Alia's Mission by Mark Alan Stamaty

Alia's Mission by Mark Alan Stamaty

The inspiring story of an Iraqi librarian's courageous fight to save books from the Basra Central Library before it was destroyed in the war.
It is 2003 and Alia Muhammad Baker, the chief librarian of the Central Library in Basra, Iraq, has grown worried given the increased likelihood of war in her country. Determined 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 safe place.
Told in dramatic graphic-novel panels by acclaimed cartoonist Mark Alan Stamaty, Alia's Mission celebrates the importance of books and the freedom to read, while examining the impact of war on a country and its people.

Political cartoons and comic strips by Mark Alan Stamaty have appeared in Time, The Village Voice, and The Washington Post. He works as a cartoonist for The New York Times Book Review and Slats, an online publication.

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ISBN 13	9780375857638
ISBN 10	037585763X
Title	Alia's Mission
Author	Mark Alan Stamaty
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2010-02-09
Number of pages	32
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