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The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts Horror_Gift_Guide These and other important African**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 Oceans Eleven in this fast paced narrative that ispart intellectual history, part geopolitical tract, and part out and out thriller (The Washington Post) from the award winning journalist and author of The Falcon Thief. In the 1980s, a young adventurer and collector for a government library, Abdel Kader