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Something terrible happened
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Barbara Ann Porte |
Twelve-year-old Gillian is sent away from her mother who is dying of AIDS to live with her relatives in Tennessee. |
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Red ribbon
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Sarah Weeks |
Eight-year-old Jenny learns the meaning of wearing a red ribbon when her neighbor is stricken with AIDS. |
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The Darker Proof
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Edmund White |
The Darker Proof, an anthology of stories about suffering with the HIV virus, was first published in 1987 to critical acclaim. |
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What looks like crazy on an ordinary day--
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Pearl Cleage |
E-book extra: Reading group guide.That one unthinkable, unmistakable thing is happening to Ava Johnson in sleepy Idlewild after a decade of luxe living in Atlanta: she is falling in love. The classic… |
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Kennedys hjärna
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Henning Mankell |
A fast paced international thriller - sure to delight fans starved of WallanderWhen archaeologist Louise Cantor's son Henrik is found dead in his flat, she refuses to believe it was suicide. Clues th… |
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Positively
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Courtney Sheinmel |
Thirteen-year-old Emmy, grieving over her mother who died of AIDS, resentful of having to live with her father and pregnant stepmother, and despairing about her future, finds hope at a summer camp fo… |
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Rat bohemia
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Sarah Schulman,Sarah Schulman |
First published in 1995, this award-winning novel, written from the epicentre of the AIDS crisis, is a bold, achingly honest story set in the "rat bohemia" of New York City, whose huddled masses incl… |
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Life magic
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Melrose Cooper |
Crystal's strong family helps her deal with being put in a remedial reading class and discovering that Uncle Joe is dying of AIDS. |
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H.R.H.
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Danielle Steel |
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 … |
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Koolaids
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Rabih Alameddine |
Detailing the impact of the AIDS epidemic and the Lebanese civil war in Beirut on a circle of friends and family during the eighties and nineties, Koolaids mines the chaos of contemporary experience,… |
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The Angel of History
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Rabih Alameddine |
The Angel of History follows Yemeni-born poet Jacob as he revisits the events of his life, from his maternal upbringing in an Egyptian whorehouse to his adolescence under the aegis of his wealthy fat… |
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The Interpreter
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Suzanne Glass |
When Dominique hears that a cure for the HIV virus has been discovered she hopes it can help her best friend who is dying of AIDS. The researcher is being pressurised to suppress the discovery in the… |
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The Promise of Rest
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Reynolds Price |
Returning to his North Carolina family home to die from AIDS, Wade Mayfield induces feelings and patience in his attending, divorced parents that initiate a possible reunion and the perpetuation of a… |
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My dad has HIV
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Earl Alexander |
A young girl whose father has the HIV virus learns about the disease and becomes proud of him for his efforts to stay healthy. |
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Scissors, paper, rock
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Claire M. Johnson,Johnson, Fenton. |
This remarkable story of love, loss, and memory reveals the lives of two generations of a Kentucky family and their elderly neighbor. The illness and death of the youngest son from AIDS acts as a cat… |
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Far and beyon'
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Unity Dow |
A Tswana mother, grieving the loss of two sons to AIDS, embraces traditional magic, while her remaining son and daughter increasingly reject her beliefs. |
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A Matter of Life and Sex
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Oscar Moore |
From the stirrings of his adolescent libido to his eventual death from AIDS, Oscar Moore's hero confronts his destiny with raw candour, shocking self-awareness, and frightening fatalism. |
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In the City of Shy Hunters
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Tom Spanbauer |
**From Goodreads:**
Tom Spanbauer is one of the most enchanting writers in America today, and In the City of Shy Hunters, his first novel in ten years, is a "rich and colorful" portrait of New Yor… |
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What about Anna?
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Jan Simoen |
In Belgium in 1999, upon learning that her brother who was reported killed by a landmine in Bosnia may still be alive, sixteen-year-old Anna resents that she is the only one strong enough to try to u… |
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Like people in history
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Felice Picano,Felice Picano |
In a book that could have been written only by one who lived it and survived to tell, Picano weaves a powerful saga of four decades in the lives of two men and their lovers, relatives, friends, and e… |
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