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"In twelve-year-old Reyna Cheng's world, gaming is everything. Professional esports teams are the mainstream celebrities. Kids begin training from a young age, aspiring for the big leagues. Reyna is the up-and-coming junior amateur Dayhold gamer, competing in a VR battle royale against AI monsters and human players. But despite Reyna's rising popularity and skills, no one knows who she is. Gaming is still a boys' club and to protect herself against...
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[2019]
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"From one of the leading Fortnite players in the world comes your game plan for outclassing the rest at playing video games. This complete compendium includes everything Tyler 'Ninja' Blevins wishes he had known before he got serious about gaming"--Back cover.
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Trapped in a video game volume 3
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"After accidentally releasing the robot villains from Super Bot World 3 into the real world, Jesse Rigsby's got to figure out a way to make everything right before anyone gets hurt. He'd usually rely on his friend Eric Conrad to help with this sort of thing, but Eric's gone missing. To find Eric, Jesse will have to survive rickety mine carts, sewer piranhas, mysterious men in suits and a 100-foot-tall robot named Goliatron"--Back cover.
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Ten again mystery volume 1
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2019.
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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 is looking bright. Autumn has everything she could possibly want: Loving friends, a successful business, and a gaggle of gamers in her store every day. That is, until one of Autumn's gamers is mysteriously murdered....
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Trapped in a video game volume 1
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Jesse Rigsby hates video games--and for good reason. You see a video game character is trying to kill him. After getting sucked into the new game Full Blast with his friend Eric, Jesse starts to see the appeal of vaporizing man-size praying mantis aliens while cruising around by jet pack. But pretty soon, a mysterious figure begins following Eric and Jesse, and they discover they can't leave the game. If they don't figure out what's going on fast,...
8) Hostage run
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MindWar trilogy volume 2
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[2015]
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"Rick Dial's career as a superstar quarterback ended when a car accident left him unable to walk. But his uncanny gaming ability caught the attention of a secret government organization trying to stop a high tech terrorist attack on America. He's been to the fantastical cyber world called the MindWar Realm--and returned to Real Life victorious. But the stakes have just gone up. Another attack is imminent and Rick is the only one who can stop it. How...
9) Dreamwalker
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Dreamwalker chronicles volume 1
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©2014.
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All her life Jessica Drake has dreamed of other worlds, some of them similar to her own, others disturbingly alien. She never shares the details with anyone, save her younger brother Tommy, a compulsive gamer who incorporates some aspects of Jessica's dreams into his games. But now someone is asking about those dreams and about her. A strange woman has been watching her house. A visitor to her school attempts to take possession of her dream-inspired...
10) Heartless
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Immortal enemies novels (Showalter) volume 1
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[2021]
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After receiving a long-awaited heart transplant, a professional gamer girl begins to develop strange abilities and is soon launched into a mysterious world filled with fantastical and deadly creatures and ruled over by an extremely seductive man.
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Cat + gamer volume 3
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"Musubi, her cute new companion, tries to understand Riko's behavior through a cat's worldview. Enjoying their time together, Riko learns more about cohabitating with a cat, as lessons in grooming, play,and personal space continue to be learned"--
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[2017]
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Whereas gamers once constituted a small and largely male subculture, today 67 percent of American households play video games. The average gamer is now thirty-four years old and spends eight hours each week playing--and there is a 40 percent chance this person is a woman. In his book, Ervin sets out to understand the explosive popularity of video games, traveling to government laboratories, junk shops, and arcades. He interviews scientists and game...
14) Firebreak
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2021.
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New Liberty City, 2134. Two corporations have replaced the US, splitting the country's remaining forty-five states (five have been submerged under the ocean) between them: Stellaxis Innovations and Greenleaf. There are nine supercities within the continental US, and New Liberty City is the only amalgamated city split between the two megacorps, and thus at a perpetual state of civil war as the feeds broadcast the atrocities committed by each side....
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Dagmar Shaw novels volume 1
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2009.
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College friends united by their love of online games make their passion a successful business, until a currency crash and government coup strand one of them in a foreign country and their alternate reality games suddenly blur the boundaries between the real and virtual worlds, threatening real fortunes and real lives.
16) Role playing
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[2023]
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Maggie is an unapologetically grumpy forty-eight-year-old hermit. But when her college-aged son makes her a deal - he'll be more social if she does the same - she can't refuse. She joins a new online gaming guild led by a friendly healer named Otter. So that nobody gets the wrong idea, she calls herself Bogwitch. Otter is Aiden, a fifty-year-old optimist using the guild as an emotional outlet from his family drama caring for his aging mother while...
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"Gaming while female is enough to incur the wrath of the dude-bros, and they've come for me. Instead of fighting back, I've created an alternate account. Male name, male pronouns. And I've met this girl. Laura's adorable and smart and never gives up, and she likes me back. Or rather, she likes the man I'm pretending to be."--Provided by publisher.
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2014.
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"Bryan Rizzo, a teenage cyber athlete known as 'Legit,' stands at the forefront of this new age of technology. His experiences will open your eyes to the world of professional gaming, and to the many career opportunities that exist in the field of 'interactive entertainment'"--Page 4 of cover.
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"The FGTeeV family gamers really, really love playing games! But for Duddy, one game is by far best: Super Realistic (And Totally Not Made Up) Zombie Battles from the War of 1812. Even though in Duddy's opinion the updated version doesn't stand up to the classic original, it doesn't mean that he can't quickly rack up all the power-ups, bonuses, and achievements to show the kids--Lexi, Mike, Chase, and Shawn--how it's done. That is until the game freezes!...
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In this You Choose adventure, Rapunzel can be a lonely high school student, hoping to escape her grandmother's apartment to audition for the school musical; a professional gamer, isolated and at the mercy of her overbearing manager; or the adopted daughter of Dame Gothel, rumored to be a witch--the reader decides which plot to pursue.
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