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Hospital Janette Turner
Orpheus Lost: A Novel
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A Library Journal Best Book and Booklist Editor's Choice: "This astonishingly rich novel...will entrance readers."—Library Journal, starred review In this compelling reimagining of the Orpheus myth, Leela, a young mathematician, encounters gifted Australian musician Mishka performing in the subway. The connection is immediate; a steamy love affair ensues. Insulated by their love, the pair ignores the anxious urban landscape. But when Leela is picked up off the street and taken to an interrogation center and an explosion rocks the subway, the fabric of their bond—and their very identities—begins to unravel. Reading group guide included.
Oyster
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Janette Turner Hospital has been called by the Times Literary Supplement "one of the most powerful and innovative writers in English today." Oyster has received critical acclaim internationally, and was short-listed for the prestigious Miles Franklin Award and the National Book Award in Australia. Outer Maroo, a small, opal mining town in the Australian outback, is stewing in heat, drought, and guilty anxiety. Some ghastly cataclysm has occurred on the opal fields, but this is a taboo subject. At the heart of the mystery is the cult messiah, Oyster, dressed in white, sexually compelling, and preaching the end of time.
You won't find Outer Maroo on any map, and the people who live there intend to keep it that way. In Janette Turner Hospital's extraordinary new novel Oyster, this bleak, drought-stricken town in the Australian outback is home to a scant handful of religious fundamentalists and rowdy, gun-toting opal miners. United by their dislike for taxmen, the government, and "foreigners," the inhabitants have managed to keep their town's underground riches a secret from the world--until the day when a bloody, raving, but "quite strikingly beautiful" man staggers in from the desert and changes everything: "Then Oyster came, and quite soon after, jeeps began to announce themselves in small red clouds. There were campers and squatters, and they kept arriving as the zeros on the calendar got closer; or at any rate that was the connection that Oyster himself made, and the newcomers shared his belief, and so disposed themselves for a certain kind of future, now upon us." In the weeks to come, the charismatic Oyster draws young drifters to his commune outside town, Oyster's Reef, where they become little more than slave labor in the Reef's opal fields. Seduced by his apocalyptic rhetoric or corrupted by his money, the town enters into a strange complicity with the mysterious guru, and anyone who dares to question the arrangement--including a local schoolteacher--conveniently disappears. Eventually, town and cult alike perish in a bloody firestorm that recalls events in Waco, Texas. Throughout, Turner Hospital expertly evokes the desert's shifting dreamscape, a land of pitiless light and heat where the atmosphere itself conspires to create illusion; narrated by a shifting cast of characters, moving back and forth in time, this eerie, hypnotic book often seems much the same way.
Due Preparations for the Plague: A Novel
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"In this bracing, visceral thriller...Hospital continually locates, in human events, the unyieldingly human experience."—San Francisco Chronicle Janette Turner Hospital's electrifying novel chronicles the lives of two strangers connected by the tragic loss of parents in a hijacked Paris-New York flight. As an adult, Samantha, one of the children set free by the terrorists, has become obsessed with the hijacking. Under the guise of her senior thesis, she pulls Lowell, the son of a victim, into a web of terror, death, and betrayal that he has spent his adult life trying to forget. Hospital's electrifying novel is a tightly woven web of familial and national histories, of sexual and political passions, and of individual and national complicities in the age of terrorism. She probes with astonishing acuity the murky worlds of espionage and intelligence gathering, and the painful meaning of survival.
The Last Magician: A Novel
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"A story of high tension and terrifying allure....Her writing has perfect pitch."—Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times The Last Magician is about power and betrayal, sexual obsession and social ostracism. At its center is Lucy, a good girl and a whore, whose nights are spent in a kaleidoscope of identities as she dons the masks her customers demand. Charlie is a photographer, filmmaker, voyeur, and the last magician—monitoring Lucy, piecing together the splinters of evidence surrounding the death of a child and a murder that happened half a lifetime ago. A New York Times Notable Book. Reading group guide included.
Friday Forever: Memoirs of Madness
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North of Nowhere, South of Loss: Stories
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"A new standard for the short story genre that will be hard to surpass." --Library Journal In these prize-winning, "heartbreakingly nuanced" ( Speakeasy) stories, Janette Turner Hospital explores the infinite incarnations of loss; lovers meeting again in midlife re-experience, through the memory of photographs both real and imagined, the passion that both frightened and thrilled them; a young dental hygienist adrift, living in a hostel in northern Australia, receives a heart-wrenching visit from her drug-dependent brother; a mother and adolescent daughter move into a new house, and their sense of safety is shaken when the previous owner reappears, desperate to reclaim what he has lost. Hospital's characters oscillate between estrangement and intense connectedness, between a permanent sense of dislocation and a yearning to belong.
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Everybody's Talkin': Taking a guided tour down memory lane - Times-Mail (subscription)
Times-Mail (subscription), IN - May 21, 2095
Everybody's Talkin': Taking a guided tour down memory laneSo, on Monday, NLCS Superintendent Dennis Turner opened the school to give Godsey and his family a glimpse of his spot in school history, which he shares with only 12 other graduates. Well, maybe “glimpse” isn't the right word; Godsey's picture wasn't
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Well-Being Calendar: 05/28/2009 - Traverse City Record Eagle
Traverse City Record Eagle, MI - May 21, 30
Well-Being Calendar: 05/28/2009Alzheimer's support group, 2 pm first Wed., Paul Oliver Memorial Hospital, first floor patient education room, 224 Park Ave., Frankfort; Jeanette McNinch, 352-2208; times and locations may change, for updated list of support groups, call North/West
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Microlog Wins Contract From University of New Mexico Health ... - Earthtimes (press release)
Earthtimes (press release), UK - May 21, 5899
Microlog Wins Contract From University of New Mexico Health inbound and outbound media, telephone, e-mail, fax, and Web for contact centers. For further information about Microlog's products and solutions, please contact Janet Turner, VP of Sales and Marketing at 301.540.5500 or by email at jturner@mlog.com.
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Community Calendar - Mundelein Review
Mundelein Review, IL - May 21, 1388
Community CalendarContact Jack at (847) 845-6829 or Janet at (847) 921-4227. The Epilepsy Foundation of Greater Chicago sponsors a monthly Vernon Hills Support Group for parents of children with epilepsy. The group meets at 9:30 am on the first Tuesday of each month in
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Grand Strand Scoreboard - Myrtle Beach Sun News
Myrtle Beach Sun News, SC - May 21, 4808
Grand Strand ScoreboardConway Hospital-Ernie Douglas 694, Ricky Hucks 632, Duane Whittle 606, Mel Lassiter 604, Russell Johnson 602, Derrell Kicklighter 256-577, Michele Utermark 200-573, Steve Carpenter 565, Katie Brooks 206-544, David Babbitt 534, Karen Grainger 222-532,
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