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"A mid-level employee of a New York-based public relations firm finds his consciousness uploaded into the company's internal Slack channel"--
Gerald, a mid-level employee of a New York-based public relations firm, has been uploaded into the company's internal Slack channels. At least his consciousness has. His colleagues assume it is just an elaborate ploy to exploit their lax work-from-home policy. Disembodied and alarmed by the looming abyss of...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
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"Be careful of what you mod for, you just might get it! The new kid, Theo, has modding skills that are just right for adventuring in the mysterious world of Minecraft, but his meddling may have also just created a monstrous new threat. Now his friends don't trust him, but it's going to take everyone working together to defeat this hostile mob and face the changes caused by a crack in the code!"--publisher
24) Gamer
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Virtual Kombat volume 1
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Union Square Kids
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"Street kid Scott jumps at the chance to be a Virtual Kombat gamer. if he can battle his way up the ranks, the ultimate prize will be his. But then his friend Kate goes missing in the battle arena, and Scott's dream turns into a nightmare"--Publisher's description
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Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2015
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English
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A groundbreaking anthology of short stories from award-winning writers and game-industry titans who have embarked on a quest to explore what happens when video games and science fiction collide. From text-based adventures to first-person shooters, dungeon crawlers to horror games, these twenty-six stories play with our notion of what video games can be-and what they can become-in smart and singular ways
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Alex Rider adventures volume 14
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English
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When Nightshade kidnaps his best friend, teen spy Alex Rider must enter the world of virtual reality gaming where the lines between what's real and what's digital are deliberately being blurred by a ruthless enemy
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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With the gang spread across the country (and beyond) at college, Spencer is back to feeling out of place, even when he returns home over winter break. Desperate to escape his grandfather who is sharing his room, and to feel confident again, he attempts to fix the broken Jumanji video game, giving his friends no choice but to level up and return to rescue him
28) Reamde
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When his own high-tech start up turns into a Fortune 500 computer gaming group, Richard Forthrast, the black sheep of an Iowa family who has amassed an illegal fortune, finds the line between fantasy and reality becoming blurred when a virtual war for dominance is triggered
29) Catalyst
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Insignia trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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"Tom Raines and his friends return to the Spire for their third year as superhuman government weapons, but the rules have been changed and Tom's training is put to the test"--
30) Lo & behold
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"With her life recently turned upside down, 12-year-old Addie is uncomfortable in her own skin until the world of virtual reality sparks her imagination and leads to an exciting new project, a new friend, and to reconnecting with who she's always been."--
32) The peripheral
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"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 he suffered from implants during his time in the USMC's elite Haptic Recon force. Then one night Burton has to go out, but there's a job he's supposed to do-a job Flynne didn't know he had. Beta-testing...
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Tom Swift Inventors' Academy volume 4
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English
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Someone is sabotaging student projects and all signs point to Tom's friend Sam as the culprit, so Tom and his friends set out to clear her name
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Team Chu volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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"Competitive siblings Sadie and Clip Chu must set aside their differences and work together when they get stuck in a virtual reality laser tag game"--
"When the Blackwood Gaming Arena comes to town, bringing virtual reality headsets and state-of-the-art courses, they couldnt be more excitedor competitive. But then a mysterious figure appears and claims to be a part of the game, forcing the Chus and their friends to save themselves from a sinister...
35) Free guy
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Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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A bank teller, who discovers he is actually a background player in an open-world video game, decides to become the hero of his own story, one he rewrites himself. Now in a world where there are no limits, he is determined to be the guy who saves his world his way, before it is too late
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Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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Return to a world of two realities: one, everyday life; the other, what lies behind it. To find out if his reality is a construct, to truly know himself, Mr. Anderson will have to choose to follow the white rabbit once more
37) Ready player one
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Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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It's 2045, with the world on the brink of chaos and collapse, but the people have found salvation in the OASIS, an expansive virtual reality universe created by the brilliant and eccentric James Halliday. When Halliday dies, he leaves his immense fortune to the first person to find a digital Easter egg he has hidden somewhere in the OASIS, sparking a contest that grips the entire world. When an unlikely young hero named Wade Watts decides to join...
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PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Brother and sister Mike and Maria have found their way out of the Minecraft cave system in which they discovered a magical portal from their world. Now they have a new challenge: a huge landscape in which to explore, build-and survive!"--
39) Mobs rule
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Minecraft stonesword saga volume 2
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Based on the most popular video game of all time, this all-new chapter book series takes a group of intrepid Minecraft players deeper into the game than ever before. Something has turned the Evoker King to stone, and elements of his code have turned into new and terrible bosses that threaten the digital world of Minecraft. Now Po, Harper, and their friends must travel deep into underground and into a web of danger to face the one of them. But that's...
40) Head On
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Hilketa is a frenetic and violent pastime where players attack each other with swords and hammers. The main goal of the game: obtain your opponent's head and carry it through the goalposts. With flesh and bone bodies, a sport like this would be impossible. But all the players are "threeps," robot-like bodies controlled by people with Haden's Syndrome, so anything goes. No one gets hurt, but the brutality is real and the crowds love it. Until a star...
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