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    The Novagem
    The Novagem
    The Novagem
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    The Novagem

    By Jon Thorpe

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    An odd young man is smitten by an antique store clerk. During one of his awkward attempts at wooing her, the young man comes across a book on the 1915 San Francisco Pan-Pacific Exposition that will overturn his notion of reality and inspire him to join forces with a secret organization hell-bent on proving that the sun is not a star.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJon Thorpe
    Release dateJun 6, 2010
    ISBN9781452382081
    The Novagem
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    Jon Thorpe

    Jon Thorpe resides in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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      The Novagem - Jon Thorpe

      The Novegem

      Jon Thorpe

      Published by Jon Thorpe at Smashwords

      Copyright 2010 Jon Thorpe

      One

      There is an antique store. I have sat, on many occasions, in the small café directly across the street from the antique store and sipped from a white mug of black coffee or sometimes a small cup of espresso. I sit and watch the antique store window. The store attracts few customers. Once in a while a middle-aged housewife, dressed a little too formally, enters the store, lingers for a few minutes, and then leaves, oftentimes empty-handed, sometimes with a small item wrapped in brown paper and fastened with twine.

      There is a girl in the store.

      She sits behind the counter.

      She is still young.

      She fascinates me.

      Two

      I have been in the antique store maybe four times. It takes a great amount of courage for me to enter the store because

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