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Ready player novels volume 2
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English
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Days after winning OASIS founder James Halliday's contest, Wade Watts makes a discovery that changes everything. Hidden within Halliday's vaults, waiting for his heir to find, lies a technological advancement that will once again change the world and make the OASIS a thousand times more wondrous and addictive than even Wade dreamed possible. With it comes a new riddle, and a new quest a last Easter egg from Halliday, hinting at a mysterious prize....
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The second novel in the "series following The Cinderella Murder, featuring intrepid television producer Laurie Moran as she investigates the case of a missing bride. Five years ago Amanda Pierce was excitedly preparing to marry her college sweetheart in a lavish ceremony at The Grand Victoria Hotel in Palm Beach. Then, with their guests and families on site, Amanda disappeared. In present-day New York City, Laurie Moran realizes a missing bride is...
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English
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Lieutenant Eve Dallas investigates the murder of Bart Minnock, the founder of a computer gaming giant, who seems to have been attacked while playing a new virtual game in which he was playing the role of a warrior king, but has a difficult time finding a suspect or determining exactly how he was killed.
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Under suspicion (Mary Higgins Clark) volume 7
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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"Television producer Laurie Moran and her fiancé, Alex Buckley, the former host of her investigative television show, Under Suspicion, are just days away from their mid-summer wedding, when things take a dark turn. Alex's seven-year-old nephew, Johnny, vanishes from the beach. A search party begins and witnesses recall Johnny playing in the water and collecting shells behind the beach shack, but no one remembers seeing him after the morning. As...
6) The block
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In the second book of The Loop trilogy, Luka is a prisoner once again. But this time it's a fate worse than death. Now that he knows the truth about what he and his fellow inmates are being used for, it's more important than ever that he not only escapes, but that he builds an army. In the Block, he must toggle between enduring an Energy Harvest for twelve hours of the day and surviving complete immobilization. The only semblance of relief is the...
7) The Matrix
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Warner Home Video
Language
English
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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. Includes 26 minutes of behind-the-scenes special features.
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Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
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Morris Lessmore loves words, stories and books, and after a tornado carries him to another land, dreary and colorless, he finds a single book in color that leads him to an amazing library where, he learns, the books need him as much as he needs them.
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c2006
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English
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"American Dreamz" is a wildly popular television singing contest program that has captured the country's attention. This new season showcases a competition between Sally, a young Midwestern gal and Omer, a showtunes-loving young man from Orange County. The recently depressed President of the United States wants in on the craze and signs up for the potentially explosive season finale.