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THE WOMAN WITH THE CURE - LYNN CULLEN KARTONIER...

Huge applause... women have always been in science—despite those who would pretend otherwise.”
--Bonnie Garmus  New York Times bestselling author of Lessons in ChemistryShe gave up
everything — and changed the world. A riveting novel based on the true story of the woman who
stopped a pandemic  from the bestselling author of Mrs. Poe. In 1940s and ’50s America  polio
is as dreaded as the atomic bomb. No one’s life is untouched by this disease that kills or
paralyzes its victims  particularly children. Outbreaks of the virus across the country
regularly put American cities in lockdown. Some of the world’s best minds are engaged in the
race to find a vaccine. The man who succeeds will be a god. But Dorothy Horstmann is not
focused on beating her colleagues to the vaccine. She just wants the world to have a cure.
Applying the same determination that lifted her from a humble background as the daughter of
immigrants  to becoming a doctor –often the only woman in the room--she hunts down the monster
where it lurks: in the blood. This discovery of hers  and an error by a competitor  catapults
her closest colleague to a lead in the race. When his chance to win comes on a worldwide scale
she is asked to sink or validate his vaccine—and to decide what is forgivable  and how much
should be sacrificed  in pursuit of the cure.

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