Markus Zusak: The Book Thief & I Am the MessengerTwo 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. |
Contents
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 | |
Common terms and phrases
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