Catalog Search Results
Author
Publisher
Curiosity Quills Press
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
"Damico writes games for a living. When called in to rescue a local roleplaying game demo, Damico is shot in the head by a loony fan. He awakens in a game. A game full of hackney's tropes and clichéd plots. A game he was there to save, run by the man who murdered him just moments ago. A game that has just become world-swap fantasy. Damico, to his horror, has become the heart of the cliché.."--Publisher.
2) The God Game
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
Waging a fierce competition for which they have trained since childhood, circus magicians Celia and Marco unexpectedly fall in love with each other and share a fantastical romance that manifests in fateful ways.
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"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"--
On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits...
5) Jumanji
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Mortality doctrine volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Michael and his friends, Sarah and Bryson, must stop the Mortality Doctrine and those behind it now as the fate of humanity is in the balance"--
10) Ender's game
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Once again, the Earth is under attack. An alien species is poised for a final assault. The survival of humanity depends on a military genius who can defeat the aliens. But who? Ender Wiggin is brilliant, ruthless, and cunning, a tactical and strategic master, and a child. Recruited for military training by the world government, Ender's childhood ends the moment he enters his new home: Battle School. How will Ender perform in real combat conditions?...
11) Into the real
Author
Series
TransDimensional hunter volume 1
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Lynn Raven may be the boss master of WarMonger 2050 with her online persona of "Larry the Snake," but when the CEO of Tsunami Entertainment personally asks her, as a favor, to beta test a new augmented reality game, she has to face her greatest fear: Going outside and dealing with, ugh, people. As she becomes more immersed in the game, the stakes rise and so do the obstacles. Strife between teammates, a ruthless rival team, and these strange glitches...
12) Reamde
Author
Series
Dodge novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When his own high-tech start up turns into a Fortune 500 computer gaming group, Richard Forthrast, the black sheep of an Iowa family who has amassed an illegal fortune, finds the line between fantasy and reality becoming blurred when a virtual war for dominance is triggered.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"With help from Pondside Manor's quirky, twentysomething kitchen worker Foster Kresowik, wheelchair-bound resident Robert Kallman creates The World of Pondside, a video game that delights the nursing home's residents by allowing them to virtually relive blissful moments from days long past--or even create new ones."--Amazon.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
John Chu is a "sherpa"--a paid guide to online role-playing games like the popular Call to Wizardry. For a fee, he and his crew will provide you with a top-flight character equipped with the best weapons and armor, and take you dragon-slaying in the Realms of Asgarth, hunting rogue starships in the Alpha Sector, or battling hordes of undead in the zombie apocalypse
15) Shadow puppets
Author
Series
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
After staving off an alien invasion, child-warriors return to find the Earth in turmoil.
16) Role playing
Author
Publisher
Montlake Romance
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"An unapologetically grumpy 48-year-old recluse, Maggie, to appease her college-aged son, joins an online gaming guild where she forms an online connection with Otter, a 50-year-old optimist, but when they take their relationship into real life, things do not go as planned"--
Author
Series
Dream Park volume 4
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Offered a dream job escorting a teenage heir on a fabulous moon role-playing vacation, Scotty Griffin, a personal security specialist, becomes embroiled in a violent reality game involving armed terrorists, psychological tests, and a large audience.
19) Black chalk
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
One game. Six students. Five survivors. It was only ever meant to be a game. A game of consequences, of silly forfeits, childish dares. A game to be played by six best friends in their first year at Oxford University. But then the game changed: the stakes grew higher and the dares more personal, more humiliating, finally evolving into a vicious struggle with unpredictable and tragic results. Now, fourteen years later, the remaining players must meet...
20) Monkeewrench
Author
Series
Monkeewrench volume 1
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
2004, ©2003
Language
English
Description
Grace MacBride and the team at her software company are horrified when events in their murder mystery computer game are replicated in the real world by a ruthless killer.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try submitting a purchase suggestion. Submit Request