His portrayals of adolescence are pitch-perfect heartbreakers, especially the saga of high school shot-putters in "Ode to Oldcorn".
The big seller, of course – if one discounts the tsunami of erotica flowing from the pens of EL James and imitators – was JK Rowling's The Casual Vacancy (Little, Brown), a wizard-free saga about high passions and low deeds in a parish council election that reads like a mash-up between Jonathan Coe and Joanna Trollope.
Thursday's report brings to an end a near 10-year saga of high-level international intrigue and cold war-style recrimination.
As Dr. Onorato and other researchers see it, the tale of the Florida panther is twitchier and more sinuous than its long tail, a continuing saga of highs and lows, hopes and oh nos.
In particular, decisions he made at a crucial juncture – when he recharged the Model S in Norwich, Conn., a stop forced by the unexpected loss of charge overnight – were certainly instrumental in this saga's high-drama ending.
In North America, its revenues overtook those of the original Star Wars as the saga's highest grossing film when not adjusting for inflation of ticket prices, and is currently the fifth-highest-grossing film in North America.
The whole saga stinks to high heaven of rapacious corporate greed, putting profits before people and the environment.
Its other multi-level games, such as "Pet Rescue Saga" and "Farm Heroes Saga" also appear high up app-store rankings: App Annie, a research firm, says that all three were in the top eight games, by revenue, in Apple's store in February; "Candy Crush Saga" and "Farm Heroes Saga" were in the top nine in Google Play.
Andrew Mitchell, the former Conservative cabinet minister at the centre of the long-running Plebgate saga, lost his high court libel trial on Thursday in a ruling that leaves him facing an estimated legal bill of £1.5m and his political career in tatters.
He reportedly showed no emotion as the judge read out the decision, which was reached by nine white and three black jurors and capped off a saga of a high school dropout who self-radicalized by reading racist material on the internet.
