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  The Night of No Weather - A...

  Violet Hunt

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  Isobel Violet Hunt was born on 28th September 1862 in Durham. As a young child her family moved to London and Hunt was brought up amongst the Pre-Raphaelite circle of artists.   
   
  As a writer she was comfortable and talented enough to write across several forms including short stories, novels, memoir, and biography. Her novels are excellent examples of New Woman fiction and help illustrate her activities fighting for and promoting better rights for women. 
   
  Although she remained unmarried she had lovers as notable as Somerset Maugham, H G Wells and Ford Maddox Ford, the latter whom she lived with for a number of years. 
   
  Her collections of supernatural short stories contain much of her best work and despite her considerable talents and literary output her reputation rests both on the literary salons she held at her home in Campden Hill, where the very best of literary society attended, and for her founding of the Women Writers' Suffrage League in 1908 and her participation in the founding of International PEN in 1921. 
   
  Violet Hunt died of pneumonia at her home in Campden Hill on 16th January 1942. She was 79 and is buried at Brookwood Cemetery. 
   
  In ‘The Night of More Weather’ Hunt once more brilliantly enters a character and describes a world that is compellingly real.  But a very different turn of events is about to reveal itself.

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  X Marks the Pedwalk

  Fritz Leiber

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  X Marks the Pedwalk by Fritz Leiber - This is how it all began—the terrible civil strife that devastates our world! 
  The raggedy little old lady with the big shopping bag was in the exact center of the crosswalk when she became aware of the big black car bearing down on her. 
  Behind the thick bullet-proof glass its seven occupants had a misty look, like men in a diving bell. 
  She saw there was no longer time to beat the car to either curb. Veering remorselessly, it would catch her in the gutter. 
  Useless to attempt a feint and double-back, such as any venturesome child executed a dozen times a day. Her reflexes were too slow. 
  Polite vacuous laughter came from the car's loudspeaker over the engine's mounting roar. 
  From her fellow pedestrians lining the curbs came a sigh of horror. 
  The little old lady dipped into her shopping bag and came up with a big blue-black automatic. She held it in both fists, riding the recoils like a rodeo cowboy on a bucking bronco. 
  Aiming at the base of the windshield, just as a big-game hunter aims at the vulnerable spine of a charging water buffalo over the horny armor of its lowered head, the little old lady squeezed off three shots...

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  Veil of Synesthetic Senses The:...

  Hang Nguyen

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  In the sensory spectrum hall of Synesthe, where synesthetes blend senses from color webs and sense manipulators overlap perceptions from the veiled palette, synesthete Elowen blends a veiled sense with manipulator Noct, whose manipulated tones overlap a palette of distorted harmonies. Their sense, blended in color vows and tone-kissed blends, senses truth—or overwhelms it in halls of sensory chaos. As they spectrum through hall-laced hues and sense-bound vibrations, blended by color wardens and tone rivals, Elowen's synesthetic fusion merges with Noct's manipulating overlap, revealing a spectrum legend of blended harmony. When a clashing color summons dissonance shades, they must blend the sense to harmonize the hall. In the veil of synesthetic colors, where every whisper tastes the sound and every manipulation sees the flavor, their veiled mystery becomes the palette that balances the overlapped world.

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  The Satan Bug

  Alistair MacLean

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  Gripping and tense story of secret agents, even more secret government facilities, and a deadly virus, from the acclaimed master of action and suspense. 
  Mordon Chemical Research Centre: an ultra top secret facility hidden in the English countryside and one of the most secure places in the world. But now it has been broken into and the Satan Bug, the deadliest toxin in the world, has been stolen. 
  Private detective Pierre Cavell is recruited by the British Secret Service to investigate, and it soon becomes clear that not everyone is who they seem. 
  And then a letter is sent giving the authorities just 72 hours to meet the thief’s outrageous demands. There is no way they can pay the ransom, but if they refuse he will release the virus… 
  Alistair MacLean's The Satan Bug is a thrilling adventure into the world of espionage. This best-selling story of action and technological threats will keep readers on the edge of their seats, as they follow the protagonist's desperate race against time. 
  For fans of Frederick Forsyth (The Veteran), Nevil Shute (A Town Like Alice), Ken Follett (The Armour of Light), Edward Marston (The Railway Detective's Christmas Case), and Eric Ambler (The Mask of Dimitrios). 
  HarperCollins 2024

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  Burning Secrets

  Denise Diana Huddle

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  Ruthless killers. Deadly deceit. Fiery passion. 
   
  She'll do anything to catch a polluter. He'll do anything to stop her.Undercover Texas PI Brock Emerson has one job—to keep chemical engineer Adelaide Reese from shutting down his client's paper mill. But he had no idea how tempting the beautiful scientist would be. Or how much he'd want to protect her . . .Set on proving pollution from the mill is poisoning the local town, Adelaide is making powerful enemies. And when angry mill employees stage a violent attack, Brock can't help stepping in to save her.Posing as a journalist, he wins her trust. Then they witness a murder that makes Brock question both his employer and his moral compass . . . and sends them running for their lives.When the woman he's falling for learns he's been lying to her all along, Brock finds himself in a position he never imagined. Will doing his job cost him his integrity and his heart? Or will they both pay the ultimate price for crossing a master manipulator?

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  Small World - Surviving the...

  William F. Nolan

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  Small World by William F. Nolan - What will happen when the alien ships strike Earth? And later? Who will survive? What will life be like in that latter-day jungle? William F. Nolan, well known in SF circles on the West Coast, returns with this grim story of the days and the nights of Lewis Stillman—survivor ... 
  In the waiting windless dark, Lewis Stillman pressed into the building-front shadows along Wilshire Boulevard. Breathing softly, the automatic poised and ready in his hand, he advanced with animal stealth toward Western, gliding over the night-cool concrete, past ravaged clothing shops, drug and ten-cent stores, their windows shattered, their doors ajar and swinging. The city of Los Angeles, painted in cold moonlight, was an immense graveyard; the tall white tombstone buildings thrust up from the silent pavement, shadow-carved and lonely. Overturned metal corpses of trucks, busses and automobiles littered the streets. 
  He paused under the wide marquee of the FOX WILTERN. Above his head, rows of splintered display bulbs gaped—sharp glass teeth in wooden jaws. Lewis Stillman felt as though they might drop at any moment to pierce his body. 
  Four more blocks to cover. His destination: a small corner delicatessen four blocks south of Wilshire, on Western. Tonight he intended bypassing the larger stores like Safeway or Thriftimart, with their available supplies of exotic foods; a smaller grocery was far more likely to have what he needed. He was finding it more and more difficult to locate basic food stuffs. In the big supermarkets only the more exotic and highly spiced canned and bottled goods remained—and he was sick of caviar and oysters!

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