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Dave Eggers
A New York Times bestseller Winner of the Newbery Medal
'This book is a magic trick' Jon Klassen
Johannes is a free dog, a fast dog - such a fast…
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Lionel Vratimos is a beat reporter covering the San Francisco Giants -- an enviable job if not for the soggy fries, and the so-so weather, and the Giants' losing record…
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The fifth short novella or long short story in Dave Eggers's The Forgetters series.
The sixth short novella or long short story in Dave Eggers's The Forgetters series.
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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…
McSweeney's three-time National Magazine Award-winning quarterly brings you our 77th issue, a lovely back-to-basics paperback introducing our new editor: Rita Bullwinkel. Ever changing, each issue of the quarterly is completely…
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From New York Timesbestselling 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
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McSweeney's three-time National Magazine Award-winning quarterly brings you our 78th issue, guest-edited by Thi Bui and Vu Tran, the issue comes to you inside a stunning keepsake box and commemorates…
When Mae 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. Run out of a California…
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"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…
The superb, bestselling story of David Eggers’s extraordinary life with his brother
Cole lives alone, has no pets, and has grown accustomed to a homelife of profound quiet (not to say tedium). When Daphne and her two young children move into the…
Max likes to make noise, get dirty, ride his bike without a helmet and howl like a wolf. In any other age he would have just been considered a boy…
Three-time National Magazine Award-winning McSweeney's Quarterly returns with its 70th edition, a paperback with a special die-cut cover design with French flaps.
Inside you'll find brilliant fiction - and two…
The interviews contained in Conversations with Dave Eggers suggest the range of Eggers’s pursuits - a range that is reflected in the variety of the interviews themselves. To read the…
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Timothy W. Galow
The first book-length study of the life and writings of the award-winning author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
McSweeney's three-time National Magazine Award-winning quarterly starts 2024 in style with a thrilling back-to-basics paperback. Ever changing, each issue of the quarterly is completely redesigned (there have been hardcovers and…
In a June 2023 submission call for new work by never-before-published writers, McSweeney's received thousands of submissions in a single month. The stories in this issue (our seventy-fifth, an almost…
McSweeney's three-time National Magazine Award-winning quarterly brings you our 76th issue: Aftershocks. A brilliant and bold collection of fiction from Syria, featuring authors many of which are translated here for…
John Cheever
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVE EGGERS Once upon a time the Wapshots of St. Botolphs were distinguished for their unshakeable good opinion of themselves.
Machado De Assis
Originally published in 1881 in Portuguese as Memorias posthumas de Braz Cubas by Typographia Nacional, Rio de Janeiro –Copyright page.
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Joshuah Bearman leads a daring investigation into the enigmatic Great Gerbil of central Asia, uncovering signs of an impending disaster. The issue also includes strange and wonderful stories from T.C…
Even beyond Edmund White’s youthful hustler, Joyce Carol Oates’s fatherly killer, and Roddy Doyle’s Rwandan refugee, Issue 18 will not stay at home. Bears, clouds, assassinations, and demons lurk in…
Issue 33 of McSweeney’s Quarterly will be a one-time-only, Sunday-edition sized newspaper the San Francisco Panorama. It’ll have news (actual news, tied to the day it comes out) and sports…
Voice of Witness Reader is an astonishing record of human rights issues in the twenty-first century; a testament to the resilience and courage of the most marginalized among us; and…
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When things fall down, who lifts them up? What if the ground beneath your feet had been hollowed into hundreds of tunnels and passageways? What if there were mysterious forces…
Eggers presents his first collection of short stories. The characters are roaming, searching, and often struggling, and revelations do not always arrive on schedule. Precisely crafted and boldly experimental, How…
A collection of short stories that twist and inspire the imagination.
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Will and Hand are burdened by $38,000 and the memory of their friend Jack. Taking a week out of their lives, they decide to travel around the world to give…
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…
El autor de El Circulo vuelvecon la increible historia verdadera de Mokhtar Alkhanshali,un jovennorteamericano de origenyemeni que regreso a su pais para recuperar el cultivo ancestral…
El dia que Mae Holland es contratada para trabajar en el Circulo, la empresa de internet mas influyente del mundo, sabe que se le ha concedido la oportunidad de su…
A mother and her two young children rent a battered old RV (optimistically christened the ‘Chateau’) and embark upon a journey through the Alaskan wilderness.
Technothriller about Mae Holland, who takes a dream job in the best computer company in the world but is later confronted with frightening questions about memory, the past, privacy, democracy…
[A] 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…
Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world’s most powerful internet company. The story of one woman’s ambition and idealism becomes a heart-racing novel of suspense, raising…
In a heartrending and astonishing novel, Eggers illuminates the history of the civil war in Sudan through the eyes of Valentino Achak Deng, a refugee now living in the United…
In August 2005, as Hurricane Katrina blew in the city of New Orleans has been abandoned by most citizens. But resident Abdulrahman Zeitoun, though his wife and family had gone…
Each issue of the quarterly is completely redesigned. There have been hardcovers and paperbacks, an issue with two spines, an issue with a magnetic binding, an issue that looked like…
After acquiring $32,000, Will and Hand, devastated over the death of their closest friend, travel around the world giving away the money, in this novel from the author of ‘A…
Now more than ever, Americans are troubled by questions. As sweaty modernity thrusts itself upon us, the veil of ignorance that cloaked our nation hangs in tatters, tattered tatters. Our…