Paige Rawl

Ali Benjamin

Jay Asher

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

New York

A Memoir

An astonishing memoir for the untold number of children whose lives have been touched by bullying. Positive is a must-read for teens, their parents, educators, and administrators—a brave, visceral work that will save lives and resonate deeply. Paige Rawl has been HIV positive since birth, but growing up, she never felt like her illness defined her. On an unremarkable day in middle school, she disclosed to a friend her HIV-positive status—and within hours the bullying began. From that moment forward, every day was like walking through a minefield. Paige was never sure when or from where the next text, taunt, or hateful message would come. Then one night, desperate for escape, fifteen-year-old Paige found herself in her bathroom staring at a bottle of sleeping pills. That could have been the end of her story. Instead, it was only the beginning. Paige's memoir calls for readers to choose action over complacency, compassion over cruelty—and above all, to be Positive. Includes twenty-five photos from Paige's personal collection throughout. Supports the Common Core State Standards

Positive

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Jenna Bush Hager

This book is a clean copy with a good spine and binding. The conscience and Graphics are in good condition. There is minimal wear inside. There is slight wear on the hardback cover. Will ship with the hours after your order is received. Thanks for stopping by and please stay safe.

Texas

A Journey of Hope

The first daughter reveals the life of a young woman she met while on an internship with UNICEF, and how, despite living with AIDS and losing her family to HIV, she is thriving and looking forward to giving her child a better life. 500,000 first printing.

Ana's Story

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Louisiana

Ana's Story #81

Gil L. Robertson

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Missouri

AIDS in the African-American Community

Contains 58 essays by African American men from all walks of life about the effect of AIDS in their lives or communities.

Not in My Family

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She's 17. She's been abused. She has a child. And she's HIV-positive.
She is Ana, and this is her story. It begins the day she is born infected with HIV, transmitted from her young mother. Now she barely remembers her mama, who died when Ana was only three. From then on, Ana's childhood becomes a blur of faint memories and secrets: secrets about her illness and about the abuse she endures.

Ana's journey is a long one. Shuffled from home to home, she rarely finds safety or love. And then she meets a boy. Berto is one of the only people Ana trusts with all her secrets. That trust puts Ana on a path to breaking the silence that has harmed her, and it leads her to new beginnings, new sorrows, and new hope.

Jenna Bush has written a powerful narrative nonfiction account of a girl who struggles to break free from a vicious cycle of abuse, poverty, and illness. Based on Jenna's work with UNICEF and inspired by the framework of one girl's life, it is also the story of many children around the world who are marginalized and excluded from basic care, support, and education. Resources included on this audiobook explain how you can make a difference to children in need and how you can protect yourself and others.

A portion of the proceeds from this book will benefit the U.S Fund for UNICEF.

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Indiana

Illinois

Elton John

Maryland

On Life, Loss, and the End of AIDS

A deeply personal account of Elton John's life during the era of AIDS and an inspiring call to action. In the 1980s, Elton John saw friend after friend, loved one after loved one, perish needlessly from AIDS. He befriended Ryan White, a young Indiana boy ostracized because of his HIV infection. Ryan's inspiring life and devastating death led Elton to two realizations: His own life was a mess. And he had to do something to help stop the AIDS crisis. Since then, Elton has dedicated himself to overcoming the plague and the stigma of AIDS. The Elton John AIDS Foundation has raised and donated $275 million to date to fighting the disease worldwide. Love Is the Cure includes stories of Elton's close friendships with Ryan White, Freddie Mercury, Princess Diana, Elizabeth Taylor, and others, and the story of the Elton John AIDS Foundation. Sales of Love Is the Cure benefit the Elton John AIDS Foundation.

Love Is the Cure

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#inspiration #AIDS #HIV #healing #non-fiction #truestory #hardcover 

California

A Story of Truth and Mercy in the Face of AIDS

Describes the impact of AIDS on the Allen family, the deaths of four family members, and the ostracism the family faced

Burden of a Secret

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Ana's Story: A Journey of Hope is a work of narrative nonfiction based on Jenna Bush's experiences while interning for UNICEF and documenting lives of children and teens she encountered through her work. The book focuses on Ana, a teenage single mother who is bravely living with, rather than dying from, HIV. Ana's determination has allowed her to overcome abuse and abandonment and fight for an education and a better future for her child. Inspired by the framework of one girl's life, it is also the story of many children around the world who are marginalized and excluded from basic care, support, and education. Jenna Bush sends a message of hope, inclusion and survival, and calls for youth involvement in helping other young people triumph over adversity.brbr

The book includes approximately 45 full-color photographs taken by Mia Baxter, Jenna's friend and fellow UNICEF intern.

Pearl Cleage

P. Cleage

Rated a very respectable 3.8 out of 5 on Goodreads.  

Pages are in very good condition; both front and back covers have a couple of creases.

