<span>#1 </span><span>NEW YORK TIMES</span><span> BESTSELLER • ONE OF </span><span>TIME</span><span> MAGAZINE’S 100 BEST YA BOOKS OF ALL TIME<br><br>The extraordinary, beloved novel about the ability of books to feed the soul even in the darkest of times.</span><span><br><br></span><span>When Death has a story to tell, you listen.</span><span><br><br> It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still.<br><br> 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. <br><br> In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak, author of </span><span>I Am the Messenger,</span><span> has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time.<br>  <br> “The kind of book that can be life-changing.” —</span><span>The New York Times</span><span><br>  <br> “Deserves a place on the same shelf with </span><span>The Diary of a Young Girl </span><span>by Anne Frank.” —</span><span>USA Today</span><span><br><br></span><span>DON’T MISS </span><span>BRIDGE OF CLAY</span><span>, MARKUS ZUSAK’S FIRST NOVEL SINCE </span><span>THE BOOK THIEF.</span>