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1) Sympathy
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Language
English
Description
Pursuing an online relationship with a Japanese writer whose life strangely parallels her own, New York newcomer Alice inadvertently triggers revelations and sexual encounters that affect three families in different world regions.
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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Children of the New World introduces readers to a near-future world of social media implants, memory manufacturers, dangerously immersive virtual reality games, and alarmingly intuitive robots. Many of these characters live in a utopian future of instant connection and technological gratification that belies an unbridgeable human distance, while others inhabit a post-collapse landscape made primitive by disaster, which they must work to rebuild as...
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Series
Language
English
Description
"When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful internet company, she feels she's been given the opportunity of a lifetime. Run out of a sprawling California campus, the company links users' personal emails, social media, banking, and purchasing with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of civility and transparency. As Mae tours the open-plan office spaces, the towering glass...
4) Our table
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 520L
Language
English
Description
"Violet longs for the time when her family was connected: before life, distractions, and technology pulled them all away from each other. They used to gather at the table, with food and love, to make memories, share their lives, and revel in time spent together. But now her family has been drifting apart, and with nobody to gather around it, the table grows smaller and smaller. Can Violet remind her family of the warmth of time spent together, and...
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