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"A modern love story about two childhood friends, Sam, raised by an actress mother in LA's Koreatown, and Sadie, from the wealthy Jewish enclave of Beverly Hills, who reunite as adults to create video games, finding an intimacy in digital worlds that eludes them in their real lives, from the New York Times best-selling author of The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry"--
2) Insignia
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Insignia trilogy volume 1
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IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 18
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Tom, a fourteen-year-old genius at virtual reality games, is recruited by the United States Military to begin training at the Pentagon Spire as a Combatant in World War III, controlling the mechanized drones that do the actual fighting off-planet.
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IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
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Seventeen year-old dirt-bike-riding daredevil Arlo Santiago catches the eye of the U.S. military with his first-place ranking on a video game featuring drone warfare, and must reconcile the work they want him to do with the emotional scars he has suffered following a violent death in his family. Adios, Nirvana author Conrad Wesselhoeft, takes readers from the skies over war-torn Pakistan to the dusty arroyos of New Mexico's outback in this
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Press start! volume 1
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IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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When King Viking and his evil robot army attack Animal Town, and kidnap Singing Dog, it is up to Super Rabbit Boy, with some help from Sunny and his video game console, to save the day.
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Rotten School volume 12
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IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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With the Board of Inspectors threatening to shut down Rotten School, Bernie Bridges only has time for one last money-making scheme, but his friends are too obsessed with a role-playing video game to help him.
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A supremely geeky murder mystery perfect for Whovians, gamers, and Muggles alike. Autumn has everything she could possibly want: Loving friends, a successful business, and a gaggle of nerds in her store every day. Welcome to Ten Again, a tabletop gaming store that attracts nerds of every kind and fosters a community Autumn's pretty proud of-a community that also keeps business afloat. And now that Autumn's in the running for a grant, Ten Again's future...
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Herbert's wormhole volume 1
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IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
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When almost-sixth-grader Alex, a video game fanatic, is forced on a "playdate" with his neighbor Herbert, an inventor, the two travel to the twenty-second century and face off against aliens, who are not as beneficent as most people think.
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With help from Pondside Manor's quirky, twentysomething kitchen worker Foster Kresowik, resident Robert Kallman creates The World of Pondside, a video game that delights the nursing home's residents by allowing them to virtually relive moments from days long past, or even create new ones. Robert's game enlivens the halls of Pondside Manor, but chaos ensues when he is found dead. If any resident witnessed his death, they're not telling. And it's far...
9) Vortex
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IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 18
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"While serving as a superhuman government weapon during World War III, teenager Tom Raine's loyalties are tested by corruption and nefarious enemies"--
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In a virtual reality video game, a gamer named Gadget learns she is part of a steampunk pirate crew searching for their captain's lost treasure, but when she prefers to solve puzzles on her own, can she trust other characters she meets in this multiplayer game?
11) Game slaves
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"A highly intelligent group of video game enemy non-player characters (NPC) begins to doubt they are merely codes in a machine. Their search for answers leads them to a gruesome discovery"--
12) The peripheral
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Peripheral volume 1
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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 asks Flynne to take over a job he's supposed to do. Beta-testing part of a new game, he tells her. Work a perimeter around the image of a tower building; little buglike things turn up, he's supposed...
13) Game over
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MindWar trilogy volume 3
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IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
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"Rick emerged victorious from The Realm twice. Is his luck about to run out?"--Provided by publisher.
14) Glitch Kingdom
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Dagney, an executioner's daughter, and Ryo, a prince some call a traitor, join forces to dethrone a paranoid queen after discovering they are trapped in a video game where "Game Over" equals death.
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IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
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"But Mom, it's just a game."
Meet Jasper! A young boy who is totally absorbed with playing video games...
"With my game controller in my hands, I'm the boss of my whole world!
I can be who I want and do as I please. I can get the highest score.
I get all the chances that I need. If I make a mistake, it's ok.
Everyone thinks I'm 'it on a stick!' And the bad stuff all goes away."
Video game addiction is on the rise, but it can be prevented. This...
16) The God Game
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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.
18) The Joker virus
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IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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The Joker has created a virus that infects the latest videogame craze, and turns players into zombies--but in order to defeat him Batman must first discover where he is hiding with the kidnapped creator of the videogame.
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IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
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"When videogame obsessed Pete Watson discovers his dad is not only a super-spy but has been kidnapped and is now trapped inside a video game, he has to use his super gaming skills and enter the game to rescue him. And if he succeeds, who will save Pete from his massive crush on Callie Midwood?"--
20) Double down
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IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
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Greg Heffley's mom wants him to take a break from video games while Halloween approaches and he comes up with an idea to make a movie.
The pressure's really piling up on Greg Heffley. His mom thinks video games are turning his brain to mush, so she wants her son to put down the controller and explore his creative side. As if that's not scary enough, Halloween's just around the corner and the frights are coming at Greg from every angle. When Greg...