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'The Book Collectors' Opens The Door To A Secret Library Amidst Syria's Civil War

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'The Book Collectors' Opens The Door To A Secret Library Amidst Syria's Civil War

Delphine Minoui's slim new book tells the true story of a group of Syrian resistance fighters who founded a 15,000-volume library in the basement of an abandoned building.

'The Book Collectors' Opens The Door To A Secret Library Amidst Syria's Civil War

The Book Collectors: A Band of Syrian Rebels and the Stories That Carried Them Through a War, by Delphine Minoui Farrar, Straus and Giroux hide caption

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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'The Book Collectors' Opens The Door To A Secret Library Amidst Syria's Civil War

'The Book Collectors' Opens The Door To A Secret Library Amidst Syria's Civil War

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