Alia's Mission : Saving The Books Of Iraq

By:

Mark Alan Stamaty

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Dragonfly Books 2004Description: 32 Pages PaperbackISBN:

037585763X
9780375857638

Subject(s):

Biography, Culture

Genre/Form:

DDC classification:

921 STA

Summary: The inspiring story of an Iraqi librarian's courageous fight to save books from the Basra Central Library before it was destroyed in the war. It is 2003 and Alia Muhammad Baker, the chief librarian of the Central Library in Basra, Iraq, has grown worried given the increased likelihood of war in her country. Determined to preserve the irreplacable records of the culture and history of the land on which she lives from the destruction

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Books

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Current library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Junior Library	Non-fiction	General Books_Circle Time	921	1	Available	Circle Time -Refugees / War Stories / Immigrants		JL2016I1596

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The inspiring story of an Iraqi librarian's courageous fight to save books from the Basra Central Library before it was destroyed in the war.
It is 2003 and Alia Muhammad Baker, the chief librarian of the Central Library in Basra, Iraq, has grown worried given the increased likelihood of war in her country. Determined to preserve the irreplacable records of the culture and history of the land on which she lives from the destruction Biography, Culture

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