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2) Quicksilver
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
To prevent the public from learning about Tori's unusual DNA, technology "geek" Tori and her adoptive parents move to a new town and change their names.
4) Fever Crumb
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Foundling Fever Crumb has been raised as an engineer although females in the future London, England, are not believed capable of rational thought, but at age fourteen she leaves her sheltered world and begins to learn startling truths about her past while facing danger in the present.
5) Retro
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
To save her struggling family, Luna enters a competition offering reward money to anyone who can successfully live without modern technology for a year, but when this social experiment turns sinister and her classmates start disappearing, her family's livelihood might not be the only thing she is in danger of losing.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
After machines take control of Earth, following the extinction of humans, twelve-year-old robot XR 935A confronts its prejudices about humans and begins to reconsider its own existence within robot society after discovering and befriending a twelve-year-old human girl.
Author
Publisher
MCD x FSG Originals / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
251 pages
Language
English
Description
"A widower battles his grief, rage, and the mysterious evil inhabiting his home smart speaker, in this mesmerizing horror thriller from newcomer Gus Moreno"--
Author
Series
Visit from the Goon Squad volume 2
Language
English
Description
"The Candy House opens with the staggeringly brilliant Bix Bouton, whose company, Mandala, is so successful that he is "one of those tech demi-gods with whom we're all on a first name basis." Bix is 40, with four kids, restless, desperate for a new idea,when he stumbles into a conversation group, mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or "externalizing" memory. It's 2010. Within a decade, Bix's new technology, "Own...
9) Giallo
Author
Publisher
Alfonso Borello
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
When a handful of underground currency traders set up a chat room to make a few bucks, they underestimated the disastrous effect on Banks and countries as their currency spun out of control. Suddenly an interesting offer is too good to give up? after all, they're just in for the money. --Provided by publisher.
11) Cyberia
Author
Series
Cyberia volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a future where electronic surveillance has taken the place of love, a veterinarian is putting computer chips in animals to control them, and those creatures choose young Zane, who understands their speech, to release captives and bring them to a technology-free safety zone.
12) Bleeding edge
Author
Publisher
The Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
477 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
New York City, 2001. Fraud investigator Maxine Tarnow starts looking into the finances of a computer-security firm and its billionaire geek CEO and discovers there's no shortage of swindlers looking to grab a piece of what's left of the tech bubble.
13) Big time
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The New York Times best-selling author of The Quiet Boy returns with a speculative, corporate espionage thriller that takes the adage "Time is money," and makes it literally, frighteningly so.
14) C
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
"Opening in England at the turn of the twentieth century, C is the story of a boy named Serge Carrefax, whose father spends his time experimenting with wireless communication while running a school for deaf children. Serge grows up amid the noise and silence with his brilliant but troubled older sister, Sophie: an intense sibling relationship that stays with him as he heads off into an equally troubled larger world. After a fling with a nurse at a...
15) The Crucible
Author
Publisher
David Barth
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
This is a fiction story about a metallurgist who builds a foundry in Germany using leading-edge technology. The plant uses huge electric furnaces, company-designed-and-built fusion powered electrical plants to heat the furnaces, and many labor-saving devices to become the world's greatest foundry. But there is a glitch when the crucible (pot) of molten metal fails to tip on command, and the metallurgist must save the company by showing his employees...
16) Manstat
Author
Publisher
Alfonso Borello
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Bored with the conventions of life, he was committed to create the ultimate companion, MANSTAT. He hired the best man in the business. He paid him a small fortune. He gave him carte blanche and praised the creation of such a marvel. Nothing will ever come close. MANSTAT was finally in his hands, but he was warned: use it wisely or it shall work against you. What was he going to do with such a dangerous gadget?. --Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
David Barth
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
This is a short essay about a futuristic unmanned submarine vehicle (USV), similar to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) that have been flying for years. While unmanned aircraft cover the area above the surface of the earth, in this story, unmanned submarines cover the area below the surface of the oceans. The solution to deep-diving submarines is two symbotic submarines called a "brother and sister pair."The goal is to rid submarines of the need for...
Author
Series
The Seems volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
When twelve-year-old Becker Drane is recruited by The Seems, a parallel universe that runs everything in The World, he must fix a disastrous glitch in the Department of Sleep that threatens everyone's ability to ever fall asleep again.
19) Signorina
Author
Publisher
Alfonso Borello
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Her aka is Signorina. She's a kidnapper, she's ruthless, she has no identity, and she's terribly good at writing code. Her plan is smart and undetectable. Just follow her on Twitter and you will disappear within seventy-two hours. The only caveat is that the code needs to be embedded to be effective. She finds the man who can help her, but when the whole thing starts to smell bad, she has to go back to the drawing board and confront the same man who...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
What do you call 1000 hackers assembled into one hotel for the weekend? A menace to society? Trouble waiting to happen? They call it a computer security conference, or really, a Hacker Con. A place for hackers, security experts, penetration testers, and tech geeks of all stripes to gather and discuss the latest hack, exploits, and gossip. For Paul, Chloe, and their Crew of con artist vigilantes, it's the perfect hunting ground for their most ambitious...
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