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Paperback The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts Book
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ISBN: 1476777411

ISBN13: 9781476777412

The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts

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**New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice**

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 history, part geopolitical tract, and part out-and-out thriller" (The Washington Post) from the author of The Falcon Thief.

In the 1980s, a young adventurer and collector for a government...

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