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X-WR-CALDESC:The Book Collectors of Daraya by Delphine Minoui (208 pages)\n
 \nDay in\, day out\, bombs fall on Daraya\, a town outside Damascus\, the 
 very spot where the Syrian Civil War began. In the\nmidst of chaos and blo
 odshed\, a group searching for survivors stumbles on a cache of books. The
 y collect the books\,\nthen look for more. In a week they have six thousan
 d volumes. In a month\, fifteen thousand. A sanctuary is born: a\nlibrary 
 where the people of Daraya can explore beyond the blockade.\n\nLong a site
  of peaceful resistance to the Assad regimes\, Daraya was under siege for 
 four years. No one entered or left\,\nand international aid was blocked. I
 n 2015\, French-Iranian journalist Delphine Minoui saw a post on Facebook 
 about this\nsecret library and tracked down one of its founders\, twenty-t
 hree-year-old Ahmad\, an aspiring photojournalist himself.\nOver WhatsApp 
 and Facebook\, Minoui learned about the young men who gathered in the libr
 ary\, exchanged ideas\,\nlearned English\, and imagined how to shape the f
 uture\, even as bombs fell above. They devoured a marvelous range of\nbook
 s—from American self-help like The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
  to international bestsellers like The\nAlchemist\, from Arabic poetry by 
 Mahmoud Darwish to Shakespearean plays to stories of war in other times an
 d places\,\nsuch as the siege of Sarajevo. They also shared photos and sto
 ries of their lives before and during the war\, planned how\nto build a de
 mocracy\, and began to sustain a community in shell-shocked soil.\n\nAs th
 ese everyday heroes struggle to hold their ground\, they become as much an
  inspiration as the books they read.\nAnd in the course of telling their s
 tories\, Delphine Minoui makes this far-off\, complicated war immediate. I
 n the vein of\nclassic tales of the triumph of the human spirit—like All t
 he Beautiful Forevers\, A Long Way Gone\, and Reading Lolita in\nTehran—Th
 e Book Collectors will inspire readers and encourage them to imagine the w
 ider world.
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DESCRIPTION:The Book Collectors of Daraya by Delphine Minoui (208 pages)\n
 \nDay in\, day out\, bombs fall on Daraya\, a town outside Damascus\, the 
 very spot where the Syrian Civil War began. In the\nmidst of chaos and blo
 odshed\, a group searching for survivors stumbles on a cache of books. The
 y collect the books\,\nthen look for more. In a week they have six thousan
 d volumes. In a month\, fifteen thousand. A sanctuary is born: a\nlibrary 
 where the people of Daraya can explore beyond the blockade.\n\nLong a site
  of peaceful resistance to the Assad regimes\, Daraya was under siege for 
 four years. No one entered or left\,\nand international aid was blocked. I
 n 2015\, French-Iranian journalist Delphine Minoui saw a post on Facebook 
 about this\nsecret library and tracked down one of its founders\, twenty-t
 hree-year-old Ahmad\, an aspiring photojournalist himself.\nOver WhatsApp 
 and Facebook\, Minoui learned about the young men who gathered in the libr
 ary\, exchanged ideas\,\nlearned English\, and imagined how to shape the f
 uture\, even as bombs fell above. They devoured a marvelous range of\nbook
 s—from American self-help like The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
  to international bestsellers like The\nAlchemist\, from Arabic poetry by 
 Mahmoud Darwish to Shakespearean plays to stories of war in other times an
 d places\,\nsuch as the siege of Sarajevo. They also shared photos and sto
 ries of their lives before and during the war\, planned how\nto build a de
 mocracy\, and began to sustain a community in shell-shocked soil.\n\nAs th
 ese everyday heroes struggle to hold their ground\, they become as much an
  inspiration as the books they read.\nAnd in the course of telling their s
 tories\, Delphine Minoui makes this far-off\, complicated war immediate. I
 n the vein of\nclassic tales of the triumph of the human spirit—like All t
 he Beautiful Forevers\, A Long Way Gone\, and Reading Lolita in\nTehran—Th
 e Book Collectors will inspire readers and encourage them to imagine the w
 ider world.
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SUMMARY:True Story Book Club: The Book Collectors of Daraya by Delphine Min
 oui
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