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...could call Malaysian. The Rice Mother, a delicious fictional cocktail packed with Malaysian flavors, may finally put the country on the global publishing map. Plainly, debut novelist Rani Manicka has studied other Asia-themed best sellers such as Wild Swans and The Joy Luck Club to produce a family saga centered on the tempestuous relationships between mothers and their children. Her central female character undergoes horrible suffering but triumphs in such a way that professors will undoubtedly be including Rice Mother on the reading list for Gender Empowerment 101. But Rice Mother is more than a sarong saga. Its characters...
...told, _Eugenesis_ is outstanding, successfully transforming a toy-based, children-targeted storyline into a mature science-fiction saga. James Roberts employs an engaging writing style, a fascinating narrative, and a realistic and brutal portrayal of an eternally warring world. Recommended...
...Gaili’s case, the visa saga has ended. But he has permanently changed his life plans—and fears that other potential leaders from developing countries might veer away from the U.S. in the future...
...promptly sent an e-mail with the subject line “Saga Ends!” to his friends in Cambridge, happily announcing that he would return almost in time for the Harvard-Yale game...
...several ongoing investigations into accounting at the pre-merger AOL and the suspicion that in the end, it was only the hard assets of Time Warner that have saved AOL from a real meltdown, and you have the business world's last half-decade written in micrososm. In the saga of the century's biggest bubble, AOL Time Warner was the grand and culminating experiment, and Case by turns played its leading huckster, visionary, profiteer, and failure...