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On Fragile Waves is a refugee story, centred around young girl Firuzeh Daizangi, along with her younger brother Nour, and her parents (generally referred to as Abay and Atay, but named Bahar and Omid), as they flee Afghanistan and attempt to reach Australia, falling foul of the country's inhumane policy towards refugees in the process, before finally trying to begin making a new life for themselves despite their still-uncertain status in Melbourne. Originally slated for a 2020 release, On Fragile Waves was pushed back to early this year, and now this prettiest and bleakest of stories is finally coming into the world. One of the earliest stories I got excited for in their catalogue was On Fragile Waves, a intriguing looking tale of refugee migration from author E. I'm excited by Erewhon Press, the new independent SFF publisher on the block whose offerings almost all seem tailor made to hit my "must read" list. Content Warning: On Fragile Waves contains violence (individual and systemic), abuse and racism Now she reclaims her identity to tell her story of trauma, transcendence, and the power of words. Thousands wrote to say that she had given them the courage to share their own experiences of assault for the first time. Her victim impact statement was posted on BuzzFeed, where it instantly went viral-viewed by eleven million people within four days, it was translated globally and read on the floor of Congress it inspired changes in California law and the recall of the judge in the case. Brock Turner had been sentenced to just six months in county jail after he was found sexually assaulting her on Stanford's campus. She was known to the world as Emily Doe when she stunned millions with a letter. " Know My Name is a gut-punch, and in the end, somehow, also blessedly hopeful." - Washington Post I could not put this phenomenal book down." -Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Love Warrior and Untamed Chanel Miller is a philosopher, a cultural critic, a deep observer, a writer's writer, a true artist. Instead, I found myself falling into the hands of one of the great writers and thinkers of our time. "I opened Know My Name with the intention to bear witness to the story of a survivor. Universally acclaimed, rapturously reviewed, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography, and an instant New York Times bestseller, Chanel Miller's breathtaking memoir "gives readers the privilege of knowing her not just as Emily Doe, but as Chanel Miller the writer, the artist, the survivor, the fighter." ( The Wrap). The novel bounces back and forth between the third-person points of view of Carlota and Montgomery. 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That's what Silvia Moreno-Garcia forces us to ask ourselves in "The Daughter of Doctor Moreau" (Del Rey, 320 pp., ★★★ out of four, out now). The result is a corrosive fatalism and a willingness to wreck the precious institutions of liberal democracy and global cooperation. Many commentators, committed to political, religious, or romantic ideologies, fight a rearguard action against it. The Enlightenment project swims against currents of human nature–tribalism, authoritarianism, demonization, magical thinking–which demagogues are all too willing to exploit. But more than ever, it needs a vigorous defense. It is a gift of the Enlightenment: the conviction that reason and science can enhance human flourishing.įar from being a naïve hope, the Enlightenment, we now know, has worked. This progress is not the result of some cosmic force. Instead, follow the data: In seventy-five jaw-dropping graphs, Pinker shows that life, health, prosperity, safety, peace, knowledge, and happiness are on the rise, not just in the West, but worldwide. Is the world really falling apart? Is the ideal of progress obsolete? In this elegant assessment of the human condition in the third millennium, cognitive scientist and public intellectual Steven Pinker urges us to step back from the gory headlines and prophecies of doom, which play to our psychological biases. If you think the world is coming to an end, think again: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives, and while our problems are formidable, the solutions lie in the Enlightenment ideal of using reason and science. While her boyfriend Peter Kavinsky volunteers with his friends, Lara Jean goes to Belleview Retirement Home instead, following in her older sister Margot's footsteps. Lara Jean Covey's high school sets up a volunteer program. The film was released on Februexclusively on Netflix, with a third film titled To All the Boys: Always and Forever released on February 12, 2021. The film is a sequel to To All the Boys I've Loved Before (2018), and the second installment in the To All the Boys film series. The film is based on Jenny Han's 2015 novel P.S. The film stars Lana Condor, Noah