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-- Four nineteen.2012., Adult, Viking Call No: Fic Fer Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Step into the world's most insidious Internet scam that begins with a single email: "Dear Sir, I am the son of an exiled Nigerian diplomat, and I need your help...". When Laura's father gets caught up in one such swindle and pays with his life, she is forced to leave the comfort of North America to make a journey deep into the dangerous back streets and alleyways of the Lagos underworld to confront her father's killer. A story of love in a time of darkness, of one woman's search for redemption, and of a young boy who will triumph above it all.
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2013., Adult, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd Call No: MYS Fic Hol Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Carnivia trilogy Volume: 1Summary Note: "When a woman's body is found wearing the sacred robes of a Catholic priest--a desecration known as the Abomination, Captain Kat Tapo of the Carabinieri unravels a dark conspiracy that tests her loyalties, in this thrilling novel that is set in two Venices--the physical world and its virtual counterpart."--NoveList.
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2013., General, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd Call No: Fic Del Edition: 1st Canadian ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Game trilogy Volume: bk. 3Summary Note: HP is now living off the grid, convinced he is being hunted by both the police and the masterminds behind the Game. With no one to trust and the boundaries between reality and the virtual worlds dangerously blurred, he resolves to complete one final mission in order to expose the Game and uncover the truth behind it. Ousted from the police force, Rebecca is in crisis, self-medicating to cope with stress. When she finds a safe-deposit box that belonged to her father, she is shocked to find that it contains a gun and several passports.
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2013., General, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd Call No: Fic Del Edition: 1st Canadian ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Game trilogy Volume: bk. 2Summary Note: The Game has brought HP Pettersson wealth and freedom, but his newly comfortable life is a little - unsatisfying. He misses the danger, and the adrenalin rush. When he meets the rich and beautiful Anna Argos in a luxurious Dubai hotel, life instantly gets more interesting. But there is something mysterious lurking beneath Anna's cool surface - and there's something unsettling about her cellphone. Rebecca Normen is now heading up an elite bodyguard team and thinks she's put her personal demons behind her, but everything changes when she learns of a web forum containing threatening posts that obviously refer to her.
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c2011., Adult, House of Anansi Press Series Title: Ava Lee Volume: 2Summary Note: "Uncle and Ava are hired by Tommy Ordonez, the richest man in the Philippines, to recover $50 million in a land swindle that took place in Canada. Ava tracks the missing funds from Canada to San Francisco to accounts in Costa Rica owned by the Moneida, a First Nations band that owns and operates The River, an online poker web site. Ava uncovers an illegal online gambling ring, and follows the trail to Las Vegas. There, she confronts one of the greatest poker players in the world, David "The Disciple" Douglas. From the author of The Water Rat of Wanchal. "--Publisher.
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2023., Adult, Simon & Schuster Canada Call No: MYS Fic Kal Edition: Simon & Schuster Canada edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: From internationally bestselling author Daniel Kalla comes a riveting thriller about online body shaming, toxic diet pills, a vulnerable mega-celebrity, and a rapidly rising body count. When Owen Galloway, the track star son of a prominent US senator, is found dead of an overdose in his bedroom, LAPD Detective Cari Garcia suspects that he's just another teenager who hid a drug addiction. In Vancouver, Dr. Julie Rees, an experienced toxicologist, notices a growing number of overdoses among the eating disordered and body builders, and mentions it to her boyfriend, Detective Anson Chen. Then Rain Flynn, a famous pop star and social media influencer, dies in her Vancouver hotel room showing the same symptoms of a fatally high fever and uncontrollable seizures as Julie's other ER patients, including the co-owner of a wildly popular wellness center with locations in both Vancouver and LA. After an autopsy confirms that Rain overdosed on illicit diet pills containing a deadly toxin known as DNP-an explosive agent originally used in the trenches of World War I-the media gets hold of the story and runs wild with it. But who's behind the online marketing and distribution of DNP? And how is the wellness center connected? The daunting challenge of putting the pieces together falls to Detectives Garcia in LA and Chen in Vancouver. Can they solve these crimes before DNP becomes the next viral TikTok challenge?
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-- IRL2014., Adult, First Second Call No: GN Fic Doc Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "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 developed countries with money to burn. This behavior is strictly against the rules in Coarsegold, but Anda soon comes to realize that questions of right and wrong are a lot less straightforward when a real person's real livelihood is at stake."--From publisher.
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c2013., Adult, Bond Street Books Call No: Fic Mog Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A solitary young woman is drawn into an online world run by a charismatic web guru who entices her into impersonating a glamorous but desperate woman. When Leila discovers the website Red Pill, she feels she has finally found people who understand her. A sheltered young woman raised by her mother, Leila has often struggled to connect with the girls at school; but on Red Pill, a chat forum for ethical debate, Leila comes into her own, impressing the website's founder, a brilliant and elusive man named Adrian.
