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Ungrateful Mammals by Dave Eggers
Category: Art
Dave Eggers is one of the most notable writers of his generation, recognised for such bestselling and critically acclaimed books as A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, A Hologram for the King, What Is the What, and The Circle. Before he embarked on his writing career, Eggers was classically train ...Show more
Visitants by Dave Eggers
Category: Travel
For almost twenty years, Dave Eggers has been travelling widely and chronicling his interactions with the countries and people he has encountered during his journey across continents. "Visitants" is his first collection of travel writing, one that spans his entire career and includes pieces on Sudan, Ch ...Show more
What Can a Citizen Do? by Dave Eggers
Category: Picture Books
This is a book about what citizenship--good citizenship--means to you, and to us all. "In an era of burgeoning student activism, [this book] is arriving at the perfect time." -Entertainment Weekly Empowering and timeless, What Can a Citizen Do? is the latest collaboration from the acclaimed duo behind t ...Show more
What is the What by Dave Eggers
Category: Fiction
What Is the What is the story of Valentino Achak Deng, a refugee in war-ravaged southern Sudan who flees from his village in the mid-1980s and becomes one of the so-called Lost Boys. Valentino's travels bring him in contact with enemy soldiers, with liberation rebels, with hyenas and lions, with disease ...Show more
What is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng by Dave Eggers
Category: Biography | Series: Vintage
"New York Times Notable Book New York Times Bestseller What 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, pu ...Show more
Your Fathers, Where are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever? by Dave Eggers
Category: Fiction
Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever? is Dave Eggers's brilliantly executed story of one man struggling to make sense of the world. In a barracks on an abandoned military base, miles from the nearest road, Thomas watches as the man he has brought wakes up. Kev, a NASA ...Show more
Your Fathers - Where are They? and the Prophets - Do They Live Forever? by Dave Eggers
Category: Fiction
Your Fathers, Where Are They is Dave Eggers' brilliantly executed story of one man struggling to make sense of the world. In a barracks on an abandoned military base, miles from the nearest road, Thomas watches as the man he has brought wakes up. Kev, a NASA astronaut, doesn't recognize his captor, thou ...Show more
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
Category: Biography
In 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 rescuing sur ...Show more
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
Category: Fiction
Dave Eggers is the New York Times bestselling author of the critically lauded A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. Here he chronicles the Kafka-esque tribulations of Syrian-American Abdulrahman Zeitoun in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. His story is a moving testament to the resilience of the human ...Show more