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Idlewild #1

In a remarkable debut novel that sizzles with sensuality, crackles with life-affirming energy and moves the reader to laughter and tears, author Pearl Cleage creates a world rich in character, human drama, and deep, compassionate understanding. After a decade of luxe living in Atlanta, Ava Johnson has returned to tiny Idlewild, Michigan -- her fabulous career and power plans smashed to bits on one dark truth: Ava has tested positive for HIV. Bur rather than a sorrowful end, her homecoming is a new beginning. Because, in the ten-plus years since she left, all the problems of the big city have invaded the sleepy community of her childhood. Because dear friends and family sorely need her help in the face of impending trouble and tragedy, and Ava cannot turn her back on them. And because, most importantly, Ava Johnson is inexplicabley and undeniably falling in love.

What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day

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Ryan White

Ann Marie Cunningham

Jeanne White

1st Edition/15th Printing — Bent, corners turned, like it had been rolled

New Jersey

My Own Story

A challenging and emotional inspirational memoir of terminal illness, prejudice, and living with HIV/AIDS. NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Heartbreaking... A powerful tale."—New York Times Book Review In 1984, when Ryan White received an AIDS diagnosis after receiving a contaminated blood treatment for his hemophilia, he was given six months to live. And although doctors said he posed no risk to other students, concerned parents and teachers who didn’t understand the disease protested his re-admittance to school. This diagnosis rocked Ryan and his family, but his fight for acceptance and understanding in the face of discrimination have given Ryan a place in history as a voice of strength, courage, and compassion amidst the AIDS epidemic. This memoir is a tribute to Ryan’s legacy, and an essential read for anyone seeking both a historical and a human perspective on the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

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#hardcover #hiv #aids #africa #zambia #hope

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Wisconsin

Fighting for Life with Courage and Hope

Princess Kasune Zulu grew up in an Africa trying to make sense of the mystery illness claiming its people. As a child, she could not know the disease that claimed the lives of her parents and baby sister would go on to infect more than 100 million people. Left alone to care for her siblings, Princess later discovered she herself was HIV positive. But she heard a calling to become an advocate and ambassador for those affected by disease and poverty. From talking to truck drivers about AIDS to her providential work as a radio broadcaster, Princess has boldly stepped up to speak on behalf of the voiceless and forgotten.Princess's journey has taken her from the dusty villages of Zambia to the offices of world leaders from the White House to the United Nations. Her message is that we can now become the first generation to end extreme poverty, if only we have the will to do so. Her story shows that even though life is uncertain and our time may be short, we each have a role to play in bringing healing and hope to our world.A percentage of proceeds from the sale of this book will support children affected by AIDS.

Warrior Princess

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Carolyne Adalla

This book is a clean copy with a good spine and binding. The contents and Graphics are in good condition. There is minimal wear inside. There is slight wear on the paperback cover. This book is 83 pages long. Will package the book carefully. Will ship within hours after your order is in. Thanks for stopping by and please stay safe.

A young intelligent and beautiful woman learns with shock that she is HIV positive. She cannot go ahead with her plans to study in the USA, and she has to adjust to thinking as somebody at the end of her life. The novel takes the form of a long revelatory letter to her closest woman friend, both moving and factually revealing about Aids and the young woman's life.

Confessions of an AIDS Victim

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Dervla Murphy

This book is a clean copy with a good spine and binding. The contents and Graphics are in good condition. There is minimal wear inside. There is slight wear on the paperback cover. Will package the book carefully. Will ship within hours after your order is in. Thanks for stopping by and please stay safe.

From Kenya to Zimbabwe

The Ukimwi Road

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Jim Wooten

Ohio

A Story of a Boy's Courage and a Mother's Love

"Wooten has pulled off something close to miraculous... and touched the face of HIV/AIDS with compassion and humanity. --Alexandra Fuller, Chicago Tribune

"This is a book not to be missed." --People

"Amazing and tender... in this special book [Wooten] brings home the tragedy of AIDS." --Liz Smith, New York Post

"Wooten rightly disregards journalistic distance and writes himself into the work, making it read like a contemplative literary memoir." --Time Out New York

We Are All the Same

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M Mwangi

Last Plague

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Arthur Ashe

Arnold Rampersad

Oklahoma

The late tennis champion and social activist tells his story from his career as a black tennis player to his battle against AIDS

