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DON'T MISS BRIDGE OF CLAY, MARKUS ZUSAK'S FIRST NOVEL SINCE THE BOOK THIEF. The extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller that is now a major motion picture, Markus Zusak's unforgettable story is about the ability of books to feed the soul. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read. When Death has a story to tell, you listen. It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. 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. 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. 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. "The kind of book that can be life-changing." —The New York Times "Deserves a place on the same shelf with The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank." —USA Today
A Los Angeles Times bestseller
A 2007 Michael L. Printz Award Honor Book
Winner of the National Jewish Book Award in 2007
Nominated for the Barnes & Noble Discover Award
A Publishers Weekly bestseller
A 2010 Abraham Lincoln Award Nominee
A 2007 Book Sense Book of the Year
A 2007 ALA Top Book
Winner of Printz Honors, 2007
"Brilliant and hugely ambitious…Adults will probably like it (this one did), but it's a great young adult novel…It's the kind of book that can be life-changing, because without ever denying the essential amorality and randomness of the natural order, The Book Thief offers us a believable hard-won hope…The hope we see in Liesel is unassailable, the kind you can hang on to in the midst of poverty and war and violence. Young readers need such alternatives to ideological rigidity, and such explorations of how stories matter. And so, come to think of it, do adults." —New York Times
"The Book Thief is unsettling and unsentimental, yet ultimately poetic. Its grimness and tragedy run through the reader's mind like a black-and-white movie, bereft of the colors of life. Zusak may not have lived under Nazi domination, but The Book Thief deserves a place on the same shelf with The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank and Elie Wiesel's Night. It seems poised to become a classic." —USA Today
"Zusak doesn't sugarcoat anything, but he makes his ostensibly gloomy subject bearable the same way Kurt Vonnegut did in Slaughterhouse-Five: with grim, darkly consoling humor." —Time
"An extraordinary narrative." —School Library Journal (starred review)
"Exquisitely written and memorably populated, Zusak's poignant tribute to words, survival, and their curiously inevitable entwinement is a tour de force to be not just read but inhabited." —Horn Book (starred review)
"Elegant, philosophical, and moving…Beautiful and important." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Author Bio: Markus Zusak
Markus Zusak is the author of I Am the Messenger, winner of the Children's Book Council Book of the Year in Australia; Fighting Ruben Wolfe, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults; The Book Thief, a Printz Honor Book; and Getting the Girl. He lives in Sydney, Australia.
Format: Digital Download Format: CD
Available Formats : Digital Download, CD
Category: Fiction/Historical
Publisher: Listening Library Publisher: Listening Library
CDs: 11
ISBN: 9780739337288 ISBN: 9780804168434