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The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2013
by Dave EggersDave Eggers and his students at the 826 Valencia and 826 Michigan writing labs compile fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and comics, as well as category-defying gems that have become one of the hallmarks of this lively collection.... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2013 -
The Voice of Witness Reader
by Dave EggersFor ten years, Voice of Witness has illuminated contemporary human rights crises through its remarkable oral history book series. Founded by Dave Eggers, Lola Vollen and Mimi Lok, Voice of Witness has amplified the stories of hundreds of people impacted by some of the most crucial human rights crise... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2015 -
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012
by Dave EggersThe Best American Series® First, Best, and Best-Selling The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. A special guest editor, a l... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2012 -
Up the Mountain Coming Down Slowly
by Dave EggersA Vintage Shorts "Short Story Month" Selection Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Dave Eggers displays his emotional range in this quiet tour-de-force from How We Are Hungry, the often funny and masterful collection of short fiction. After giving up responsibility, in her usual pa... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2004 -
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007
by Dave EggersA selection of the best writing, including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and comics, published in American periodicals during 2006.... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2007 -
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009
by Dave EggersA selection of the best writing, including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and comics, published in American periodicals during 2008, aimed at readers 15 and up.... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2009 -
What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng
by Dave EggersWhat Is the What is the epic novel based on the life of Valentino Achak Deng who, along with thousands of other children--the so-called Lost Boys--was forced to leave his village in Sudan at the age of seven and trek hundreds of miles by foot, pursued by militias, government bombers, and wild animal... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2007 -
You Shall Know Our Velocity
by Dave EggersIn his first novel, Dave Eggers has written a moving and hilarious tale of two friends who fly around the world trying to give away a lot of money and free themselves from a profound loss. It reminds us once again what an important, necessary talent Dave Eggers is.... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2002 -
The Wild Things
by Dave EggersSpecial edition housed in a beautiful slipcase. Seven-year-old Max likes to make noise, get dirty, ride his bike without a helmet and howl like a wolf. In any other era, he would be considered a boy. In 2007, he is considered willful and deranged. His home life is problematic. His parents are di... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2009 -
Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?
by Dave EggersFrom Dave Eggers, best-selling author of The Circle, a tightly controlled, emotionally searching novel. Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever? is the formally daring, brilliantly executed story of one man struggling to make sense of his country, seeking answers the onl... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2014 -
Heroes of the Frontier
by Dave Eggers<P>A captivating, often hilarious novel of family, loss, wilderness, and the curse of a violent America, Dave Eggers's Heroes of the Frontier is a powerful examination of our contemporary life and a rousing story of adventure. <P>Josie and her children's father have split up, she's been sued ... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2016 -
A Hologram For The King
by Dave EggersIn a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter's college tuition, and finally do something great. In A Hologram for the King, Dave Eggers takes us around the world to show ho... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2012 -
How We Are Hungry: Stories By Dave Eggers
by Dave Eggers"Another" "What It Means When a Crowd in a Faraway Nation Takes a Soldier Representing Your Own Nation, Shoots Him, Drags Him from His Vehicle and Then Mutilates Him in the Dust" "The Only Meaning of the Oil-Wet Water" "On Wanting to Have Three Walls Up Before She Gets Home" "Climbing to the Window,... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2006 -
The Lifters
by Dave EggersJourney to an underground world where adventure awaits and heroes are made in this middle grade novel from the bestselling, Pulitzer-nominated author of The Monk of Mokha and Her Right Foot. <P><P>When Gran and his family move to Carousel, he has no idea that the town is built atop a secret. Little... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2018 -
What Is the What
by Dave EggersNew York Times Notable Book New York Times BestsellerWhat Is the What is the epic novel based on the life of Valentino Achak Deng who, along with thousands of other children --the so-called Lost Boys--was forced to leave his village in Sudan at the age of seven and trek hundreds of miles by foot,... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2006 -
Zeitoun
by Dave EggersIn the wake of Hurricane Katrina, longtime New Orleans residents Abdulrahman and Kathy Zeitoun are cast into unthinkable struggle with forces beyond wind and water. Good Samaritan Abdulrahman has stayed on in the city, traversing its deeply flooded streets by canoe, feeding trapped dogs and rescuin... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2009 -
The Circle
by Dave EggersThe Circle is the exhilarating new novel from Dave Eggers, bestselling author of A Hologram for the King, a finalist for the National Book Award. <P>When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful internet company, she feels she's been given the opportunity of a lifetim... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2013 -
How we are hungry
by Dave Eggers'How We Are Hungry 'is a group of stories written over the past four years. Though they range from a doomed Irish setter's tales of running and jumping ("After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned") to a bitterly comic meditation on suicide and friendship ("Climbing to the Window, Pretendi... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2005 -
Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans
by Dave EggersNow more than ever, Americans are troubled by questions. As sweaty modernity thrusts itself upon us, the veil of ignorance that cloaked our nation hangs in tatters, tattered tatters. Our "funny bones" are neither fun nor bony. Glum is the new giddy, and the old giddy wasn't too giddy to begin wit... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2002 -
Most of the Better Natural Things in the World
by Dave EggersA tiger carries a dining room chair on her back. But why? Where is she going? With just one word per page, in lush, color-rich landscapes, we learn about the features that make up our world: an archipelago, a dune, an isthmus, a lagoon. Across them all, the tiger roams. This enigmatic investigation ... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2019 -
The Captain and the Glory: An Entertainment
by Dave EggersA savage satire of the United States in the throes of insanity, this blisteringly funny novel tells the story of a noble ship, the Glory, and the loud, clownish, and foul Captain who steers it to the brink of disaster.When the decorated Captain of a great ship descends the gangplank for the final ti... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2019 -
The Parade: A novel
by Dave EggersFrom the bestselling author of The Monk of Mokha and The Circle comes a taut, suspenseful story of two foreigners' role in a nation's fragile peace.An unnamed country is leaving the darkness of a decade at war, and to commemorate the armistice the government commissions a new road connecting two hal... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2020 -
We Became Jaguars
by Dave EggersRevel in the breathtaking fantasticality of We Became Jaguars—a picture book from bestselling author Dave Eggers.When Grandma comes to visit and a young boy's parents leave, the rules of the house—and the world—change: grandson and grandmother transform into jaguars! Readers follow their journey int... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2020 -
A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius: A Memoir Based on a True Story
by Dave EggersA Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is the moving memoir of a college senior who, in the space of five weeks, loses both of his parents to cancer and inherits his eight-year-old brother. Here is an exhilarating debut that manages to be simultaneously hilarious and wildly inventive as well as a... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2000 -
Abner & Ian Get Right-Side Up
by Dave EggersAbner and Ian are stuck sideways in this clever picture book created by a bestselling, acclaimed author and cartoonist--and perfect for fans of Elephant & Piggie and Press Here.Abner and Ian are stuck sideways on the pages of their debut picture book. They can't start the story like this! Ian is try... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2019