Books about HIV/AIDS including wellness for people living with HIV/AIDS.

	Not in My Family: AIDS in the African-American Community by Robertson, Gil Format:  Trade Paperback Price:  $16.00 Published: Agate Publishing, 2006 Inventory Status: Special Order - Subject to Availability At long last, the time has come: the time for African American people to face the scourge that has affected it disproportionately for years, and to break through the cultural inhibitions that have prevented them from dealing with it head on. This landmark collection of personal essays, stories, brief memoirs, and polemics from a broad swath of black Americans-whether prominent figures from the worlds of politics, entertainment, or sports, or just ordinary folks with extraordinary -stories whose lives have been touched by HIV/AIDS-will galvanize public attention around this issue. Author and journalist Gil Robertson first conceived this "gripping and heartfelt patchwork," as he calls it, when his older brother was diagnosed with HIV. As he writes in his introduction, "As I've watched my family move through the various stages of his illness and hear similar stories from others, I began to realize that my family was not alone. There are countless other families waging the same fight with this disease, and I wanted to connect with them so we would feel even more so empowered to wage battle." Robertson has enlisted a remarkable group of contributors to give voice to their impassioned thoughts and feelings. A partial list includes: from politics, Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., former US Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders and Al Sharpton; from music, Patti LaBelle; from film and TV, Mo'Nique, Jasmine Guy, Hill Harper, and Sheryl Lee Ralph; and from letters, Randall Robinson and Omar Tyree-among many, many others.
	Chronicle of a Plague, Revisited: AIDS and Its Aftermath by Holleran, Andrew Format:  Trade Paperback Price:  $14.40 Published: Da Capo Press, 2008 Inventory Status: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Andrew Holleran's "Ground Zero," first published in 1988 and consisting of 23 "Christopher Street" essays from the earliest years of the AIDS crisis, was hailed by the "Washington Post" as "one of the best dispatches from the epidemic's height." Twenty years later, with HIV/AIDS long recognized as a global health challenge, Holleran both reiterates and freshly illuminates the devastation wreaked by AIDS, which has claimed the lives of 450,000 gay men as well as 22 million others. "Chronicle of a Plague, Revisited" features ten pieces never previously republished outside "Christopher Street," as well as a new introduction keenly describing and evaluating a historical moment that still informs and defines today's world-particularly its community of homosexuals, which, arguably, is still recovering from the devastation of AIDS.
	Vital Signs: Essential AIDS Fiction by Canning, Richard, Peck, Dale Format:  Trade Paperback Price:  $15.95 Published: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2007 Inventory Status: Special Order - Subject to Availability Since first reports of a "gay cancer" in 1981, it has been hard to ignore the politics, polemic, and prejudice that gathered around AIDS. Yet a literary genre also emerged, and Vital Signs contains the very best of the extraordinary work created in America in response to our greatest contemporary health crisis. This collection documents the critical years of struggle, bravery, loss, and redemption in eighteen unique examples. Inventive, moving, humane, and uplifting, these stories show us how to live in times of uncertainty and adversity. They offer, indeed, a plethora of vital signs.
	Melancholia and Moralism: Essays on AIDS and Queer Politics by Crimp, Douglas Format:  Trade Paperback Price:  $20.95 Published: MIT Press (MA), 2004 Inventory Status: Special Order - Subject to Availability   See all editions of this title. Winner, Trade Illustrated Category, 2003 Association of American University Presses (AAUP) Book, Jacket, and Journal Show. In "Melancholia and Moralism," Douglas Crimp confronts the conservative gay politics that replaced the radical AIDS activism of the late 1980s and early 1990s. He shows that the cumulative losses from AIDS, including the waning of militant response, have resulted in melancholia as Freud defined it: gay men's dangerous identification with the moralistic repudiation of homosexuality by the wider society. With the 1993 march on Washington for lesbian and gay rights, it became clear that AIDS no longer determined the agenda of gay politics; it had been displaced by traditional rights issues such as gay marriage and the right to serve in the military. Journalist Andrew Sullivan, notorious for pronouncing the AIDS epidemic over, even claimed that once those few rights had been won, the gay rights movement would no longer have a reason to exist. Crimp challenges such complacency, arguing that not only is the AIDS epidemic far from over, but that its determining role in queer politics has never been greater. AIDS, he demonstrates, is the repressed, unconscious force that drives the destructive moralism of the new, anti-liberation gay politics expounded by such mainstream gay writers as Larry Kramer, Gabriel Rotello, and Michelangelo Signorile, as well as Sullivan. Crimp examines various cultural phenomena, including Randy Shilts's bestseller "And the Band Played On," the Hollywood films "Silence of the Lambs" and "Philadelphia," and Magic Johnson's HIV infection and retirement from the Los Angeles Lakers. He also analyzes Robert Mapplethorpe's and Nicholas Nixon's photography, John Greyson's AIDS musical "Zero Patience," Gregg Bordowitz's video "Fast Trip, Long Drop," the Names Project Quilt, and the annual "Day without Art."
	The Advocate Guide to Gay Men's Health and Wellness Format:  Trade Paperback Price:  $19.75 Published: Alyson Books, 2008 Inventory Status: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Focusing on prevention, lifestyle modification, and healthcare, Dr. Frank Spinelli has channeled his years of experience and research in order to create a comprehensive medical guide for gay men. Covering topics ranging from immunization, physical exams, depression, substance abuse, and andropause, New York City's "hottest gay doctor" has compiled his knowledge into an invaluable guide specifically created for gay men. Frank Spinelli, M.D., is a board certified internist in private practice in New York City in addition to serving as clinical director of HIV at Cabrini Medical Center. Dr. Spinelli has made frequent television appearances and is the gay health expert on Radio with a Twist, a national talk show. Dr. Spinelli currently lives in the Chelsea section of Manhattan.
