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Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
John Chu is a "sherpa" -- a paid guide to online role-playing games like Call to Wizardry. For a fee, he and his crew will provide you with a top-flight character equipped with the best weapons and armor, and take you dragon-slaying in the Realms of Asgarth, hunting rogue starships in the Alpha Sector, or battling hordes of undead in the zombie apocalypse. Their new client "Mr. Jones" is offering a ridiculous amount of money for a comprehensive tour...
42) Waking life
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Join Wiley Wiggins as he searches for answers to the question of whether we are sleepwalking through our waking state or wake-walking through our dreams.
Author
Language
English
Description
Hattie Kavanaugh went to work helping clean up restored homes for Kavanaugh & Son Restorations at eighteen; married the boss's son at twenty; and was only twenty-five when her husband, Hank, was killed in a motorcycle accident. Broken hearted, but determined to continue the business of their dreams, she takes the life insurance money, buys a small house in a gentrifying neighborhood, flips it, then puts the money into her next project. But that house...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Amanda, a divorced photographer, finds herself in a fantastic Alice-in-Wonderland experience when her daily, uninspired life literally begins to unravel. Guided by leading scientists and mystics, she finds that if reality itself is not questionable, her notion of it certainly is. Plunge into a world where quantum uncertainity is demonstrated - where Amanda's neurological processes, and perceptual shifts are engaged and lived - where everything is...
45) Flash point
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
After the Collapse destroys the economy, Amy has to give up her dreams of college, and support her family by running for a slot on a new reality TV show, the premise of which is to put teenagers into a crisis situation and see how they react. But every time the ratings slip, the producers up the ante. Soon Amy is fighting for her life.
Author
Series
Last gate of the Emperor volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Yared Heywat lives an isolated life in Addis Prime -- a hardscrabble city with rundown tech, lots of rules, and not much to do. His worrywart Uncle Moti and bionic lioness Besa are his only family... and his only friends. Often in trouble for his thrill-seeking antics and smart mouth, those same qualities make Yared a star player of the underground augmented reality game, The Hunt for Kaleb's Obelisk. But when a change in the game rules prompts Yared...
47) Game over
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Welcome to HIVE, the world's most popular virtual reality game. Everyone's addicted to it kids, parents, and even teachers. Everyone, that is, except for Kara Tilden, who has never warmed to it ever since her mom disappeared, and Kara has reason to believe HIVE had something to do with it. And with a new update about to launch, everyone around Kara is even more obsessed with it, including her friends and boyfriend, Gus. But when the upgrade finally...
48) The condemned
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Imprisoned killers from around the world are brought to a secluded island where they must participate in an ultraviolent, illegal online realty show.
51) House arrest
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Joe and Frank continue to participate in the reality television show "Deprivation House," since although the culprit responsible for the initial wave of crimes has been caught, someone on the show still harbors an intent to kill.
52) Sunshine Beach
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
After losing their life savings in a Ponzi scheme, Maddie, Avery, and Nikki banded together to make the most of what they've got left through determination, ingenuity, guts, and a large dose of elbow grease. It's Maddie's daughter Kyra who stumbles across a once glorious oceanfront hotel that has fallen into disrepair. The opportunity to renovate this seaside jewel is too good to pass up--especially when they come up with the idea of shooting their...
Author
Series
Matchmaker in Wonderland volume 2
Publisher
Signet Select
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Lorina Liddel is terrified of embarrassing herself on national TV as the face of Dig Britain!, a new archeological reality show. Lorina would much rather keep her head down and her hands in the dirt underneath Ainslie Castle, but her on-screen partner is proving to be a major distraction. --Amazon.com.
Author
Language
English
Description
Felicity "Fizzy" Chen is lost. Sure, she's got an incredible career as a beloved romance novelist with a slew of bestsellers under her belt, but when she's asked to give a commencement address, it hits her: she hasn't been practicing what she's preached. Fizzy hasn't ever really been in love. Lust? Definitely. But that swoon-worthy, can't-stop-thinking-about-him, all-encompassing feeling? Nope. Nothing. What happens when the optimism she's spent her...
55) The love dog
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"Fired from her job as a paralegal, Samantha Novak is in trouble. When Telltale, a Hollywood tabloid, asks her to write an expose on the reality television dating show, The Love Dog, Samantha is thrilled. She's always dreamed of being a writer, and the fat paycheck won't hurt. After being recently left at the altar, she's not too keen on love either. Hired as the canine star's handler, Samantha finds that digging up dirt on set is harder then she...
Publisher
Viacom International
Pub. Date
c2014
Language
English
Description
The show follows the stories of four girls from the second season of "16 and Pregnant" and documents the challenges of their first years of motherhood. Each episode interweaves stories of four teenage girls who are navigating the bumpy terrain of adolescence, growing pains, and coming of age, all while facing the responsibility of being a young mother.
Publisher
MTV Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
The show follows the stories of four girls from '16 and Pregnant' and documents the challenges of their first years of motherhood. Each episode interweaves stories of four teenage girls who are navigating the bumpy terrain of adolescence, growing pains, and coming of age, all while facing the responsibility of being a young mother.
Author
Series
Trapped in Battle Royale volume 3
Publisher
Sky Pony Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Grey has improved a ton with the help of his friends, and he's closing in on the top tier of players. But then his closest friend announces that he's been asked to join a new squad on the top tier and leaves them in hopes of making the top five with his new squad. Grey is devastated, and their play struggles. He falls back several ranks and begins to wonder if it's even possible to escape the game this season. Some players have been there for many...
59) Rabbits: a novel
Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Conspiracies abound in this surreal and yet all-too-real technothriller, detailing an underground alternate reality game, set in the same world as the popular Rabbits podcast. Rabbits is a secret, dangerous, and occasionally fatal underground alternate reality game, where the prizes are unclear but may involve vast sums of money, NSA or CIA recruitment, or perhaps even the key to unlocking the secrets of the universe itself. Since the game first...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Through a mesmerizing look back over his life in technology, Jaron Lanier, the scientist who is said to have either coined or popularized the term virtual reality, exposes VR's ability to illuminate and amplify our understanding of our species and gives readers a new perspective on how the brain and body connect to the world. An inventive blend of autobiography, science writing, philosophy, and advice, Dawn of the New Everything tells the wild story...
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