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Winter – Librarian of Basra

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Winter

Personal Author:
Winter, Jeanette.
Title:
The librarian of Basra : a true story from Iraq / written & illustrated by Jeanette Winter.
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication info:
Orlando : Harcourt, Inc., c2005.
Physical description:
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Personal subject:
Baker, Alia Muhammad–Juvenile literature.
Summary: The librarian of Basra, Iraq, worries that after fourteen years of being a place for readers, her library’s thirty thousand books will be destroyed by war.
Subject term:
Librarians–Iraq–Ba·srah–Biography–Juvenile literature.
Subject term:
Libraries–Destruction and pillage–Iraq–Ba·srah–Juvenile literature.
Subject term:
Iraq War, 2003-2011–Juvenile literature.
ISBN:
0152054456 : $16.00
Local system #:
(Sirsi) i0152054456

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Tenney – Hadassah covenant

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Tenney

Personal Author:
Tenney, Tommy, 1956-
Title:
The Hadassah covenant / Tommy Tenney and Mark Andrew Olsen.
Publication info:
Minneapolis, Minn. : Bethany House, c2005.
Physical description:
349 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Summary:
The modern-day Hadassah, already introduced to readers, is the wife of Israel’s Prime Minister. The inner pain she feels as her beloved land and people are terrorized by political strife is made even more personal as her own father comes under attack. An antiquities expert discovers ancient documents bridging the centuries and pointing to another conspiracy, one that has tragic implications for modern-day Jews living in Iraq and Iran, where Queen Esther had laid her own life on the line to save her people. Can Hadassah’s already fragile marriage survive the request she must make?
Subject term:
Women–Israel–Fiction.
Subject term:
Women–Iran–Fiction.
Geographic term:
Israel–Fiction.
Geographic term:
Iran–Fiction.
Added author:
Olsen, Mark Andrew.
ISBN:
076422736X : $19.99

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Dyer – Rise of Babylon

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Dyer

Author     Dyer, Charles H., 1952-
Title     The rise of Babylon : sign of the end times / Charles H. Dyer with Angela Elwell Hunt.
Publisher     Wheaton, Ill. : Tyndale House Pub., c1991.
Descrip.     236 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., map ; 21 cm.
Bibliog.     Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-231) and index.
Subject     Bible — Prophecies — Babylonia.
Bible — Prophecies — Hussein, Saddam.
Alt Author     Hunt, Angela Elwell, 1957-
ISBN     0842356185

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Tenney – Hadassah covenant

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Tenney

2005

Personal Author:
Tenney, Tommy, 1956-
Title:
The Hadassah covenant / Tommy Tenney and Mark Andrew Olsen.
Publication info:
Minneapolis, Minn. : Bethany House, c2005.
Physical description:
349 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Summary:
The modern-day Hadassah, already introduced to readers, is the wife of Israel’s Prime Minister. The inner pain she feels as her beloved land and people are terrorized by political strife is made even more personal as her own father comes under attack. An antiquities expert discovers ancient documents bridging the centuries and pointing to another conspiracy, one that has tragic implications for modern-day Jews living in Iraq and Iran, where Queen Esther had laid her own life on the line to save her people. Can Hadassah’s already fragile marriage survive the request she must make?
Subject term:
Women–Israel–Fiction.
Subject term:
Women–Iran–Fiction.
Geographic term:
Israel–Fiction.
Geographic term:
Iran–Fiction.
Added author:
Olsen, Mark Andrew.
ISBN:
076422736X : $19.99

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