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 they'll find the reason later.
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...
Valentino Achak Deng is just a boy when conflict separates him from his family and forces him to leave his small Sudanese village, joining thousands of other orphans on their long, long walk to Ethiopia, where they find safety - for a time. This title tells the tale of tragedy and triumph.
Valentino Achak Deng is just a boy when conflict separates him from his family and forces him to leave his small Sudanese village, joining thousands o...
Yet while celebrating the work of others, the author has also proved himself time and again one of the modern masters of the form. He showcases his talents in a variety of stories that are short-short, short-long and every length in between.
Yet while celebrating the work of others, the author has also proved himself time and again one of the modern masters of the form. He showcases his ta...
Driven by a series of internal and external pressures, seven year-old Max leaves home, jumps in a boat and sails across the oceans to a strange island where the giant beasts reign - the 'wild things' from Maurice Sendak's visionary classic.
Driven by a series of internal and external pressures, seven year-old Max leaves home, jumps in a boat and sails across the oceans to a strange island...
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans residents Kathy & Abdulrahman Zeitoun are cast into unthinkable struggle with forces beyond wind & water. Abdulrahman has stayed on in the city, traversing its deeply flooded streets by canoe, feeding trapped dogs & rescuing survivors. But nothing could prepare him for the nightmare that followed.
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans residents Kathy & Abdulrahman Zeitoun are cast into unthinkable struggle with forces beyond wind & water...
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 fees and finally do something great.
In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession scarred America, a struggling businessman pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclos...
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. Mae can't believe her luck, her great fortune to work for the most influential company in the world - even as life beyond the campus grows distant, even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her...
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...
Německá inspirace v díle Gérarda de Nerval identifikuje intertextové zdroje vrcholných próz tohoto francouzského prozaika, básníka a překladatele druhé romantické generace. Analýza se soustřeďuje především na dvě povídky ze souboru Dcery ohně, Sylvii a Oktavii, na dva příběhy vložené do Cesty do Orientu a na Nervalovy poslední prózy, Aurelii a Pandoru. Monografie odhlíží od psychobiografického klíče a naopak se soustřeďuje na kulturní vklad německých textů, které Nerval znal - především díky knize O Německu od paní de Staël - a částečně...
Německá inspirace v díle Gérarda de Nerval identifikuje intertextové zdroje vrcholných próz tohoto francouzského prozaika, básníka a překla...
Your Fathers, Where Are They is Dave Eggers' brilliantly executed story of one man struggling to make sense of the world. 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 the 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 his messages. And...
Your Fathers, Where Are They is Dave Eggers' brilliantly executed story of one man struggling to make sense of the world. In a barracks on an abandone...
