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This list of titles fulfill the UBN 2024 category of a book that involves a game.
Updated October 25, 2024
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Armada : a novel
Cline, Ernest.
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A rollicking alien invasion thriller that embraces and subverts science-fiction conventions, from the author of the worldwide phenomenon Ready Player One "Exciting . . . mixes Star Wars, ...
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Ender's game
Card, Orson Scott
Paper Book
"Read Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game before the big-screen adaptation, starring Harrison Ford and Hugo's Asa Butterfield, hits theaters Nov. 1." - Entertainment Weekly, 13 Ways to Get Ready for '13 The worldwide bestseller, Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card comes to the...
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One word kill
Lawrence, Mark
Paper Book
A Goodreads Choice Award finalist. "I enjoyed the hell out of One Word Kill. Mark is an excellent writer." - George R.R. Martin In January 1986, fifteen-year-old boy-genius Nick Hayes discovers he's dying. And it isn't even the strangest thing to happen to him...
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Papi : my story
Ortiz, David
Paper Book
An entertaining, unfiltered memoir by one of the game's greatest, most clutch sluggers and beloved personalities David "Big Papi" Ortiz is a baseball icon and one of the most popular figures ever to play the game. As a key part of the Boston Red...
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The queen's gambit
Tevis, Walter S.
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Engaging and fast-paced, this gripping coming-of-age novel of chess, feminism, and addiction speeds to a conclusion as elegant and satisfying as a mate in four. Eight-year-old orphan Beth Harmon is quiet, sullen, and by all appearances unremarkable. That is, until she plays her first game...
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Ready player one
Cline, Ernest
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Now a major motion picture directed by Steven Spielberg. "Enchanting . . . Willy Wonka meets The Matrix."--USA Today * "As one adventure leads expertly to the next, time simply evaporates."--Entertainment...
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Red and me : my coach, my lifelong friend
Russell, Bill
Paper Book
"Bill Russell was the greatest team basketball player ever....[He] has produced a moving tribute to his friend and, in a larger sense, to friendship...
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Sum it up 1,098 victories, a couple of irrelevant losses, and a life in perspective
Summitt, Pat Head
Paper Book
Pat Summitt was only 21 when she became head coach of the Tennessee Vols women's basketball team. For 38 years, she's broken records and made basketball history. Then in 2011 she was diagnosed with early- onset Alzheimer's disease. Despite her devastating diagnosis, Pat led the Vols to their 16th...
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The tournament
Reilly, Matthew.
Paper Book
"A complete success...action fans and PBS types can share their enthusiasm" (Booklist, starred review) when a young Queen Elizabeth I is thrust into a gripping game of deception and lust at the height of the Ottoman Empire in this edge-of-your-seat historical thriller from the New York...
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