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  • The Off Season

    by Amy Hoffman ...
    When Nora Griffin, an artist in her midthirties, moves from Brooklyn to Provincetown, she isn't looking for trouble. Her partner, Janelle, is recovering from breast cancer treatment, and together they've decided that the quiet off-season on the tip of Cape Cod is the perfect place for Janelle to heal and Nora to paint. Then charismatic Baby Harris flirts into Nora's life in her red cowboy boots.In ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Hospital Time

    Hospital Time is a memoir about friendship, family, and caregiving in the age of AIDS. Amy Hoffman, a writer, lesbian activist, and former editor of Gay Community News, chronicles with fury and unflinching honesty her experience serving as primary caretaker for her friend and colleague, Mike Riegle, who died from AIDS-related complications in 1992. Hoffman neither idealizes nor deifies Riegle, ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Lies About My Family

    A Memoir

    by Amy Hoffman ...
    This well-crafted family memoir is about the stories that are told and the ones that are not told, and about the ways the meanings of the stories change down the generations. It is about memory and the spaces between memories, and about alienation and reconciliation.All of Amy Hoffman's grandparents came to the United States during the early twentieth century from areas in Poland and Russia that ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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    How the Berlin Patients Defeated HIV and Forever Changed Medical Science

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    “Nathalia Holt presents a thorough account of the research that provides scientists with hope that a cure will one day be achievable... and her empathy shines through in her prose. This is as important a social history as it is a medical document.”—The Daily BeastTwo patients—each known in medical history as the Berlin Patient—were cured of the HIV virus. The two patients’ disparate cures came ... Read more

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  • Israel

    A History

    "The most comprehensive account of Israeli history yet published" (Efraim Karsh, The Sunday Telegraph).Fleeing persecution in Europe, thousands of Jewish immigrants settled in Palestine after World War II. Renowned historian Martin Gilbert crafts a riveting account of Israel's turbulent history, from the birth of the Zionist movement under Theodor Herzl to the unexpected declaration of its ... Read more

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  • Someone Was Here

    Profiles in the AIDS Epidemic

    Three powerful profiles of men and women whose lives were changed forever by the AIDS epidemic"Some of my reasons for wanting to write about AIDS were altruistic, others selfish. AIDS was decimating the community around me; there was a need to bear witness. AIDS had turned me and others like me into walking time bombs; there was a need to strike back, not just wait to die. What I didn't fully ... Read more

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  • Trouble on Triton

    In this novel by a Nebula Award–winning author, a man looks for love in a society where you can be anyone you want, on a moon at war with Earth.In a story as exciting as any science fiction adventure written, Samuel R. Delany's 1976 SF novel, originally published as Triton, takes us on a tour of a utopian society at war with . . . our own Earth! High wit in this future comedy of manners allows ... Read more

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  • A Woman's Guide to Living with HIV Infection

    Series series A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book
    Written by three experts with extensive experience helping people with HIV/AIDS, this trusted resource is the complete guide to better physical and emotional health for women living with HIV or AIDS. It covers the full range of health and emotional issues faced by people with HIV while also addressing topics of special interest to women, including gynecologic disorders, reproductive choices, ... Read more

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  • Ben-Gurion

    A Political Life

    Series series Jewish Encounters Series
    Part of the Jewish Encounter seriesIsrael’s current president gives us a dramatic and revelatory biography of Israel’s founding father and first prime minister.Shimon Peres was in his early twenties when he first met David Ben-Gurion. Although the state that Ben-Gurion would lead through war and peace had not yet declared its precarious independence, the “Old Man,” as he was called even then, was ... Read more

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  • Living with HIV

    A Patient's Guide, 2d ed.

    Series series McFarland Health Topics
    In its updated and expanded second edition, this helpful guide offers a wealth of information for people living with HIV and for people caring for HIV-positive loved ones. All aspects of HIV/AIDS are discussed, including opportunistic and associated infections, dental care, exercise and nutrition, substance use and abuse and emotional treatment. New information will help the newly diagnosed adjust ... Read more

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  • A Lethal Obsession

    Anti-Semitism from Antiquity to the Global Jihad

    In this unprecedented work two decades in the making, leading historian Robert S. Wistrich examines the long and ugly history of anti-Semitism, from the first recorded pogrom in 38 BCE to its shocking and widespread resurgence in the present day. As no other book has done before it, A Lethal Obsession reveals the causes behind this shameful and persistent form of hatred and offers a sobering look ... Read more

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  • HerScopes

    A Guide to Astrology for Lesbians

    Learn how your astrological sign affects your personality—and how astrological knowledge can change and strengthen your relationships.Has your girlfriend (or ex-girlfriend) ever told you to stop being such a sloppy Sagittarius? Have you ever wanted to crack the shell of the cute but quiet Cancer shelving books in your local bookshop? Do you read the monthly horoscope columns in your favorite ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD