The librarian of Basra :
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TextPublisher: Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, Inc., [2005]Copyright date: ©2005Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0152054456Subject(s): Baker, Alia Muhammad | Librarians -- Iraq -- Baṣrah | Libraries -- Destruction and pillage -- Iraq -- Baṣrah | Iraq War, 2003-2011Genre/Form: Juvenile literature. DDC classification: 020/.92 | B Summary: Alia Muhammad Baker is a librarian in Basra, Iraq. For fourteen years, her library has been a meeting place for those who love books. Until now. Now war has come, and Alia fears that the library--along with the thirty thousand books within it--will be destroyed forever. In a war-stricken country where civilians--especially women--have little power, this true story about a librarian's struggle to save her community's priceless collection of books reminds us all how, throughout the world, the love of literature and the respect for knowledge know no boundaries.
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Alia Muhammad Baker is a librarian in Basra, Iraq. For fourteen years, her library has been a meeting place for those who love books. Until now. Now war has come, and Alia fears that the library--along with the thirty thousand books within it--will be destroyed forever. In a war-stricken country where civilians--especially women--have little power, this true story about a librarian's struggle to save her community's priceless collection of books reminds us all how, throughout the world, the love of literature and the respect for knowledge know no boundaries.
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