TY - SOUND AU - Zusak,Markus AU - Olsen,Dennis TI - The book thief SN - 9781743112953 (Bolinda) PY - 2012///] CY - Melbourne, Victoria PB - Bolinda Audio KW - Jews rescue (1939-1945 : World War) KW - fast KW - Storytelling KW - Fiction KW - Jews KW - Germany KW - History KW - 1933-1945 KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Rescue KW - Books and reading KW - Death KW - Talking books KW - Historical fiction KW - lcgft KW - Young adult fiction KW - Teen fiction KW - Audiobooks KW - Children's audiobooks KW - Juvenile works KW - Young adult works N1 - Also published: Enfield, N.S.W. : Vision Australia, 2009; Unabridged; Title from disc label; Compact discs; Read by Dennis Olsen N2 - It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. By her brother’s graveside, Lisel Meminger finds her life changed when she picks up a single object, partially hidden in the snow. It is The Grave Digger’s Handbook, left there by accident, and it is her first act of book thievery. So begins a love affair with books and words, as Liesel, with the help of her accordion-playing foster father, learns to read. Soon she is stealing books from Nazi book-burnings, the mayor’s wife’s library, wherever there are books to be found. But these are dangerous times. When Liesel’s foster family hides a Jewish man in their basement, Liesel’s world is both opened up, and closed down ER -