He's a real Nowhere Man,
Sitting in his Nowhere Land,
Making all his nowhere plans
For nobody.

Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary

Cyberspace has a language all its own. Understanding it is vital if you're concerned about Internet security, national security, or even personal security. As recent events have proven, you don't have to own a computer to be the victim of cybercrime—crackers have accessed information in the records of large, respected organizations, institutions, and even the military.

This is your guide to understanding hacker terminology. It's up to date and comprehensive, with:

• Clear, concise, and accurate definitions of more than 875 hacker terms
• Entries spanning key information-technology security concepts, organizations, case studies, laws, theories, and tools
• Entries covering general terms, legal terms, legal cases, and people
• Suggested further reading for definitions

This unique book provides a chronology of hacker-related developments beginning with the advent of the computer and continuing through current events in what is identified as today's Fear of a Cyber-Apocalypse Era. An appendix entitled "How Do Hackers Break into Computers?" details some of the ways crackers access and steal information.

• Paperback: 387 pages
• Publisher: Webster's New World, 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0470047526
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John Saul - "Black Creek Crossing"

From Publishers Weekly
With more than 30 books under his belt, veteran suspense novelist Saul is back with a horror novel featuring witchcraft, teen revenge and a haunted house. Angel Sullivan, a plain-looking 14-year-old who never fits in, gets a chance for a fresh start when her family moves into the plush community of Roundtree. Myra, her obsessively religious mother, and Marty, her lazy, alcoholic father, buy a house on Black Creek Crossing, even though the place is rumored to be haunted...

• Hardcover: 368 pages
• Publisher: Ballantine Books (March 16, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345433327
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Alexander McCall Smith - "The No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency"

Reader's review:
This is Alexander McCall Smith's best work - his story revolves around an independent, intelligent, admirable Botswana lady, Precious Ramotswe. This proud African lady solves life's little (and big) mysteries using nothing more than her brains, senses and the instructions of a mail order detective book. Delightful and moving, the characters that inhabit Precious' eventfully uneventful life not only teach us about ourselves, but also give us an appreciation of a lifestyle more about living and less about scheduling/acquiring/gossiping - while the landscape inspires a feeling of peace and longing for something simple and pure.
I cannot recommend this book highly enough. Please check it out - along with the rest of the series - all of which are worthy of your time and attention.

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: November 1, 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0375423877
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Lisa Gardner - "The Killing Hour"

A cold case grows hot again in Gardner's sixth high-octane page-turner, a romantic thriller that features rookie FBI agent Kimberly Quincy. Kimberly is the daughter of Pierce Quincy, former FBI profiler turned PI, last seen in The Next Accident. She's a tough, troubled young woman still recovering from the murders of her mother and sister six years earlier. During week nine of the FBI Academy's 16-week training program in Virginia, she discovers the body of a young woman who looks like her late sister. Since the corpse has been dumped on a secured Marine base, the Naval Criminal Investigation Service is in charge, but determined Kimberly soon takes a leave of absence so she can team up with Michael "Mac" McCormack, visiting Georgia Bureau of Investigations Special Agent, along with her father and his partner, Rainie Connor, to prevent another death.

• Hardcover: 336 pages
• Publisher: Bantam (July 15, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553802526
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Ian Rankin - "The Ressurection Men"

Inspector John Rebus has messed up badly this time, so badly that he is sent to a kind of reform school for damaged cops. While there among the last-chancers known as "resurrection men," he joins a covert mission to gain evidence of a drug heist orchestrated by three of his classmates. But the group has been assigned an unsolved murder that may have resulted from Rebus's own mistake. Now Rebus can't determine if he's been set up for a fall or if his disgraced classmates are as ruthless as he suspects.

• ISBN: 0316608491
• Pub. Date: January 2004
  
• Format: Mass Market Paperback, 528pp
• Publisher: Warner Books, Incorporated
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