"Stephenson has a once-in-a-generation gift: he makes complex ideas clear, and he makes them funny, heartbreaking, and thrilling." -Time The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anathem, Neal Stephenson is continually rocking the literary world with his brazen and brilliant fictional creations-whether he's reimagining the past (The Baroque Cycle), inventing the future (Snow Crash), or both (Cryptonomicon). With Reamde, this visionary author whose...

As a young girl splashes in the rain, she plays a guessing game with the reader about other living things that enjoy a cloudburst.

Kai's and Ray's ninja skills are put to the test when bad guys interrupt their video game. Will father and son be able to level up, or is it game over for the ninjas?

"Nixy Bauer, a sixteen-year-old self-made video-game bounty hunter, gets in over her head when she attempts to rescue a game developer's son from a virtual trap"--

Amir bonds with Rudeday, his downstairs artist neighbor, over a game they invented.

On field day, a young boy surprises his teammates and himself when he demonstrates mental, emotional, and physical strength.

"Narrated by 'Eddie' who receives a chalk drawing of a stick figure that hurtles him back to an innocent childhood game 30 years before which went terribly, terribly wrong. As history begins to repeat itself, it seems the game was never really over" -- 1986: Eddie and his friends spend their days biking around their sleepy English village and looking for any taste of excitement they can get. The chalk men are their secret code: little chalk stick...

A hide-n-seek word game about a bunch of fun-loving animals.

Karn Korlundsson must travel to the faraway city of Castlebriar, learn to play a new board game called Charioteers, decipher the Riddle of the Horn, and tangle with mysterious elves in order to rescue his best friend, Thianna Frostborn, facing great dangers at every step. Includes directions for playing Charioteers.

Publisher Annotation: Four years ago, five kids started a game. Not all of them survived. Now, at the end of their senior year of high school, the survivors―Owen, Madeline, Emerson, and Dax―have reunited for one strange and terrible reason: they’ve been summoned by the ghost of Ian, the friend they left for dead...