Markus Zusak: The Book Thief & I Am the Messenger

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Random House Children's Books, May 27, 2014 - Young Adult Fiction - 928 pages
Two award-winning modern classics from #1 New York Times bestselling author Markus Zusak!
 
The Book Thief affirms the ability of books to feed the soul even in the bleakest of times in a story the New York Times described as “brilliant. . . . the kind of book that can be life-changing.” It is 1939. Nazi Germany. 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. 

I Am the Messenger is a Printz Honor-winning novel and recipient of five starred reviews that tells the story of Ed Kennedy, an underage cabdriver without much of a future. His life is one of peaceful routine and incompetence until he inadvertently stops a bank robbery. That's when the first ace arrives in the mail. That's when Ed becomes the messenger. Chosen to care, he makes his way through town helping and hurting (when necessary) until only one question remains: Who's behind Ed's mission?
 
Discover the enormous talent that is Marcus Zusak in this extraordinary collection that showcases the intensity and heart inherent in his storytelling.

DON’T MISS BRIDGE OF CLAY, MARKUS ZUSAK’S FIRST NOVEL SINCE THE BOOK THIEF.
 

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Contents

Part One The Grave Diggers Handbook
Part Two The Shoulder Shrug
Part Three Mein Kampf Chapter 17 The Way Home
The Mayors Library
Enter the Struggler
The Attributes of Summer
The Aryan Shopkeeper
The Struggler Continued
The Trilogy
The Sound of Sirens
The Sky Stealer
Frau Holtzapfels Offer
The Long Walk to Dachau
Peace
The Idiot and the Coat
Part Eight The Word Shaker Chapter 57 Dominoes and Darkness Chapter 58 The Thought of Rudy Naked Chapter 59 Punishment

Tricksters
The Struggler Concluded
Part Four The Standover Man Chapter 25 The Accordionist Chapter 26 A Good Girl
A Short History of the Jewish Fist Fighter
The Wrath of Rosa
Liesels Lecture
The Sleeper
The Swapping of Nightmares
Pages from the Basement
Part Five The Whistler
The Floating Book Part
The Gamblers A SevenSided Die
Rudys Youth
The Losers
Sketches
The Whistler and the Shoes
Three Acts of Stupidity by Rudy Steiner
Part Six The Dream Carrier
1942
The Snowman
Thirteen Presents
Fresh Air An Old Nightmare and What to Do with A Jewish Corpse
Cologne
The Visitor
The Schmunzeler
The Parisians
Part Seven The Complete Duden Dictionary and Thesaurus Chapter 49 Champagne and Accordions
The Promise Keepers Wife
The Collector
The Bread Eaters
The Hidden Sketchbook
The Anarchists Suit Collection
Part Nine The Last Human Stranger Chapter 65 The Next Temptation
The Cardplayer
The Snows of Stalingrad
The Ageless Brother
The Accident
The Bitter Taste of Questions
One Toolbox One Bleeder One Bear
Homecoming
Part Ten The Book Thief
The End of The World Part
The NinetyEighth
The War Maker
Way of the Words
Confessions
Ilsa Hermanns Little Black Book
The RibCage Planes
The End of The World Part
The Last Color Death and Liesel
Wood in the Afternoon
Acknowledgments
Copyright

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About the author (2014)

Markus Zusak is the author of I Am the Messenger, a Printz Honor Book and Los Angeles Times Book Award Finalist, and the international bestseller, The Book Thief, which has been translated into over thirty languages and has sold nine million copies around the world. He is the recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for significant and lasting contribution to writing for teens and lives in Sydney, Australia, with his wife and children.

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