![]() ![]() I wanted the reader to feel a little like that, as Cat does this sense that maybe, somehow, the ending might be different. Julie: I love this question – thank you for asking it, and I’m glad to hear that was your reaction. ![]() Do you consider the end of the novel hopeful? Q: We know from the beginning of the book that Marlena will die, in fact has been dead for years, but there is such a sense of urgency and suspense that as a reader, I almost thought I could change things – like yelling at the screen during a horror movie – but Marlena dies and Cat survives, though profoundly affected by the both the loss and its unexplained nature. We had the pleasure of reading MARLENA as our most recent virtual book club pick and the extra-special treat of meeting author Julie Buntin in person when she and husband Gabe Habash, author of Stephen Florida, came to Key West in March.įor everyone who didn’t get a chance to join the store event, we asked Julie a few questions that we hope will pique your interest in reading MARLENA. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The aglycone, called doxorubicinone, is composed of a quinone-containing tetracyclic ring, and of a short side chain with a carbonyl group at C-13 and a primary alcohol at C-14 the sugar, called daunosamine, is attached by a glycosidic bond to C-7 of the tetracyclic ring, and consists of a 3-amino-2,3,6-trideoxy- L-fucosyl moiety. As shown in Figure 1, DOX is composed of aglyconic and sugar moieties. The mechanisms of anthracycline-induced cardiotoxicity remain a matter of debate, but some peculiar structure – activity relations have been clarified. Clinical use of the anticancer anthracycline doxorubicin (DOX) is limited by the possible development of progressive cardiomyopathy, especially when the cumulative dose reaches or exceeds ∼500–550 mg m −2 ( Singal & Iliskovic, 1998 Minotti et al., 1999). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Officers Donna and Chris determine that the perpetrator is Ryan Baird, a local teenager who works with a drug dealer they’ve been trying to build a case against, Connie Johnson. Meanwhile, while Ibrahim is out in town, he gets randomly attacked with his phone stolen, and he’s hospitalized. He’s still active in MI5, and he’s accompanied by his handler, Penny, who is young and inexperienced. Elizabeth shows up at the proposed and finds her ex-husband Douglas, there. In Part I, Elizabeth is revealed to be a former MI5 (British intelligence) agent, and she receives a letter from a “Marcus Carmichael”, a fictional person whose death she once faked as part of her work for MI5, asking to meet. (This book picks up very soon after the previous novel ends with the same main characters - Elizabeth, Joyce, Ritchie and Ibrahim - at the Coopers Chase retirement community.) ![]() She then kept working with Elizabeth to try to uncover the location of the diamonds. It’s eventually revealed that he stole them with help from Sue, his contact at MI5 who he was romantically involved with. The one-paragraph version: the Thursday Murder Club gets involved in a new case as Elizabeth’s ex-husband, Douglas (a MI5 agent), shows up asking for help since he stole 20M in diamonds and is in hiding. ![]() ![]() Since childhood, Murakami has been heavily influenced by Western culture, particularly Western music and literature. ![]() His work has been described as 'easily accessible, yet profoundly complex'. Murakami Haruki (Japanese: 村上 春樹) is a popular contemporary Japanese writer and translator. There is a brutal murder, with the identity of both victim and perpetrator a riddle-yet this, along with everything else, is eventually answered, just as the entwined destinies of Kafka and Nakata are gradually revealed, with one escaping his fate entirely and the other given a fresh start on his own. Cats and people carry on conversations, a ghostlike pimp employs a Hegel-quoting prostitute, a forest harbors soldiers apparently unaged since World War II, and rainstorms of fish (and worse) fall from the sky. ![]() ![]() Their odyssey, as mysterious to them as it is to us, is enriched throughout by vivid accomplices and mesmerizing events. Kafka on the Shore, a tour de force of metaphysical reality, is powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-missing mother and sister and an aging simpleton called Nakata, who never recovered from a wartime affliction and now is drawn toward Kafka for reasons that, like the most basic activities of daily life, he cannot fathom. ![]() ![]() ![]() When their men discover what’s being done to them, they too most often keep it quiet. Much of what a woman in the slum puts up with she endures silently, because, as Sunil points out, “How can she tell the world what has been done to her?” They go after women who are vulnerable: the very young, the children or wives of drunkards, or women not right in the head. When she felt the extra pressure on one, she woke up and screamed but was too afraid to tell her husband what had happened. Santosh reached in through the opening for the letterbox and started squeezing the wife’s other breast she slept on, thinking that her husband was squeezing both. Once, a group of boys was spying on a couple asleep near the door of their room the man had a hand on one of his wife’s breasts. ![]() There is nothing gentle about sexuality in the slum it is furtive and feral. “Then there was the bhaiyyani next door, who Santosh started fucking two days after