Saving the world: a novel

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Alvarez, Julia
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Alma is set on writing another of her bestselling family sagas, but when she discovers the story of 22 orphan boys who were selected in 1803 to act as RcarriersS of the smallpox vaccine in an attempt to vaccinate Spain's American colonies, Alma's newest novel develops into something very different.

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AIDS (Disease)
AIDS (Disease) -- Family relationships -- Fiction
AIDS (Disease) -- Fiction
AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- Family relationships -- Fiction
AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- Fiction
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Balmis, Francisco Xavier de
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Expediciâon Marâitima de la Vacuna -- Fiction
Expedición Marítima de la Vacuna -- (1803-1810)
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Family relationships
Fiction
Historical fiction
Literature
Literature -- Fiction
Married women
Married women -- Fiction
Middle-aged women
Middle-aged women -- Fiction
Patients
Psychological fiction
Smallpox
Smallpox -- Fiction
Sound recording
Vaccination
Vaccination -- Fiction
Women novelists
Women novelists -- Fiction

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9781565125100
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Last Grouping Update2025-01-19 05:10:55AM
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AIDS (Disease) -- Fiction
AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- Family relationships -- Fiction
AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- Fiction
Audiobooks
Balmis, Francisco Xavier de -- Fiction
Electronic books
Expediciâon Marâitima de la Vacuna -- Fiction
Expedición Marítima de la Vacuna -- (1803-1810)
Expedición Marítima de la Vacuna -- (1803-1810) -- Fiction
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Historical fiction
Literature -- Fiction
Married women -- Fiction
Middle-aged women -- Fiction
Psychological fiction
Smallpox -- Fiction
Sound recording
Vaccination -- Fiction
Women novelists -- Fiction
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Balmis, Francisco Xavier de
Electronic books
Family relationships
Literature
Married women
Middle-aged women
Patients
Smallpox
Vaccination
Women novelists

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