The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts 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...

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Title	:	The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts
Author	:	Joshua Hammer
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ISBN	:	1476777403
Format Type	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	280 pages

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Free Reading ∸♥ Let Me Tell You: New Stories, Essays, and Other Writings by Shirley Jackson

From the renowned author of “The Lottery” and The Haunting of Hill House, a spectacular new volume of previously unpublished and uncollected stories, essays, and other writings. Shirley Jackson is one of the most important American writers of the last hundred years. Since her death in 1965, her place in the landscape of twentieth-century fiction has grown only more exalte...

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Title	:	Let Me Tell You: New Stories, Essays, and Other Writings
Author	:	Shirley Jackson
Language	:	English
Format	:	Hardcover - 448 pages
Genres	:	Short Stories, Writing, Essays, Fiction
ISBN	:	0812997662

Fantasy Story ⇇≈¤ Ink and Bone [Rachel Caine]

In an exhilarating new series, New York Times bestselling author Rachel Caine rewrites history, creating a dangerous world where the Great Library of Alexandria has survived the test of time.…Ruthless and supremely powerful, the Great Library is now a presence in every major city, governing the flow of knowledge to the masses. Alchemy allows the Library to deliver the cont...

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Title	:	Ink and Bone
Author	:	Rachel Caine
Language	:	English
Format	:	Kindle Edition - 352 pages
Genres	:	Fantasy, Young Adult, Science Fiction, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Writing, Books About Books, Young Adult Fantasy, Dystopia, Alternate History

Free Fiction Book ⋖♣℗ The Bookseller

A provocative and hauntingly powerful debut novel reminiscent of Sliding Doors, The Bookseller follows a woman in the 1960s who must reconcile her reality with the tantalizing alternate world of her dreamsNothing is as permanent as it appears . . . Denver, 1962: Kitty Miller has come to terms with her unconventional single life. She loves the bookshop she runs with her bes...

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Title	:	The Bookseller
Author	:	Cynthia Swanson
Format	:	Hardcover - 338 pages
Genres	:	Fiction, Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Writing, Books About Books, Science Fiction, Time Travel, Historical, Mystery, Adult
ISBN	:	0062333003

Free Download ✶ Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination by J.K. Rowling

In 2008, J.K. Rowling delivered a deeply affecting commencement speech at Harvard University. Now published for the first time in book form, Very Good Lives offers J.K. Rowling’s words of wisdom for anyone at a turning point in life, asking the profound and provocative questions: How can we embrace failure? And how can we use our imagination to better both ourselves and ot...

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Title	:	Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination
Author	:	J.K. Rowling
Language	:	English
Format	:	Hardcover - 80 pages
Genres	:	Non Fiction, Writing, Essays, Inspirational, Adult, Self Help
ISBN	:	0316369152

Free Reading ○ So You've Been Publicly Shamed

For the past three years, Jon Ronson has traveled the world meeting recipients of high-profile public shamings. The shamed are people like us, people who, say, made a joke on social media that came out badly or made a mistake at work. Once the transgression is revealed, collective outrage circles with the force of a hurricane and the next thing they know, they're being tor...

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Title	:	So You've Been Publicly Shamed
Author	:	Jon Ronson
Language	:	English
Format	:	Hardcover - 290 pages
Genres	:	Non Fiction, Psychology, Sociology, Writing, Journalism
ISBN	:	1594487138