
False
images
    • cover:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/5054-1/{DC3523D4-7DA5-4B39-BADB-7E3AAC09C31E}Img100.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
    • thumbnail:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/5054-1/{DC3523D4-7DA5-4B39-BADB-7E3AAC09C31E}Img200.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
    • cover150Wide:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/5054-1/DC3/523/D4/{DC3523D4-7DA5-4B39-BADB-7E3AAC09C31E}Img150.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
    • cover300Wide:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/5054-1/DC3/523/D4/{DC3523D4-7DA5-4B39-BADB-7E3AAC09C31E}Img400.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
isPublicPerformanceAllowed
False
formats
      • duration: 09:04:10
      • fileName: MidnightattheBrightI_9781508236047_3027598
      • partCount: 9
      • fileSize: 259310884
      • identifiers:
            • type: ISBN
            • value: 9781508236047
            • type: 8
            • value: simonandschuster_audio#9781508236047
      • rights:
            • type: PlayOnPC
            • value: 1
            • type: PlayOnPCCount
            • value: -1
            • type: BurnToCD
            • value: 1
            • type: BurnToCDCount
            • value: -1
            • type: PlayOnPM
            • value: 1
            • type: TransferToSDMI
            • value: 1
            • type: TransferToNonSDMI
            • value: 1
            • type: TransferCount
            • value: -1
            • type: CollaborativePlay
            • value: 0
            • type: PublicPerformance
            • value: 0
            • type: TranscodeToAAC
            • value: 1
      • name: OverDrive MP3 Audiobook
      • isReadAlong: False
      • id: audiobook-mp3
      • onSaleDate: 6/13/2017
      • samples:
            • source: Part 1
            • formatType: audiobook-mp3
            • url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/5054-1/3027598-MidnightAtTheBrightIdeas.mp3
            • source: Part 1
            • formatType: audiobook-overdrive
            • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=dc3523d4-7da5-4b39-badb-7e3aac09c31e&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
      • duration: 09:00:09
      • fileName: MidnightattheBrightIdeasBookstoreANovel-9538
      • partCount: 0
      • fileSize: 259279512
      • identifiers:
            • type: ISBN
            • value: 9781508236047
            • type: 8
            • value: simonandschuster_audio#9781508236047
      • name: OverDrive Listen
      • isReadAlong: False
      • id: audiobook-overdrive
      • onSaleDate: 6/13/2017
      • samples:
            • source: Part 1
            • formatType: audiobook-mp3
            • url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/5054-1/3027598-MidnightAtTheBrightIdeas.mp3
            • source: Part 1
            • formatType: audiobook-overdrive
            • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=dc3523d4-7da5-4b39-badb-7e3aac09c31e&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
languages
      • code: en
      • name: English
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
      • role: Narrator
      • fileAs: Maby, Madeleine
      • name: Madeleine Maby
subjects
      • value: Fiction
      • value: Mystery
      • value: Suspense
      • value: Thriller
publishDate
2017-06-13T00:00:00-04:00
edition
Unabridged
publishDateText
06/13/2017
mediaType
Audiobook
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...
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).
sortTitle
Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore A Novel
crossRefId
3027598
subtitle
A Novel
popularity
1491
publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
links
    • self:
        • href: https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1ByAAAAA2r/products/dc3523d4-7da5-4b39-badb-7e3aac09c31e/metadata
        • type: application/vnd.overdrive.api+json
id
dc3523d4-7da5-4b39-badb-7e3aac09c31e
starRating
3.7
bisacCodes
      • code: FIC022000
      • description: Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General
      • code: FIC025000
      • description: Fiction / Psychological
      • code: FIC030000
      • description: Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense