Khoury, Jessica
Summary: "Bullied at school and home, Ash finds respite from his unhappy life in virtual reality games. One night, he spends his meager savings to help a stranger, who thanks him with a copy of an old fantasy game called The Glass Realm. While exploring the game, Ash meets a seemingly humble shopkeeper named Ruby. But from the start, Ruby seems different than the other townsfolk--especially when she and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC KHOMbalia, Kwame
Summary: "Yared has traveled a long way to find his place in the universe. Light years, even. Though the battle of Addis Prime is over, the spacefaring Axum Empire is still fractured. The kingdom once gave their technology away free of charge, to better humankind. Now, having been missing for over a decade, they're returning to the planet where their galaxy-spanning civilization began--Earth. But they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MBADashner, James
Summary: "Michael is a skilled internet gamer in a world of advanced technology. When a cyber-terrorist begins to threaten players, Michael is called upon to seek him and his secrets out"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DASKawahara, Reki
Summary: Having cleared the first and second floors of Aincrad at great cost, Kirito, Asuna, and the rest of the players ascend to the third floor. Tenuous new allies await them--most crucially, Kizmel, the elven knight. Kizmel is supposed to be a minor NPC with low-level AI, but she soon reveals herself to be much more. With new allies come new complications, though, and the elves of the vast...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen On 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KAWGreenberg, Louis
Summary: When Lucie Sterling's daughter is abducted, she knows it'll be no easy feat to find answers. Stanton is no ordinary city: invasive digital technology has been banned, by public vote. No surveillance state, no shadowy companies holding databases of information on private citizens, no phones tracking their every move. Only one place stays firmly anchored in the bad old ways, in a huge bunker...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult- Science Fiction, Call number: SF Greenberg 2019Tesler, Monica
Summary: "Jasper and his friends are sent as ambassadors to the underwater planet of Earth Force's shady new allies, the Alkalinians"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2017
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC TESDashner, James
Summary: Michael is a skilled Internet gamer in a world of advanced technology. When a cyber-terrorist begins to threaten players, Michael is called upon to seek him and his secrets out.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC DASFinlay, Adrianne
Summary: Each of the four teenage contestants has their own reasons for joining the new virtual reality show CUT/OFF. The simple premise: place a group of teenagers alone in the wilderness, and whoever lasts the longest without 'tapping out' wins a cash prize. Not only that, new software creates a totally unprecedented television experience, allowing viewers to touch, see, and live everything along with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FINHarrison, Margot
Summary: Moving to her father's home in California after a decade at her mother's isolated ranch, a teen who has been taught to fear technology reunites with friends and family members before experiencing nightmares about a dark-web video game that poses life-threatening dangers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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Summary: "Smart, paranoid literary science fiction crossover for fans of Blake Crouch and Philip K. Dick, set in present-day Seattle Vin, a down-on-his-luck young tech entrepreneur forced out of the software company he started, takes a job house-sitting a beautiful Seattle mansion. There he discovers that the owner--who has been missing for a year--has built a secret basement lab. In the lab there are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TOUCrouch, Blake
Summary: One night after an evening out, Jason Dessen, forty-year-old physics professor living with his wife and son in Chicago, is kidnapped at gunpoint by a masked man, driven to an abandoned industrial site and injected with a powerful drug. As he wakes, a man Jason's never met smiles down at him and says, "Welcome back, my friend." But this life is not the one he knows. His wife is not his wife; his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2016
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Summary: "Like millions of people around the world, Jeremy Logan (famed enigmalogist or investigator of unexplained things) has grown to rely on his incredible new tech device. Made by Chrysalis, the global multi-billion-dollar tech company, the small optical device connects people in a stunning new way, tapping into virtual reality for the first time on a wide scale. And yet, when Logan is summoned by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CHICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CHICline, Ernest
Summary: Days after winning OASIS founder James Halliday's contest, Wade Watts makes a discovery that changes everything. Hidden within Halliday's vaults, waiting for his heir to find, lies a technological advancement that will once again change the world and make the OASIS a thousand times more wondrous, and addictive, than even Wade dreamed possible. With it comes a new riddle, and a new quest, a last...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CLIHosking, Jay
Summary: "After drifting between school and dead-end jobs, a young man makes the decision to return to the city he left after high school. The magnet is his beloved older sister, Grace: the golden girl, smart and charismatic even when rebelling, and always his hero. Now she is a promising graduate student in science and the center of a group of friends that take "Little Brother" into their fold, where...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOSCollins, Suzanne
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Katniss lives with her mother and younger sister in the poorest district of what used to be the United States. When the districts waged war on the Capitol, they were not only defeated, but forced to adhere to a set of rules. As part of these surrender terms, each district must send one boy and one girl to appear in an annual televised killing-spree event called the Hunger...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC COLHunter, Devin
Summary: "Time is running out for Grey and his squad. While they consistently rank in the top twenty players stuck in Fortnite Battle Royale, they need to be the top five to escape virtual reality and go home. Grey's team begins to fray apart, and he fears he won't be able to keep them together long enough to get the rank they need. With the season ending in a couple weeks, people are either giving up...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sky Pony Press 2019