TY  - BOOK
AU  - Alvarez,Julia
TI  - Saving the world: a novel 
SN  - 9781565125582 :
AV  - 118 PQ 7409 A473s 2007
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Chapel Hill, NC
PB  - Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
KW  - Balmis, Francisco Xavier de
KW  - Expedición Maritima de la Vacuna
KW  - (1803-1810)
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Dominican Americans in literature
KW  - Literatura dominicana
KW  - Married women
KW  - Middle-aged women
KW  - AIDS (Disease)
KW  - Patients
KW  - Family relationships
KW  - Vaccination
KW  - Smallpox
KW  - Psychological fiction
KW  - lcsh
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - gsafd
N1  - "A Shannon Ravenel book."; Reader's discussion guide included; Includes bibliographical references; Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning; UG; 6.6; 22
N2  - 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)
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0704/2005053064-d.html
ER  -