Dave Eggers

Convinced whale songs are boring, young humpback whale Soren decides to write his own, catchier tunes, and even when his music is met with less than encouraging feedback, he finds a way to keep composing.

A "witty [and] compelling" true story for kids about San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge-and why it's orange-by the New York Times–bestselling author! (Fast Company). In this delightfully original nonfiction book, National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist Dave Eggers tackles one of the most famous architectural monuments in the world: the Golden Gate Bridge-and all the arguments and debates about building it and what it should look like....

Die Welt ist bedroht - nur Kinder können sie retten! Risse klaffen in den Straßen, Häuser stehen schief, und dann wird auch noch die halbe Schule vom Erdboden verschluckt. Unterirdische Hurrikans haben den Boden unter der Stadt zerlöchert wie einen Schweizer Käse. Als der zwölfjährige Gran mit seiner Familie in das Haus seines Ururgroßvaters zieht, ahnt er noch nicht, dass er zu den Auserwählten gehört, die die Stadt vor dem Versinken retten...

Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Fourteen Days is an irresistibly propulsive collaborative novel from the Authors Guild, with an unusual twist: each character in this diverse, eccentric cast of New York neighbors has been secretly written by a different, major literary voice--from Margaret Atwood and John Grisham to Tommy Orange and Celeste Ng. One week into the COVID-19 shutdown, tenants of a Lower East...