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Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
xvi, 431 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Description
"Before smartphones, before the Internet and before the personal computer, a misfit group of technophiles, blind teenagers, hippies, and outlaws figured out how to hack the world's largest machine: the telephone system. Starting with Alexander Graham Bell's revolutionary 'harmonic telegraph, ' by the middle of the twentieth century the phone system had grown into something extraordinary, a web of cutting-edge switching machines and human operators...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"From the internationally best-selling author, a twisted, multi-layered spin on the classic horror novel In the wake of his parents' tragic deaths in a house fire, fourteen-year-old Richard Elauved has been sent to live with his aunt and uncle in the remote, insular town of Ballantyne. Richard quickly earns a reputation as an outcast, and when a classmate named Tom goes missing, everyone suspects the new, angry boy is responsible for his disappearance....
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
208 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"One night in 2014, two readers named Logan Smalley and Stephanie Kent discussed their favorite literary opening lines. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times," one suggested. "All of this happened, more or less," the other pointed out. And then, one phrase came immediately to mind: "Call Me Ishmael." As they talked more, the pair wondered what would happen if they invited readers to call a phone number and ask them to leave a voicemail...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
80 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
Llamadas desde Amsterdam es una extraordinaria historia de amor. En esta breve novela, los protagonistas inventan una realidad alternativa, hecha de llamadas telefónicas, para dar una segunda oportunidad a sus deseos. Ante el anhelo de lo que han perdido, hacen de un país imaginario su lugar de encuentro más genuino. En los grandes romances los sentimientos son más intensos que los hechos.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (82 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A prank phone call leads to a night of pure terror. With her parents away on an overnight trip, Libby amuses herself by joining her friend Kit, in calling up strangers and whispering, 'I saw what you did.' When Libby dials Steve Marak, a psychopath who just murdered his wife, his jealous neighbor listens in on the call, a conversation that ends with the panicky killer determined to silence them all.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
400 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
When Yui loses both her mother and her daughter in the tsunami, she begins to mark the passage of time from that date onward: Everything is relative to March 11, 2011, the day the tsunami tore Japan apart, and when grief took hold of her life. Yui struggles to continue on, alone with her pain. Then, one day she hears about a man who has an old disused telephone booth in his garden. There, those who have lost loved ones find the strength to speak...
20) Wizzywig
Author
Pub. Date
©2012
Physical Desc
286 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"They say what you see is what you get-- but Kevin "Boingthump" Phenicle could always see more than most people. In the world of phone phreaks, hackers, and scammers, he's a legend. His exploits are hotly debated: could he really get free long-distance calls by whistling into a pay phone? Did his video-game piracy scheme accidentally trigger the first computer virus? And did he really dodge the FBI by using their own wiretapping software against them?...
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