Page Turners

Here is a list of books that have been shared on KMA's Page Turners with the Shenandoah Public Library.

Sunday, October 14, 2007

SPLENDID SOLUTION: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio: Jeffrey Kluger—The New York Times said “Gripping—colorful and fast paced..brings Salk to Life”. Agreed. The biography reads as a novel; the research, which included extensive and repeated interviews with Salk’s sons, pays off for the reader as time and facts turn into a real story. Although the end is known, Kluger manages to portray the tension surrounding each step, each development until the vaccine was pronounced safe and inoculations begun. There are ‘good-guys’ and ‘not-so-good-guys’ in Salk’s world and the frustrations surrounding the competition make the story even more human. A book that bridges fiction and non-fiction.

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