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Quick Flicks - 7 September 2009

1. Rain Gods by James Lee Burke. Quick flick: Texas Sheriff Hackberry Holland is a former ACLU attorney and Korean War prisoner, and the cousin of none other than beloved Burke character Billy Bob Holland. Running froma traumatic and chequered past to become sheriff of a dried-out, broken-down border town in south Texas, Hackberry soon find himself dealing with more than just his own demons after nine dead prostitutes are dug up in the desert.
2. Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie. Quick flick: Springtime in Styria. And that means war. There have been nineteen years of blood. The ruthless Grand Duke Orso is locked in a vicious struggle with the squabbling League of Eight, and between them they have bled the land white. While armies march, heads roll and cities burn, behind the scenes bankers, priests and older, darker powers play a deadly game to choose who will be king.
3. City Of Thieves by David Benioff. Quick flick: Four months into the siege of Leningrad, the city is starving. Seventeen-year-old Lev fears for his life when he is arrested for looting the body of a dead German paratrooper, while his charismatic cellmate, Kolya, a handsome young soldier arrested for desertion, seems bizarrely unafraid. Dawn brings, instead of an execution squad, an impossible challenge. Lev and Kolya can find a dozen eggs for an NKVD colonel to use for his daughter's wedding cake, and live. Or fail, and die.
4. Full Circle by Michael Palin. Quick flick: For almost a year, Michael Palin travelled through 18 countries on the perimeter of the world's largest ocean, in a spectacular journey of contrasts, drama and beauty. From head-hunters in Borneo to a meal of maggots in Mexico, his route takes him to some of the most politically volatile and physically demanding places on Earth. This is a record of a year of wonder.
5. High Bloods by John Farris. Quick flick: It happened quickly. Overnight, the greater Los Angeles area found itself in the horrifying grasp of a werewolf epidemic. Twenty eight days of the month they are no different than you or me--the High Bloods, who managed to go unaffected. But every full moon, they are the most ravenous creatures man has ever seen. A new law-enforcement agency has been created to keep tabs on the those whose blood runs Lycan. Rawson is an agent for Lycan Control, and his job is to make sure all the afflicted are found, monitored, and kept at bay the night they change.
6. The Gluten-Free Cookbook. Quick flick: Food allergies are more prevalent today than ever before. These recipes show how delicious allergy-free food can be.
7. The Revolt Of The Pendulum: Essays 2005-2008 by Clive James. Quick flick: A collection of essays that provides the things from the rules of grammar to the fundamentals of religion, from the culture of fandom to the cult of the critic.
8. Red To Black by Alex Dryden. Quick flick: A spy thriller, a love story and a chilling look at a resurgent superpower...At the dawn of the new millennium, Finn, an MI6 spy, and Anna, a colonel of the KGB, have been sent to spy on each other. Instead they find a love that becomes the only truth they can trust. A source deep within the Kremlin tells Finn of a plan, hatched in the depths of the Cold War, to dismantle the edifice of the communist state and to bring about the rise of a new imperium within Russia: a plan to control the whole of Europe.
9. The Silent Hour by Michael Koryta. Quick flick: 'Whisper Ridge - Home to Dreams - November 6, 1992- April 27, 1996' So reads the strange epitaph carved beside the door of the home called Whisper Ridge, a multimillion-dollar piece of architectural majesty that once housed the beginnings of a unique program for paroled murderers.
10. High Bloods by John Farris. Quick flick: It happened quickly. Overnight, the greater Los Angeles area found itself in the horrifying grasp of a werewolf epidemic. Twenty eight days of the month they are no different than you or me--the High Bloods, who managed to go unaffected. But every full moon, they are the most ravenous creatures man has ever seen. A new law-enforcement agency has been created to keep tabs on those whose blood runs Lycan.

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