Young Thorna has a plan to save her colony in Eastern Hymenoptera and its wise, old ruler, Queen En, from an impending attack from tyrannical Emperor Dume and his dangerous allies. Thorna is no ordinary warrior. She is a six-inch-tall brown ant who has, along with neighboring beetles, spiders, and other creatures, evolved into an intelligent being. Author Howie Snider takes readers into the world of Kingdom Atlas, a land once occupied by billions of humans and now overrun by loyal ants, frightening beetles, courageous grasshoppers, peace-loving spiders and other fascinating insects who fight to survive.
Why The Jailbird prays is an inspirational, humorous, heart touching and evangelistic tool reading, which takes the reader outside looking in behind prison walls and jail cells to get an idea of what jail life is like and understanding an inmates way of living. This book will take you into the minds of the inmate while educating you and giving you an inmate's point of view, life story and testimony. This reading will empower, educate, encourage, enlighten and enhance ou individually. You will find humor in this book that will amuse you; however, you will be saddened by some of the inmate's life experiences, childhood growing up and abuse that they encountered. In the beginning of the book, you will read Jailbird Poems Prison Poetry as an appetizer to prepare you for the reading of this book. Each poem is an intro to each story presented in the book, and the poetry reveals my experiences in jail. In addition, the poems exploits the inmates past, bizarre and unorthodox behavior and their individual dysfunctions and issues. Jail Bird Poems Prison Poetry sets the tone for the book. I encourage you to purchase the soundtrack to the book titled Mama I Love You. The combination of the book and the soundtrack is great artistry; however, it bridges the gap between this well written reading and the music composition brings the book alive.
Written by FBI insiders, this updated best-seller offers a look at the legal, procedural, and technical steps of incident response and computer forensics. Including new chapters on forensic analysis and remediation, and real-world case studies, this revealing book shows how to counteract and conquer today’s hack attacks.
Incident response is a multidisciplinary science that resolves computer crime and complex legal issues, chronological methodologies and technical computer techniques. The commercial industry has embraced and adopted technology that detects hacker incidents. Companies are swamped with real attacks, yet very few have any methodology or knowledge to resolve these attacks. Incident Response: Investigating Computer Crime will be the only book on the market that provides the information on incident response that network professionals need to conquer attacks.
This story is about a man who goes on a journey to find the queen of the white dragons. Hermese wants to find the white dragon queen so he can find out how to control the dark dragons. The dark dragons are destroying the village's harvest, and they attack the villagers. Hermese and a band of men and centaurs go on a journey, and they learn a lot more than they bargain for.
The alien barbarian comes for a princess, but abducts me instead. When aliens try to kidnap my boss, the crown princess, I get a spark of genius and pretend that I am her instead. What’s the worst that could happen? Get trapped in a spaceship with an ice barbarian king determined to make me his queen—that’s what. I have every right to be mad at him, to hate him, yet with each passing moment in his presence, I find myself less and less able to resist him. He’s tall and blue, with a very large...endowment, and his hair has a life of its own. I can’t help but turn into putty under his touch. As the spaceship approaches the alien planet, I discover that my abductor isn’t quite the barbarian he appears to be. He shows me the real him, and I think I love what I see. But the question is, can I tell him who I really am? And if I do, will he still want me?
The continuing story of Andrew, now High Priest of Tegwen Island, who sets out on a journey to help bring an end to a war between men and wolves near the town of Hoddom, at the request of his old friends, the wolves Hengest and Horsa. A dark force has returned, however, and plagues his journey as well as his return to Tegwen where he must right an old error to save the Island from destruction.
The Four Treasures starts with a celebration and the promis of another great event and good news. Andrew soon feels a longing for more of a purpose and answers to long asked questions. He and his grandfather, Gildas embark upon a happy journey in their new ship which is magickal and steers itself. Once on the mainland, there are signs that all may not be well with the High-Priestess Morvida who having left on a mission to minister to the Brithons of Wessex, Dyfed and Gwent, has not been heard from in over a month. Andrew is led deeper into intrigue of battles and captives all orchestrated by a vengeful hand which seeks to draw him nearer, but to what end?
A loud clap of thunder booms, and rattles the windows of Grandma's old farmhouse. "This is Thunder Cake baking weather," calls Grandma, as she and her granddaughter hurry to gather the ingredients around the farm. A real Thunder Cake must reach the oven before the storm arrives. But the list of ingredients is long and not easy to find . . . and the storm is coming closer all the time! Reaching once again into her rich childhood experience, Patricia Polacco tells the memorable story of how her grandma--her Babushka--helped her overcome her fear of thunder when she was a little girl. Ms. Polacco's vivid memories of her grandmother's endearing answer to a child's fear, accompanied by her bright folk-art illustrations, turn a frightening thunderstorm into an adventure and ultimately . . . a celebration! Whether the first clap of thunder finds you buried under the bedcovers or happily anticipating the coming storm, Thunder Cake is a story that will bring new meaning and possibility to the excitement of a thunderstorm.
