02808cam a2200529Ia 4500 74455 20230410102138.0 070910s2007 ncu b 000 1 eng 2005053064 (OCoLC)ocn170862489 ILE ILE IXA BAKER NCM AMP YDXCP BTCTA IT8 PFO VRC SIE EDK 131078727 9781565125582 : $13.95 1565125584 : $13.95 YDXCP 2504801 (OCoLC)170862489 (OCoLC)131078727 118 PQ 7409 A473s 2007 Alvarez, Julia, 1950- Saving the world : a novel / Julia Alvarez. 1st pbk. ed. Chapel Hill, NC : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2007. 376 p. ; 21 cm. "A Shannon Ravenel book." Reader's discussion guide included. Includes bibliographical references. Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning UG 6.6 22. From the Publisher: While Alma Huebert is researching a new novel, she finds her real story-and her salvation-in a little-known but staggering historical footnote: the Royal Expedition of the Vaccine. In 1803, Don Francisco Balmis embarked on a two-year sea voyage to rescue the New World from smallpox. Accompanying him were twenty-two orphan boys, acting as live carriers, and their guardian, Isabel Sendales y Gomez. As Alma digs deeper into Isabel's life, she finds her own power to commit an act as life-changing as Isabel's. In Saving the World, Julia Alvarez, author of perennial bestsellers, including How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents and In the Time of the Butterflies, takes us into the worlds of "two women living two centuries apart [who] each face 'a crisis of the soul' when their fates are tied to idealistic men"-(Publishers Weekly). Dominican Americans in literature. Literatura dominicana Married women Fiction. Middle-aged women Fiction. AIDS (Disease) Patients Fiction. AIDS (Disease) Patients Family relationships Fiction. Expedición Maritima de la Vacuna (1803-1810) Fiction. Balmis, Francisco Xavier de Fiction. Vaccination Fiction. Smallpox Fiction. Psychological fiction. lcsh Historical fiction. gsafd Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0704/2005053064-d.html Baker & Taylor BKTY 13.95 10.46 1565125584 0006940343 active YBP Library Services YANK 2504801 Baker and Taylor BTCP bl2007009382 lcc bk C0 DRFGD RCH 19944 19944 0 0 lcc 0 0 RR BJB BJB RR 2023-04-10 1 0 118 PQ 7409 A473s 2007 00000063180 2018-10-23 00:00:00 1 2018-10-23 bk