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1 online resource (1 audio file (16hr., 16 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Narrated by Blanca Camacho. |
| Summary |
A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award with In the Time of Butterflies, author Julia Alvarez is a beloved voice in modern fiction and poetry. In Saving the World, she weaves the stories of two courageous women-separated by two centuries-into a breathtaking novel of love and idealism in an increasingly troubled world. 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 DoNa 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. Mesmerizing and poetic, Saving the World is a visionary tale that raises profound questions about the world we live in-and whether or not it is beyond redemption. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Balmis, Francisco Xavier de -- Fiction.
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Married women -- Fiction.
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Middle-aged women -- Fiction.
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AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- Fiction.
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AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- Family relationships -- Fiction.
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Vaccination -- Fiction.
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Smallpox -- Fiction.
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Camacho, Blanca. Narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781449895259 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1449895255 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT13507168 |
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