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Alia’s Mission: Saving the Books of Iraq (Dragonfly Books)

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The inspiring story of an Iraqi librarian’s courageous fight to save lots of books from the Basra Central Library before it was once destroyed within the war.
It is 2003 and Alia Muhammad Baker, the manager librarian of the Central Library in Basra, Iraq, has grown worried given the increased likelihood of war in her country. Made up our minds to preserve the irreplacable records of the culture and history of the land on which she lives from the destruction of the war, Alia undertakes a courageous and extremely dangerous task of spiriting away 30,000 books from the library to a protected place.
Told in dramatic graphic-novel panels by acclaimed cartoonist Mark Alan Stamaty, Alia’s Mission celebrates the significance of books and the liberty to read, at the same time as examining the affect of war on a country and its people.

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