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Author Spotlight:

Tami Charles

Tami Charles is the New York Times bestselling author of All Because You Matter, and numerous books for children and young adults. Her middle grade debut, Like Vanessa, earned Top 10 spots on the Indies Introduce and Spring Kids' Next lists, three starred reviews, and a Junior Library Guild selection. Her latest titles include YA novel-in-verse, Muted, a Buzzfeed Top 40 pick, and the follow up to All Because You Matter, We Are Here, spotlighted in the New York Times Book Review, an Amazon Editor's Choice, and featured on CBS Mornings. When Tami isn't writing, she can be found presenting at schools both stateside and abroad.

Books by Tami:

"HEARTBREAKING!

This memoir of the AIDS plague is a powerful reminder to those of us who miraculously lived through it—and a valuable eye-opener for younger generations who can never allow this to happen again.”
—Sam Irvin, co-executive producer of Gods and Monsters,
author of Kay Thompson: From Funny Face to Eloise
WE SPEAK THEIR NAMES
SO THEY SHALL NOT BE FORGOTTEN.

Before COVID-19 swept across the world, there was another pandemic. This gripping memoir recounts Lynn Curlee's life in New York and Los Angeles during the 1980s and 1990s, as friend after friend passed away and the LGBT+ community changed forever.
“. . . a poignant and raw

examination of the AIDS crisis that highlights how much the past shapes our present. Lynn Curlee has accomplished something beautiful here—I could not put it down.”
—Leo Rocha, journalist and GLAAD "20 under 20" honoree
“Heartfelt, essential reading

about the ways the past echoes into and informs the present—The Other Pandemic deftly and personally brings to light a time and people that remain important, valued, and vital today.”
—Rhiannon Wilde, award-winning author of Henry Hamlet's Heart and Where You Left Us
“Reading The Other Pandemic: An AIDS Memoir is akin to settling in with a dear, dear friend for a long-overdue catchup. Lynn Curlee’s effortless and evocative prose is much more than a poignant account of a not-distant-past epidemic that galvanized the LGBTQ+ community. It is a deeply personal and brave story of chosen families, political deafness, and hard-fought resolve.

Curlee both broke my heart and mended it.”

—Jeffrey Dale Lofton, author of Red Clay Suzie

From the author of Indie Next Pick Henry Hamlet's Heart

THE PAST DOES NOT DEFINE US.

Cinnamon Prince is doing just fine. She's holding down a job and taking care of her rock star father as he struggles through yet another mental health crisis and she is actually genuinely best friends with her ex, Will. She doesn't need her sister Scarlet for anything.

But when Scarlet comes home from school for the holidays, she takes the lid off everything: Cinnamon's carefully balanced friendship with Will, her growing crush on her coworker Daisy, and the mysterious disappearance decades ago of their great-aunt Sadie, who might not have been a murderer after all . . .

As each piece of the Prince family’s puzzle comes to the fore, Cinnamon and Scarlett are forced to reckon with demons both personal and inherited and find a way forward.