Dave Eggers
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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If you had to name a statue, any statue, odds are good you'd mention the Statue of Liberty. Have you seen her?
She's in New York.
She's holding a torch.
And she's taking one step forward.
But why?
In this fascinating, fun take on nonfiction, uniquely American in its frank tone and 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...
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English
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Josie and her children's father 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 fianc�ee's family, Josie makes a run for it to Alaska with her kids, Paul and Ana. At first their trip feels like a vacation: They see bears and bison, they eat hot dogs cooked on a bonfire, and they spend nights parked...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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A memoir in which the author, barely out of college, discusses the unrelated deaths of his parents within months of one another, and tells how he came to take responsibility for his eight-year-old brother, while also working to create the satirical magazine "Might."
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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"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"--
5) Zeitoun
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Dave Eggers is the New York Times best-selling 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 spirit.
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English
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A Pulitzer Prize finalist and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, New York Times best-selling author Dave Eggers is the voice of a generation. This stunning collection of his matchless short fiction includes the highly acclaimed The Only Meaning of Oil-Wet Water.
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English
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"From the best-selling author of The Monk of Mokha, a spare, powerful 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. 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 are given a new...
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Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
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, banking, and purchasing with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of civility and transparency. What begins as the captivating story of one woman's ambition...
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"When the decorated Captain of a great ship descends the gangplank for the final time, a new leader, a man with a yellow feather in his hair, vows to step forward. Though he has no experience, no knowledge of nautical navigation or maritime law, and though he has often remarked he doesn't much like boats, he solemnly swears to shake things up. Together with his band of petty thieves and confidence men known as the Upskirt Boys, the Captain thrills...
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf/McSweeney's Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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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 his 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...
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Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"From the award-winning, bestselling author of The Circle comes an exciting new follow-up. When the world's largest search engine/social media company, The Circle, merges with the planet's dominant e-commerce site, it creates the richest and most dangerous-and, oddly enough, most beloved-monopoly ever known: The Every"--
Author
Publisher
McSweeney's Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"Oisín Mahoney is an American Army vet in his 70s who is asked to lead a group of young grand-nieces and grand-nephews on a walk through the hills of California's Central Coast. Walking toward a setting sun, their destination is a place called The Museum of Rain, which may or may not still exist, and whose origin and meaning are elusive to all. In one of his most elegiac stories, Eggers gives us a beautiful testament to family, memory, and what we...
17) Every
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Language
Deutsch
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Nach "Der Circle" kommt jetzt die digitale Weltherrschaft: "Every"
Der Circle ist die größte Suchmaschine gepaart mit dem größten Social-Media-Anbieter der Welt. Eine Fusion mit dem erfolgreichsten Onlineversandhaus steht an, woraus das reichste und gefährlichste - seltsamerweise auch beliebteste - Monopol aller Zeiten entsteht: Every.
Delaney Wells ist "die Neue" bei Every und nicht gerade das, was man erwarten würde in einem Tech-Unternehmen....
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Publisher
Chronicle Books Llc
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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"[This] charming book provides examples and sends the message that citizens aren't born but are made by actions taken to help others and the world they live in." -The Washington Post
This is a book about what citizenship-good citizenship-means to you, and to us all: Across the course of several seemingly unrelated but ultimately connected actions by different children, we watch how kids turn a lonely island into a community-and watch a journey from...
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Language
English
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A "witty [and] compelling" true story for kids about San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge-and why it's orange-by the New York Times–bestselling author! (Fast Company).
In this delightfully original nonfiction book, National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist Dave Eggers tackles one of the most famous architectural monuments in the world: the Golden Gate Bridge-and all the arguments and debates about building it and what it should look like....
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English
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From New York Times bestselling author Dave Eggers comes a deadpan take on creativity and persistence, as told through the eyes of a humpback whale looking for a new song
Soren, a young humpback whale, loves music, but is tired of the dull, droning, endless songs that are frustratingly popular among the adult whales he knows. He has ideas for better songs: shorter, up-tempo tunes with snare drums and even maracas. Unfortunately, every time he shares...