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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. NATIONAL BESTSELLER * From the bestselling author of The Circle * The true story of one family, caught between America's two biggest policy disasters: the war on terror and the response to Hurricane Katrina.  "Eggers' tone is pitch-perfect--suspense blended with just enough information to stoke reader outrage and what is likely to be a typical response: How could this happen in America? . It's the stuff of great narrative nonfiction." --The New York Times Book Review Abdulrahman and Kathy Zeitoun run a house-painting business in New Orleans. In August of 2005, as Hurricane Katrina approaches, Kathy evacuates with their four young children, leaving Zeitoun to watch over the business. In the days following the storm he travels the city by canoe, feeding abandoned animals and helping elderly neighbors. Then, on September 6th, police officers armed with M-16s arrest Zeitoun in his home. Told with eloquence and compassion, Zeitoun is a riveting account of one family's unthinkable struggle with forces beyond wind and water.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. NATIONAL BESTSELLER * From the bestselling author of The Circle * The true story of one family, caught between America's two biggest policy disasters: the war on terror and the response to Hurricane Katrina.  "Eggers' tone is pitch-perfect--suspense blended with just enough information to stoke reader outrage and what is likely to be a typical response: How could this happen in America? . It's the stuff of great narrative nonfiction." --The New York Times Book Review Abdulrahman and Kathy Zeitoun run a house-painting business in New Orleans. In August of 2005, as Hurricane Katrina approaches, Kathy evacuates with their four young children, leaving Zeitoun to watch over the business. In the days following the storm he travels the city by canoe, feeding abandoned animals and helping elderly neighbors. Then, on September 6th, police officers armed with M-16s arrest Zeitoun in his home. Told with eloquence and compassion, Zeitoun is a riveting account of one family's unthinkable struggle with forces beyond wind and water.…

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. NATIONAL BESTSELLER * From the bestselling author of The Circle * The true story of one family, caught between America's two biggest policy disasters: the war on terror and the response to Hurricane Katrina.  "Eggers' tone is pitch-perfect--suspense blended with just enough information to stoke reader outrage and what is likely to be a typical response: How could this happen in America? . It's the stuff of great narrative nonfiction." --The New York Times Book Review Abdulrahman and Kathy Zeitoun run a house-painting business in New Orleans. In August of 2005, as Hurricane Katrina approaches, Kathy evacuates with their four young children, leaving Zeitoun to watch over the business. In the days following the storm he travels the city by canoe, feeding abandoned animals and helping elderly neighbors. Then, on September 6th, police officers armed with M-16s arrest Zeitoun in his home. Told with eloquence and compassion, Zeitoun is a riveting account of one family's unthinkable struggle with forces beyond wind and water.…

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. Reprint. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. From the bestselling author of The Circle--a taut, richly layered, and elegiac novel that 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. "An outstanding achievement in Eggers's already impressive career, and an essential read." --San Francisco Chronicle 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. A novel that's a powerful evocation of our contemporary moment--and a moving story of how we got here.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. From the bestselling author of The Circle--a taut, richly layered, and elegiac novel that 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. "An outstanding achievement in Eggers's already impressive career, and an essential read." --San Francisco Chronicle 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. A novel that's a powerful evocation of our contemporary moment--and a moving story of how we got here.…

paperback. Zustand: As New.

paperback. Zustand: As New.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. NATIONAL BESTSELLER * PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST * A "A beautifully ragged, laugh-out-loud funny and utterly unforgettable book" (San Francisco Chronicle) that redefines both family and narrative. * From the bestselling author of The Circle. 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. This 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.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good.

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. NATIONAL BESTSELLER * PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST * A "A beautifully ragged, laugh-out-loud funny and utterly unforgettable book" (San Francisco Chronicle) that redefines both family and narrative. * From the bestselling author of The Circle. 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. This 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.…

paperback. Zustand: As New.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The bestselling author of The Circle delivers a tour de force of one man struggling to make sense of his country, seeking solutions the only way he knows how. 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" (USA Today). What do you do when you're full of questions: what happened to missions to the moon? Why spend a trillion dollars on war? Where did America go wrong?  If you're Thomas, a young man nursing migraines and a lack of direction, this calls for drastic action. To find some answers, Thomas kidnaps a NASA astronaut and brings him to an abandoned military base on the edge of the California coast. Then the questioning begins. The answers must be honest. The back and forth might even hurt. It might get uncomfortable. But eventually the truth will emerge.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. The bestselling author of The Circle delivers a tour de force of one man struggling to make sense of his country, seeking solutions the only way he knows how. 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" (USA Today). What do you do when you're full of questions: what happened to missions to the moon? Why spend a trillion dollars on war? Where did America go wrong?  If you're Thomas, a young man nursing migraines and a lack of direction, this calls for drastic action. To find some answers, Thomas kidnaps a NASA astronaut and brings him to an abandoned military base on the edge of the California coast. Then the questioning begins. The answers must be honest. The back and forth might even hurt. It might get uncomfortable. But eventually the truth will emerge.…

Hardback. Zustand: Good. Her Right Footmeets The Quiet Book in this incredibly meaningful, commercial title from bestselling duo Dave Eggers and Shawn Harris. Harris, Shawn (illustrator).