she got her first period and has been fucking steadily for five years, with the threat: “If you don’t allow me to fuck you I’ll kill you.” He climbs into her window when her drunk father is away, or passed out, and rapes her. ![]() ![]() ![]() To survive, Isla must lie, cheat, and betray…even as love complicates everything. They are feared and despised, and are counting on Isla to end their suffering by succeeding at the Centennial. Isla Crown is the young ruler of Wildling-a realm of temptresses cursed to kill anyone they fall in love with. To destroy the curses, one ruler must die. ![]() ![]() The Centennial offers the six rulers one final chance to break the curses that have plagued their realms for centuries. The invitation is a summons-a call to embrace victory and ruin, baubles and blood. Every 100 years, the island of Lightlark appears to host the Centennial, a deadly game that only the rulers of six realms are invited to play. #BookTok phenomenon and award-winning author Alex Aster delivers readers a masterfully written, utterly gripping YA fantasy novel Welcome to the Centennial. Print Lightlark (The Lightlark Saga Book 1) ![]() ![]() ![]() Tori’s Chakra Wisdom Oracle Cards have spent the last 5 years in the Top 10 card decks on Amazon, often in the number 1 position and have sold over 100,000 copies worldwide.Įnlightenment Made Simple is at the heart of the remarkable reputation Tori has built and the two companion books to her bestselling deck, The Chakra Wisdom Oracle Toolkit and How To Read the Cards for Yourself and Others both carried on her passion for guiding others to their purpose. After a near-death experience about 25 years ago, Tori began having a series of encounters with angels that revealed the profound fables that were to become the basis for her international bestselling Chakra Wisdom Oracle Cards. Born and raised in the free-thinking atmosphere of New York’s Greenwich Village in the 1960s, Tori has been aware of her abilities since the age of eight. Tori Hartman is a world-renowned intuitive, best-selling author, and spiritual teacher. ![]() ![]() ![]() For this reason, the land is essential in all Joe Pickett novels. Box worked on ranches and saw nature’s cruelty, beauty, and balance with his own eyes. Box used real-life experiences as background for his short stories. All he wants is to make his community a more peaceful place for his family and other people to enjoy. ![]() ![]() He takes on all sorts of criminals and deals with terrifying murderous crimes. How to get celebrity voices with text to speechĪ family-oriented, honest, and true-to-himself game warden Joe Pickett is fully committed to his work.Everything you need to know about text to speech on TikTok.Alternatives to Google Cloud Text to Speech.Text to speech tools to address ADHD challenges.How text to speech helps an Individualized Education Program.Text to speech for Disabled Students Allowance.How to Win Friends and Influence People.The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.The Chronicles of Narnia Complete Audio Collection. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The helpful back matter includes photographs, a timeline, a map of Kenya’s vegetation, quotations, and an update on deforestation across the globe. Fronty’s illustrations immerse readers in the colors of Kenya and add emotional tension to Wangari’s unwaivering commitment to the landscape and peoples of her beloved Kenya. Against this backdrop, Wangari Maathai, “the woman who planted millions of trees,” founds the Green Belt Movement, an organization dedicated to reforestation, which engages women across the African continent in the replanting of African trees. Prevot’s provocative text explores the political context for Wangari’s advocacy efforts, highlighting the complexities of Kenya’s efforts toward establishing democracy, economic independence, and equal rights. In the shade of the big mugumo, her mother teaches her that a tree is worth more than its wood, an expression that Wangari never forgets.” In a striking picture book biography, French author Franck Prevot describes how these seeds, sewn early, led to a lifetime of advocacy for environmentalist and social activist, Wangari Maathai. “Wangari’s mother gives her a little garden. ![]() ![]() This flows nicely into "The Function of an International Auxiliary Language", but comes to now conclusion. This helps to explain why Chinese can be seen as so old (along with its many exports to other languages) and how we can see a taxon in Algonquin and other Native American languages that fit so much into a single word. Mixing in with the wonder is some linguistic science, such as a classification of languages:įour stages of synthesis may be conveniently recognized the isolating type, the weakly synthetic type, the fully synthetic type and the polysynthetic type. Not really an illuminating exploration, he does telegraph an awe and wonder of this hard to define and categorized subject that is universal in the human experience. They are very well organized and build from one to the other, starting with a long essay on language, his principal field of study. Probably the nine essays here would bear up on repeated readings maybe even years later. ![]() ![]() While Sapir never puts forward a conclusion or deep insight that wows me, he assays into deep and meaningful topics like Montaigne. I gave this three stars for how it struck me, but it probably deserves four or more. ![]() |