Fireflies, or brief poems, originated in China & Japan & were often written on pieces of silk. This is a collection of proverbs, aphorisms, & maxims. Collected by Rabindranath Tagore over many years, each firefly, rarely more than a sentence long, represents a thought on love, life, beauty or God. ...

The Khojas who are rigidly orthodox, presiding over acres of ill-kept sugarcane & hoards of jewellery enthusiastically guarded by old Mrs Khoja, seem to have triumphed more by default than by anything else. Only Baby Khoja, who is parcelled off into an arranged marriage with a blustering bus driver, proves an exception to this rule. ...

Dennis Lee writes & directs this semi-autobiographical drama about a dysfunctional family struggling to find its way beyond a devastating & unforeseen tragedy. Julia Roberts stars as beleaguered family matriarch Lisa Waechter, who has long subordinated her needs & desires to those of her family, particularly her coldly domineering husband Charles (Willem Dafoe). A tragic event triggers a series of flashbacks revealing how the seeds of the family's current malaise were planted years previously. Ryan Reynolds, Emily Watson, Carrie-Anne Moss & Ioan Gruffudd co-star. ...

The ink our ancestors wrote with, the beeswax in altar candles, the honey on our toast, the silk we wear. This book explores the myriad ways insects have enriched our lives. It describes how many of the valuable products insects have given us are made, how they were discovered, & how they have been used through time & across cultures. ...

Explores the myriad ways in which the insects have enriched our lives
- culturally, economically, & aesthetically. This book
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Set 500 years in the future, this title centres around Mal Reynolds, captain of the ship-for-hire Serenity & its eclectic crew of galactic misfits. When he takes on two passengers, a young doctor & his mysterious, telepathic sister, he gets much more than he bargained for... ...