Shielded from emotional & physical abuse by layers of fat, Lilian struggles to escape a suffocating existence in the home of her tyrannical Victorian father & her elegant but ineffectual mother. This book traces the progress of her life's journey, & why she made the choices she did. ...

The lily is one of the most beautiful & popular flowers in the garden & despite having a reputation for being "temperamental", lilies can actually be very easy to grow. This concise, illustrated handbook contains detailed information on the care of a variety of lilies. It is suitable for both amateur gardeners & experienced growers. ...

Shortlisted for the Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice BC Book Prize (2005)
Award-winning journalist Stephen Hume delves into the
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Travelling handyman Homer Smith (Sidney Poitier) encounters a group of nuns led by Mother Maria (Lilia Skala) while driving through the Arizona desert. Newly arrived from Germany & unable to speak much English, the nuns prevail upon Homer to fix the leaky roof of their farmhouse &, despite being unable to pay him any money, persuade him to stay on & build them a chapel. As he works for the nuns, teaching them English in his spare time, Homer discovers a new purpose to his life, but encounters resistance from the local community when he tries to persuade them to help with the building work. Poitier won an Oscar for his performance in the film
- the first black actor ever to do so.
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Riko turns in a new garment for the emperor's banquet. Unfortunately, the emperor dislikes it, & orders Riko to remake the garment. Riko tells the emperor he doesn't have enough time to make another one. The emperor expresses his outrage, & Riko & Ria-hu, who argue with the emperor, end up executed on the spot. &, Liling-Po happens to see. ...

When Liling Po & company arrive at a mysterious village where child labor is a common practice, they meet a boy named Kei-sho who claims that he has one of the eight great treasures. But everything isn't exactly as it appears to be
- Kei-sho's treasure is a fake, & Liling Po's journey suddenly takes a turn for the worse.
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Tells the story of Mr Vane, an orphan & heir to a large house
- a house in which he has a vision that leads him through a large
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Occult horror in which a nun takes a group of students on a college trip they'll never forget. Abducted as a child & subjected to ritualistic abuse by those wishing to invoke the spirit of Lilith, the 'mother of all demons', Sister Katherine (Tina Krause) takes her wards off to the woods to research Pagan rituals. But while Sister Katherine shuts herself off in her cabin, trying in vain to battle the gory demons from her past, her students inadvertently attempt to summon up biblical demon Lilith, not realising that their chaperone shares a sinister connection with the malevolent spirit, one that they will soon come to experience first h&. ...

Warren Beatty stars in this psychological drama as Vincent Bruce, a Korean war veteran who works as a therapist in a private sanitorium for the mentally disturbed. There he meets charismatic, mysterious patient Lilith Arthur (Jean Seberg), & begins his own mental disintegration as he tries to enter her emotionally disturbed world. ...