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Ready Player One is a thrilling, fast paced and heart wrenching science fiction novel.  It tells the story of Wade Watts, who was orphaned at a young age, and sent to live with his Aunt and abusive Uncle.  In 2044, civilization had broken down, and reality is a dark place.  Wade finds his escape using a virtual reality experience called OASIS created by James Halladay, the owner of Gregarious Games.  Our story begins when James Halladay dies, he leaves a video explaining an Easter egg he hid in his own creations.  Before James Halladay died, he created a video informing his fan of this plot to find easter egg within the game, and the prize at stake. The person who finds all three keys and unlocks the gate to the Easter egg, will have complete control over the OASIS, and James Halladay’s shares of Gregarious Games- which is valued at a quarter trillion dollars.  Everyone in the world is invested in the contest, including IOI, a huge corporation headed by Nol...

Abby Wambach was a member of the U.S. Women’s National soccer Team, and she played forward. Standing at 5’11”, she was known as an aggressive player who was excellent at heading. She also helped the team win a World Cup in 2015 and two Olympic Gold Medals in 2004 and in 2012. In 2019, Wambach released WOLFPACK to empower women (and others) and provide eight new rules to live life by. This is a short book of only 92 pages. For each rule, Wambach pulls from personal experiences to show the reader how the rule has benefited her or how she learned the rule throughout her life. The book doesn’t only focus on her career as a soccer player, it describes how she found what to do after she retired in 2015. Wambach’s concept is that she wants everyone to be the wolf, not the Little Red Riding Hood of the fable. She wants people to be individuals and fight for what they want for themselves and any future generations to come. Wambach also called the book WOLFPACK because she wants people to su...