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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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Waging a fierce competition for which they have trained since childhood, circus magicians Celia and Marco unexpectedly fall in love with each other and share a fantastical romance that manifests in fateful ways.
A circus, titled Le Cirque des Reve, comes to town out of the blue and without warning. Within its tents, young magicians Celia and Marco compete to be the best, having done so since childhood. However, under the backdrop of their intense...
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Two friends-often in love, but never lovers-come together as creative partners in the world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality. On a bitter-cold day, 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. For a moment, she pretends she hasn't heard him,...
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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A love letter to the 1980s and to nerds everywhere—The Impossible Fortress will make you remember what it feels like to love someone—or something—for the first time.
Billy Marvin's first love was his computer.
Then he met Mary Zelinsky.
Do you remember your first love?
It's May 1987. Fourteen-year-old Billy Marvin of Wetbridge, New Jersey, is a nerd, but a decidedly happy nerd. Afternoons...
Billy Marvin's first love was his computer.
Then he met Mary Zelinsky.
Do you remember your first love?
It's May 1987. Fourteen-year-old Billy Marvin of Wetbridge, New Jersey, is a nerd, but a decidedly happy nerd. Afternoons...
5) Ender's game
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards. In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn't...
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Dodge novels volume 1
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English
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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.
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English
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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...
9) The God Game
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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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.
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Español
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Las mujeres de la familia Jackson siempre han sabido que podían contar la una con la otra. A pesar de la fuerza del vínculo que las une, madre e hija son como la noche del día. Indiana es una atractiva bohemia de espíritu libre, sanadora especialista en Reiki y aromaterapia, y pese a llevar tiempo separada, sigue reacia a comprometerse con alguno de los hombres que la desean: ya sea Alan, el rico vástago de una de las familias miás importantes...
11) Halting state
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Series
Halting State volume 1
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
13) Rabbits: a novel
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English
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"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...
14) Spy games
Author
Series
Philip Mangan novels volume 2
Publisher
Redhood Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Journalist Philip Mangan becomes embroiled in a life-threatening conspiracy involving local unrest in East Africa and his failures in Beijing.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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It is time for the All-Star games, and Super Rabbit Boy wants to be crowned the Ultimate All-Star Champion, but with so many contestants, including the evil King Viking, he will need help from Sunny and his video game console to claim his prize.
17) Out of the mist
Author
Series
Stewart sisters trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
18) Rock paper tiger
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Series
Ellie Cooper novels volume 1
Publisher
Soho
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
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Series
Forgotten realms. Dungeons volume 2
Publisher
Wizards of the Coast
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Author
Series
Forgotten realms. Dungeons volume 1
Publisher
Wizards of the Coast, Inc
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
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