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Saving the world

Living two centuries apart, two women each face a crisis of the soul when their fates are tied to idealistic men whose commitments to medical humanitarian missions end in disillusionment.

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  • "A best-selling, Latin-American author living in Vermont, Alma stays behind when her husband travels to the Dominican Republic to help fight AIDS. She needs the time to work on her latest book, but she has terrible writer's block. Soon, her focus is diverted to an enitrely new story, that of the early 19th-century anti-smallpox expedition of Dr. Francisco Balmis. Accompanying Dr. Balmis was Doa Isabel, who cared for the orphan boys serving as living carriers of the smallpox vaccine. It is the narrative of the courageous Dona Isabel that provides hope and inspiration when Alma's husband is taken captive."
  • "Living two centuries apart, two women each face a crisis of the soul when their fates are tied to idealistic men whose commitments to medical humanitarian missions end in disillusionment."@en
  • "A best-selling, Latin-American author living in Vermont, Alma stays behind when her husband travels to the Dominican Republic to help fight AIDS. She needs the time to work on her latest book, but she has terrible writer's block. Soon, her focus is diverted to an entirely new story, that of the early 19th-century anti-smallpox expedition of Dr. Francisco Balmis. Accompanying Dr. Balmis was Doą Isabel, who cared for the orphan boys serving as living carriers of the smallpox vaccine. It is the narrative of the courageous Doña Isabel that provides hope and inspiration when Alma's husband is taken captive.--"@en
  • "A best-selling, Latin-American author living in Vermont, Alma stays behind when her husband travels to the Dominican Republic to help fight AIDS. She needs the time to work on her latest book, but she has terrible writer's block. Soon, her focus is diverted to an entirely new story, that of the early 19th-century anti-smallpox expedition of Dr. Francisco Balmis. Accompanying Dr. Balmis was Doą Isabel, who cared for the orphan boys serving as living carriers of the smallpox vaccine. It is the narrative of the courageous Doña Isabel that provides hope and inspiration when Alma's husband is taken captive."@en
  • "[The story] takes us into the worlds of two women swept up in campaigns against the scourges of their day. Alma Huebner, a Latin American novelist transplanted to the United States, is writing another of her bestselling family sagas. Her husband works for a humanitarian organization dedicated to health and prosperity in developing countries. He wants her to go with him, but she demurs. She must finish her newest novel. In truth, Alma is sidetracked by the story of a much earlier idealist, Francisco Xavier Balmis, who in 1803 undertook to vaccinate the populations of Spain's American colonies against smallpox. To do this, he needed living " carriers" of the vaccine. Enter Isabel Sendales y Go mez, the rectoress of La Casa de Exposito s. Isabel selects twenty-two orphan boys to be the carriers and joins them on the voyage. Her bravery inspires a very different novel from Alma. [This novel] pits ambition against altruism -- and, in the process, tells the radiant stories of two courageous women."@en
  • "A best-selling, Latin-American author living in Vermont, Alma stays behind when her husband travels to the Dominican Republic to help fight AIDS. She needs the time to work on her latest book, but she has terrible writer's block. Soon, her focus is diverted to an entirely new story, that of the early 19th-century anti-smallpox expedition of Dr. Francisco Balmis. Accompanying Dr. Ba."@en

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  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Audiobooks"@en
  • "Historical fiction"
  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "Downloadable audio books"@en
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  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Psychological fiction"@en

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  • "Saving the world [a novel]"
  • "Saving the world"
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  • "Saving the world by Julia Alvarez"@en
  • "Saving the world a novel"@en

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