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  • Future Tenseby Frank Almond

    Boson Books 2005; US$ 9.95

    Future Tense is the sequel to Tempus Fugit . It picks up exactly where the first book leaves off. Sloane now finds himself reunited with his girlfriend, Emma, at Duckworth Hall. It should be a time for love and celebration, but our hero?s hopes are soon dashed when he?s devastated to find that Emma is obsessed with a mysterious stranger, one of the Duck?s houseguests. Things rapidly go from bad to worse when he discovers the Duck?s other houseguests?in the attic! As usual, the Duck?s machinations are unfathomable to mere mortals. Those puritanical fascists, Corrective Measures, are still in hot pursuit, only this time they?re meaner?their snatch squads now blow up time fugitives homes and pack them off to the Castle, a sinister prison lost... more...

  • Stealing the Networkby Ryan Russell; Peter A Riley; Jay Beale; Chris Hurley; Tom Parker; Brian Hatch

    Syngress Publishing 2005; US$ 41.95

    The first two books in this series ?Stealing the Network: How to Own the Box? and ?Stealing the Network: How to Own a Continent? have become classics in the Hacker and Infosec communities because of their chillingly realistic depictions of criminal hacking techniques. In this third installment, the all-star cast of authors tackle one of the fastest growing crimes in the world: Identity Theft. Now, the criminal hackers readers have grown to both love and hate try to cover their tracks and vanish into thin air? "Stealing the Network: How to Own an Identity" is the 3rd book in the "Stealing" series, and continues in the tradition created by its predecessors by delivering real-world network attack methodologies and hacking techniques within a... more...

  • The Best American Humorous Short Storiesby Alexander Jessup

    Joshua James Press 1922; US$ 5.99

    Featuring the gifts of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Edgar Allan Poe and Mark Twain, this collection of the Best American Humorous Short Stories will delight and intrigue. more...

  • The Habit of Artby Anthony V. Ardizzone

    Indiana University Press 2005; US$ 15.95

    "The scientist has the habit of science; the artist, the habit of art." -- Flannery O'Connor This collection of stories contains some of the best new short fiction from America. The stories display a wide range of styles, settings, and themes. In addition to being among the country's most talented, prize-winning writers, the authors gathered in The Habit of Art also share a common bond as former members of the fiction workshop at Indiana University, which celebrates its first 25 years with the publication of this book. more...

  • Classic African American Women's Narrativesby William L. Andrews

    Oxford University Press 2003; US$ 50.00

    Classic African Women's Narratives' is a compilation of the best and the best-known fictional, autobiographical, and journalistic writing by African American women during the first great era of a black women's writing in the US, from 1831 to 1865. more...

  • Stealing the Networkby Johnny Long; Timothy Mullen; Ryan Russell

    Syngress Publishing 2007; US$ 51.95

    The best-selling Stealing the Network series reaches its climactic conclusion as law enforcement and organized crime form a high-tech web in an attempt to bring down the shadowy hacker-villain known as Knuth in the most technically sophisticated Stealing book yet. Stealing the Network: How to Own a Shadow is the final book in Syngress? ground breaking, best-selling, Stealing the Network series. As with previous title, How to Own a Shadow is a fictional story that demonstrates accurate, highly detailed scenarios of computer intrusions and counter-strikes. In How to Own a Thief, Knuth, the master-mind, shadowy figure from previous books, is tracked across the world and the Web by cyber adversaries with skill to match his own. Readers will be... more...

  • Stealing the Networkby Ryan Russell; Joe Grand; Tom Craig

    Syngress Publishing 2004; US$ 53.95

    This is a book that will create enormous debate within the technical and the counter-terrorism communities. While there will be the inevitable criticism that the material contained in the book could be used maliciously, the fact is that this knowledge is already in the hands of our enemies. This book is truly designed to inform while entertaining (and scaring) the reader, and it will instantly be in demand by readers of "Stealing the Network: How to Own the Box" * A meticulously detailed and technically accurate work of fiction that exposes the very real possibilities of such an event occurring * An informative and scary insight into the boundries of hacking and cyber-terrorism * Written by a team of the most accomplished cyber-security specialists... more...

  • I'll Fly Awayby Wally Lamb; I'll Fly Away Contributors

    HarperCollins 2007; US$ 10.99

    In 2003 Wally Lamb—the author of two of the most beloved novels of our time, She's Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True —published Couldn't Keep It to Myself , a collection of essays by the students in his writing workshop at the maximum-security York Correctional Institution, Connecticut's only prison for women. Writing, Lamb discovered, was a way for these women to confront painful memories, face their fears and their failures, and begin to imagine better lives. The New York Times described the book as "Gut-tearing tales . . . the unvarnished truth." The Los Angeles Times said of it, "Lying next to and rising out of despair, hope permeates this book.". Now Lamb returns with I'll Fly Away... more...

  • A Guitar and a Penby Robert Hicks; John Bohlinger; Justin Stelter

    Center Street 2008; US$ 12.99

    Nothing tells a story better than the story-songs of country music. A GUITAR AND A PEN presents, for the first time, the literary work of some of the best storytellers in the world: the songwriters who cut and polish tales down to sparkling three-minute gems. A blend of humor and poignancy, these tales range from Kris Kristofferson's charming tale of how an explicit natural rock formation causes chaos in a small farming town, to the domestic drama of a Kentucky family with six daughters, to Charlie Daniels' character-driven fable of money and unhappiness, to Gary Nicholson's riveting tale of an albino African American singer/songwriter who inspired him to be a musician. A celebration of music and storytelling, other contributors include Hal... more...

  • The New Kings of Nonfictionby Ira Glass

    Penguin Group Inc. 2007; US$ 12.99

    A collection of stories-some well known, some more obscure- capturing some of the best storytelling of this golden age of nonfiction. An anthology of the best new masters of nonfiction storytelling, personally chosen and introduced by Ira Glass, the producer and host of the award-winning public radio program This American Life . These pieces-on teenage white collar criminals, buying a cow, Saddam Hussein, drunken British soccer culture, and how we know everyone in our Rolodex-are meant to mesmerize and inspire. more...