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English
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"A modern love story about two childhood friends, Sam, raised by an actress mother in LA's Koreatown, and Sadie, from the wealthy Jewish enclave of Beverly Hills, who reunite as adults to create video games, finding an intimacy in digital worlds that eludes them in their real lives, from the New York Times best-selling author of The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry"--
On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits...
Author
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Melody Joo is thrilled to land her dream job as a video game producer, but her new position comes with challenges: an insufferable CEO; sexist male coworkers; and an infuriating--yet distractingly handsome--intern, Nolan MacKenzie, aka "the guy who got hired because his uncle is the boss." Just when Melody thinks she's made the worst career move of her life, her luck changes. While joking with a friend, she creates a mobile game that has male strippers...
3) Shadow ridge
Author
Series
Jo Wyatt mystery volume 1
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Echo Valley, Colorado, is a place where the natural beauty of a stunning river valley meets a budding hipster urbanity. But when an internet stalker is revealed to be a cold-blooded killer in real life the peaceful community is rocked to its core. It should have been an open-and-shut case: the suicide of Tye Horton, the designer of a cutting-edge video game. But Detective Jo Wyatt is immediately suspicious of Quinn Kirkwood, who reported the death....
4) No way out
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Language
English
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"Ellie Bowman barely remembers the incident that put her into a coma. When she awoke, filled with unease, all she knew for certain was that her boyfriend, Rick, was missing. She knew she needed to get away from her old life and recover in safety. Ellie starts over in rural Missouri, working from her cottage and trusting no one except her business partner. But when Ellie hears that Rick has resurfaced, her nightmares return, and with them, small snippets...
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
337 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Sloane Cooper is up for her dream job as a designer for a top video game company. During the interview, though, she somehow promises the all-male panel that she'll remain single and fully dedicated to the work. It's actually fine--after her last boyfriend cheated on her, she vowed to focus on her career anyway. Enter Charlie, aka Hot Neighbor Guy, a near-stranger who shocks her with the offer of an all-inclusive trip to a Turks and Caicos resort....
6) Logan
Author
Series
7 brides for 7 Blackthornes volume 6
Publisher
Samantha Chase
Pub. Date
[2019].
Physical Desc
200 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's not easy being the youngest Blackthorne, and Logan has never shied away from a challenge. No matter what everyone thinks. Coming home to Maine finds him dealing with not only family surprises, but the shock of finding the caretaker's daughter all grown up. Piper's dream is to design her own games, not play them. And Logan Blackthorne is the ultimate player. It's one thing to hang out with Logan as a friend, but he's far too charming for her own...
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Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
407 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Eliza Bright was living the dream as an elite video game coder at Fancy Dog Games when her private life suddenly became public. But is Eliza Bright a brilliant, self-taught coder bravely calling out the toxic masculinity and chauvinism that pervades her workplace and industry? Or, is Eliza Bright a woman who needs to be destroyed to protect 'the sanctity of gaming culture'? It depends on who you ask... When Eliza reports an incident of workplace...
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
447 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A wise, inventive, and multilayered novel about two families--one made up largely of scientists, and the other of artists and mystics--whose worlds collide in pursuit of a lost daughter. Mette, a twenty-year old programmer of visual effects for video games, lives with her mother, Saskia, an aspiring playwright, in Brooklyn. Mette is a private young woman, a savant who finds something calming in repetitive mathematical calculations. But she has been...