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A New York Times Bestseller When Mae Holland is hired to work for the world?s most powerful internet company, she can?t believe her luck. The Circle, run out of a hip, sprawling California campus, links users? online data with their universal operating system, creating a new age of civility and transparency. But the story of one woman?s ambition and idealism soon becomes a heart-racing novel of suspense, raising questions about memory, history, privacy, and democracy.
About the Author
Dave Eggers is the author of ten books, including most recently Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever? , The Circle and A Hologram for the King, which was a finalist for the 2012 National Book Award. He is the founder of McSweeney's, an independent publishing company based in San Francisco that produces books, a quarterly journal of new writing (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) , and a monthly magazine, The Believer. McSweeney's also publishes Voice of Witness, a nonprofit book series that uses oral history to illuminate human rights crises around the world. Eggers is the co-founder of 826 National, a network of eight tutoring centers around the country and ScholarMatch, a nonprofit organization that connects students with resources, schools and donors to make college possible.
