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Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Formats
Description
When production for the tenth season of the hit cooking competition Bake Week begins at the gothic estate of the show's host and founder, celebrity chef Betsy Martin, everything seems normal. The six contestants are eager to prove their culinary talents over the course of five days, while Betsy struggles for control of the show with her new co-host, the brash and unpredictable Archie Morris. But as the baking competition gets under way, things begin...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
224 pages
Description
Gerald, a mid-level employee of a New York?based public relations firm has been uploaded into the company?s internal Slack channels?at least his consciousness has. His colleagues assume it?s an elaborate gag to exploit the new work-from home policy, but now that Gerald?s productivity is through the roof, his bosses are only too happy to let him work from . . . wherever he says he is. Faced with the looming abyss of a disembodied life online, Gerald...
5) Cut off
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
374 pages ; 22 cm
Description
When something goes horribly wrong during the filming of a new virtual reality show, teenaged contestants are trapped in a simulation, questioning how much of the game is real.
6) The Matrix
Publisher
Warner Home Video
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Description
In an anti-utopian future, the real world as we know it is nothing more than a computer construct, created by an all-powerful artificial intelligence. A small group of humans has found a way out of the construct, and is now fighting for the future of the human race.
Author
Series
Hunger Games trilogy volume prequel
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"Revisit[s] the world of Panem sixty-four years before the events of The Hunger Games, starting on the morning of the reaping of the Tenth Hunger Games"--
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Series
Appears on list
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Ready Player One takes place in the not-so-distant future--the world has turned into a very bleak place, but luckily there is OASIS, a virtual reality world that is a vast online utopia. People can plug into OASIS to play, go to school, earn money, and even meet other people (or at least they can meet their avatars), and for protagonist Wade Watts it certainly beats passing the time in his grim, poverty-stricken real life. Along with millions of other...
10) Rabbits: a novel
Author
Series
Rabbits novels volume 1
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
448 pages 25 cm.
Description
"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 started in 1959, ten iterations have appeared and nine winners have been declared. No one knows the true identity of these winners--just their now-famous user names. And everyone...
12) Tomb of the Khan
Author
Series
Last descendants volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
343 pages : illustration ; 21 cm.
Description
With two pieces of the Trident of Eden still to be found, Owen and Javier go deep into simulations in Mongolian China on behalf of the Assassins in order to find the next piece before the teens working with the Templars beat them to it.
13) Fate of the gods
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
355 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
Owen and his fellow teens travel to Denmark, the site of an ancient Viking battle, to search for the last key to the Trident of Eden and uncover the truth behind their collective unconsciousness.
14) The running man
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
344 pages
Description
A future world game show offers convicts a chance at freedom if they can run to escape hi-tech killers, and Ben Richards is determined to do so.
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Formats
Description
A Professor of International Health and popular global TED speaker and his son and daughter-in-law who co-founded the Gapminder Foundation, explain how the best guesses, thoughts and concepts we accept as fact are actually tempered and informed by unconscious and predictable biases.
Author
Series
The Rajes volume 2
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Description
When chef Ashan Raje joins the cast of a hit reality television show to save her restaurant, she finds herself paired with her first love, soccer star and celebrity Rico Silva.
Author
Publisher
O'Reilly Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xi, 151 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"As virtual reality approaches mainstream consumer use, a vibrant development ecosystem has emerged in the past few years. This hands-on guide takes you through VR development essentials for desktop, mobile, and browser-based applications. You'll explore the three go-to platforms--Oculus VR, Gear VR, and Cardboard VR--as well as several VR development environments, programming tools, and techniques. If you're an experienced programmer familiar with...
18) Unplugged
Author
Series
The wired (Donna Freitas) volume 1
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
427, 9 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Years after being sent to the virtual App World to live in wealth and privilege, Skylar relinquishes this life in favor of spending time with her family in the Real World, an effort that is dashed when the borders between worlds close.
Author
Series
Mortality doctrine volume 3
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
337 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
The VirtNet has become a world of deadly consequences, and Kaine grows stronger by the day. If Kaine succeeds, it will mean worldwide cyber domination. And it looks like Michael and his friends are the only ones who can put the monster back in the box--if Michael can figure out who his friends really are.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
272 pages 24 cm.
Description
"What is the truth? In a world of fake news and rampant conspiracy theories, the nature of truth has increasingly blurry borders. In this clever and timely cultural commentary, author Sallie Tisdale tackles this issue by framing it in a familiar way-reality TV, particularly the long-running CBS show Survivor. With humor and in-depth superfan analysis, Tisdale explores the distinction between suspended disbelief and true authenticity both in how we...
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