Lynn Cullen
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"Ich bin beeindruckt von dieser Wissenschaftlerin, die viel zu lange übersehen worden ist - ein kluge, mutige und großherzige Frau." Andrea Sawatzki
Ein spannender Roman nach der wahren Geschichte einer herausragenden Ärztin
Vanderbilt-Hospital, Nashville 1940: Dr. Dorothy Millicent Horstmann fällt auf unter den Ärzten der Klinik. Sie ist 1,85 m groß. Und sie ist eine Frau - meistens die einzige im Raum. Dorothy hat Großes vor: Sie will...
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"She 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...
4) Mrs. Poe
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Struggling to support her family in mid-19th-century New York, writer Frances Osgood makes an unexpected connection with literary master Edgar Allan Poe and finds her survival complicated by her intense attraction to the writer and the scheming manipulations of his wife.