

<p><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Google Sans&quot;,sans-serif;
font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold" lang="EN-US">It is 1939. In Nazi Germany, the
country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier - and will become
busier still. By her brother^s graveside, Liesel^s life is changed forever when
she picks up a single object, abandoned in the snow. It is The Gravedigger^s
Handbook, and this is her first act of book thievery. So begins Liesel^s love
affair with books and words, and soon she is stealing from Nazi book-burnings,
the mayor^s wife^s library . . . wherever there are books to be found. But
these are dangerous times, and when Liesel^s foster family hides a Jew in their
basement, nothing will ever be the same again. In superbly crafted writing that
burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak has given us one of the
most enduring stories of our time.</span></strong></p>

<p><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Google Sans&quot;,sans-serif;
font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold" lang="EN-US">Now a major film from
Twentieth-Century Fox starring Geoffrey Rush and Emily Watson.</span></strong></p>

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<p><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Google Sans&quot;,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">About
the Author</span></strong></p>

<p><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Google Sans&quot;,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Markus
Zusak </span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:&quot;Google Sans&quot;,sans-serif;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold" lang="EN-US">was born on June 23, 1975, in Sydney Australia. The Book Thief is widely
considered to be Zusak’s best novel. It was inspired by stories that Zusak’s
parents told him as a child. Both his mother and father had lived through World
War II. He surfs and teaches part-time. He was named one of the Sydney Morning
Herald’s Young Writers of the Year and has received the Edwards Award. He
currently lives with his wife, Mika, and two children in New South Wales,
Australia.</span></strong></p>

