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January's Book Club Selection Is "The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu”  by Joshua Hammer

12/19/2021

 
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The January selection for the SAGA Book Club is "The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts" by Joshua Hammer. The club will meet Saturday, Jan. 8 at 11:00 am via Zoom to discuss the book.

Interested in joining? Email hennie_mo@bellsouth.net for more information.

From GoodReads.com:

To save precious centuries-old Arabic texts from Al Qaeda, a band of librarians in Timbuktu pulls off a brazen heist worthy of Ocean’s Eleven.

In the 1980s, a young adventurer and collector for a government library, Abdel Kader Haidara, journeyed across the Sahara Desert and along the Niger River, tracking down and salvaging tens of thousands of ancient Islamic and secular manuscripts that had fallen into obscurity. The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu tells the incredible story of how Haidara, a mild-mannered archivist and historian from the legendary city of Timbuktu, later became one of the world’s greatest and most brazen smugglers.


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