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Best American seriesEggers, Dave
Summary: Rhyming text explores citizenship, showing readers how seemingly unrelated actions, such as planting a tree or joining a cause can create a community.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J323.6 EGGCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE EGGCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE EGGEggers, Dave
Summary: In this delightfully original take on nonfiction, bestselling author Dave Eggers tackles one of the most famous architectural and natural monuments in the world: the Golden Gate Bridge. Cut-paper illustrations by Tucker Nichols ensures that this book feels like a special object, and the revised edition includes real-life letters from constituents making the case for keeping the bridge orange....
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile book on CD, Call number: JE CD Fiction Eggers 2018Eggers, Dave.
Summary: A compelling voice for Generation X, Eggers here recounts his early 20s, caring for his younger brother after their parents' unexpected deaths and his endeavors in a variety of media.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 973.92 EGGEggers, Dave
Summary: In this honest look at the literal foundation of our country, Dave Eggers and Shawn Harris investigate a seemingly small trait of America's most emblematic statue. What they find is about more than history, more than art. What they find in the Statue of Liberty's right foot is the message of acceptance that is essential to an entire country's creation.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books LLC 2017
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973 EGGCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973 EGGCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J America EggersEggers, Dave
Summary: "From bestselling author Dave Eggers, the incredible true story of a young Yemeni American man, raised in San Francisco, who dreams of resurrecting the ancient art of Yemeni coffee but finds himself trapped in Sana'a by civil war. Mokhtar Alkhanshali is twenty-four and working as a doorman when he discovers the astonishing history of coffee and Yemen's central place in it. He leaves San...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ALKHANSHALI, MOKHTAR EGGEggers, Dave.
Summary: A compelling voice for Generation X, Eggers here recounts his early 20s, caring for his younger brother after their parents' unexpected deaths and his endeavors in a variety of media.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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Summary: Dave Eggers is one of the most notable writers of his generation, recognized for such bestselling and critically acclaimed books as 'A hologram for the king'. Before he embarked on his writing career, Eggers was classically trained as a draftsman and painter. He then spent many years as a professional illustrator and graphic designer before turning to writing full-time. More recently, in order...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams 2017
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 702 EGGERS EGGEggers, Dave.
Summary: A compelling voice for Generation X, Eggers here recounts his early 20s, caring for his younger brother after their parents' unexpected deaths and his endeavors in a variety of media.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 Eggers 2010Eggers, Dave.
Summary: In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, longtime New Orleans residents Abdulrahman and Kathy Zeitoun are cast into an unthinkable struggle with forces beyond wind and water. In the days after the storm, Abdulrahman traveled the flooded streets in a secondhand canoe, passing on supplies and helping those he could. A week later, on September 6, 2005, Zeitoun abruptly disappeared--arrested and accused...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: McSweeney's Books 2009
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B ZEITOUN EGGEggers, Dave.
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.335 EGGEggers, Dave (EDT)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pgw 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.01 BESContents: Foreword / read by Dave Eggers -- Introduction: dead men talking / read by Zadie Smith -- The guide to being a groupie / by Lisa Gabriele, read by the author -- Things we knew when the house caught fire / by David Drury, read by the author -- The pretenders / Chuck Klosterman, read by the author -- How to write suspense / by James Patterson, read by the author -- Stuff / by J.T. Leroy, read by...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2003