"Anda loves Coarsegold Online, the massively-multiplayer role playing game that she spends most of her free time on. It's a place where she can be a leader, a fighter, a hero. It's a place where she can meet people from all over the world, and make friends. But things become a lot more complicated when Anda befriends a gold farmer -- a poor Chinese kid whose avatar in the game illegally collects valuable objects and then sells them to players from...

"Teenage hacker Emika Chen embarks on a mission to unravel a sinister plot and is forced to join forces with a shadowy organization known as the Blackcoats"-- "Emika Chen barely made it out of the Warcross Championships alive. Knowing the truth behind Hideo's new NeuroLink algorithm, she is determined to put a stop to his plans. But someone has put a bounty on Emika's head, and her sole chance for survival lies with Zero and the Blackcoats, his ruthless...

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It's been four months since HP Pettersson was dragged into a ruthless Alternate Reality Game that nearly cost him his life. Although he now has everything he ever wished for--freedom, money, and no responsibilities--he isn't satisfied. He's plagued by insomnia and paranoia, and misses the adrenaline rush of the Game. He misses the attention. At times, he even hopes the Game Master will find him. And when HP catches the eye of a rich and powerful CEO...

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I went snooping in my brother's room, tripped and fell in his mess, and now I'm trapped in Roblox. My name is Jed, I'm 10-years-old, and the ONLY thing I want to do is figure out why Thomas (my older brother) is acting so weird. I figured I'd check out his room while he was sleeping and see what I could find. Big mistake. I'm in the game, thrust into a world full of prisoners trying to break free, and pursued by guards who aren't acting like this...

When Ty jumped through the portal, Jed thought he could do nothing to get him back. Loyal, brave, and strong, Ty saved Jed's life by pulling him out of the game once, and Jed will do anything, absolutely anything, to get his best friend back home where he belongs. Dirk has his own ideas though. He's got Ty locked up with the rest of the prison dogs behind a chain-link fence, ready to undergo training that will change him forever. Jed will have to...

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HP could never have imagined he'd become entwined in a chaotic and dangerous game of life and death when he picked up a lost cell phone on a commuter train. He thought he'd escaped. Now, his paranoia quickly grows to mania, as he is convinced that the Game Master and past characters are following him and that the police are watching him HP decides he must finish one last assignment and expose the Game Master's secrets once and for all, no matter...