Naomi Tyler has it all: The expensive cars, the mansion, parents who've made sure she's never worked a day in her life. She's lived the life of a princess but when she finds herself in a loveless engagement with stuffy and boring CEO Elijah Danes, Naomi realizes she wants more than the life of a society girl. Against the wishes of her fiancé, Naomi enrolls in a prestigious medical college and flourishes. There, she meets rakish and charming med-student, Harrison Grey. He's everything Elija...

Enter a world of desire, deception, and undeniable attraction in 'Hazel's Heartbreak.' When betrayal strikes her deepest bonds, Hazel sets out on a journey of revenge, seeking solace in the arms of the enigmatic Dom. Their magnetic connection blurs lines, leading to an explosive encounter that leaves them both craving more. But as secrets unfold and hearts collide, can Hazel resist the pull of her tumultuous past and embrace a future of unexpected love? Brace yourself for a rollercoaster o...

A child is born with an insatiable hunger. As a ravenous infant she is the undoing of her mother; under her father's adoring gaze, her body grows and grows.Her father claims she devoured her twin sister in the womb. Her classmates delight in tormenting her for her size. And inside this girl, so alone and so enraged, another hunger is born-for revenge.Bizarrely poetic and grotesquely humorous, All Flesh is a twisted fairy tale that tears apart hypocrisies around bea...

A Tale of Love, Lust, and Betrayal" is an enthralling exploration of the complex dynamics that lie beneath the surface of seemingly perfect relationships. Meet Hayley and Clyde, a once-happy couple whose burning desire for each other has led them to embrace role-play as a means of keeping their marriage exciting. Their intimate encounters take them back to the days of their first date, rekindling the flames of passion and igniting their imaginations.However, as the years go by, it b...

A Tale of Love, Lust, and Betrayal" takes readers on a captivating journey into the lives of Hayley and Clyde, a couple desperately seeking to reignite their passion through thrilling role-play. As their playful adventures evolve, unforeseen twists lead them down a path of forbidden affairs and dangerous liaisons. When secrets and lies unravel, an open marriage agreement spirals into jealousy and obsession. Torn between her husband and her lover, Hayley's world unravels, and Claire's jealo...

A dark tale of revenge, lust, power, and motherhood set against a reincarnation plot that rises out of the dark corners of modern India.In a dark alley in a small town in northern India live Veena, her ten-year-old daughter, Chinti, and their many companions—women who work as prostitutes in the town’s shadowy demimonde. Veena is daughter to every woman here. But no one cares for her quite as much as Sadhana, who lives apart with the other hijras—shunned and feared ...

This YA edition includes an original preface by the author, before the unabridged text of the original edition (2016). Two girls: Eve, whose body is her only weapon and source of power; Savita, Eve's best friend and the only one who loves her selflessly, planning to leave, but not without Eve. Two boys: Saadiq, gifted would-be poet, deeply in love with Eve; Clelio, the neighbourhood tough, waiting without hope for his brother to send for him from France. All are desperate to escape the cyc...

Imaginary Maps presents three stories from noted Bengali writer Mahasweta Devi in conjunction with readings of these tales by famed cultural and literary critic, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Weaving history, myth and current political realities, these stories explore troubling motifs in contemporary Indian life through the figures and narratives of indigenous tribes in India. At once delicate and violent, Devi's stories map the experiences of the "tribals" and trib...

Imagine finding a glimmer of good news in a diagnosis of Alzheimer's.And imagine how that would change the outlook of the 5 million Americans who suffer from Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, not to mention their families, loved ones, and caretakers. A neurologist who's been specializing in dementia and memory loss for more than 20 years, Dr. Gayatri Devi rewrites the story of Alzheimer's by defining it as a spectrum disorder—like autism, Alzheimer's is a dis...

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs), a type of deep neural network that has become dominant in a variety of computer vision tasks, in recent years, CNNs have attracted interest across a variety of domains due to their high efficiency at extracting meaningful information from visual imagery. CNNs excel at a wide range of machine learning and deep learning tasks. As sensor-enabled internet of things (IoT) devices pervade every aspect of modern life, it is becoming increasingly critical to r...

A leading Alzheimer's expert presents a comprehensive program to help prevent and slow the progress of memory loss.There are currently more than four million Americans afflicted with Alzheimer's, and an estimated 14 million will have the disease by 2050. The good news is that everyone can make lifestyle changes to increase the odds that they will live well into old age with their mental faculties intact. Dr. Devi's groundbreaking program can help prevent the disease...

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the scientific satellite events held in conjunction with the 21st International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, ICSOC 2023. The conference was held in Rome, Italy, during November 28 – December 1, 2023.This year, these satellite events were organized around four main tracks, including a workshop track, a demonstration track, a Ph.D. symposium, and an invited tutorial track.The ICSOC 2023 workshop track consisted o...