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The Bad Ass Librarians of Timbuktu

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Author : Joshua Hammer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 19 April 2016
ISBN : 9781476777405
Page : 288 pages
Rating : 3.5/5 (183 users)

Summary: The Bad Ass Librarians of Timbuktu PDF is a Fantastic Biography & Autobiography book by Joshua Hammer. It was published by Simon and Schuster on 19 April 2016. This Book has 288 pages and Available to download in PDF, EPUB and Kindle Format. Read detail book and summary below and click download button to get book file and read directly from your devices.

Describes how a group of Timbuktu librarians enacted a daring plan to smuggle the city's great collection of rare Islamic manuscripts away from the threat of destruction at the hands of Al Qaeda militants to the safety of southern Mali.

The Bad Ass Librarians of Timbuktu

Author: Joshua Hammer
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Category: Biography & Autobiography

Describes how a group of Timbuktu librarians enacted a daring plan to smuggle the city's great collection of rare Islamic manuscripts away from the threat of destruction at the hands

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The Bad Ass Librarians of Timbuktu

Author: Joshua Hammer
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Category: Biography & Autobiography

Describes how a group of Timbuktu librarians enacted a daring plan to smuggle the city's great collection of rare Islamic manuscripts away from the threat of destruction at the hands

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The Bad Ass Librarians of Timbuktu

Author: Joshua Hammer
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Category: Biography & Autobiography

To save ancient Arabic texts from Al Qaeda, a band of librarians pulls off a brazen heist worthy of Ocean’s Eleven in this “fast-paced narrative that is…part intellectual

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The Falcon Thief

Author: Joshua Hammer
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Category: Biography & Autobiography

A “well-written, engaging detective story” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) about a rogue who trades in rare birds and their eggs—and the wildlife detective determined to stop him. On May 3, 2010,

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File Size : 51,5 Mb
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The Book Smugglers of Timbuktu

Author: Charlie English
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Two tales of a city: The historical race to reach one of the world's most mythologized places, and the story of how a contemporary band of archivists and librarians, fighting

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Traces the public librarian author's inspiring story as a Mormon youth with Tourette's Syndrome, who, after a sequence of radical and ineffective treatments overcame nightmarish tics through education, military service,

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A facsimile of an object of unknown authorship that has been the source of study and speculation for centuries and remains undecipherable to this day.

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September 1938 Hitler is determined to start a war. Chamberlain is desperate to preserve the peace. The issue is to be decided in a city that will forever afterwards be notorious

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It's 1970, and in the People's Republic of Congo a Marxist-Leninist revolution is ushering in a new age. But at the orphanage on the outskirts of Pointe-Noire where young Moses has

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Category: Biography & Autobiography

“Timbuktu is a real place, and Charlie English will fuel your wanderlust with true descriptions of the fabled city’s past, present, and future.” –Fodor’s Two tales of a

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