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An edition of The Basora Librarian (2004)

The librarian of Basra

a true story from Iraq

1st ed.

by

  • ★★★★ ★ 4.50 ·
  • 2 Ratings
  • 5 Want to read
  • 0 Currently reading
  • 5 Have read

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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Harcourt, Inc.
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Subjects
Librarians, Iraq War, 2003, Libraries, Iraq War, 2003-, Iraq War, 2003-2011, Juvenile literature, Destruction and pillage, Biography, Iraq War (2003-2011) fast (OCoLC)fst01802311, Iraq war, 2003-2011, juvenile literature, Iraq war, 2003-2011, Libraries, juvenile literature, Iraq, juvenile literature, Spanish language materials, Literatura juvenil, Bibliotecarios, Biografía, Bibliotecas, Destrucción y saqueo, Guerra de Irak, 2003, Materiales en español
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Alia Muhammad Baker, Baker Alia Muhammad
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Baṣrah, Iraq

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Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq
2019, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers
in English
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Cover of: Librarian of Basra
Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq
2014, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
in English
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Cover of: La bibliotecaria de Basora
La bibliotecaria de Basora: Una historia real de Iraq
February 7, 2007, Juventud
Hardcover in Spanish
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Ē vivliothēkarios tēs Vasoras: mia alēthinē istoria apo to Irak
2007, Papadopoulos
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Basila tu shu guan yuan: gan dong bai wan ren de Mei Yi zhan zheng zhen shi gu shi
2005, Ge lin wen hua shi ye gu fen you xian gong si
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The librarian of Basra: a true story from Iraq
2005, Harcourt, Inc.
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The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq
January 1, 2005, Harcourt Children's Books
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The librarian of Basra: a true story from Iraq
2004, Harcourt, Inc.
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Genre
Juvenile literature., Biography

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
020/.92, B
Library of Congress
Z720.B24 W56 2004, Z720.B24W56 2004, Z720.B24 W56 2005

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Pagination
1 v. (unpaged) :

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Open Library
OL3293457M
Internet Archive
librarianofbasra0000wint
ISBN 10
0152054456
LCCN
2004012969
OCLC/WorldCat
55658292
Library Thing
57496
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111000

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