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2022., Linda Leith Publishing Call No: QWF Fic Dem Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Mukbang tells the story of Kim Delorme, a young woman raised on a diet of video games, early 2000s internet videos, and fads. She is completely uninterested in the world beyond her computer screen. As a young YouTuber she discovers mukbangs, a voyeuristic world where people eat and overeat in front of cameras. Kim decides to throw herself into the ring, and challenges the reigning queen, Misha Faïtas. But a horrifying incident halts her ascension and creates a shock wave that affects everyone in her life. Mukbang is a grimy, shocking, surreal and darkly funny dive into our relationships with food, self-image, and intimacy in the digital age.
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2014., Adult, Signal Call No: 323.443 F583p Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "From an acclaimed professor and former advisor to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, a passionate and edgy defense of free speech in Canada, and the role the internet plays in the issue. In February 2013, Tom Flanagan, acclaimed academic, University of Calgary professor, and former advisor to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, made comments surrounding the issue of viewing child pornography that were tweeted from the event he was speaking at and broadcast worldwide. In the time it took to drive from Lethbridge to his home in Calgary, Flanagan's career and reputation were virtually in tatters. Every media outlet made the story front-page news, most of them deriding Flanagan and casting him as a pariah. He was made to apologize publicly for his use of words but the bottom line was that Tom Flanagan simply sounded an opinion (he in no way whatsoever suggested that he was anything but virulantly opposed to child pornography) in an academic setting. In effect, his university, several of his colleagues, and much of the media, including the CBC -- and most of Canada! -- made him persona non grata. This book is two things: The author's side of the story, and what he endured during what he calls 'The Incident,' and a passionate and convincing defense of free speech, not just in Canada but everywhere. The internet, a tool that is very much a double-edged sword when it comes to freedom of expression--it allows people to have an unfiltered voice to say what they want, but it also allows those to use it to be judge, jury and executioner against those whose opinions they disagree with. A sobering look into the kind of political correctness that has become a staple in the academic world. What happened to the author illustrates important tendencies in contemporary Canada threatening freedom of speech and discussion, and how the new technology is playing an increasing and menacing role"--Provided by publisher.
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c2015., Adult, Bond Street Books Call No: Fic Fra Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Purity Tyler, known to all as Pip, is an outspoken, forthright young woman struggling to make a life for herself. She sleeps in an rickety commune in Oakland. She's in love with an unavailable older man and is saddled with staggering college debt. She has a crazy mother and doesn't know who her father is. A chance encounter leads her to an internship in South America with the world-famous Sunlight Project, which uses the internet to expose government and corporate fraud and malfeasance. TSP is the brainchild of Andreas Wolf, a charismatic genius who grew up privileged but disaffected in the German Democratic Republic. Forced to run TSP in Bolivia because of the hostility of European nations whose misdeeds he has exposed, Andreas is drawn to Pip for reasons she doesn't understand. Like numerous women before her, she becomes obsessed with Andreas, and they have an intense, unsettling relationship. Eventually, he finds her work at an online magazine in Denver with Tom Aberant, who, with his life partner, Leila Helou, uses old-fashioned reporting to achieve some of the same results that TSP seems to pull out of thin air. That's the top story. What lies underneath is a wild tale of hidden identities, secret wealth, neurotic fidelity, sociopathy and murder. The truth of Pip's parentage lies at the center of this maelstrom, but before it is resolved Franzen takes us from the rain-drenched forests of northern California, to paranoid East Berlin before the fall of the Wall, to the paradisiacal mountain valleys of Bolivia, exposing us to the vagaries of radical politics, the problematic seductions of the internet, and the no-holds-barred war between the sexes.
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c2014., Adult, Harper Call No: MYS Fic All Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "A fast-paced mystery involving a brilliant teenage sleuth who must unmask a serial killer in San Francisco through Ripper, the online mystery game she plays with her beloved grandfather and friends around the world."--Publisher.
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2020., Adult, Simon & Schuster Call No: Fic Har Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Low Morrison is not your average teen. You could blame her hippie parents or her dreary, isolated island hometown. Whatever the reason, Low just doesn't fit in and neither does newcomer Freya, an ethereal beauty and once famous social media influencer. After signing up for Freya's pottery class, Low quickly falls under her spell. Buoyed by Low's adoration, Freya is compelled to share her darkest secrets and deepest desires. Finally, Low feels a sense of belonging until Jamie walks through the studio door. Freya, Jamie and their husbands become fast friends, leaving Low alone once again. Then one night, after a boozy dinner party, Freya suggests swapping partners. It should have been a harmless fling between consenting adults, but instead, it upends their lives. And provides Low with the perfect opportunity to unleash her growing resentment. .
