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SUMMARY:Lunch and Learn: "The Hospital at the End of the World" by Justin 
 C. Key
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DESCRIPTION:This fall\, grab your favorite lunch at noon and tune in to vi
 rtual conversations with the Prince George’s County Office of Human
  Rights and the Prince George’s County Memorial Library System on t
 opics from repairing the effects of racial injustice to fighting for equit
 able access to recovering from exile and loss. Let’s learn together
 !\n.\nhttps://pgcmls.libnet.info/event/17607162
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>Lunch and Learn returns with special guest
  Justin C. Key in conversation with the Prince George's County Office of H
 uman Rights and the Prince George's County Memorial Library System discuss
 ing his book\, "The Hospital at the End of the World."</p>\n<p style="text
 -align: left\;"><strong>Registration not required. Click on the YouTube vi
 deo linked below to stream the program live or watch the recording later.<
 /strong><strong></strong></p>\n<p><strong><img src="https://static.libnet.
 info/frontend-images/editor/pgcmls/HospitalattheEnd.jpg" width="350" heigh
 t="529" alt="" style="display: block\; margin-left: auto\; margin-right: a
 uto\;" /><br /></strong></p>\n<p>About the Book:&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>From the a
 uthor of the acclaimed The World Wasn&rsquo\;t Ready for You&nbsp\;comes a
  thrilling first novel\, set in a near future where artificial intelligenc
 e runs the world\, involving a young medical student who must unravel fami
 ly secrets to uncover the truth of his father&rsquo\;s mysterious death.</
 p>\n<p>In a time not so far from our own\, society is run by a global AI s
 ystem controlled by an all-powerful corporation.&nbsp\;The Shepherd Organi
 zation oversees every medical school in the country save one in New Orlean
 s\, the renegade Hippocrates which still insists on human-led medicine.&nb
 sp\;It is the last choice school for an ambitious young New Yorker named P
 ok.&nbsp\;But after his father&mdash\;himself a physician&mdash\;dies unde
 r mysterious circumstance that seems connected to &ldquo\;the shepherds&rd
 quo\; and their megalomaniacal young CEO\, Pok finds himself on a quest fo
 r answers that leads right to Hippocrates.&nbsp\;Once enrolled\, he stumbl
 es upon a further mystery: a strange illness is plaguing newcomers to New 
 Orleans who grew up under shepherd rule. What is causing this fatal anomal
 y? &nbsp\;And how does it relate to the mystery of Pok&rsquo\;s father&rsq
 uo\;s death and his own mysterious past?</p>\n<p>Find the book in our coll
 ection: <a href="https://catalog.pgcmls.info/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx
 =1.1033.0.0.3&amp\;pos=1&amp\;cn=1704033">Book</a> | <a href="https://cata
 log.pgcmls.info/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.3&amp\;pos=2&amp\
 ;cn=1680472">eAudiobook</a></p>\n<p>About the author:&nbsp\;</p>\n<p><img 
 src="https://static.libnet.info/frontend-images/editor/pgcmls/justincKey.j
 pg" width="350" height="527" alt="" style="display: block\; margin-left: a
 uto\; margin-right: auto\;" /></p>\n<p style="text-align: left\;">Justin&n
 bsp\;C.&nbsp\;Key&nbsp\;is a practicing psychiatrist and a speculative fic
 tion writer. He is the author of the debut novel "The Hospital at the End 
 of the World" and the story collection "The World Wasn&rsquo\;t Ready for 
 You." His stories have appeared in the Magazine of Fantasy &amp\; Science 
 Fiction\, Strange Horizons\, Escape Pod\, Lightspeed\, and on Tor.com. He 
 lives in Los Angeles with his wife and three children.</p>\n<p style="text
 -align: center\;"></p>\nhttps://pgcmls.libnet.info/event/17607162
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