Matriarch

Matriarch is a science-fiction novel by Karen Traviss published in September, 2006. It is the fourth book in the Wess'Har Series, following The World Before and preceding ''Ally ''. Mohan Rayat and Lindsay Neville have been sent to the...

In this article: Karen Traviss

...the Line '' (September 2004) Book 2 of The Wess'har Wars The World Before (October 2005) Book 3 of The Wess'har Wars ''Matriarch '' (October 2006) Book 4 of The Wess'har Wars ''Ally '' (March 2007) Book 5 of The Wess'har Wars

In this article: Karen Traviss, Star Wars, Legacy of the Force, Mandalorian, Betrayal, Jedi, Gears of War, Realms of Fantasy, and Republic Commando

...him the first Maori writer to publish both short stories and a novel. Significant works since then include The Matriarch (1985) and Nights in the Gardens of Spain (1995). His 1987 novel The Whale Rider became an internationally successful...

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..., Patrick White . It tells the story of Elizabeth Hunter, the powerful matriarch of her family, who still maintains a destructive iron grip on those who come to farewell her in her final moments upon her deathbed. It is regarded as one...

In this article: Patrick White, Nobel Prize, and The Eye of the Storm

...attendant brood. Tying them all together is the novel's most compelling character, Hillary, the clan's matriarch and bestselling author of the parenting book "Cradle and All: A Mother's Guide to Enlightened Parenting." Hillary is a brazen...

In this article: Dog, Ordinary People, The Corrections, and Judith Guest

...(which was made into a critically acclaimed film starring Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett), and its nasty central character the family matriarch Audrey Litvinoff lacks the emotional development and moral chiaroscuro that made the equally nasty...

In this article: Zoe Heller, Notes on a Scandal, Socialism, New York, and Judaism

The Simulacra is a 1964 science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick. The novel portrays a future totalitarian society apparently dominated by a matriarch, Nicole Thibodeaux. It revolves around the themes of reality and illusionary beliefs, as...

In this article: Simulacrum, The Simulacra, Philip K. Dick, Human, Second World War, Ideology, and Communism

...uncertainty after 9/11. It was also one of the year's funniest novels in Audrey, the novel's appallingly monstrous matriarch, Heller surely created one of the most caustically witty characters in recent fiction. Philip Roth continued his...

In this article: The White Tiger, Chatto and Windus, Zoe Heller, Democracy, Aravind Adiga, and Korean War

...War. The series centers on the fictional Brannon family, which resides in Culpeper, Virginia, a village and county in north central Virginia north of the Rapidan River that served as a major supply depot for the Confederate army . Each...

In this article: William Shakespeare, American Civil War, Culpeper, Virginia, and James Reasoner

Mr. Nolan then spent more than a decade writing his first novel, "The Banyan Tree" (1999), the multigenerational story of a dairy-farming family in his native county of Westmeath, seen through the eyes of its aging matriarch. It was...

In this article: Christopher Nolan, Dublin, Oxygen, Miracle Drug, Publisher's Weekly, Trinity College Dublin, Richard Ellmann, and The Christian Science Monitor