Centineo, Janel Parrish, Anna Cathcart, Trezzo Mahoro, Madeleine Arthur, Emilija Baranac, Kelcey Mawema, Jordan Fisher, Ross Butler, Julie Tao, Sarayu Blue, John Corbett, and Holland Taylor. I Still Love You is a 2020 American teen romantic comedy film directed by Michael Fimognari and written by Sofia Alvarez and J. The idealistic Lord Dathirii is waging a battle of honour and justice against the cruel Myrian Empire, objecting to their slavery, their magics, and inhumane treatment of their apprentices. In order to save him, Arathiel may have to shatter the shreds of home he'd managed to build for himself.Arathiel could appeal to the Dathirii-a noble elven family who knew him before he disappeared-but he would have to stop hiding, and they have battles of their own to fight. When Hasryan is accused of Isandor's most infamous assassination of the last decade, what little peace Arathiel has managed to find for himself is shattered. His family is long dead, a magical trap has dulled his senses, and he returns seeking a sense of belonging now long lost.Arathiel hides in the Lower City, piecing together a new life among in a shelter dedicated to the homeless and the poor, befriending an uncommon trio: the Shelter's rageful owner, Larryn, his dark elven friend Hasryan, and Cal the cheese-loving halfling. Isandor hasn't changed-bickering merchant families still vie for power through eccentric shows of wealth-but he has. A hundred and thirty years have passed since Arathiel last set foot in his home city. But the moment these works are adapted, those translations become something on their own. I’m not bragging about all of this reading I haven’t done. And fans can buoy such adaptations in repayment for their dutiful service. A screen adaptation that really seems to capture the element that makes you love your favorite book can be a miraculous thing. Fans of these works are rightly invested in their success. Martin’s Fire and Blood (the basis for HBO’s The House of the Dragon). The past few weeks alone have seen a widely-reviled new Netflix Jane Austen adaptation as well as long-awaited screen transfers of Neil Gaiman’s The Sandmanand George R.R. John Mandel’s, My Brilliant Friend, based on Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels, and, of course, the multiple installments of the Sally Rooney-verse. For the prestige TV crowd, there’s been The Underground Railroad, based on Colson Whitehead’s novel, Station Eleven, based on Emily St. Marvel and DC’s cinematic universes are exclusively adaptive, and the Harry Potter people just keep making Harry Potter movies undeterred by the rising and falling fortunes of the various people involved. It’s no secret that a great deal of contemporary blockbuster media is rooted in the adaptation of popular books and comics. BUT! I did what any sensible parent would do, and look at honest gameplay on Youtube. I was worried at first, because my child (15M), wanted to play this, and the big scary M label was something for me to notice right of way. Don't be put off by the artwork on the box, it's truly a masterpiece of a game. If your child plays games like Warface or Call of Duty, then there is no issue with R6S. It has a high focus on tactics and espionnage, rather than military. This game breaks the mold, using firearms as tools rather than weapons. Yes there are guns, and yes, there is blood, but it is VERY VERY mild and looks super fake. This game promotes strategy, teamwork, and puzzle-solving skills. Some operators (characters) might drop an f-bomb, very rarely, but that's as innappropriate as this game gets. You know how movies automatically bump up the rating to R if there is 2 or more uses of f-k? Same here. She reveals the dangers of pregnancy (with childbirth the cause of death of 1 in 50 Roman women) and traces the progress of newborns into their roles as 4-year-old labourers and teenage brides. Beard also takes a sideways and frequently humorous glance at bar culture, looked down on by the city’s elite for promoting gambling religious observances, such as the Festival of Lupercalia, when naked young men ran round the city whipping any women they met the public baths (best avoided by those with open wounds because of the risk of developing fatal gangrene) the magnificent villas of the wealthy, a world apart from the commoners’ shanty-town homes and the slaves-turned-gladiators and their grisly fights to the death in the Colosseum. Within these pages are the Punic Wars against Hannibal and Carthage the slaves’ uprising under Spartacus the mighty conqueror Julius Caesar and his rivalry with Pompey the formidable Livia, Rome’s first Empress consort Cicero, author of unequalled speeches and writings the brutal assassination of the notorious Caligula Trajan’s military campaign in the east, and the spread of the Roman empire, from Spain and Syria to Gaul and Britain. 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