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1) Miracle cure
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Dr. Bruce Grey and Dr. Harvey Riker find a cure for AIDS, two young lovers--popular TV journalist Sara Lowell, and Knicks star Michael Silverman--find themselves inextricably caught up in the political double dealings involved in the discovery.
Author
Publisher
BBC Audiobooks America
Pub. Date
p2007
Language
English
Description
Alice MacCauley's eleventh summer is shaped by new friendship, the twinges of first love, and adult lessons about life and death when she and Theo, a New York City boy of mixed race visiting his white New England grandparents, become the companions of Kenneth, an artist dying of and losing his eyesight to AIDS, reading him the journals of Lewis and Clark and building him a secret "rope walk" through the woods.
Author
Publisher
MacAdam/Cage Pub
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
"Anna has just turned fifty, widowed, estranged from her only child, and embittered by a life that is full on the surface but empty at its core. When her daughter, Poppy, calls after a twelve-year absence and asks if she and her family can visit, Anna reluctantly agrees. Soon after, Poppy's husband and their ten-year-old daughter, Flynn, show up on her doorstep without Poppy, to stay." "As a favor to a friend, Anna agrees to help coordinate a support...
4) Veronica
Author
Publisher
Vintage Contemporaries
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The friendship that began in the 1980s between Alison, a young woman struggling with her ruined career as a fashion model, and Veronica, an older eccentric proofreader, survives Alison's return to the world of fashion and Veronica's battle with AIDS.
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