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The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night.
But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway - a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood expressly for...
3) Ender's game
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English
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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 make the cut―young Ender is the Wiggin...
4) Monkeewrench
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Series
Monkeewrench volume 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
373 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A new cops-and-crooks computer game becomes a nightmare when someone starts duplicating the fictional murders in real life. Now the game's designer, Grace, and her oddball programmers must rethink their game to deduce the killer's next target.
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Series
Mortality doctrine volume 1
Language
English
Description
"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"--
6) Edda
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Series
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Everyone in the virtual universe of Edda is made of pixels-except Penelope. While her body is kept alive in a hospital bed, her avatar runs free, able to go anywhere and do anything, including create deadly weapons for Edda's ruler, her guardian, Lord Scanthax. When Scanthax decides he wants to invade another virtual world, Erik/Cindella from Epic and Ghost from Saga become part of the story-and soon the virtual universes are alive with fighting,...
9) For the win
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Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
A group of teens from around the world find themselves drawn into an online revolution arranged by a mysterious young woman known as Big Sister Nor, who hopes to challenge the status quo and change the world using her virtual connections.
10) Even if we break
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Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Friends Finn, Liva, Maddy, Carter, and Ever begin a farewell round of the game they have played for three years, but each is hiding secrets and the game itself seems to turn against them.
11) Panic
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Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"In the poor town of Carp, New York, a group of teens enters a high-stakes game that involves a series of secretive, possibly deadly challenges throughout the summer, with the winner receiving more than $50,000--enough money to start a new life"--
12) Reamde
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Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1044 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Richard Forthrast, having dodged the draft in 1972 and become wealthy from smuggling marijuana across the Canadian border, develops a multi-million dollar, massively multiplayer online role-playing game after returning to the United States, and, after hackers create a virus that holds the electronic files of players ransom, he finds himself in a battle for survival as he travels around the world as a participant in a deadly war beyond the boundaries...
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Caraval volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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Having made a deal with a criminal to save her sister Scarlett from a disastrous arranged marriage, Tella must win Caraval and uncover Legend's identity, or risk losing everything, including her life.
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Series
Norumbegan quartet volume 1
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
When two boys stay with an eccentric relative at his mansion in rural Vermont, they discover an old-fashioned board game that draws them into a mysterious adventure.
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Series
Mortality doctrine volume 3
Language
English
Description
Michael struggles to separate friend from foe as the former gamer races to stop Kaine from conquering the cyberworld with the VirtNet gaming technology that gives gamers the ultimate mind-body adventure in this conclusion to the Mortality Doctrine series.
16) The Third Reich
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Udo Bergerhas returned to Costa Brava where he spent the summers of his childhood. Accompanied by his girlfriend, they spend most of their time playing their favorite game: The Third Reich. One night they meet another German couple, Charly and Hanna, who plan to spend some time in town. But later that night, Charly disappears and Udo's peaceful life changes abruptly.
"A comedic novel from the author of The Savage Detectives and 2666"--
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English
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In 1986, Eddie and his friends are just kids on the verge of adolescence. They spend their days biking around their sleepy English village and looking for any taste of excitement they can get. The chalk men are their secret code: little chalk stick figures they leave for one another as messages only they can understand. But then a mysterious chalk man leads them right to a dismembered body, and nothing is ever the same.
In 2016, Eddie is fully...
18) Jumanji
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English
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Left on their own for an afternoon, two bored and restless children find more excitement than they bargained for in a mysterious and mystical jungle adventure board game. Reading Rainbow (Television series) collection--look for green spine label. Caldecott Medal winner, 1982. Caldecott Medal collection--look for Caldecott spine label.
Author
Series
Mortality doctrine volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Michael and his friends, Sarah and Bryson, are still being chased by a cyber-terrorist. And now the government is after them, too"--
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Soon after receiving an anonymous message stating that she has twenty-four hours to play a game by the sender's rules or he will kill her sister, sixteen-year-old Crystal Donovan realizes that cooperating will destroy her friends' lives and she must figure out a way to beat the kidnapper at his own game before she loses everything.
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