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81) Masked prey
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"The daughter of a U.S. Senator is monitoring her social media presence when she finds a picture of herself on a strange blog. And there are other pictures... of the children of other influential Washington politicians, walking or standing outside their schools, each identified by name. Surrounding the photos are texts of vicious political rants from a motley variety of extremist groups. It's obviously alarming--there's an unstated but deadly threat...
83) If I disappear
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Pub. Date
2021.
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296 pages ; 24 cm.
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"When her favorite true-crime podcast host goes missing, an adrift young woman plunges headfirst into the wild backcountry of Northern California and her own dangerous obsession. Sera loves true crime podcasts. They make her feel empowered in a world where women just like her disappear daily. She's sure they are preparing her for something. So when Rachel, her favorite podcast host, goes missing, Sera knows it's time to act. Rachel has always taught...
84) Whisker Wizard
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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195 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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"Babymouse becomes a influencer after she tries out a new whisker style and posts a tutorial online"--
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2023.
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314 pages ; 22 cm.
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High school senior Harriet is still grabbling with her mother's death when an unwanted property sale causes her to join forces with her new neighbor to stop Belle Grove Plantation from turning into a wedding venue.
Harriet Douglass lives with her historian father on an old plantation in Louisiana, which they have transformed into one of the South's few enslaved people's museums. Mother and daughter duo Claudia and Layla Hartwell plan to turn the...
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[2021]
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339 pages ; 25 cm
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"As a child, Linda Russell was left to raise herself in a 20-acre walled-off property in rural Washington. The woods were her home, and for twelve years she lived oblivious to a stark and terrible truth: Her mother had birthed her only to replace another daughter who died in a tragic accident years before.And then one day Linda witnesses something she wasn't meant to see. Terrified and alone, she climbs the wall and abandons her home, but her escape...
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2019.
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304 pages ; 22 cm
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Because her mother is always on the move, sixteen-year-old Steph hasn't lived anywhere longer than six months. Her only constant is an online community called CatNet, a social media site where users upload cat pictures and the admin is CheshireCat, a sentient AI who loves cat pictures. When a threat from Steph's past catches up to her and CheshireCat's existence is discovered, it's up to Steph and her friends, both online and IRL, to save them....
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2019.
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282 pages ; 22 cm.
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With her best friend Harold off to the National Merit Scholar summer program at Stanford, Ivy discovers a new photo-sharing site called VEIL. There people can anonymously post secrets and art, and the site only shows posts within a five mile radius of the user's location. With such a narrow focus, Ivy realizes that she can identify many of the posters as fellow students at Sudden Cove High School. She starts leaving small, anonymous gifts for them,...
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2020.
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282 pages ; 22 cm.
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Twelve-year-old Ella has not even started seventh grade yet, but she has already been drawn into the fire of social media, because for some unknown reason "popular" Morgan has designated her as a best friend and has ambitious plans to turn "Morgan and Ella" into an online sensation; but the role of Morgan's best friend comes with a lot of sacrifices, like dropping her own best friend Sophie, and letting Morgan organize Ella's life around their "brand,"...
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2020.
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383, 10 pages ; 24 cm.
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One minute, Katrina King's enjoying an innocent conversation with a hot guy at a coffee shop; the next, a stranger has live-tweeted the entire episode with a romantic meet-cute spin and #CafeBae is the new hashtag-du-jour. The problem? Katrina craves a low-profile life, and going viral threatens the peaceful world she's painstakingly built. Besides, #CafeBae isn't the man she's hungry for . . .With the internet on the hunt for #CuteCafeGirl, Jas Singh...
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[2020]
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306 pages ; 25 cm
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"Lucas and Margo are fed up. Margo is a brilliant programmer tired of being talked over as the company's sole black employee, and while Lucas is one of many Asians at the firm, he's nearly invisible as a low-paid customer service rep. Together, they decide to steal their tech start-up's user database in an attempt at revenge. The heist takes a sudden turn when Margo dies in a car accident, and Lucas is left reeling, wondering what to do with their...
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2015.
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1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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The story of a group of high school teenagers and their parents as they attempt to navigate the many ways the internet has changed their relationships, their communication, their self-image, and their love lives. As each character and each relationship is tested, and shows the variety of roads people choose; some tragic, some hopeful.
93) New waves
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Pub. Date
2020
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451 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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"Lucas and Margo are fed up. Margo is a brilliant programmer tired of being talked over as the company's sole black employee, and while Lucas is one of many Asians at the firm, he's nearly invisible as a low-paid customer service rep. Together, they decide to steal their tech startup's user database in an attempt at revenge. The heist takes a sudden turn when Margo dies in a car accident, and Lucas is left reeling, wondering what to do with their...
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Pub. Date
[2013]
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1 audio media player (approximately 11 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Description
Thompson shows that every technological innovation--from the written word to the printing press to the telegraph--has provoked the very same anxieties that plague us today. We panic that life will never be the same, that our attentions are eroding, that culture is being trivialized. But as in the past, we adapt--learning to use the new and retaining what's good of the old. Thompson introduces us to a cast of extraordinary characters who augment their...
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[2014]
Physical Desc
300 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm
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An irreverent, provocative, and visually fascinating look at what our online lives reveal about who we really are--and how this deluge of data will transform the science of human behavior. Big Data is used to spy on us, hire and fire us, and sell us things we don't need. In Dataclysm, Christian Rudder puts this flood of information to an entirely different use: understanding human nature. Drawing on terabytes of data from Twitter, Facebook, Reddit,...
97) You're so dead
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2021.
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382 pages ; 22 cm
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When her sister, famous influencer Peach Winter, is invited to an all-expenses paid trip to a luxurious art and music festival for influencers on a private island in the Caribbean, Plum intercepts the invite and asks her two best friends Antonia and Marlowe to come along to the fest with her. When they get to the island, it's not anything like it seemed in the invite. The island is run-down, creepy, and there doesn't even seem to be a festival-- it's...
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[2018]
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312 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Her thousands of followers helped Mari Turner become an internet starlet. But when she breaks down and posts a video confessing she isn't the happy, in-love, inspirational online personality she's pretending to be, it goes viral and she receives major backlash. She makes an impulsive decision to hike the entire John Muir trail, something she was supposed to do with her late cousin, Bri. As Mari tries to navigate the terrain-- with Bri's boots and...
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[2023]
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367 pages ; 24 cm
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"From best-selling novelist T. C. Boyle, a satirical yet ultimately moving take on contemporary American life in the glare of climate change"--
Denied a dog, a baby, and even a faithful fiancé, Cat suddenly craves a snake: a glistening, writhing creature that can be worn like "jewelry, living jewelry" to match her black jeans. But when the budding social media star promptly loses the young "Burmie" she buys from a local pet store, she inadvertently...
100) Miss Communication
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Pub. Date
[2018]
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191 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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After finally getting a cell phone, Babymouse tries to increase her popularity in middle school by becoming the queen of social media.
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