	AIDS Doctors: Voices from the Epidemic - An Oral History by Bayer, Ronald, Oppenheimer, Gerald M. Format:  Trade Paperback Price:  Please call or email us for a price Published: Oxford University Press, USA, 2002 Inventory Status: Usually Ships in 1-5 days   See all editions of this title. Today, AIDS has been indelibly etched in our consciousness. Yet it was less than twenty years ago that doctors confronted a sudden avalanche of strange, inexplicable, seemingly untreatable conditions that signaled the arrival of a devastating new disease. Bewildered, unprepared, and pushed to the limit of their diagnostic abilities, a select group of courageous physicians nevertheless persevered. This unique collective memoir tells their story. Based on interviews with nearly eighty doctors whose lives and careers have centered on the AIDS epidemic from the early 1980s to the present, this candid, emotionally textured account details the palpable anxiety in the medical profession as it experienced a rapid succession of cases for which there was no clinical history. The physicians interviewed chronicle the roller coaster experiences of hope and despair, as they applied newly developed, often unsuccessful therapies. Yet these physicians who chose to embrace the challenge confronted more than just the sense of therapeutic helplessness in dealing with a disease they could not conquer. They also faced the tough choices inherent in treating a controversial, sexually and intravenously transmitted illness as many colleagues simply walked away. Many describe being gripped by a sense of mission: by the moral imperative to treat the disempowered and despised. Nearly all describe a common purpose, an esprit de corps that bound them together in a terrible yet exhilarating war against an invisible enemy. This extraordinary oral history forms a landmark effort in the understanding of the AIDS crisis. Carefully collected and eloquently told, the doctors' narratives reveal the tenacity andunquenchable optimism that has paved the way for taming a 20th-century plague.
	HIV and AIDS in Africa: Beyond Epidemiology Format:  Trade Paperback Price:  Please call or email us for a price Published: Wiley-Blackwell, 2003 Inventory Status: Special Order - Subject to Availability "HIV and AIDS in Africa: Beyond Epidemiology" is a collection that seeks to further our understanding of AIDS by shifting the predominant understandings generated by biomedical and epidemiological research. Brings together international contributors---including often overlooked African scholars and activists---from across the social sciences to examine HIV and AIDS from angles previously unexplored. By presenting on-the-ground evidence and ethnographic cases, emphasizes that HIV transmission in sub-Saharan Africa is a complex and regionally specific phenomenon rooted in local economies, deepening poverty, migration, gender, war, global economies, and cultural politics. Recognizes that AIDS in Africa cannot be stemmed until social, gender, and economic inequities are addressed in meaningful ways.
	Getting Unstuck: Girl to Girl, You Can Be Infected Indeed by Conscious Format:  Trade Paperback Price:  $17.95 Published: Swn Publishing, 2002 Inventory Status: Usually Ships in 1-5 days This new book by author Conscious is a bold, raw and in-depth look at repressed memory, female-to-female HIV transmission, child sexual abuse, and the ramifications and manifestations of drug abuse. This journey is made by the author Conscious and her therapist Allan as they uncover repressed memories of her childhood that dictate her adulthood. Conscious is the Joan of Ark for our day. She is holding the torch of Truth in one hand and Her sword Getting Unstuck in the other hand, as she declares war on saving lives. It is the wake up call the world needs, our society has become apathetic, toward the spread of HIV/AIDS and drug treatment. Getting Unstuck is an inspiration, as well as a vehicle to save our children from the sick cycle of child sexual abuse.
	Grant Me Justice!: HIV/AIDS & Gender Readings of the Bible (Women from the Margins) by Dube, Musa W., Kanyoro, Musimbi Format:  Trade Paperback Price:  $24.00 Published: Orbis Books, 2005 Inventory Status: Special Order - Subject to Availability How can Bible-reading communities, be they faith or academic communities, use the Bible for liberation in the HIV and AIDS struggle? This anthology proposes ways of re-reading the Bible that affirm life, the right to healing, care, and the human rights of all.
	Fingernails Across the Chalkboard: Poetry and Prose on HIV/AIDS from the Black Diaspora by Horton, Randall, Hunter, M. L., Thompson, Becky Format:  Trade Paperback Price:  $14.36 Published: Third World Press, 2007 Inventory Status: Usually Ships in 1-5 days Featuring a wide assortment of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, this powerful volume confronts the existence of the HIV/AIDS epidemic within the Black Diaspora. Defining a cultural dialogue that will be prevalent well into the 21st century, these writings celebrate life and the living by humanizing the effects of HIV and giving powerful voices to the affected and afflicted. The writings, presented in four major sections, speak out about the hard-hitting truths that surround HIV; the forms of abuse, such as incest and rape, which cast HIV into the lives of girls and women; the issues of grief and loss; and the range of reactions, from acceptance to denial, activism, and the search for justice. The writers featured include Dennis Brutus, Tony Medina, Randi Triant, Truth Thomas, Duriel Harris, Frank X. Walker, Arisa White, Tara Betts, and Lamont B. Steptoe.
Children, Families, and HIV/AIDS: Psychosocial and Therapeutic Issues by Boyd-Franklin, Nancy, Steiner, Gloria, Boland, Mary G.

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