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Tuesday, September 12, at 6:30 pm in the Boardroom. The Badass Librarians of Timbuktu by Joshua Hammer. 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 ... view more »
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This Book Club takes place in the Boardroom of the Homewood Public Library.