{"product_id":"9781554902903","title":"Shelf Monkey","description":"\u003cp\u003eThomas Friesen has three goals in life. Get a job. Make friends. Find a good book to curl up with. After landing a job at READ, the newest hypermegabookstore, he feels he may have accomplished all three.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll is not peaceable within the stacks, however. Discontent is steadily rising, and it is aimed squarely at Munroe Purvis, a talk show host whose wildly popular book club is progressively lowering the I.Q. of North America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut the bookworms have a plan. Plots are being hatched. The destruction of Munroe is all but assured. And as Thomas finds himself swept along in the maëlstrom of insanity, he wonders if reading a book is all it’s cracked up to be.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you’ve ever thrown a book against a wall in disgust; if you’ve ever loved a novel that no one else can stand; if you obsess over the proper use of punctuation; this may be the novel for you. A weirdly funny story about bookish addictions, \u003cem\u003eShelf Monkey\u003c\/em\u003e is the ideal novel for anyone who loves good books. Or hates them.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ECW Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47132819554544,"sku":"9781554902903","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781554902903_p0.jpg?v=1763752826","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781554902903","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}