Wimmera Regional Library Corporation

Quick Flicks - 29 September 2008

1. The Private Patient by P.D. James. Quick flick: When the notorious investigative journalist Rhoda Gradwyn booked into Mr Chandler-Powell's private clinic in Dorset for the removal of a disfiguring and long-standing facial scar, she had every prospect of a successful operation by a distinguished surgeon, a week's peaceful convalescence in one of Dorset's most beautiful manor houses and the beginning of a new life. She was never to leave Cheverell Manor alive.
2. Creative Quilting With Beads: Bags, Aprons, Mini-Quilts & More by Valerie Van Arsdale Shrader. Quick flick: Quilters will welcome this idea-packed resource with 24 projects that will open up a new realm of creative potential. The illustrated basics section covers a variety of ways to affix beads to textiles. A quilting primer is included, too, as a helpful refresher. But most of all, stitchers will enjoy experimenting with the featured techniques and making a retro-chic throw pillow, fabric greeting card with appliqued flowers and seed beads, and miniature wall quilt of a stylized bird.
3. Swan Peak by James Lee Burke. Quick flick:  Detective Robicheaux is far from his New Iberia roots, attempting to relax in the untouched wilderness of rural Montana. He, his wife, and his buddy Clete Purcel have retreated to stay at an old friend's ranch, hoping to spend their days fishing and enjoying their distance from the harsh, gritty landscape of Louisiana post-Katrina. But the serenity is quickly shattered when two college students are found brutally murdered in the hills behind where the Robicheauxs and Purcel are staying.
4. The Assassin by Stephen Coonts. Quick flick: While on the trail of Al Qaeda lieutenant Abu Qasim, ex-burglar turned CIA operative Tommy Carmellini photographs an American mobster boarding a yacht in the harbor of the island of Capri. Tommy's boss, Jake Grafton, sends him to find the link, if there is one, between the mobster, Fioratti, and Al Qaeda. Meanwhile Fioratti is busy planning a terror-for-hire strike that will make him rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
5. Grits by Niall Griffiths. Quick flick: In the late 1990s, a group of young drifters find themselves together on the coast of Wales. They explore and attempt to overcome the yearnings and addictions that brought them this place, promiscuity, drugs, petty crime, the intense and angry search for the meaning which they feel life is lacking at the end of this momentous century.
6. Blood Ties by Sam Hayes. Quick flick: It is January 1992. A baby girl is left alone for a moment long enough for a mother to dash into a shop, and long enough for a child to be taken. Thirteen years later, solicitor Robert Knight's stepdaughter wins a place at a prestigious London school for the gifted. The only puzzle is his wife Erin's reaction. Why is she so reluctant to let Ruby go? As Erin grows more evasive, Robert can't help but feel she has something to hide, and when he stumbles on mysterious letters, he discovers she has been lying to him. Somewhere in his wife's past lies a secret a shocking secret that threatens to destroy everything!
7. The Essential Lighting Manual For Photographers by Chris Weston. Quick flick: 
   Technical information covered includes: methods of metering light and achieving correct exposure, and why reflectors are so important the use of natural daylight, both indoors and out the use of artificial light and creative techniques to push photographic results beyond the realms of the snapshot.
8. More Softies: 22 New Friends for You to Sew and Crochet. Quick flick:  Following the huge success of Softies come More Softies, with lots of new quirky, cute and cuddly dolls for you to make at home.
9. Light And Mood In Watercolour by David Curtis. Quick flick: Leading watercolourist reveals the secrets behind his atmospheric, light-filled paintings. Watercolour is ideal for capturing the transient effects of light and, with compact and lightweight materials, is the perfect medium for plein-air painting
10. Sock And Glove by Miyako Kanamori. Quick flick: 'Sock and Glove' presents thirteen delightful softy projects that are quick to make - and certain to amuse and delight. Full of individuality and mischief, these stuffed creations are all pieced together from ordinary socks, gloves and mittens.

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