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Author
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
Storied matchmaker and Nantucket resident Dabney Kimball has her own life and match turned upside down when her true love of twenty-seven years prior returns to the island.
"48-year-old Nantucketer Dabney Kimball Beech has always had a gift for matchmaking. Some call her ability mystical, while others - like her husband, celebrated economist John Boxmiller Beech, and her daughter, Agnes, who is clearly engaged to the wrong man - call it meddlesome,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
99 pages.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old gamer Leon is shocked when the cool kid invites him to test out a not-yet-released virtual-reality video game. When a glitch puts them in real-life danger, Leon must battle a dragon to save them both.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
In Tools and Weapons, Brad Smith and Carol Ann Browne take us into the cockpit of one of the world's largest and most powerful tech companies as it finds itself in the middle of some of the thorniest emerging issues of our time. These are challenges that come with no preexisting playbook, including privacy, cybercrime and cyberwar, social media, the moral conundrums of artificial intelligence, big tech's relationship to inequality, and the challenges...
11) Unplugged
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Blip is always plugged into her computer--until one day a blackout forces her outdoors, and she discovers that the real world is a lot more interesting then she realized.
12) Fugly
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
Description
A wrenchingly honest, thought-provoking exploration of a girl judged and dismissed by society who must break the cycle of shaming that traps her in her real life and comforts her in her online one.
In real life, eighteen-year-old Beth is overweight, shy, and geeky. She's been bullied all her life, and her only refuge is food. Online, though, she's a vicious troll who targets the beautiful, vain, oversharing It Girls of the internet. When she meets...
13) Gamer army
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Even though he is only twelve, Rogan Weber is an obsessed gamer, whose motto, ego sum maximus, declares his confidence in his own abilities, and whose parents are also deeply involved in ultra high tech. Naturally he is thrilled to receive an invitation to join a tech giant's virtual reality TV gaming contest, but as the games become more and more intense and dangerous, he and his fellow gamers realize that something sinister is behind this particular...
