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"A modern love story about two childhood friends, Sam, raised by an actress mother in LA's Koreatown, and Sadie, from the wealthy Jewish enclave of Beverly Hills, who reunite as adults to create video games, finding an intimacy in digital worlds that eludes them in their real lives, from the New York Times best-selling author of The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry"--
2) Insignia
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Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
464 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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Tom, a fourteen-year-old genius at virtual reality games, is recruited by the United States Military to begin training at the Pentagon Spire as a Combatant in World War III, controlling the mechanized drones that do the actual fighting off-planet.
3) Arena
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Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"A fast-paced and gripping near-future science fiction debut about the gritty world of competitive gaming ... Every week, Kali Ling fights to the death on national TV. She's died hundreds of times. And it never gets easier ... The RAGE tournaments--the Virtual Gaming League's elite competition where the best gamers in the world compete in a no-holds-barred fight to the digital death. Every bloody kill is broadcast to millions. Every player is a modern...
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Depending on her veteran brother's benefits in a city where jobs outside the drug trade are rare, Flynne assists her brother's latest beta-test tech assignment only to uncover an elaborate murder scheme.
"William Gibson returns with his first novel since 2010's New York Times-bestselling Zero History. Where Flynne and her brother, Burton, live, jobs outside the drug business are rare. Fortunately, Burton has his veteran's benefits, for neural damage...
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Colter Shaw volume 1
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English
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"From the bestselling and award-winning master of suspense, the first novel in a thrilling new series, introducing Colter Shaw. 'You have been abandoned.' A young woman has gone missing in Silicon Valley and her father has hired Colter Shaw to find her. The son of a survivalist family, Shaw is an expert tracker. Now he makes a living as a 'reward seeker,' traveling the country to help police solve crimes and private citizens locate missing persons....
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Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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Tired of always losing to Super Rabbit Boy in their video game world, King Viking goes to the Secret Lands to find the Super Power Up that will give him super powers--Super Rabbit Boy must stop him, but first he must make it past goblins, ghosts, and other video dangers.
8) Vortex
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Series
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
390 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"While serving as a superhuman government weapon during World War III, teenager Tom Raine's loyalties are tested by corruption and nefarious enemies"--
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
390 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"Alex loves his family, and yet he struggles to connect with his eight-year-old autistic son, Sam. The strain has pushed his marriage to the breaking point. So Alex moves in with his merrily irresponsible best friend on the world's most uncomfortable blow-up bed. As Alex navigates single life, long-buried family secrets, and part-time fatherhood, his son begins playing Minecraft. Sam's imagination blossoms and the game opens up a whole new world for...
10) The glitch
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AuthorHouse
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
239 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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"Kaila Kinsworth lives inside of a video game, where monsters lurk in the shadows and adventures lie around every corner. Yet, life has always been wonderful for her. . . But when somebody closest to her passes away, she finds her heart shattered [and] not ready to accept that death." -- cover, page 4
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
205 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When videogame obsessed Pete Watson discovers his dad is not only a super-spy but has been kidnapped and is now trapped inside a video game, he has to use his super gaming skills and enter the game to rescue him. And if he succeeds, who will save Pete from his massive crush on Callie Midwood?"--
12) Otaku
Author
Publisher
TOR, A Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Ditchtown. A city of skyscrapers, built atop the drowned bones of old Miami. A prison of steel, filled with unbelievers. A dumping ground for strays, runaways, and malcontents. Within these towering monoliths, Ashley Akachi is a young woman trying her best to cope with a brother who's slipping away, a mother who's already gone, and angry young men who want her put in her place. Ditchtown, however, is not the only world Ash inhabits. Within Infinite...
13) The God Game
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
452 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Five best friends in a high school computer club get sucked into an underground hacker's game run by a mysterious A.I. that thinks it's God; as the Game pits them against each other, it offers the ultimate promise--win and learn the meaning of life or die.
15) Lucky leaf
Author
Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
After his mother tells him to stop playing video games and go outside, a young boy tries to catch the last leaf on a tree, thinking it will bring him luck.
Author
Series
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
337 pages; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Seattle 2020. After a severe injury, ace mecha designer and pilot Reiko Morikawa is recruited to a secret organization plotting a revolt against the corrupt governor (and Nazi sympathizer) of the United States of Japan. When their plan to save the USJ from itself goes awry, the mission is only saved from failure because the governor is killed by an assassin known as Bloody Mary. But the assassin isn't satisfied with just the governor. Bishop Wakana...
17) The leveller
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Series
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HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Nixy Bauer, a sixteen-year-old self-made video-game bounty hunter, gets in over her head when she attempts to rescue a game developer's son from a virtual trap"--
19) Games we play
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Series
One night volume 1
Publisher
Dana Isaly
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
282 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jack is a faceless gamer known as The Joker. He makes a living playing video games and using his gravelly voice to bring people's sexual fantasies to life. When the top gaming site on the West Coast sends someone out to interview him, Quinlan walks into his apartment with her auburn curls and thick curves, and they're instantly drawn to each other. Quinlan has no idea of the monster that lurks beneath the surface of his calm demeanor. Jack is quicksand,...
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Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 4
Language
English
Description
In the latest diary of middle-schooler Greg Heffley, he records his attempts to spend his summer vacation sensibly indoors playing video games and watching television, despite his mother's other ideas.
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