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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
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AS FORETOLD BY ANCIENT PROPHETS, an apocalypse destroyed Earth during the twenty-first century. But two thousand years later Elyon set upon the earth a new Adam. This time, however, He gave humanity an advantage. What was once unseen became seen. It was good and it was called...Green. But the evil Teeleh bided his time in a Black Forest. Then, when least expected, a twenty-four year old named Thomas Hunter fell asleep in our world and woke up in that...
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Pub. Date
[2018]
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Virtual reality is able to effectively blur the line between reality and illusion, pushing the limits of our imagination and granting us access to any experience imaginable. With well-crafted simulations, these experiences, which are so immersive that the brain believes they're real, are already widely available with a VR headset and will only become more accessible and commonplace. But how does this new medium affect its users, and does it have a...
83) Elusion
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Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
Description
"Teens uncover the dangerous secrets of a virtual reality program that's taking the country by storm"--
84) Gamer army
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Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Even though he is only twelve, Rogan Weber is an obsessed gamer, whose motto, ego sum maximus, declares his confidence in his own abilities, and whose parents are also deeply involved in ultra high tech (a little too deeply sometimes); naturally he is thrilled to receive an invitation to join a tech giant's virtual reality TV gaming contest--but as the games become more and more intense and dangerous, he and his fellow gamers realize that something...
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"From the New York Times best-selling author of The Overnight Guest comes a twisty locked-room thriller about a mysterious, high-stakes game show that proves life-threatening. The Best Friend. The Confidant. The Senator. The Boyfriend. The Executive. Five contestants have been chosen to compete for ten million dollars on the game show One Lucky Winner. The catch? None of them knows what (or who) to expect, and it will be live streamed all over the...
86) Watch me
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Pub. Date
2010, c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Ally, chosen to move into a house full of strangers for a reality television show, thinks she has everything under control, but she finds she does not like living in the spotlight and when she is seen too often hanging out with sensitive housemate Drew, it threatens her relationship with her long-distance boyfriend, Corey.
87) The sun
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Amazing photography accompanies engaging information about the sun. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7."--
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""Queen of Suspense" Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke are back with their fifth enthralling mystery in the New York Times bestselling Under Suspicion series; You Don't Own Me finds television producer Laurie Moran stopping at nothing to solve the murder of a celebrity doctor--even as she finds herself in grave danger as a mysterious stalker plots his next move. When we last saw Laurie Moran, she had recently become engaged to her show's former...
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
John Chu is a "sherpa"--a paid guide to online role-playing games like the popular 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
90) Catalyst
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
Description
"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"--
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When asked simple questions about global trends--what percentage of the world's population live in poverty; why the world's population is increasing; how many girls finish school--we systematically get the answers wrong. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess teachers, journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers. In Factfulness, Professor of International Health and global TED phenomenon Hans Rosling,...
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Pub. Date
2013.
Description
"In the tradition of Emma Donoghue's Room and S.J. Watson's Before I Go to Sleep, a haunting literary debut about a woman who begins having visions that make her question everything she knows. Marta and Hector have been married for a long time. Through the good and bad; through raising a son and sending him off to life after university. So long, in fact, that Marta finds it difficult to remember her life before Hector. He has always taken care of...
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Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Jaine's life has been a royal pain since she started penning dialogue for Some Day My Prince Will Come - a cheesy dating show that features bachelorettes competing for the heart of Spencer Dalworth VII, a very distant heir to the British throne. As if fending off golf ball-sized bugs on a sweltering island wasn't tough enough, Jaine must test her patience against an irritable production crew and fierce contestants who will do anything to get their...
95) The fame game
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Series
Fame game novels volume 1
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Description
"Reality star Madison Parker, determined to take her career to the next level, signs on for a new TV show called THE FAME GAME. But more drama happens behind the scenes than onscreen"--
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
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 was killed in a motorcycle accident. Determined to continue the business, she takes the life insurance money, buys a small house, flips it, then puts the money into her next project. But that house is a disaster and a money-loser, which rocks her confidence. Then, Hattie...
97) Counterattack
Author
Series
Robot wars (Sigmund Brouwer) volume 4
Pub. Date
2009
Description
In the first of two adventures set in 2040, fourteen-year-old, wheelchair-bound, virtual reality specialist, Tyce Sanders, finds himself in grave danger on his first trip to Earth, and in the second, Tyce must use all his skills to find a way to stop the slaughter of the governors of the World United Federation.
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Pub. Date
2008
Description
David Grant has a singular talent-he can affect the course of his dreams.
Quite by chance, he discovers the existence of the Trans-Humanist Institute and their lucid dreaming lessons. He discovers that under the tutelage of Dr. Thotmoses he has more control over his dreams. However, his talent soon runs away with him and he visits dream places while awake. The waking world and the dreaming world collide. Grant ends up sedated in a hellish mental...
100) Vamps and the city
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Series
Love at stake volume 2
Pub. Date
2006
Description
The director of a reality TV show in which mortals vie with vampires for the title of The Sexiest Man on Earth, vampire Darcy Newhart falls for Austin, a sexy human contestant who, unbeknownst to Darcy, is really a vampire slayer.