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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Television drama following the lives of three Catholic sisters, Iris (Catherine Tyldesley), May (Leanne Rowe) & Ruby (Karrie Hayes) as they come of age following the First World War. Episodes comprise: ' The Chit Behind King Billy', ' The Thunderbolt', ' The White Charger', ' The Tallyman', ' The Sea', ' The Release', ' The Serpent' & ' The Reckoning'. ...

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. ...

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. ...

Jungian analyst & scholar Siegmund Hurwitz, who received his training from C G Jung, Toni Wolff & M L von Franz, wrote his all-encompassing work on Lilith over a period of some 30 years. A historical treatise illustrated with modern case material, this title presents an English translation. ...