At a busy army camp, a small orange cat makes an unexpected friend a kind female soldier who works in the kitchen and shares her food.Every day, the cat waits happily for fish, meat, and gentle pats on the head. But one morning, the soldier is gone.The orange cat worries and waits every day by the barricade, hoping her friend will return.

William is eleven when he witnesses a horrific tragedy. The tragedy raises questions that bring back past experiences in William's life. Experiences that William's mother refuses to acknowledge. To avoid confronting the truth behind what her son witnessed, she sends William halfway across the country. In this thought provoking, coming of age drama, William learns what it means to heal and grow past an unthinkable trauma. Liberating William is about a boys struggle to find peace, and learni...

Essentials of Deep Learning and AI' curates the essential knowledge of working on deep neural network techniques and advanced machine learning concepts. This book is for those who want to know more about how deep neural networks work and advanced machine learning principles including real-world examples.This book includes implemented code snippets and step-by-step instructions for how to use them. You'll be amazed at how SciKit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow are used in AI applications to sp...

This is a short story that reminds us that we have the ability to achieve our dreams and ambitions if we use the opportunities that come our way

Speculative fiction is a thing unto itself, full of wonder and wisdom, creativity and imagination, Here is the first anthology of the North Texas Speculative Fiction Workshop. In these pages, you'll find a mix of fantasy, science fiction, and horror with stories like growing up in the space age, a housewife who hunts the homeless for dinner, the magic of mirrors and shades, an intergalactic triathlon, a magic shad, and much more.

By the time Alira is born, the entire world is under the grip of the evil king COVID-19. She does not find the beautiful world her mother had described to her while she was still her mother’s stomach. What Alira sees is a world of fear, despair and helplessness. She hears words like social distancing, quarantine, lockdown and face mask instead of flowers, trees, children and animals. No one comes to visit her; no one brings her flowers and gifts.Meantime, the world is in a state of...

The world stands at the brink of annihilation under the iron grip of the Antichrist. Amidst the chaos, one hero rises: Chamán, a powerful Apache born in Silver City, New Mexico. Hunted from birth by Satan's evil forces, Chamán is no ordinary man-he's a warrior gifted with extraordinary powers, including hand-to-hand combat, superhuman strength, mindreading, healing, x-ray vision, and foreseeing the future. But mastering these abilities comes at a steep cost.As Earth succum...

In the heart of a quaint countryside town, nestled between rolling hills and lush meadows, lies Grandpa's magical garden. With its vibrant array of flowers that seem to whisper secrets to each other in the gentle breeze, and trees that stand tall like ancient guardians, the garden is a place of wonder and enchantment.Every morning, as the sun peeks over the horizon, Grandpa tends to his garden with a twinkle in his eye and a skip in his step. His wrinkled hands carefully prune deli...

***‘***A pioneer who brought out the poetry in art’—Mint Lounge B.N. Goswamy (1933–2023), one of the most eminent art historians of our times, put India’s art on the global map. His lucid interpretation of art made the subject accessible to a wider audience. He was a master chronicler who offered ‘slight sketches of large subjects’. Ruminations, Goswamy’s last work of, rues the vanishing traces of artisans’ guilds in Europe, celebrates the illustrations to La Fontaine’s ...

This is a story that emphasizes the importance of education even in the midst of early/forced marriage. It encourages those who are down trodden to pick themselves up and value who they are.Martha realized that she was her own enemy

The book explains the basic concepts of planning and design of small hydro power projects in a comprehensive manner. Construction of such projects received priority in India during the 1980s after the environmental impact and rehabilitation problems of major power projects was examined. The activity of constructing small hydro projects gradually shifted to the private sector. Though basic design and planning concepts of the two types of projects, i.e. small hydro and major hydro are the sa...

NEWSFIRE A 50-Year Connect with Media & NatureNEWSFIRE is the story of journalism lived on the frontlines — a compelling memoir spanning five decades of India’s political upheavals, media transformations and public-interest activism.From an Army upbringing and rural Andhra roots, B N Kumar’s journey moves into the high-pressure newsrooms of Hyderabad and Mumbai, where deadlines were relentless and every headline mattered. Through vivid anecdotes, political encounters, scoop...