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1) Miracle cure
Author
Language
English
Description
They're one of the country's most telegenic couples: beloved TV journalist Sara Lowell and New York's hottest basketball star, Michael Silverman. In a Manhattan clinic, a doctor has dedicated his life to eradicating a devastating disease. One by one, his patients are getting well -- and, one by one, they're being targeted by a serial killer. And now Michael has been diagnosed with the disease.
Author
Language
English
Description
"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 an art gallery in Chicago, is about to pull off an amazing coup, bringing in an extraordinary collection of 1920s paintings as a gift to the gallery. Yet as his career begins to flourish, the carnage of the AIDS epidemic...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
It is 1987, and only one person has ever truly understood fourteen-year-old June Elbus -- her uncle, the renowned painter Finn Weiss. Shy at school and distant from her older sister, June can only be herself in Finn's company; he is her godfather, confidant, and best friend. So when he dies, far too young, of a mysterious illness her mother can barely speak about, June's world is turned upside down. But Finn's death brings a surprise acquaintance...
Author
Series
Media culture and social change in Asia volume 23
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Author
Series
World Bank working paper volume no. 4
Publisher
World Bank
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
14) AIDS, sexuality and gender in Africa: collective strategies and struggles in Tanzania and Zambia
Series
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English