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The enigma affair [audio-enabled device] by Lovett, Charlie,1962-,author(CARDINAL)770025; Blackstone Publishing(CARDINAL)850472; Playaway Digital Audio(CARDINAL)565887; Playaway Products, LLC(CARDINAL)868990;
Read by Nicol ZanzarellaWhen small-town librarian Patton Harcourt comes under fire one morning while making profiteroles, she has no choice but to trust the mysterious assassin, Nemo, who shows up in her kitchen. Fleeing a pair of German thugs, the two form an unlikely alliance as they try to decipher a seventy-five-year-old message encoded by Nazis on an Enigma machine. Traveling to Bletchley Park in England, they enlist the aid of Patton's old flame, Ruthie Drinkwater, an expert on Enigma. The trio soon finds themselves on the run, pursued by both the police and Ingrid Weiss, a white supremacist trying to unlock the secret of Heinrich Himmler's research into alchemy. If Patton, Nemo, and their cohorts can survive a host of dangers -- from trained killers to explosions to imprisonment -- they might be able to prevent Weiss from acquiring untold wealth to promote her racist agenda.Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Fiction.; Novels.; Thrillers (Fiction); Assassins; Enigma cipher system; Librarians;

Unbreakable : the spies who cracked the Nazis' secret code / by Barone, Rebecca E. F.,author.;
Ages 10-14.Grades 7-9."A nonfiction manuscript for young readers about a group of Allied spies and codebreakers that cracked the Nazis's infamous cypher, allowing them to read secret military messages and turn the tide of World War II. During WWII, as the Germans waged war, every Nazi plan, every attack, was sent over radio. But to the Allies listening in, the messages sounded like gibberish. The communications were encoded with a powerful cypher-unless you could unlock the key to Germany's Enigma machine. Featuring historicalphotos, Unbreakable tells the story of one of the most dangerous war-time code-breaking efforts ever. As Hitler marched his troops across conquered lands and deadly "wolfpacks" of German U-Boats prowled the open seas, victory-or defeat-for the Allies hinged on their desperate attempts to crack the code. Told in riveting multiple points of view, Unbreakable is perfect for fans of The Boys Who Challenged Hitler and The Nazi Hunters."--Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-260)Traitor --1000LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; Enigma cipher system; Cryptographers; Cryptographers; Cryptographers; World War, 1939-1945;

Secret days : code-breaking in Bletchley Park / by Briggs, Asa,1921-2016,author.(CARDINAL)130360;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Map of Bletchley Park -- BP : an introduction -- Cambridge -- Getting inside BP -- The huts -- and Hut Six in particular -- Two camps -- and more -- Ways of escape -- The end of the war -- Getting outside BP -- Oxford -- The Bletchley Trust -- Appendix: Selective chronology.The Bletchley Park memoir of Lord Asa Briggs will be one of the most important documents to be published in 2010. Lord Briggs has long been regarded as one of Britain's most important historians. He has never, however, written about his time at Bletchley Park. The publication, which coincided with Lord Briggs 90th birthday, is a meticulously researched account of life in Hut Six, written by a codebreaker who worked there for five years alongside Alan Turing and Gordon Welchman. In addition to discussing the progress of the Allies' code-breaking efforts and their impact on the war, Lord Briggs considers what the Germans knew about Bletchley and how they reacted to revelatory memoirs about the Enigma machine which were not published until the 1970s. Briggs himself did not tell his wife about his wartime career until the 1970s and his parents died without ever knowing their son's contribution to the wartime effort.
Subjects: History.; Personal narratives.; Briggs, Asa, 1921-2016.; Great Britain. Government Communications Headquarters (1948- ); Government Code and Cypher School (Great Britain); Lorenz cipher system.; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;

The imitation game [videorecording] by Cumberbatch, Benedict,1976-actor.(CARDINAL)357183; Goode, Matthew,1978-actor.; Grossman, Nora,film producer.(CARDINAL)849887; Kinnear, Rory,1978-actor.(CARDINAL)788468; Knightley, Keira,1985-actor.(CARDINAL)340618; Moore, Graham,1981-screenwriter.(CARDINAL)500479; Ostrowsky, Ido,film producer.(CARDINAL)849889; Schwarzman, Teddy,1979-film producer.(CARDINAL)849759; Strong, Mark,1963-actor.(CARDINAL)848747; Tyldum, Morten,film director.(CARDINAL)852209; Anchor Bay Entertainment, Inc.,film distributor.(CARDINAL)340087; Weinstein Company,publisher.(CARDINAL)340085;
Music, Alexandre Desplat ; film editor, William Goldenberg ; director of photography, Oscar Faura.Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Mark Strong, Rory Kinnear, Matthew Goode.Famously leading a team of codebreakers, mathematician Alan Turing created a computer capable of breaking the codes devised by Germany's Enigma machine during WWII, significantly contributing to shortening the war, and saving millions of lives. Only a few years later, British authorities ignorant of his contributions convicted him for the crime of homosexuality, significantly contributing to shortening his life.Rating: PG-13; for some sexual references, mature thematic material and historical smoking.Blu-ray ; widescreen (2.39:1) presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, 5.1 DTS-HD MA ; requires Blu-ray player.
Subjects: Biographical films.; Feature films.; Fiction films.; Thrillers (Motion pictures); Turing, Alan, 1912-1954; Blu-ray discs.; Enigma cipher system; Mathematicians;