Days of Grace

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Joseph Cassara

North Carolina

A Novel

NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2018 BY Buzzfeed • The Wall Street Journal • The Millions • Southern Living • Bustle • Esquire • Entertainment Weekly • Nylon • Mashable “Cassaras’s propulsive and profound first novel, finding one’s home in the world—particularly in a subculture plagued by fear and intolerance from society—comes with tragedy as well as extraordinary personal freedom.” -- Esquire A gritty and gorgeous debut that follows a cast of gay and transgender club kids navigating the Harlem ball scene of the 1980s and ’90s, inspired by the real House of Xtravaganza made famous by the seminal documentary Paris Is Burning It’s 1980 in New York City, and nowhere is the city’s glamour and energy better reflected than in the burgeoning Harlem ball scene, where seventeen-year-old Angel first comes into her own. Burned by her traumatic past, Angel is new to the drag world, new to ball culture, and has a yearning inside of her to help create family for those without. When she falls in love with Hector, a beautiful young man who dreams of becoming a professional dancer, the two decide to form the House of Xtravaganza, the first-ever all-Latino house in the Harlem ball circuit. But when Hector dies of AIDS-related complications, Angel must bear the responsibility of tending to their house alone. As mother of the house, Angel recruits Venus, a whip-fast trans girl who dreams of finding a rich man to take care of her; Juanito, a quiet boy who loves fabrics and design; and Daniel, a butch queen who accidentally saves Venus’s life. The Xtravaganzas must learn to navigate sex work, addiction, and persistent abuse, leaning on each other as bulwarks against a world that resists them. All are ambitious, resilient, and determined to control their own fates, even as they hurtle toward devastating consequences. Told in a voice that brims with wit, rage, tenderness, and fierce yearning, The House of Impossible Beauties is a tragic story of love, family, and the dynamism of the human spirit.

The House of Impossible Beauties

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Samuel A. MacMaster

Georgia

Social Studies

This work focuses on international perspectives on women and HIV casting a deliberately wide net addressing the interaction between HIV, gender, in a variety of specific geographic areas.

International Perspectives on Women and HIV

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Massachusetts

Politics, People and the AIDS Epidemic

A report on the misinformation and inaction that has surrounded the fight against AIDS in this country.

And the Band Played On

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#africa #biography #AIDS #HIV #nonfiction #hardcover 

New Hampshire

The extraordinary story of the little South African boy whose bravery and fierce determination to make a difference despite being born with AIDS has made him the human symbol of the world's fight against the disease, told by the veteran American journalist whose life he changed.

Five million more people contracted HIV last year alone. We've all seen the statistics, and they numb us; on some level our minds shut down to a catastrophe of this scope. As with other such immense human tragedies in the past, it can take the story of one special child's life to make us open our minds and our hearts.

While the majority of all AIDS cases occur in Africa, a South African boy named Nkosi Johnson did not become "an icon of the struggle for life," in Nelson Mandela's words, because he was representative but because he was so very remarkable. Everyone who met Nkosi Johnson was struck by his blinding life force, his powerful intelligence and drive, his determination to make something of his short life. By the time of his death, the work he had done in his eleven years on earth was such that The New York Timesran his obituary on the front page, as did many other papers, and tributes appeared on the evening news broadcasts of every major network.

Nkosi Johnson did not live to tell his own story, but one writer whose life he changed has taken up the work of telling it for him. Luckily for the world that writer is Jim Wooten. In his hands, We Are All the Sameis a powerful testament to the strength of the human spirit, even as it bears witness to the scope of the tragedy that is unfolding in Africa and around the world, cutting down millions of boys and girls like Nkosi Johnson before they can reach their promise. Written with the brevity and power of a parable, We Are All the Sameis a book that is meant to be read by all of us, of all ages and walks of life. Its beginning and ending are terribly sad, but in the middle is the extraordinarily inspiring story of a very unlucky little boy who said, Never mind. I'm going to make my life matter. And he did.

Nursing Perspectives 

The Person with AIDS

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This new book helps adapt nursing care to the HIV/AIDS patient. The clinical pathophysiology of the disease, including immunopathogenesis, aerologic testing, the clinical course of the disease, classification system, and nursing research are presented for a comprehensive focus. It defines skills, interventions, and care needed for the HIV/AIDS patient, regardless of the setting. Nursing management covers health promotion and maintenance, acute interventions, and chronic/home management to prepare clinicians for appropriate interventions at any stage of illness. Clinical guidelines, increased patient education, and management of pharmacological reactions and complications are integrated throughout.

Presents information on recently approved HIV drugs and HIV testing to provide up-to-date information. Features pediatric inserts to highlight the unique needs and treatment of the pediatric patient. Incorporates special medication boxes and care boxes to make important information easily accessible. Organizes chapters across the care setting to help the clinician fully individualize the nursing care of the HIV/AIDS client. Provides a user-friendly resource to facilitate study for the ACRN examination. Lists "Common questions asked by patients" and the answers at the end of each chapter to enable the clinician to address the issues and concerns of the patient. Provides information on complementary therapies used in the treatment of HIV to enable the clinician to offer their patients a complete spectrum of care. Includes a color drug guide to provide the currently approved antiretrovirals

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Ana's Story #81

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Not in My Family

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Paige Rawl; Ali Benjamin; Jay Asher

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Ana's Story

Elton John

Love Is the Cure

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Burden of a Secret

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What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day

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Jim Wooten

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And the Band Played On

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