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The Best of McSweeney's Volume 1 by Dave Eggers
29.95 NZD
Category: Fiction
From literary outsider to most talked-about literary magazine in five years, McSweeney's has earned its right to be called a literary phenomenon. Founded and edited by Dave Eggers, this is the magazine that has made its mark with a line-up of authors that includes David Foster Wallace, George Saunders, ...Show more
The Captain and the Glory by Dave Eggers
26.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
The grand ship Glory has been skilfully captained for years, but when its well-loved old skipper decides to step down, a new leader thrusts himself forward and a new era begins. The new Captain is vulgar, bumbling and inexplicably confident. With no knowledge of nautical navigation or maritime law - nor ...Show more
The Circle by Dave Eggers
26.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials
Fast, thrilling, compulsively addictive - The Circle is Dave Eggers's timely novel about our obsession with the internet, now available as a Penguin Essential for the first time. When Mae is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful internet company, she feels she's been given the opportun ...Show more
The Circle by Dave Eggers
26.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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 ...Show more
The Circle by Dave Eggers
37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
The Circle is the exhilarating new novel from Dave Eggers, bestselling 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 Ci ...Show more
The Monk of Mokha by Dave Eggers
38.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
The Monk of Mokha is the exhilarating true story of a young Yemeni American man, raised in San Francisco, who dreams of resurrecting the ancient art of Yemeni coffee but finds himself trapped in Sana'a by civil war. Mokhtar Alkhanshali is twenty-four and working as a doorman when he discovers the astoni ...Show more
The Wild Things by Dave Eggers
40.00 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Reading Level: good
Seven-year-old Max likes to make noise, get dirty, ride his bike without a helmet and howl like a wolf. In any other era, he would be considered a boy. In 2007, he is considered willful and deranged. His home life is problematic. His parents are divorced; his father, immature and romantic, lives in the ...Show more
The Wild Things by Dave Eggers
30.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Seven-year-old Max likes to make noise, get dirty, ride his bike without a helmet, and howl like a wolf. In any other era, he would be considered a boy. In 2007, he is considered willful and deranged. His home life is problematic. His parents are divorced; his father, immature and romantic, lives in the ...Show more
What Can a Citizen Do? by Dave Eggers
34.99 NZD
Category: Picture Books
This is a book about what citizenship--good citizenship--means to you, and to us all. "In an era of burgeoning student activism, [this book] is arriving at the perfect time." -Entertainment Weekly Empowering and timeless, What Can a Citizen Do? is the latest collaboration from the acclaimed duo behind t ...Show more
What is the What by Dave Eggers
30.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
What Is the What is the story of Valentino Achak Deng, a refugee in war-ravaged southern Sudan who flees from his village in the mid-1980s and becomes one of the so-called Lost Boys. Valentino's travels bring him in contact with enemy soldiers, with liberation rebels, with hyenas and lions, with disease ...Show more
What is the What: The autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng - A novel by Dave Eggers
28.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
At the heart of this astonishing, soul-wrenching novel is a true story of courage and endurance in the face of one of the most brutal civil wars the world has ever known. Valentino Achak Deng is just a boy when conflict separates him from his family and forces him to leave his small Sudanese village, jo ...Show more
You Shall Know Our Velocity by Dave Eggers
26.00 NZD
30.00 (13% off)
Category: General Fiction
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 the money away. They can't really say why they're doing it, just that it needs to be done. Perhaps it's something to do with Jack's death - perhaps ...Show more