Born in 1954, Cleve Jones was among the last generation of gay Americans who grew up wondering if there were others out there like himself. There were. Like thousands of other young people, Jones, nearly penniless, was drawn in the...
AIDS (Disease)
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Author:Jones, CleveSummary: -
Author:Huser, GlenSummary:Cosmo the clown is the first bit of light to come into Barbara's life in a long time. At home, she takes care of her abusive father, her grandmother, and Livvy, her sick sister. Cosmo encourages Barbara to join a teen clown workshop he...
- Author:Berger, JohnSummary:
In To the Wedding John Berger offers us a sharply modern situation set in the traditionally pastoral and idyllic background of rural Europe. Beautiful, vibrant Ninon falls in love and becomes engaged to a young Italian, Gino, but soon...
- Author:Mykhalovskiy, Eric, Namaste, VivianeSummary:
Almost four decades after the discovery of HIV/AIDS, the world continues to grapple with this public health challenge. Thinking Differently about HIV/AIDS explores the limits of mainstream approaches to the HIV/AIDS epidemic and...
- Author:Makkai, RebeccaSummary:
A dazzling new novel of friendship and redemption in the face of tragedy and loss set in 1980s Chicago and contemporary Paris, by the acclaimed and award-winning author Rebecca Makkai In 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for...
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Author:Brunt, Carol RifkaSummary:June Elbus' uncle is her best friend, the only person who understands her. When he dies, far too young, fourteen-year-old June's world is turned upside down. But Finn's death brings a surprise acquaintance into June's life--someone who...
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Author:Unsworth, NathanSummary:Set in an AIDs hospital in an undisclosed African nation, Tea With the Tiger concerns itself with medicine and ethics. The novel explores the corrupt alliance between doctors and the pharmaceutical industry in developing countries. The...
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Author:Alvarez, JuliaSummary:A best-selling, Latin-American author living in Vermont, Alma stays behind when her husband travels to the Dominican Republic to help fight AIDS. She needs the time to work on her latest book, but she has terrible writer's block. Soon,...
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Author:Lewis, StephenSummary:"I have spent the last four years watching people die." With these wrenching words, diplomat and humanitarian Stephen Lewis opens his 2005 CBC Massey Lectures. Lewis's determination to bear witness to the desperate plight of so many in...
- Author:Benjamin, Ali, Rawl, PaigeSummary:
Paige Rawl has been HIV positive since birth but never felt like her illness defined her. One day in middle school, she disclosed her secret to a friend and the bullying began. One night, desperate for escape, Paige swallowed fifteen...
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Author:Grover, Janice ZitaSummary: - Author:Lowery, JackSummary:
This powerful story of art collective Gran Fury, who fought back during the AIDS crisis through organizing, direct action, and community-made propaganda, offers lessons in love and grief to today's marginalized communities.
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Author:Gilbert, SkySummary:Following Prodon through the five stages of acceptance—Denial, Partying, Loss of Control, Religious Conversion, and Acceptance—the play pops in and out of monologues with Prodon and into scenes with Lady Booty, an outrageous drag queen...
- Author:France, DavidSummary:
The definitive history of the successful battle to halt the AIDS epidemic--from the creator of, and inspired by, the seminal documentary How to Survive a Plague. A riveting, powerful telling of the story of the grassroots movement of...
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Author:Steel, DanielleSummary:After four years of college in America, Princess Christianna is determined not to return to the stiff, formal lifestyle of her father's court and, hoping to make a difference in the world, persuades her father to allow her to...
- Author:Sáenz, Benjamin AlireSummary:
Ari has spent all of high school burying who he really is, staying silent and invisible. He expected his senior year to be the same. But something in him cracked open when he fell in love with Dante, and he can't go back. Suddenly...
- Author:Shilts, RandySummary:
An examination of the AIDS crisis critiques the federal government for its inaction, health authorities for their greed, and scientists for their desire for prestige in the face of the AIDS pandemic, in a twentieth anniversary edition...
- Author:Greer, DarrenSummary:
When Jacob is called back to Advocate, he is not only returning home again, something he knows he cannot really do; he is going to face his dying grandmother and the people of the town who turned on one of their own. Twenty years...
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Author:Compton, A. S. S.Summary:Lorato lives a comfortable but lonely life in her retirement years, alone in the home her husband had built in their rural village on the Kalahari in southern Africa. She becomes a grandmother when she adopts Lesedi after the death of a...
