Saving the world : a novel
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Published
Chapel Hill, NC : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2006.
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Fiction | Fiction Alvarez | On Shelf |
Main Library - Adult Fiction | Fiction Alvarez | On Shelf |
Subjects
LC Subjects
AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- Family relationships -- Fiction.
AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- Fiction.
Balmis, Francisco Xavier de -- Fiction.
Expedición Marítima de la Vacuna -- (1803-1810) -- Fiction.
Married women -- Fiction.
Middle-aged women -- Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Smallpox -- Fiction.
Vaccination -- Fiction.
AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- Fiction.
Balmis, Francisco Xavier de -- Fiction.
Expedición Marítima de la Vacuna -- (1803-1810) -- Fiction.
Married women -- Fiction.
Middle-aged women -- Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Smallpox -- Fiction.
Vaccination -- Fiction.
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Published
Chapel Hill, NC : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2006.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
368 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Reading Level
UG
Level 6.6, 22 Points
Level 6.6, 22 Points
Lexile measure
920
Notes
General Note
"A Shannon Ravenel book."
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Description
"Alma Heubner's husband, Richard, goes to the Dominican Republic to help eradicate AIDS, while Alma, a bestselling Latina writer, stays at home in Vermont to work on a story about a real, ill-fated 19th-century expedition chaperoned by Doña Isabel Sendales y Gómez, the spinster director of a Spanish orphanage who agrees to vaccinate 20 of her charges with cowpox and bring them from Spain to Central America to prevent future smallpox epidemics. While the leader of the anti-smallpox expedition, Dr. Francisco Balmis, and Richard see their missions collapse in defeat, Doña Isabel and Alma surmount their personal depressions to find inner strength."--Publishers Weekly.
Study Program Information
Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning,UG,6.6,22.
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Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Alvarez, J. (2006). Saving the world: a novel . Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Alvarez, Julia. 2006. Saving the World: A Novel. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Alvarez, Julia. Saving the World: A Novel Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2006.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Alvarez, Julia. Saving the World: A Novel Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2006.
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