Hardback. Zustand: Fair. Her Right Footmeets The Quiet Book in this incredibly meaningful, commercial title from bestselling duo Dave Eggers and Shawn Harris. Harris, Shawn (illustrator).

Paperback. Zustand: Good. NATIONAL BESTSELLER * In this visionary adaptation of Maurice Sendak's classic work, the bestselling author of The Circle "is brilliant at portraying the exuberance and chaos of a young boy's mind and heart" (San Francisco Chronicle).  Max is a rambunctious eight-year-old whose world is changing around him: His father is absent, his mother is increasingly distracted, and his teenage sister has outgrown him. Sad and angry, Max dons his wolf suit and makes terrible, ruinous mischief, flooding his sister's room and driving his mother half-crazy. Convinced his family doesn't want him anymore, Max flees home, finds a boat and sails away. Arriving on an island, he meets strange and giant creatures who rage and break things, who trample and scream. These beasts do everything Max feels inside, and so, Max appoints himself their king. Here, on a magnificent adventure with these funny and complex monsters, Max can be the wildest thing of all.…

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. NATIONAL BESTSELLER * In this visionary adaptation of Maurice Sendak's classic work, the bestselling author of The Circle "is brilliant at portraying the exuberance and chaos of a young boy's mind and heart" (San Francisco Chronicle).  Max is a rambunctious eight-year-old whose world is changing around him: His father is absent, his mother is increasingly distracted, and his teenage sister has outgrown him. Sad and angry, Max dons his wolf suit and makes terrible, ruinous mischief, flooding his sister's room and driving his mother half-crazy. Convinced his family doesn't want him anymore, Max flees home, finds a boat and sails away. Arriving on an island, he meets strange and giant creatures who rage and break things, who trample and scream. These beasts do everything Max feels inside, and so, Max appoints himself their king. Here, on a magnificent adventure with these funny and complex monsters, Max can be the wildest thing of all.…

hardcover. Zustand: Good. Harris, Shawn (illustrator).

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. NATIONAL BESTSELLER * In this visionary adaptation of Maurice Sendak's classic work, the bestselling author of The Circle "is brilliant at portraying the exuberance and chaos of a young boy's mind and heart" (San Francisco Chronicle).  Max is a rambunctious eight-year-old whose world is changing around him: His father is absent, his mother is increasingly distracted, and his teenage sister has outgrown him. Sad and angry, Max dons his wolf suit and makes terrible, ruinous mischief, flooding his sister's room and driving his mother half-crazy. Convinced his family doesn't want him anymore, Max flees home, finds a boat and sails away. Arriving on an island, he meets strange and giant creatures who rage and break things, who trample and scream. These beasts do everything Max feels inside, and so, Max appoints himself their king. Here, on a magnificent adventure with these funny and complex monsters, Max can be the wildest thing of all.…

paperback. Zustand: As New.

Paperback. Zustand: As New.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. An "entertaining and profoundly original" (San Francisco Chronicle) moving and hilarious tale of two friends who fly around the world trying to give away a lot of money and free themselves from a profound loss. *  From the bestselling author of The Circle. "Nobody writes better than Dave Eggers about young men who aspire to be, at the same time, authentic and sincere." --The New York Times Book Review "You Shall Know Our Velocity! is the work of a wildly talented writer. Like Kerouac's book, Eggers's could inspire a generation as much as it documents it." --LA Weekly.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. An "entertaining and profoundly original" (San Francisco Chronicle) moving and hilarious tale of two friends who fly around the world trying to give away a lot of money and free themselves from a profound loss. *  From the bestselling author of The Circle. "Nobody writes better than Dave Eggers about young men who aspire to be, at the same time, authentic and sincere." --The New York Times Book Review "You Shall Know Our Velocity! is the work of a wildly talented writer. Like Kerouac's book, Eggers's could inspire a generation as much as it documents it." --LA Weekly.…

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. An "entertaining and profoundly original" (San Francisco Chronicle) moving and hilarious tale of two friends who fly around the world trying to give away a lot of money and free themselves from a profound loss. *  From the bestselling author of The Circle. "Nobody writes better than Dave Eggers about young men who aspire to be, at the same time, authentic and sincere." --The New York Times Book Review "You Shall Know Our Velocity! is the work of a wildly talented writer. Like Kerouac's book, Eggers's could inspire a generation as much as it documents it." --LA Weekly.…

Paperback. Zustand: Fair.

Paperback. Zustand: Fair.

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. In this "tour de force" (New York Times Book Review), the Pulitzer Prize finalist and bestselling author of The Circle demonstrates his mastery of the short story. "These tales reinvigorate . the short story with a jittery sense of adventure." --San Francisco Chronicle Including the stories:"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"   "Notes for a Story of a Man Who Will Not Die Alone"   "About the Man Who Began Flying After Meeting Her"   "Up the Mountain Coming Down Slowly"   "After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned".…

hardcover. Zustand: Good.