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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.
In the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name....
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Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"Space Invaders is the story of a group of childhood friends who, in adulthood, are preoccupied by uneasy memories and visions of their classmate Estrella González Jepsen. In their dreams, they catch glimpses of Estrella’s braids, hear echoes of her voice, and read old letters that eventually, mysteriously, stopped arriving. They recall regimented school assemblies, nationalistic class performances, and a trip to the beach. Soon it becomes clear...
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Scary tales volume 4
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Sucked into a strange video game where he finds himself caught in a snowstorm, young Aaron ventures into the nearby woods only to hear scary howls and discover that he is trapped.
6) Level up
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When thirteen-year-old Zoe, an aspiring pro-gamer, receives an invitation to play on a pro-team, she must navigate her dad's skepticism of professional gaming as well as her squad's feelings of betrayal.
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Sugar Rush Racers volume 1
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English
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When five Sugar Rush Racers become stuck in ten-year-old Molly's tablet, they must "interact" with her in order to find their way back to their game.
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Sugar Rush Racers volume 2
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English
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"Molly can't wait for her camping trip! Until she learns there are NO DEVICES ALLOWED! The Sugar Rush Racers convince Molly to sneak her tablet into the camping trip. Everyone knows the best part of the trip is the scavenger hunt, but when the team gets lost and Molly pulls out her tablet to try to help, everyone turns on her for breaking the rules. How will the Sugar Rush Racers help her get out of this one"--
10) The peripheral
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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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"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...
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Gordian division volume 4
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English
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"The Weltall Tournament's professional VR games were supposed to be a symbol of cooperation between SysGov and its militaristic neighbor, the Admin. But that was before star Admin player Elly Sako received a death threat, written in blood next to a copy of her own severed head. The Admin's Department of Temporal Investigation swiftly seizes control of the crime scene, and the tournament transforms into a flashpoint of charged politics and conflicting...
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Georgia Thackery is feeling good about her summer job teaching at prestigious Overfeld College and the relaxing cabin she's renting for her daughter and Sid the skeleton. When a teenager named Jen shows up looking for Sid, they set off to find a missing online gaming partner
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Minecraft stonesword saga volume 4
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When the bees around their school and the Stonesword Library start disappearing and a splinter of the Evoker King takes on the form of a bee colony with a hive mind, Harper and her friends must solve this real-life ecological mystery.
15) The outsider
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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In the world of video game Minecraft, Jeremy lives in the biggest city in the Overworld, surrounded by tall buildings, redstone wonders, and many people, but still he feels lonely and wants a friend.
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Cat + gamer volume 4
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First English-language edition.
Language
English
Description
Just when office worker Riko Kozakura is beginning to rank up her Pet Owner skill from Beginner to Intermediate, another cat joins the household! Kozakura's handled her one cat, Musubi, well, but with twice the feline antics she'll have her hands full—and more XP to grind!
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Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First paperback edition.
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English
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Tom Raines and his friends are eager to return to the Pentagonal Spire to continue their training for the elite Intrasolar Forces. They're in Upper Company now, vying for spots in CamCo, but soon discover troubling changes: strict new regulations, suspicious agents in positions of power, and the revelation that the Spire is under new military control. The trainees are now cadets. What begins as an irritating adjustment soon reveals a dangerous shift...
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Trapped in a video game volume 1
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English
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"Trapped. Jesse Rigsby is trapped in the video game Full Blast. His dumb friend Eric probably has something to do with this, but Jesse doesn't have time to worry about that now, because he's got a blaster stuck to his arm, a man-sized praying mantis thing chasing him and...is that the Statue of LIberty taking off like a rocket ship? Something weird is going on, and Jesse had better figure out what it is fast, because he's about to be trapped for good"--Back...
20) Arena
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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
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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