It was crazy really, she had never met the woman, had no idea of her real name but she thought of her as a friend. Or, at least, the closest thing she had to a friend in Dublin.Struggling with a new baby, Yvonne turns to netmammy, an online forum for mothers, for support. Drawn into a world of new friends, she spends increasing amounts of time online and volunteers more and more information about herself.When one of her new friends goes offline, Yvonne thinks something is wrong, but dismisses her fears. After all, does she really know this woman?But when the body of a young woman with striking similarities to Yvonne's missing friend is found, Yvonne realizes that they're all in terrifying danger. Can she persuade Sergeant Claire Boyle, herself about to go on maternity leave, to take her fears seriously?

This popular introductory text provides a unique set of teaching tools for instructors who prefer a synoptic approach. The text is visually appealing and reader friendly. The author accents his accessible writing with cartoons, quotations, and related findings from the social and physical sciences, reinforcing his conception of philosophy as the individual's attempt to unify disparate world views. The style of writing makes central philosophical concepts readily engaging to students. Interspersed biographies give the student a feeling for the lives of the great thinkers who have fashioned the Western philosophical tradition and have determined largely how we think today. Above all, this text nurtures the analytical skills students will need to critically engage the "big picture" of Western philosophy for themselves.

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Product Description: Is it possible to fall in love with someone you’ve never met? Imogen Summers thinks so because it’s happened to her.Immy is a normal eighteen-year-old, with a normal life, a normal family, and a normal boyfriend. But when she finds herself falling for a girl on an Internet message board, a girl she knows only as the mysterious Fickle, her so-called normal life is suddenly turned on its head...read more

Luke Dantry lost his parents when he was a teenager. Brought up by his stepfather, Luke now works with him on his research; monitoring extremist groups on the internet. But within the electronic world of the internet lie untold dangers, and when Luke suddenly feels the full force of them he must trust no one to overcome an enemy more powerful than he could possibly realise...This recording is unabridged. Typically abridged audiobooks are not more than 60 per cent of the author's work and as low as 30 per cent with characters and plotlines removed.

Product Description: "Exciting and funny, just like I hoped. Terrific." LEE CHILD When 15-year-old Sharron Pennington meets a stranger in an internet chat room, she doesn't expect to end up in a blue movie. 15-year-old Judy Whay is not so lucky. Lured by the prospect of a career in modelling, she becomes another victim of the so-called "Spa Killer"...read more

When eighth grade begins, twins Ashley and Bryce get caught up in investigating why their principal left under mysterious circumstances, even as they struggle to get along with his replacement, who seems to be out to get them.

Using an online nickname, shy Linda visits her high school's numerous chat rooms and becomes celebrated for her quick wit and clever comebacks, thus when a secret admirer starts sending her gifts, Linda becomes hopeful that they are coming from her classmate Cyrano. Simultaneous.

Trapped in a loveless marriage, 'Tag,' an attorney pays a visit to the recently launched Literoticus.com, a sex chat room, where he finds an array of lonely misfits engaged in all kinds of unbridled online sexual activity and meets 'Lisa33,' but all too soon personal discontentment and an inability to translate fantasy into reality turn both their lives upside down. A first novel.

Product Description: You're being watched. Former University of Alberta lecturer Randy Craig is now working part-time at Edmonton's Grant MacEwan College, and struggling to make ends meet. That is, until she takes an evening job monitoring a chat room called Babel for an employer she knows only as Chatgod...read more

A sequel to In the Chat Room With God finds a group of teens contacted by a mysterious and increasingly malevolent character who claims to know about their encounters with the Almighty and challenges their beliefs. Original.

With her personal life a disaster--her fourth marriage is falling apart, she is out of work and drowning in debt, and her mother is nagging her about her weight--Katie copes by tuning into the Internet, where she sheds reality to become SilkyDreamGirl, an imaginary alter-ego who is totally in control and who gives Katie a whole new sense of self. Original. 20,000 first printing.

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Feeling stultified and bored by her suburban existence, Jenny enters an on-line virtual community where word can become reality, finding a virtual reality lover, and struggling between this cyberworld and her life with her family. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

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Fourteen-year-old Morgan alienates her friends and family when she spends all of her time online talking to strangers in various chat groups.

Product Description: A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the YearIn 1991 Emily Piper is a graduate student finishing her dissertation on metaphysics, when her home and work are destroyed in the Berkeley-Oakland fires. With her life's work in cinders, she retreats in shock to the small coastal town of Mendocino...read more