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81) The polar bear
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"Fascinating images accompany information about the polar bear. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--Provided by publisher.
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Virtual Assistants work from home, providing everything from administrative support to high-end consulting via email, phone, and fax. Predicted to be a $130 billion industry by 2008, they don't commute, they set their own hours, and they get to spend time with their kids. Wouldn't you like to be a VA, too? Christine Durst founded the Virtual Assistant industry in 1995 from a basement office in rural Connecticut. Michael Haaren, an ex-Wall Street attorney...
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Tom Swift inventors' academy volume 4
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Someone is sabotaging student projects and all signs point to Tom's friend Sam as the culprit, so Tom and his friends set out to clear her name.
84) Game over
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MindWar trilogy volume 3
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"Rick emerged victorious from The Realm twice. Is his luck about to run out?"--
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Gamer Squad volume 1
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When Bex and Charlie unwittingly make real all of the monsters Bex had captured through Monsters Unleashed, they must find and recapture them in real life.
86) The airplane
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"Engaging images accompany information about airplanes. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 8"--
87) Fallout
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Lois Lane is the new girl at East Metropolis High, and her instinct to ask questions brings her and her online friend, Smallville Guy, into conflict with some bullying video gamers called the Warheads, who are being used in a dangerous virtual reality experiment.
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Julian Dibbell's writing has appeared in Details, Spin, Harper's, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Le Monde, The Village Voice, and TIME. In the 2002-2003 academic year he was a visiting fellow at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society. He is the author of My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World and is currently a contributing editor for Wired magazine. He lives in South Bend, Indiana.
89) DupliKate
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When she wakes up one morning to find her double in her room, seventeen-year-old Kate, already at wit's end with college applications, finals, and extracurricular activities, decides to put her to work.
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Sensitive to a diversity of cultures, locations, and personalities, this remote facilitation method can make virtual meetings even more powerful than in-person ones.
Many people struggle with remote meetings: a cocktail of factors, such as technical barriers and invisible group norms, increase the uncertainty and risk of the already vulnerable task of collaborating and sharing ideas. When remote meetings go badly, they go really badly. Few things...
93) The Titanic
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"Amazing photography accompanies engaging information about the Titanic. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--
94) Leon levels up
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"In this high-interest accessible novel for middle-grade readers, twelve-year-old Leon, a short and chubby gamer, 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, it's up to Leon to battle a dragon and save himself and his friend"--Provided by publisher.
95) Escape
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"It's all anyone talks about, and it's all Cody dreams about. It's the biggest adventure park in the world, and it's more than mere rides and rollercoasters: At ESCAPE, you can do anything you want, be anyone you want, and there are no adults to tell you no. Cody's a nobody, but for some reason he receives an invitation and the opportunity of a lifetime. At first, it's the most fun he's ever had. But after a few days, everything in the park starts...
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Understand Bitcoin, Blockchains, and Cryptocurrency
"Antony helps us all clearly understand the mechanics of bitcoin and blockchain." ?Rob Findlay, Founder, Next Money
#1 Best Seller in Investing Derivatives
Learn the history and basics of cryptocurrency and blockchains. There's a lot of information on cryptocurrency and blockchains out there. But, for the uninitiated, most of this information can be indecipherable. The Basics of Bitcoins...
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This You Choose adventure is told from three different perspectives--the witch tries to explain that her motives are innocent; Gretel helps her brother Hansel explore a planet made of chocolate; and Hansel follows his wheelchair-bound friend Gretel into avirtual reality simulation--and the reader chooses which plot to pursue.
99) Ready player one
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When the creator of a virtual reality world called the OASIS dies, he releases a video in which he challenges all OASIS users to find his Easter Egg, which will give the finder his fortune.
"It's the perfect marriage of fabulist and fable."--Entertainment Weekly.
"The movie is crammed with excitement and good humor..."--New York Daily News.
"A rollicking adventure through worlds both bleak and fantastic..."--Hollywood Reporter.
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Mirador volume 1
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Bluescreen is a stunning deluge of imagination, filled with suspense and twists and unforgettable characters. This book is just plain awesome. -James Dashner, bestselling author of The Maze Runner From Dan Wells, author of the New York Times bestselling Partials Sequence, comes the first book in a new sci-fi-noir series. Los Angeles in 2050 is a city of open doors, as long as you have the right connections. That connection is a djinni-a smart device...
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