Eggers, Dave
Summary: Free dog Johannes' job is to observe everything that happens in his urban park and report back to the park's three bison elders, but changes are afoot, including more humans, a new building, a boatload of goats, and a shocking revelation that changes his view of the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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Summary: In this picture book with minimal text, a tiger with a chair on its back wanders across the different but beautiful landscapes of the Earth, from an Alpine lake to the tundra.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2019
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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
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Summary: One man struggles to make sense of his country, seeking answers the only way he knows how.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf/McSweeney's Books 2014
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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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Contents: 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, pretending to dance -- She waits, seething, blooming -- Quiet -- Your mother and I -- Naveed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: McSweeney's Books 2004
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Summary: Abner the duck and Ian the prairie dog are stuck sideways on the book's pages, and they will need the reader's help to set things right for storytime.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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Summary: An unlikely new hire at the Every, Delaney Wells is a former forest ranger and unwavering tech skeptic. She charms her way into an entry-level job with one goal in mind: to take down the company from within. With her compatriot, the not-at-all-ambitious Wes Makazian, they look for the Every's weaknesses, hoping to free humanity from all-encompassing surveillance and the emoji-driven...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2021
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Summary: "In this long short story, or short novella, Dave Eggers gives us an unforgettable duo, Helen and Peter Mahoney, a homebody niece and her adventurous, almost-British uncle. Helen designs invitations to parties and galas to which she is not welcome, and is quite comfortable with that. One day, though, Peter wonders, "Why not print an extra invite and I'll be your plus one?" What starts out as an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: McSweeney's 2023
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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: Recorded Books 2018
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Summary: Rhyming text explores citizenship, showing readers how seemingly unrelated actions, such as planting a tree or joining a cause can create a community.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Summary: 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.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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Summary: Secundo enjoys searching the beach below his home for treasure, but after becoming attached to a mysterious cutlass he meets its owner, who offers something greater for its return.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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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: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Summary: Told in rhyme, a little boy, tucked into his bed, thinks of all the wonderful and ordinary things he will see and do tomorrow.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2019
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Summary: When Grandma comes to visit, and his parents leave them alone, the boy's grandmother encourages him to imitate a jaguar, until completely transformed they venture out into the night, exploring the world from a new perspective, and with a new freedom--until it is difficult to distinguish imagination from reality.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2021
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Summary: "The Circle is the exhilarating new novel from Dave Eggers, best-selling author of A Hologram for the King, a finalist for the National Book Award. 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, run out of a sprawling California campus, links users' personal emails, social media,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2013
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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: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McSweeney's Books 2012
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Summary: Lucian enjoys searching the beach below his home for treasure, but after becoming attached to a mysterious cutlass he meets its owner, who offers something greater for its return.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2021
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Summary: Josie and her husband have split up, she's been sued by a former patient and lost her dental practice, and she's grieving the death of a young man senselessly killed. When her ex asks to take the children to meet his new fiancée's family, Josie makes a run for it, figuring Alaska is about as far as she can get without a passport. Josie and her kids, Paul and Ana, rent a rattling old RV named...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A Knopf 2016
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Summary: "From the best-selling author of The Monk of Mokha, a suspenseful story of two men, Western contractors sent to work far from home, tasked with paving a road to the capital in a dangerous and largely lawless country that questions whether we can ever understand another nation's war, and what role we have in forging anyone's peace"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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Summary: A spare, powerful, timeless parable of two men, Western contractors sent to work far from home, tasked with paving a road to the capital in a dangerous and largely lawless country. "Four and Nine are partners, working for the same company, sent without passports to a nation recovering from ten years of civil war. Together, operating under pseudonyms and anonymous to potential kidnappers, they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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Summary: During a fight at home, young Max flees and runs away into the woods. He finds a boat there, jumps in, and ends up on the open sea, destination unknown. He lands on the island of the Wild Things, and soon he becomes their king. But things get complicated when Max realizes that the Wild Things want as much from him as he wants from them. Based loosely on the storybook by Maurice Sendak and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: McSweeney's 2009