Purple Death Madeline Gifts and Malcolm will brave any

and Malcolm will brave any peril

and he completed his PhD at the CUNY Graduate Center in June 2014

CJ and his nana ride the bus across town to their stop on Market Street

an astronaut

scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky

Purple Death Madeline Gifts and Malcolm will brave anyIt was the worst epidemic in this country's history, and the search for its cause is still one of science's most urgent quests. It was 1918, the last year of World War 1. Thousands of men lived in the crowded army training camps that were scattered all across the United States. That spring, a strange flu struck the soldiers at a camp in the Midwest. Healthy young men went to the hospital complaining of sore throats and fevers. Within hours they had