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101) The normal heart
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
A film drama that tells the dramatic, poignant and often-exasperating story of the early days of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York City in the early '80s, taking an unflinching look at the nation's sexual politics as gay activists and their allies in the medical community fight to expose the truth about the burgeoning epidemic to a city and nation in denial.
102) World made of glass
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Description
"Iris opens her eyes to hard truths and the power of her voice when her father dies of AIDS in 1987"--
Author
Pub. Date
1993.
Description
A remarkable and inspiring memoir by a remarkable and inspiring human being: Arthur Ashe, embodiment of courage and grace in every aspect of his life, from his triumphs as a great tennis champion and his determined social activism to his ordeal in the face of death, a casualty of AIDS. As he brings us into his childhood in Richmond, Virginia, where he was born in 1943, where his mother died when he was six, and where he was raised by a loving but...
106) It's my party
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
A bright young L.A. architect who is about to lose his battle with AIDS decides to end his life rather than face debilitation, but first he decides to throw the greatest farewell party of all time
107) AIDS
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Presents a collection of articles and questions that debate a variety of topics on the subject of AIDS.
112) The kingdom of sand
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
The kingdom of sand's "nameless narrator is a gay man who moved to Florida to look after his aging parents--during the height of the AIDS epidemic--and has found himself unable to leave after their deaths. With gallows humor, he chronicles the indignities of growing old in a small town. At the heart of the novel is the story of his friendship with Earl, whom he met cruising at the local boat ramp. For the last twenty years, he has been visiting Earl...
115) Beat the drum
Pub. Date
2003.
Description
A young boy looks for his uncle after a mysterious illness strikes his village and leaves him an orphan. As he tries to survive and learn about the world around him, he finds a job and returns to teach the elders of his village about truth and compassion.
117) Was: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
1992
Description
An account of the life and times of Dorothy Gael with, along the way, details about Judy Garland's stunted childhood and unhappy fame and her definitive role as Dorthy in L. Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz.
Author
Pub. Date
[1996]
Description
"Waiting for a vaccine that will keep people from getting AIDS is not the answer. Health experts have warned that even after a vaccine is available, many more years will pass before the epidemic is under control." "Most people do not fully understand what could be done right now to limit the spread of HIV infection. But, with education, information, and programs that are currently available, Lorraine Jones shows how the spread of HIV infection can...
119) My brother
Author
Pub. Date
1997
Description
Jamaica Kincaid's brother Devon Drew died of AIDS on January 19, 1996, at the age of thirty-three. Kincaid's incantatory, poetic, and often shockingly frank recounting of her brother's life and death is also a story of her family on the island of Antigua, a constellation centered on the powerful, sometimes threatening figure of the writer's mother. My Brother is an unblinking record of a life that ended too early, and it speaks volumes about the difficult...
120) The day Eazy-E died
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2001
Description
"At the end of If Only for One Nite, Raheim Rivers and Mitchell Crawford's love had been tested by ghosts of the past; now it will be tested by the haunting specter of AIDS. As Raheim juggles his increasingly hectic schedule as a supermodel, he is rocked by the news that one of his idols, NWA founder Eazy-E, has AIDS. His complacency shattered, Raheim gets tested for HIV but keeps it a secret.
Meanwhile, life goes on around him as his son struggles...