The imitation game [videorecording] by Cumberbatch, Benedict,1976-actor.(CARDINAL)357183; Goode, Matthew,1978-actor.; Grossman, Nora,film producer.(CARDINAL)849887; Kinnear, Rory,1978-actor.(CARDINAL)788468; Knightley, Keira,1985-actor.(CARDINAL)340618; Moore, Graham,1981-screenwriter.(CARDINAL)500479; Ostrowsky, Ido,film producer.(CARDINAL)849889; Schwarzman, Teddy,1979-film producer.(CARDINAL)849759; Strong, Mark,1963-actor.(CARDINAL)848747; Tyldum, Morten,film director.(CARDINAL)852209; Anchor Bay Entertainment, Inc.,film distributor.(CARDINAL)340087; Weinstein Company,publisher.(CARDINAL)340085;
Music, Alexandre Desplat ; film editor, William Goldenberg ; director of photography, Oscar Faura.Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Mark Strong, Rory Kinnear, Matthew Goode.Famously leading a team of codebreakers, mathematician Alan Turing created a computer capable of breaking the codes devised by Germany's Enigma machine during WWII, significantly contributing to shortening the war, and saving millions of lives. Only a few years later, British authorities ignorant of his contributions convicted him for the crime of homosexuality, significantly contributing to shortening his life.Rating: PG-13; for some sexual references, mature thematic material and historical smoking.Blu-ray ; widescreen (2.39:1) presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, 5.1 DTS-HD MA ; requires Blu-ray player.Blu-ray; requires Blu-Ray playerDVD, region 1, widescreen presentation, Dolby Digital 5.0.
Subjects: Biographical films.; Feature films.; Fiction films.; Thrillers (Motion pictures); Turing, Alan, 1912-1954; Blu-ray discs.; Enigma cipher system; Mathematicians;

Murder in plain English : from manifestos to memes : looking at murder through the words of killers / by Arntfield, Michael,author.(CARDINAL)622634; Danesi, Marcel,1946-author.(CARDINAL)276983;
"This is the first book to examine murder through the written word--not only the writings of the killers themselves, but also the story of murder as told in literary fiction and the crime dramas that are now a staple of film and television. The authors--a criminologist specializing in cold cases, written evidence, and forensic science, and an anthropologist who has dealt with the signs and ciphers of organized crime and street gangs in his previous work--are widely recognized experts in this emerging specialty field. Based on extensive research and interviews with convicted murderers, the book emphasizes the often-overlooked narrative impulse that drives killers, with the authors explaining how both mass and serial murderers perceive their crimes as stories and why a select few are compelled to commit these stories to writing whether before, during, or after their horrific acts. The book also analyzes the written work of killers, using a combination of machine-based linguistic patterning, predictive modeling, and symbolic interpretation, to make sense of the screeds of everyone from the Son of Sam and the Zodiac Killer to the Columbine attackers, the Unabomber, and the recent spate of mass shooters using social media as their preferred narrative platform. They present a theoretical perspective of murder that is based on both the criminological evidence and written works. In addition, the authors examine famous literature that has dealt ingeniously with murder and its relationship with real crime, from the Greek tragedians to Truman Capote to modern-day productions such as Making a Murderer. This unique approach offers a new means to penetrate the minds of murderers, revealing their motives as well as the wider social meanings of this age-old crime and our continuing fascination with it"--"The first book to examine murder through written words. A criminologist and an anthropologist explore the motives for murder by analyzing the writings of convicted killers as well as depictions of murder in literature and the media"--
Subjects: Murder.;

