![]() ![]() “Deserves a place on the same shelf with The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank. “The kind of book that can be life-changing.” - The New York Times In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak, author of I Am the Messenger, has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement. By her brothers graveside, Liesels life is changed forever when she picks up a single object, abandoned in the snow. ![]() ![]() Death has never been busier - and will become busier still. In Nazi Germany, the country is holding its breath. This is her story and the story of the inhabitants of her street when the bombs begin to fall. SPECIAL 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION with exclusive extra behind-the-scenes material from the author It is 1939. Her parents have been taken away to a concentration camp. Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist–books. Liesel, a nine-year-old girl, is living with a foster family on Himmel Street. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. When Death has a story to tell, you listen. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read. This 10th-anniversary edition of the extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller features pages of bonus content, including marked-up manuscript pages, original sketches, and pages from the author's writing notebook. ![]() DON’T MISS BRIDGE OF CLAY, MARKUS ZUSAK’S FIRST NOVEL SINCE THE BOOK THIEF. ![]()
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