Between 1971 and 1998, the networks the modern world was being built on had no defences worth the name. This is the story of ten cases that changed that.In 1971, a blind eight-year-old in Boston discovered he could whistle into a telephone and place free long-distance calls. In 1986, an astronomer at Berkeley traced a 75-cent accounting discrepancy to a West German intelligence operation. In 1988, a Cornell graduate student released a program that took down ten per cent of the inte...

Heliosvart Pampleverte-Plunkenstorm never asked for a name that sounded like a thunderclap, or for the swarm of voices stirring inside his head to wake up now, of all times.It's the 1960s, and nobody has a word yet for a mind like his. Not doctors. Not teachers. Certainly not Blazenthrop, the school that's already decided he belongs at the bottom of the class and has stopped looking any further. Yoyo isn't lazy, or stupid, or trouble, though those are the only words anyone around h...

Teresa "Tess" Virella is used to staying late. At Firefly Crossing Elementary, she is the dependable one, the calm one, the teacher's aide who knows which children need quiet, which parents need patience, and which rooms hold more than old supplies. But while helping clear out the school's annex wing before demolition, Tess finds a faded laminated name badge wedged behind a metal cabinet. The name belongs to Nicolás "Nico" Otero, a child her mother once cared for years ago, a child Tess wa...

What's the best day for an alien invasion? Halloween, of course. When Eek and Ack visit Earth during the ghoulish holiday, they fit right in with the other trick-or-treaters. Unfortunately, so does Wolfy the Wolfman! Now, the terrible twosome must fight off this frightful furball or fail to conquer Earth once again.

Published as part of RP Media's 30th-anniversary series, this book follows Cassia Spanos, a teacher's aide in Firefly Crossing, who discovers a decades-old note hidden inside a workbook. She is drawn back to a lost love, a family house on the verge of sale, and the choices that quietly shaped her life. The Note in the Workbook is an adult literary short story about caregiving, grief, family obligation, and the possibility of reinvention after years of endurance.

They look exactly like the people you love. Until they get hungry.Sarah Martinez thought her biggest problem was her husband's work stress. Then John came home from his Chicago business trip acting like the perfect father—more attentive, more loving, more present than he'd been in months.She should have been suspicious when he suggested a family camping trip.Now her children are dead, consumed alive while remaining conscious, and Sarah carries the s...

♥♥Ivory Bellows fell down a well. Ivory Bellows woke up in hell. Better listen to the big blue giant, zip your lip, and hush. Better not stare at his son who makes you blush.♥♥Imagine if you were a giant, fifteen-foot alien from another planet and found a strange being unconscious in a foreign object...a flying pod. The creature is tiny enough to be a child and you'd have such a big heart, you'd want to adopt this poor orphaned child, right?Only...what if the full-grown huma...

In the early 1940s, as the Second World War raged across the globe, Madagascar was caught in the middle of a strategic struggle between the Allied and Axis powers. Situated off the eastern coast of Africa, the Big Island's location in the Indian Ocean made it a vital asset for controlling crucial shipping lanes connecting Europe, Africa, and Asia.The fall of France in June 1940 brought Madagascar under the control of the Vichy French government, a puppet regime collaborating with N...

A prophecy states that the king of Argos will be defeated by his infant grandson Perseus, so the king throws Perseus, and his mother, into the sea. They are rescued by a fisherman, and young Perseus grows up, unaware of his royal birth. Before he can claim his heritage, the hero is ordered to slay a hideous monster named Medusa, whose gaze turns men into solid stone. How can the youth fight an enemy he cannot even look at? He will need the wisdom and the weapons of the gods themselves.

Master Your Computer guides you through your entire computer experience from end to end. From what type of computer you should actually buy, including extended warranties, to proactively securing and maintaining it, which prevents your computer from becoming slow, freezing up, and infected with viruses. Inside, it also shows you how to protect your most important assets such as your documents and family pictures and never losing them again! Step by step screenshots are included.

Paris, 1942. Daphne Moreau has learned how to survive the Occupation: keep her head down, her voice soft, and her husband's secrets to herself. Jacques is a gendarme who brings home food with no questions asked and goes silent whenever the city turns dangerous. She has chosen not to look too closely at why.Then she looks.When Daphne understands the full extent of her husband's collaboration with the Nazi machinery of repression, silence becomes its own kind of betrayal. A c...

Mandy Cohen has two dogs, Bellamy and Leo. They look, play, and even smell (Ew!) like regular dogs. Or so Mandy thinks. One night, Mandy wakes up from a deep sleep in the middle of the night. Mandy calls for her mom, but she doesn't come, which is strange. So she decides to walk downstairs to her kitchen by herself, only to find her two dogs coming into the house through the backdoor dressed like superheroes, with masks and capes! Mandy is in shock when Bellamy and Leo start to talk to her...