The Librarian of Basra : A True Story of Iraq

Alia Muhammad Baker is the librarian in Basra Iraq. For fourteen years, her library has been a meeting place for those who love books. Until now. Now war has come, and Alia fears that the library - along with the thirty thousand books within it - will be destroyed forever. In a war-stricken country where civillians - especially women - have little power, this true story about librarian's strugg…