{"product_id":"the-book-thief-anniversary-10th-ed","title":"The Book Thief (Anniversary) (10TH ed.)","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMarkus Zusak is the internationally bestselling author of six novels, including \n\u003ci\u003eThe Book Thief\u003c\/i\u003e and most recently, \n\u003ci\u003eBridge of Clay.\u003c\/i\u003e His work is translated into more than forty languages, and has spent more than a decade on the \n\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller list, establishing Zusak as one of the most successful authors to come out of Australia. \n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAll of Zusak's books - including earlier titles, \n\u003ci\u003eThe Underdog\u003c\/i\u003e, \n\u003ci\u003eFighting Ruben Wolfe\u003c\/i\u003e, \n\u003ci\u003eWhen Dogs Cry\u003c\/i\u003e (also titled \n\u003ci\u003eGetting the Girl\u003c\/i\u003e), and \n\u003ci\u003eThe Messenger\u003c\/i\u003e (or \n\u003ci\u003eI am the Messenger)\u003c\/i\u003e - have been awarded numerous honors around the world, ranging from literary prizes to readers choice awards to prizes voted on by booksellers. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 2013, \n\u003ci\u003e The Book Thief \u003c\/i\u003ewas made into a major motion picture, and in 2018 was voted one of America's all-time favorite books, achieving the 14th position on the \n\u003ci\u003ePBS Great American Read\u003c\/i\u003e. Also in 2018, \n\u003ci\u003eBridge of Clay\u003c\/i\u003e was selected as a best book of the year in publications ranging from \n\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e to the \n\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e. \n\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMarkus Zusak grew up in Sydney, Australia, and still lives there with his wife and two children.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\" \n\u003cb\u003eBrilliant and hugely ambitious\u003c\/b\u003e...Some will argue that a book so difficult and sad may not be appropriate for teenage readers...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, \n\u003ci\u003eThe Book Thief\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\" -- \n\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"One of the most \n\u003cb\u003ehighly anticipated \u003c\/b\u003eyoung-adult books in years.\" -- \n\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\" \n\u003ci\u003eThe Book Thief\u003c\/i\u003e is unsettling and unsentimental, yet \n\u003cb\u003eultimately poetic\u003c\/b\u003e. 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 \n\u003ci\u003eThe Book Thief\u003c\/i\u003e deserves a place on the same shelf with \n\u003ci\u003eThe Diary of a Young Girl\u003c\/i\u003e by Anne Frank and Elie Wiesel's \n\u003ci\u003eNight\u003c\/i\u003e. It seems poised to become a classic.\" -- \n\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Zusak doesn't sugarcoat anything, but he makes his ostensibly gloomy subject bearable the same way Kurt Vonnegut did in \n\u003ci\u003eSlaughterhouse-Five\u003c\/i\u003e with \n\u003cb\u003egrim, darkly consoling humor\u003c\/b\u003e.\" -- \n\u003ci\u003eTime Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"In a sea of World War II historical novels, it stands out with its unconventional narrator: Death... \n\u003cb\u003esolidly a modern classic of young adult literature\u003c\/b\u003e.\" \n\u003ci\u003e--Book Riot\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e★ \"Elegant, philosophical and moving... \n\u003cb\u003eBeautiful and important\u003c\/b\u003e.\" -- \n\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e★ \"This hefty volume is an achievement... \n\u003cb\u003ea challenging book\u003c\/b\u003e in both length and subject...\" -- \n\u003ci\u003ePublisher's Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e★ \" \n\u003cb\u003eExquisitely written and memorably populated\u003c\/b\u003e, Zusak's poignant tribute to words, survival, and their curiously inevitable entwinement is a tour de force to be not just read but inhabited.\" -- \n\u003ci\u003eThe Horn Book Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e★ \"An \n\u003cb\u003eextraordinary\u003c\/b\u003e narrative.\" -- \n\u003ci\u003eSchool Library Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThis anniversary edition of the extraordinary #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller features pages of bonus content, including marked-up manuscript pages, original sketches, and pages from the author's writing notebook. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Life-changing.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eWhen Death has a story to tell, you listen.\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLiesel 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. 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