Author: Eggers, Dave

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (Vintage)

By: Eggers, Dave

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Vintage : February 2001

Seller ID: 276512

ISBN-13: 9780375725784

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

This is a beautifully ragged, laugh-out-loud funny and utterly unforgettable book. --San Francisco Chronicle National Bestseller Pulitzer Prize Finalist A book that redefines both family and narrative for the twenty-first century. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is the 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. Here is an exhilarating debut that manages to be simultaneously hilarious and wildly inventive as well as a deeply heartfelt story of the love that holds a family together. A ...
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (Vintage)

By: Eggers, Dave

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Vintage : February 2001

Seller ID: 476429

ISBN-13: 9780375725784

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This is a beautifully ragged, laugh-out-loud funny and utterly unforgettable book. --San Francisco Chronicle National Bestseller Pulitzer Prize Finalist A book that redefines both family and narrative for the twenty-first century. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is the 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. Here is an exhilarating debut that manages to be simultaneously hilarious and wildly inventive as well as a deeply heartfelt story of the love that holds a family together. A ...
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A Hologram for the King

By: Eggers, Dave

Price: $45.00

Publisher: McSweeney's : June 2012

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed By Author

Seller ID: 457211

ISBN-13: 9781936365746

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter's college tuition, and finally do something great. In A Hologram for the King, Dave Eggers takes us around the world to show how one man fights to hold himself and his splintering family together in the face of the global economy's gale-force winds. This taut, richly layered, and elegiac novel is a powerful evocation of our contemporary moment -- and a moving story of how we got here.
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How We Are Hungry

By: Eggers, Dave

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Vintage : October 2005

Seller ID: 462271

ISBN-13: 9781400095568

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

"These tales reinvigorate...the short story with a jittery sense of adventure." --San Francisco Chronicle Dave Eggers--Pulitzer Prize finalist for A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and author of What Is the What and The Circle, among other books--demonstrates his mastery of the short story. AnotherWhat 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 DustThe Only Meaning of the Oil-Wet WaterOn Wanting to Have Three Walls Up Before She Gets HomeClimbing to the Window, Pretending t...
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Shadow Show: Stories In Celebration of Ray Bradbury

By: Hill, Joe,Ciaramella, Jason,Gaiman, Neil,Castle, Mort,Ellison, Harlan,Weller, Sam,Eggers, Dave,Yu, Charles,Hoffman, Alice,Niffeneffer, Audrey,Wilson III, Charles Paul,Frohlich, Maria,Campbell, Eddie,Sexton, Mark,Smith, Matthew Dow,Larsen, Christine,Gall

Price: $11.98

Publisher: IDW Publishing : July 2015

Seller ID: 386514

ISBN-13: 9781631402678

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

WINNER OF THE BRAM STOKER AWARD FOR BEST GRAPHIC NOVEL - 2016

In Shadow Show, acclaimed writers and artists such as Joe Hill, Mort Castle, Audrey Niffeneffer, Charles Paul Wilson III, Maria Frohlich, Eddie Campbell, Neil Gaiman, and more come together to pay tribute to the work of the one and only Ray Bradbury.

In this graphic novel collection are stories based on By The Silver Water of Lake Champlain, The Man Who Forgot Ray Bradbury, Backward in Seville, Weariness, Live Forever , Who Knocks?, Earth (A Gift Shop), Altenmoor, Where the Dogs Dance, and Conjure.
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The Captain and the Glory: An Entertainment

By: Eggers, Dave

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Knopf : November 2019

Seller ID: 475677

ISBN-13: 9780525659082

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

A savage satire of the United States in the throes of insanity, this blisteringly funny novel tells the story of a noble ship, the Glory, and the loud, clownish, and foul Captain who steers it to the brink of disaster. 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 thie...
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The Circle (Vintage)

By: Eggers, Dave

Price: $15.95

Publisher: Vintage : April 2014

Seller ID: 100039

ISBN-13: 9780345807298

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

A bestselling dystopian novel that tackles surveillance, privacy and the frightening intrusions of technology in our lives--a "compulsively readable parable for the 21st century" (Vanity Fair). 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. As Mae tours th...
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The Circle (Vintage)

By: Eggers, Dave

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Vintage : April 2014

Seller ID: 149848

ISBN-13: 9780345807298

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

A bestselling dystopian novel that tackles surveillance, privacy and the frightening intrusions of technology in our lives--a "compulsively readable parable for the 21st century" (Vanity Fair). 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. As Mae tours th...
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The Circle (Vintage)

By: Eggers, Dave

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Vintage : April 2014

Seller ID: 175989

ISBN-13: 9780345807298

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

A bestselling dystopian novel that tackles surveillance, privacy and the frightening intrusions of technology in our lives--a "compulsively readable parable for the 21st century" (Vanity Fair). 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. As Mae tours th...
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The Eyes and the Impossible: (Deluxe Wood-Bound Edition)

By: Eggers, Dave

Price: $28.00

Publisher: McSweeney's : May 2023

Seller ID: 473055

ISBN-13: 9781952119453

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

The Future Dictionary of America

By: JORDAN, BASS, PH.D., Eggers, Dave, Krauss, Nicole

Price: $9.98

Publisher: McSweeney's Books : August 2004

Seller ID: 418507

ISBN-13: 9781932416206

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

This book was conceived by Jonathan Safran Foer, Dave Eggers, Nicole Krauss, and the staff of McSweeney's as a way to bring over a hundred authors together to promote progressive causes in the November 2004 election. An imagining of what a dictionary might look like about thirty years hence, when the world's problems are solved and our current president is a distant memory, the book is by turns funny, outraged, utopian, and dyspeptic. 100 percent of the proceeds will go to a mix of political organizations to support progressive candidates in the upcoming elections. Over 150 writers contributed...
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The Lifters

By: Eggers, Dave

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers : March 2018

Seller ID: 473623

ISBN-13: 9781524764166

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Journey to an underground world where adventure awaits and heroes are made in this middle grade novel from the bestselling, Pulitzer-nominated author of The Monk of Mokha and Her Right Foot. When Gran and his family move to Carousel, he has no idea that the town is built atop a secret. Little does he suspect, as he walks his sister to school or casually eats a banana, that mysterious forces lurk mere inches beneath his feet, tearing up the earth like mini-hurricanes and causing the town to slowly but surely sink. When Gran's friend, the difficult-to-impress Catalina Catalan, presses a silver h...
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The Story of Captain Nemo (Save the Story)

By: Eggers, Dave

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Pushkin Children's Books : March 2019

Seller ID: 384340

ISBN-13: 9781782692089

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

Don't you worry, son. Whatever it is that's been killing the sailors, I will kill it. In this science-fiction classic - reimagined by Dave Eggers in modern times, and from the point of view of the fourteen-year-old Consuelo - the famous oceanographer Pierre Arronax sets sail from New York to hunt down a mysterious sea-monster which has been terrorizing the oceans, wrecking ship after ship and causing countless deaths. But they discover an even stranger truth: the sea-monster is in fact a submarine, captained by Nemo, who is living in self-imposed exile in international waters. Consuelo and Arr...
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What Is the What (Vintage)

By: Eggers, Dave

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Vintage : October 2007

Seller ID: 453019

ISBN-13: 9780307385901

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

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, pursued by militias, government bombers, and wild animals, crossing the deserts of three countries to find freedom. When he finally is resettled in the United States, he finds a life full of promise, but also heartache and myriad new challenges. Moving, suspenseful, and unexpectedly funny, What Is t...
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