Callie Smithers is haunted by the memory of being attacked by a werewolf during the COVID pandemic, and by the fact no one believes her. Now, her and two friends are headed on vacation, with a stop in the hidden valley of Hemelshol to drop off the ashes of her friend Rebecca's grandfather.Thorne and Waters are FBI agents investigating a Mennonite farmer who has been buying ANFO-the ingredient in fertiliser bombs. Their investigation will take them into the hidden valley of Hemelsho...

Callie Smithers is haunted by the memory of being attacked by a werewolf during the COVID pandemic, and by the fact no one believes her. Now, her and two friends are headed on vacation, with a stop in the hidden valley of Hemelshol to drop off the ashes of her friend Rebecca's grandfather.Thorne and Waters are FBI agents investigating a Mennonite farmer who has been buying ANFO—the ingredient in fertiliser bombs. Their investigation will take them into the hidden valley of Hemelsho...

Welcome back to The Nightmare Library.Within these pages, the Nightmare Library unveils its latest acquisitions. These are not tales casually stumbled upon, but carefully curated dread, selected from the darkest corners of the human psyche and places far more unsettling than that.A man has a late-night encounter with a mysterious and terrifying mime.A man discovers breaking his rental's mysterious house...

Map to Desire will entice and disturb your innermost erotic appetites. It will viciously twist and taunt your imagination. And it will tug and gnaw at your tethers for adventure. This anthology includes nine short stories from a diverse group of talented authors who span the globe, an introduction from Black Quill Editing and a closing poem from a young and upcoming writer. WARNING: THIS IS AN EXTREME AND GRAPHIC NOVEL; you will not close this book unscathed.Each story includes a m...

"Head First Object Oriented Analysis and Design is a refreshing look at subject of OOAD. What sets this book apart is its focus on learning. The authors have made the content of OOAD accessible, usable for the practitioner."Ivar Jacobson, Ivar Jacobson Consulting"I just finished reading HF OOA&D and I loved it! The thing I liked most about this book was its focus on why we do OOA&D-to write great software!"Kyle Brown, Distinguished Engineer, IBM"Hidden behin...

With the advent of rich Internet applications, the explosion of social media, and the increased use of powerful cloud computing infrastructures, a new generation of attackers has added cunning new techniques to its arsenal. For anyone involved in defending an application or a network of systems, Hacking: The Next Generation is one of the few books to identify a variety of emerging attack vectors.You'll not only find valuable information on new hacks that attempt to exploit...

If you can build websites with CSS and JavaScript, this book takes you to the next level—creating dynamic, database-driven websites with PHP and MySQL. Learn how to build a database, manage your content, and interact with users. With step-by-step tutorials, this completely revised edition gets you started with expanded coverage of the basics and takes you deeper into the world of server-side programming.The important stuff you need to know:Get up to speed quic...

Node.js. It’s the latest in a long line of “Are you cool enough to use me?” programming languages, APIs, and toolkits. In that sense, it lands squarely in the tradition of Rails, and Ajax, and Hadoop, and even to some degree iPhone programming and HTML5.Dig a little deeper, and you’ll hear that Node.js (or, as it’s more briefly called by many, simply “Node”) is a server-side solution for JavaScript, and in particular, for receiving and responding to HTTP requests. If that doesn’t c...

Java and XML, 3rd Edition, shows you how to cut through all the hype about XML and put it to work. It teaches you how to use the APIs, tools, and tricks of XML to build real-world applications. The result is a new approach to managing information that touches everything from configuration files to web sites.After two chapters on XML basics, including XPath, XSL, DTDs, and XML Schema, the rest of the book focuses on using XML from your Java applications. This third edition ...

HTML5: Everyone’s using it, nobody knows what it is. I realize that sounds more like a line out of an existential movie — maybe Waiting for Godot or a screenplay by Sartre — than a statement about HTML5. But it’s really the truth: most of the people using HTML5 are treating it as HTML4+, or even worse, HTML4 (and some stuff they don’t use). The result? A real delay in the paradigm shift that HTML5 is almost certain to bring. It’s certainly not time to look away, because by the time you loo...