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Non-fiction historical depiction of an Italian immigrant who was wrongfully accused. Julie DeLillo and Michael Natale tell the story of their proud grandfather who was able to make his hopes and dreams a reality before losing it all to pay for his own defense.

During the Cold War the disabled plane of an American Pilot on a spy mission goes down over China. The Human Cell tells the story of his spiritual journey as he confronts his despair and his slow death in the cell to which he is soon confined. The novel offers companionship to readers who are in a place of suffering - to teenagers or senior citizens feeling isolated and alone; to readers in hospices or at home suffering the loneliness of death; to their family caretakers facing loss and grief. As quality fiction the novel is suitable for use in college courses on American literature, history, philosophy, or religion. It offers an unusual portrayal of consciousness, for example, and of Catholic mysticism.

Fashioned from the war-time experiences of three very different men, Potshots begins in the Big Apple with Juvenile Delinquent Johnathon Riley O'Brien's life of poverty and desperation; it then weaves its way to Bien Hoa, Vietnam, where rule-follower and war supporter Private First Class Reginald "Reggie" J. Holcombe confronts the ghosts he's brought with him from the states. The two unlucky GIs ultimately end up in a POW camp near Cambodia where NLF soldier Kim Xuan Duong struggles with whether the extreme, almost farcical, propaganda he forces John and Reggie to endure isn't simply a mis-guided attempt to be forgiven by The Party for his bourgeoisie origins.

When Tobias Cherub-a guardian angel-gets stuck with infamously grumpy client, Entwistle P. McGRRRumble-the meanest 'weed in the garden of chamomiles' that ever was-he's not happy about it. In fact, Tobias is downright miserable. Yet when the Big GRRR complains there's a case of "inspiritin'" going 'round A Nether World Transitional Center, Tobias discovers his bellyaching ward may not be as bad as he seems! Maybe the Big GRRR simply has cause for complaint!

A Hunt for Unfathomable Treasures Leads to Appalling TreacheryCIA Deputy Director Warren Jumper uncovers an outlandish Jihadist plot to finance their next 9/11. Their plan, find hidden Pirate Treasure along the banks of the St Johns River in Florida. The basis of the extremist's blueprint is disquietingly similar to the native legends of his Seminole heritage. He realizes within those epic tales the validity of the danger, and defines those ancient truths in the legendary, enchanting beauty of one Seminole maiden that captures his normally stoic heart.Knowing he must find the hidden trove first, Jumper enlists his friends from Delana Bend in the race to foil an outrageous plan to attack the very hearts of America. Yet even before the hunt can begin Craig McNair, and the love of his life Ivory Fallow, run afoul of a heroin smuggling operation on the river. Their enduring love is swept into uncharted currents of danger, illuminating mystifying passions buried within their romance and a concealed path to an even deeper and more valuable treasure.Now that The Shopkeeper exacted vengeance, the true adventures begin, in love... and in survival.

The Lost Book of Magic, Zolar's magic book of ancient Egyptian magic, is about a book that has been forgotten by the passing of centuries. Only a few had even heard of Zolar or his magic book. The story concerns the Goteborgs, a family of Swedish magicians. They have performed their magic throughout Europe for two centuries. The two oldest brothers, Otto and Wilfred Goteborg, studied and added to their vast knowledge of magic from the present to the past by searching in Egypt for invisible tonics. In the year 1871, Wilfred stumbles on the story of Zolar and the Ten Magicians in King Praenoman's service. The story he heard of Zolar's book is that it is a special book of earthly magic. Returning to Sweden, Wilfred convinces his older brother Otto to mount an expedition to find Zolar's lost book, traveling from Sweden to Egypt, through Greece, and then home through Europe. The Goteborg family, and the two giants that now accompany them, encounter many strange people on their quest to find the magic book. Once found, Zolar's magic book proves to possess magic powers of its own, powers that hint at the possible existence of a second book, a sister book, that is still undiscovered in Cyrene, an ancient city in North Africa.

Applications of computer vision have seen great success recently, yet there are few approaches dealing with visual illustrations. We propose a collection of computer vision applications for parsing genetic models. Genetic models are a visual illustration often used in the biological sciences literature. These are used to demonstrate how a discovery fits into what is already known about a biological system. A system that determines the interactions present in a genetic model can be valuable to researchers studying such interactions. The proposed system contains three parts. First, a triplet network is deployed to decide whether or not a figure is a genetic model. Second, a popular object detection network YOLOvS is trained to locate regions of interest within genetic models using various deep learning training techniques. Lastly, we propose an algorithm that can infer the relationships between the pairs of genes or textual features present in the genetic model.