Dave Eggers
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Publisher
Penguin
Language
English
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'What is the What' is an unflinching portrayal of the lives of two boys during the Sudanese civil war - one, at seven, too young to know what's happening to his country; the other, at ten, old enough to fight for the rebel army.
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English
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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...
Author
Publisher
Clipper Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Mokhtar is a self-made man: 26-years-old, already the owner of a highly successful coffee business, a naturalized American citizen. But when unrest rises in his native Yemen, he feels compelled to return and help his struggling country. Saudi bombs are falling on the mosques daily and the State Department has all but abandoned Americans to fend for themselves. Trapped behind enemy lines, Mokhtar is forced to find his way through the devastation, fleeing...
Author
Publisher
Hamish Hamilton
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
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.
5) Zeitoun
Author
Publisher
Hamish Hamilton
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans residents Kathy & Abdulrahman 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.
Author
Publisher
Clipper Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
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 even, as he has repeatedly remarked, a particular liking for boats - he solemnly swears to shake things up. Together with his band of petty thieves...
7) The parade
Author
Publisher
Clipper Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
An unnamed country is leaving the darkness of a decade at war, and to commemorate the armistice the government commissions a new road connecting two halves of the state. Two men, foreign contractors from the same company, are sent to finish the highway. While one is flighty and adventurous, wanting to experience the nightlife and people, the other wants only to do the work and go home. But both men must eventually face the absurdities of their positions,...
Publisher
Icon Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Light-hearted comedy drama starring Tom Hanks as struggling American businessman Alan Clay. Desperate to recoup lost earnings and pay for his daughter's tuition fees, Clay travels to Saudi Arabia in an attempt to secure a lucrative IT contract with a wealthy Saudi king. After discovering on arrival that the king hasn't visited the development in 18 months and, facing the sack, Clay must find the money and willpower to make his project a success and...