Dave Eggers

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

North Carolina

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 lifetime. The Circle links users' personal emails, social media, banking, and purchasing with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of civility and transparency. Mae is thrilled with the company's modernity and activity. There are parties that last through the night, there are famous musicians playing on the lawn, there are athletic activities and clubs and brunches, and even an aquarium of rare fish retrieved from the Marianas Trench by the CEO. Mae can't believe her luck, her great fortune to work for the most influential company in the world - even as life beyond the campus grows distant, even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public.

The Circle

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Illinois

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, though Thomas remembers him. Kev cries for help. He pulls at the chain. But the ocean is close by, and nobody can hear him over the waves and wind. Thomas apologizes. He didn't want to have to resort to this. But they really needed to have a conversation, and Kev didn't answer his messages. And now, if Kev can just stop yelling, Thomas has a few questions. And so begins Dave Eggers's 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 only way he knows how. 'Politically and polemically engaged in the tradition of Dickens and Zola . . . another novel located in a frightened, divided, deceitful and possibly disintegrating America . . . Many skillfully delayed revelations . . . privately and publicly astute, confirming that the writer's joke about genius in his debut title was not entirely misplaced.' The Gaurdian 'Eggers can write about pretty much anything and make it glitter and somersault on the page . . . dazzling and highly original.' Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times 'Possibly the most admired and emulated American author of his generation.' Independent 'One of the country's leading literary eminences.' Washington Post ' A story about someone who takes revenge against the world because he can't fathom how he fits into it. . . This is a one-sitting read . . . Insightful.' USA Today 'The faint echo of Plato's dialogues . . . Raising questions about the appropriate relationship between authority and compassion.' Kirkus 'As is always true with Eggers, those ideas - laid out here in quasi-Socratic dialogue - are inherently interesting. I can think of few contemporary American writers who convey such a sense of urgency about the mess we're in - or how important it is that we, like the Israelites surrounding Zechariah, resurrect the once-glorious Temple. Eggers pulls no punches. . . Eggers makes these points even as he simultaneously manages empathy for Thomas' plight, as a man who has inherited a fallen world he never made.' Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 'A jazz session - a brief, single helping of strangeness that flaunts his panache for stylistic experimentation. . . The writing is compelling and the characterization astute.' Booklist '. . . as much a play as a novel, except there is no direction, no indication of action or scene beyond what the characters describe. So deft is he, however, that the setting and mood are perfectly clear..Eggers writes so well you would read a computer manual if it was by him, but beneath his beguiling style is a base note of genuine concern about those who find themselves out of kilter with society.' The Herald 'His latest novella, Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever? stretches his toying with literary forms to new lengths...... compelling.' Evening Standard 'I've never read a novel quite like this . . . Let's say it's a very interesting novel. But when has our Dave done anything uninteresting?' The Times

Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Virginia

A Novel

From 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 halves of the state. Two men, foreign contractors from the same company, are sent to finish the highway. While one is flighty and adventurous, wanting to experience the nightlife and people, the other wants only to do the work and go home. But both men must eventually face the absurdities of their positions, and the dire consequences of their presence. With echoes of J. M. Coetzee and Graham Greene, this timeless novel questions whether we can ever understand another nation's war, and what role we have in forging anyone's peace.

The Parade

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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is the unique, 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. A national bestseller.

California

The author chronicles his life after the deaths of his parents, when he was responsible for the care and upbringing of his eight-year-old brother, and offers a new appendix clarifying, amending, and expanding the original work.

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

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After acquiring $34,000, Will and Hand travel around the world giving away the money.

You Shall Know Our Velocity!

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Louisiana

Massachusetts

Describes how Abdulrahman Zeitoun remained in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, his subsequent efforts to help other victims, his disappearance a week later, and the effect of these events on his wife Kathy and their children.

Zeitoun

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Pennsylvania

Some wear to cover. Inside first few pages are yellow. Rest of the pages are yellow around the edges. Wide edition, paperback.

New York

Iowa

Hired to work for the world's most powerful Internet company, Mae Holland questions her luck as life beyond her job grows distant, an encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, and her role at the company becomes increasingly public.

At the heart of this astonishing novel is a true story of courage and endurance in the face of one of the most brutal civil wars the world has ever known. Valentino Achak Deng is just a boy when conflict separates him from his family and forces him to leave his small Sudanese village, joining thousands of other orphans on their long, long walk to Ethiopia, where they find safety - for a time. Along the way Valentino encounters enemy soldiers, liberation rebels and deadly militias, hyenas and lions, disease and starvation. But there are experiences ahead that will test his spirit in even greater ways than these... Truly epic in scope, and told with expansive humanity, deep compassion and unexpected humour, What is the What is an eye-opening account of life amid the madness of war and an unforgettable tale of tragedy and triumph.

What Is the What

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A book for all ages offers a novelization of the movie Where the Wild Things Are, based on the classic children's book of the same name by Maurice Sendak, in which a boy flees his home only to end up in the land of the Wild Things. Movie tie-in.

The Wild Things

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Crease mark on spine, some very light superficial wear (pictured). Excellent condition overall, never read.

Vermont

Some mild edge wear and very light staining along the top page edge (pictured). Excellent shape overall.

A biographical novel traces the story of Valentino Achak Deng, who as a boy was separated from his family when his village in southern Sudan was attacked, and became one of the estimated 17,000 "lost boys of Sudan" before relocating from a Kenyan refugeecamp to Atlanta in 2001.

A Hologram for the King

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Paperback edition from a smoke free home 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Minnesota

A struggling American businessman travels to a rising Saudi Arabian city with the hopes of securing a contract that will earn him a commission large enough to stave off his economic woes and hold his family together.

Previously owned library book.  Minor edge, cover and corner wear.

New Jersey

A respected magazine editor and founder, a onetime spokesman for Generation X, offers a satiric, eloquent, and thoroughly traditionshattering memoir that discusses deaths of his parents from cancer, his raising of his younger brother, and more.

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The Parade

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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

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The Circle

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You Shall Know Our Velocity!

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You Shall Know Our Velocity!

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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

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The Circle

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What Is the What

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The Wild Things

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What Is the What

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A Hologram for the King

Dave Eggers

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Dave Eggers

Zeitoun

Dave Eggers

Zeitoun

Dave Eggers

What Is the What

Dave Eggers

A Hologram for the King

Dave Eggers

Zeitoun

Dave Eggers

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius