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Author
Publication Date
2025
Language
English
Description
"This state-of-the-art smart home has everything: a next-generation entertainment system, an ultramodern kitchen where every appliance is online and even a personal AI to control it all. Standing above its owner's lifeless body, FBI agent Jude Mackenzie is faced with the daunting task of discovering how the woman was killed by her own home. How do you catch a murderer that doesn't leave any fingerprints? Enter Special Agent Victoria Tennant, whose...
3) Rose/House
Author
Publication Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Rose/House is a breathtaking and taut sci-fi gothic thriller from Arkady Martine, Hugo Award-winning author of A Memory Called Empire. "I'm a piece of architecture, Detective. How should I know how humans are like to die?" All of Basit Deniau's houses were haunted. Rose House, his final architectural triumph built in the remote Mojave desert, was perhaps the most. A house embedded with an artificial intelligence is a common thing. But a house that...
Author
Publication Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"Henry is a brilliant engineer who, after untold hours spent in his home laboratory, has achieved the discovery of his career-he has created artificially intelligent consciousness. He calls the half-formed robot William. No one knows about William. Not yet anyway. Henry's agoraphobia keeps him inside the house, and his fixation on William keeps him up in the attic, away from everyone, including his pregnant wife, Lily. When Lily's coworkers show up...
Author
Publication Date
2019
Language
English
Description
"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of In a Dark, Dark Wood, The Woman in Cabin 10, The Lying Game, and The Death of Mrs. Westaway comes Ruth Ware's highly anticipated fifth novel. When she stumbles across the ad, she's looking for something else completely. But it seems like too good an opportunity to miss--a live-in nannying post, with a staggeringly generous salary. And when Rowan Caine arrives at Heatherbrae House, she is smitten--by...
Author
Publication Date
2026
Language
English
Description
In a near future, where even the smallest of appliances are sentient, a young Roomba vacuum sets out to save the humans of her house from a rising technological power in this compelling, original novel. In a self-running, smart house, a young and sentient Roomba listens as her owner, Harold, reads aloud to his dying wife, Edie. Mesmerized by To Kill a Mockingbird and craving the human connection she witnesses in Harold's stories, the little vacuum...
Author
Series
Publication Date
2019
Language
English
Description
"Find and watch more of the shows you enjoy with Amazon Fire TV For Dummies. This book guides you through Fire TV connections and setup and then shows you how to get the most out of your device. This guide is the convenient way to access quick viewing tips, so there's no need to search online for information or feel frustrated. With this book by your side, you'll quickly feel right at home with your streaming device. Content today can be complicated....
Author
Publisher
World Book
Publication Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Architects, engineers, and urban planners are building a better future for city dwellers. How high can skyscrapers climb? What will cities of the future look like? What will this city tech be able to do for you? This book answers these questions and more.
Author
Publisher
Papercutz
Publication Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When Professor Cheesewheel outfits busy editor-in-chief Geronimo Stilton's house with the latest technology to help keep it clean, the intrepid Geronimo is in for a future shock as his house goes haywire, leaving him with a mess bigger than before!
Author
Series
Publication Date
2021
Language
English
Description
"Alexa is the voice-controlled Amazon service that transforms your home-sweet-home into a smart home. And Alexa For Dummies is the companion guide that will help you figure out which Echo device is right for you so you can start training Alexa to be your personal assistant-extraordinaire."--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Publisher
In Easy Steps Limited
Publication Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A Smart Home -- using digital devices throughout the home to automate tasks, save time and money, and to control devices in your home wiht a touch of a button, even when you're away from home -- is no longer a science fiction vision of the future; it is very much part of the here and now, and available to all. And, Smart Homes in easy steps takes the mystery out of all the elements that are required to set up a smart home securely. Using popular...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Publication Date
2025.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Lily and her brother Rory have just moved into a new house after their family spent months renovating it. The formerly rundown, creepy old house is now totally transformed into a tech lover s dream. Rory has installed a smart device called Mastermind that can turn on lights, lock doors, and even open the windows, among other things. He and Lily love showing off what the Mastermind can do. But someone doesn t love the changes -- the ghost of the girl...