The woman who smashed codes : a true story of love, spies, and the unlikely heroine who outwitted America's enemies / by Fagone, Jason,author.(CARDINAL)347789;
Includes bibliographical references and index.In 1916, at the height of World War I, brilliant Shakespeare expert Elizebeth Smith went to work for an eccentric tycoon on his estate outside Chicago. The tycoon had close ties to the U.S. government, and he soon asked Elizebeth to apply her language skills to an exciting new venture: code-breaking. There she met the man who would become her husband, groundbreaking cryptologist William Friedman. Though she and Friedman are in many ways the "Adam and Eve" of the NSA, Elizebeth?s story, incredibly, has never been told. In The Woman Who Smashed Codes, Jason Fagone chronicles the life of this extraordinary woman, who played an integral role in our nation?s history for forty years. After World War I, Smith used her talents to catch gangsters and smugglers during Prohibition, then accepted a covert mission to discover and expose Nazi spy rings that were spreading like wildfire across South America, advancing ever closer to the United States. As World War II raged, Elizebeth fought a highly classified battle of wits against Hitler?s Reich, cracking multiple versions of the Enigma machine used by German spies. Meanwhile, inside an Army vault in Washington, William worked furiously to break Purple, the Japanese version of Enigma?and eventually succeeded, at a terrible cost to his personal life. Fagone unveils America?s code-breaking history through the prism of Smith?s life, bringing into focus the unforgettable events and colorful personalities that would help shape modern intelligence.
Subjects: Biographies.; Friedman, Elizebeth, 1892-1980.; Friedman, William F. (William Frederick), 1891-1969.; Cryptographers; Cryptography; Enigma cipher system.;

The woman who smashed codes : a true story of love, spies, and the unlikely heroine who outwitted America's enemies / by Fagone, Jason,author.(CARDINAL)347789;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-427) and index.Author's note: Prying eyes -- Fabyan -- Unbelievable, yet it was there -- Bacon's ghost -- He who fears is half dead -- The escape plot -- Target practice -- Grandmother died -- Magic -- The Hauptsturmführer and the Funkmeister -- Circuit 3-N -- The doll lady -- Hitler's lair -- Epilogue: Girl cryptanalyst and all that.In 1916, a young Quaker schoolteacher and poetry scholar named Elizebeth Smith was hired by an eccentric tycoon to find the secret messages he believed were embedded in Shakespeare's plays. She moved to the tycoon's lavish estate outside of Chicago expecting to spend her days poring through old books. But the rich man's close ties to the U.S. government, and the urgencies of war, quickly transformed Elizebeth's mission. She soon learned to apply her skills to an exciting new venture: codebreaking -- the solving of secret messages without knowledge of the key. Working alongside her on the estate was William Friedman, a Jewish scientist who would become her husband and lifelong codebreaking partner. Elizebeth and William were in many ways the Adam and Eve of the National Security Agency, the U.S. institution that monitors and intercepts foreign communications to glean intelligence. In this book, journalist Jason Fagone chronicles the life of this extraordinary woman who played an integral role in our nation's history -- from the Great War to the Cold War. He traces Elizebeth's developing career through World War I, Prohibition, and the struggle against fascism. She helped catch gangsters and smugglers, exposed a Nazi spy ring in South America, and fought a clandestine battle of wits against Hitler's Reich, cracking multiple versions of the Enigma machine used by German operatives to conceal their communications. And through it all, she served as muse to her husband, a master of puzzles, who astonished friends and foes alike. Inside an army vault in Washington, he worked furiously to break Purple, the Japanese version of Enigma -- and eventually succeeded, at a terrible cost to his personal life. Fagone unveils America's codebreaking history through the prism of one remarkable woman's life, bringing into focus the events and personalities that shaped the modern intelligence community.
Subjects: History.; Biographies.; Friedman, Elizebeth, 1892-1980.; Friedman, William F. (William Frederick), 1891-1969.; Enigma cipher system.; Cryptographers; Cryptography;

The big book of Sherlock Holmes stories / by Penzler, Otto,editor.(CARDINAL)351801;
"Collects eighty-three stories ... published over a span of a hundred years. Featuring ... cases from [the master himself, Arthur Conan Doyle], Leslie S. Klinger, Laurie R. King, Lyndsay Faye, and Daniel Stashower; pastiches from ... classic (P.G. Wodehouse, Dorothy B. Hughes, Kingsley Amis), and current (Anne Perry, Stephen King, [Neil Gaiman], Colin Dexter); parodies from Doyle's contemporaries (A.A. Milne, James M. Barrie, O. Henry); genre-bending cases by science-fiction greats Poul Anderson and Michael Moorcock"--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Short stories.; Holmes, Sherlock; Watson, John H. (Fictitious character); Detective and mystery stories, American.; Detective and mystery stories, English.; Private investigators;

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