The Book Thief is a 2005 award-winning historical fiction written by Markus Zusak, published by Picador. The novel is set in Molching, Germany, during World War II and follows the story of Liesel ...

working-class neighborhood of Molching, Germany. In a new novel called The Book Thief, the young heroine steals books in order to rebuild her life, one from a Nazi bonfire, another a gravedigger's ...

Liesel's brother dies on the way to Molching, near Munich, and she is left on her own. She, of course, is the book thief of the title, and the books she steals from the cemetery where her brother ...

The Book Thief's story begins in 1939 with Liesel's ... are travelling on a train to a new life in the fictional town of Molching. At her brother's funeral Liesel steals her first book, The ...

“The Book Thief” looks at the lives of ordinary Germans ... and her mother will soon), taken to live with a couple to Molching, on the outskirts of Munich. On the train there, her brother ...

On Wednesday, March 5 at 7 p.m., the Westfield Memorial Library Book Club will discuss ... at age nine, to live in Molching, Germany, with a foster family in a working-class neighborhood ...

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (Alfred A ... had been taking Liesel and her brother to live with a foster family in Molching, Germany, when the boy suddenly died, and Liesel, even though ...

Arriving in the fictional Alpine town of Molching after burying her brother ... when dealing with the minutiae of life in Nazi Germany, The Book Thief falls flat whenever it needs to deal with ...