Books with title The Cuckoo's Egg

Cliff Stoll was an astronomer turned systems manager at Lawrence Berkeley Lab when a 75-cent accounting error alerted him to the presence of an unauthorized user on his system. The hacker's code name was "Hunter" -- a mysterious invader who managed to break into U.S. computer systems and steal sensitive military and security information. Stoll began a one-man hunt of his own: spying on the spy. It was a dangerous game of deception, broken codes, satellites, and missile bases -- a one-man sting operation that finally gained the attention of the CIA...and ultimately trapped an international spy ring fueled by cash, cocaine, and the KGB.

Cliff Stoll was an astronomer turned systems manager at Lawrence Berkeley Lab when a 75-cent accounting error alerted him to the presence of an unauthorized users on his system. The hacker's code name was "Hunter"-- a mystery invader hiding inside a twisting electronic labyrinth, breaking into U.S. computer systems and stealing sensitive military and security information. Stoll began a one-man hunt of his own, spying on the spy-- and plunging into an incredible international probe that finally gained the attention of top U.S. counter-intelligence agents. The Cuckoo's Egg is his wild and suspenseful true story-- a year of deception, broken codes, satellites, missile bases and the ultimate sting operation-- and how one ingenious American trapped a spy ring paid in cash and cocaine, and reporting to the KGB.

The world is a more fantastical place than you could ever imagine. More wonderful and more terrible. Faolan is a cursed man walking, hexed by an unforgiving witch and left to roam the earth to complete a dark task.Blair is an outcast in her own family, a stranger watching the world through stone grey eyes. Raised on her grandmother's fairy tales, when she finds a dog lost in a storm she learns that all stories have just a little truth to them. Dragged beneath the waters of reality into the dark depths of magic and mystery, everything begins to change.A story of changelings, witches and magic for the modern era, The Cuckoo's Eye is a young adult novel for readers who like their fairy tales with a little bite.

A very wealthy man clones himself. But not just once and not inside any ordinary laboratory. No, Phillip Stevens produces a disease that infects fertile women, taking over their reproductive systems, and more than a decade later the world struggles to make room for hundreds of thousands of boys, each one carrying Phillip's face as well as a unique set of burdens."Build a starship. And I want you to tell me all about it. Its name. How big it is. What is it made from? Tell me about its power plant and engines. How many are in the crew, and what are their names? They deserve names. Are they human, and if not, what? Draw them for me, and draw your ship, too. Do you have weapons on board? If so, what kinds? You might want to carry some little scout ships along for the ride. Anything else that you might think is useful, I'll let you bring. Plus there's one piece of gear that I’m putting on board. It's a box. A box about this big. Inside is a wormhole. Open its lid, and the wormhole swallows your ship, transporting it to somewhere else. You'll travel through space and through time. Or maybe you'll leave our universe entirely.There's no way to know what happens next.It's all up to me.My name's Houston Cross. Call me Mr. Cross, or Houston. I'm going to be your science mentor for the year."Robert Reed is the author of several hundred published stories and more than a dozen novels. He won a Hugo in 2007 for his novella, "A Billion Eves."

Mia Veery wants her family to behave like the families she reads about. They would never include a mother who flies airplanes and trades one husband for another. Or older sisters who dress all in black and read French novels. Or a father who moves his family from Ohio to live in Lebanon, where even the tangy air tastes foreign.Every day in Beirut, Mia wishes she could live the way kids are living in America in 1962, eating hot dogs, drinking real milk, maybe watching Bonanza on TV. Then her wish comes true, but in a way she'd never intended.Mia is sent back to the United States, to Tennessee, to stay with an aunt she's never met. During a summer spent longing for her parents and trying to find her place in her new surroundings, Mia figures out a few truths about families and all that they can and cannot be.Mia Veery is fierce, funny, and finally, indomitable. Her story marks the extraordinary debut of a talented writer.

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