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1	Due Preparations for the Plague more books like this by Janette Turner Hospital add to wishlist In 1987, an Air France airliner is taken over en route to New York by a terrorist group, and 13 years later the incident--which ended in tragedy--is still not completely understood. A woman who survived, and the son of a woman who perished, combine forces to find out the truth about the group known as "Black Death." see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Oyster more books like this by Janette Turner Hospital add to wishlist Two strangers arrive in an Australian mining town called Outer Maroo searching for their children who have joined a cult founded by a fundamentalist guru. Hospital uses the situation to explore the difference between false and true religion, the perils of xenophobia, and the impact of violence and evil on a community. A "New York Times" Notable ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.25! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Dislocations: Stories more books like this by Janette Turner Hospital add to wishlist This volume of short stories--Hospital's first--won the Fellowship of Australian Writer's Fiction Award in 1986. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.08! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Isobars more books like this by Janette Turner Hospital add to wishlist Themes of desire, memory, loss and the various guises of damage, are woven into stories that cross time and continents, like isobars of the psyche, presenting a variety of characters, each caught in moments of crisis and illumination. This is a collection of stories by the author of "Charades". see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
5	Isobars: Stories more books like this by Janette Turner Hospital add to wishlist Hospital's second collection of stories. see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	The Last Magician more books like this by Janette Turner Hospital add to wishlist Lucy, the narrator, discards her old identity and finds freedom as a barmaid and then as a prostitute in this story of the people who live in a mazelike series of subterranean tunnels. Set in Sydney, this is a novel about homelessness and poverty, but it is also a postmodern meditation on obsession, identity, and the dark underside of ordinary ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Inheritance: Selections from the South Carolina Fiction Project more books like this by Janette Turner Hospital (Editor), Sara June Goldstein (Preface by) add to wishlist A collection of 36 award-winning short stories from the S.C. Arts commission see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.25! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	Tiger in the Tiger more books like this by Janette Turner Hospital add to wishlist An elderly couple celebrating their 50th anniversary and their troublesome grown children provide the multiple perspectives from which the family reunion at the core of this novel is presented. Like much of Hospital's fiction, this novel explores the theme of culture clashes between east and west. see all copies from $3.46! signed copies \| first editions
9	Flesh in Armour more books like this by Leonard Mann, Janette Turner Hospital (Introduction by) add to wishlist This title presents an Australian perspective on the World War I combat experience. Leonard Mann privately published his first novel, "Flesh in Armour", in Melbourne in 1932, after he was unable to place it with a publisher in Australia or England. The novel was an immediate success, and Mann was subsequently awarded the Australian Literature ... see all copies from $9.85! new only from $13.74!
10	Orpheus Lost more books like this by Janette Turner Hospital add to wishlist In an enthralling novel as passionate as it is true to life, Hospital reveals an American underworld of suspicion and despair, and shows how fear and paranoia have worked their way into our daily lives. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11	Charades more books like this by Janette Turner Hospital add to wishlist In 1988, this novel was shortlisted for the Australian National Book Award as well as for the Miles Franklin Award. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12	Ivory Swing more books like this by Janette Turner Hospital add to wishlist Winner of the prestigious Canadian Seal First Novel Award, this is the story of a woman who feels alien in both her own country (India) and her adopted one (Canada). The novel, based on Hospital's own experiences as a traveler in India, grew out of a short story, "Waiting", which won an "Atlantic Monthly First" citation when it was published in ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.31! \| signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	Borderline more books like this by Janette T. Hospital add to wishlist Three people, strangers to one another, arrive at a border crossing. Two of them assist the third, a refugee from El Salvador. Immediately their lives become dangerously and inextricably linked. The author also wrote "The Ivory Swing", "The Tiger in the Tiger Pit" and " Charades". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
14	Collected Stories, 1970-1995 more books like this by Janette Turner Hospital add to wishlist see all copies from $25.82! signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	The tiger in the tiger pit more books like this by Janette Turner Hospital add to wishlist Janette Turner Hospital's gifts for memorable characters, startling insights and poetic prose are amply displayed in this intense psychological drama. A family reunion to celebrate a wedding anniversary is the scene of painful confrontation as fragments of past and present collide. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
16 view cover	North of Nowhere, South of Loss: Stories more books like this by Janette Turner Hospital add to wishlist Janette Turner Hospital's story collection includes a short sequence of four stories about the friendship between two Australians, Philippa and Brian, artist and scientist. She also writes about an abused child, a woman who flees her old life after a tragedy, and a white Bostonian with a black daughter in Georgia. Hospital, though born in Brisbane ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.75! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Dislocations more books like this by Janette Turner Hospital add to wishlist This volume of short stories--Hospital's first--won the Fellowship of Australian Writer's Fiction Award in 1986. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.75! \| signed copies \| first editions
18 view cover	Tiger in the Tiger Pit more books like this by Turner add to wishlist For months the charming and forgiving Elizabeth has been trying to get her family together, possibly for the last time before her husband dies. This story is of a family life - its hostilities, explosive secrets and its constricting yet enduring love. The author also wrote "The Ivory Swing". see all copies from $1.99! first editions
19	L'Opale Du Dèsert by Janette Turner; Buhl Hospital, Virginie add to wishlist see all copies from $49.26! new only from $49.26!

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