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Бележка на библиотекаря: Алтернативно издание с друга корица може да бъде намерено тук. 1939 г. Нацистка Германия. Страната е затаила дъх. Смъртта никога не е била по-заета и ще бъде още по-заета. Край гроба на брат си животът на Лизел се променя, когато тя взема един-единствен предмет, частично скрит в снега. Това е „Наръчникът на гробаря“, оставен там по погрешка, и е първата ѝ кражба на книга. Така започва любовната ѝ връзка с книгите и думите, докато Лизел, с помощта на своя приемен баща, който свири на акордеон, се научава да чете. Скоро тя започва да краде книги от нацистките изгаряния на книги, от библиотеката на жената на кмета — отвсякъде, където има книги. Но това са опасни времена. Когато приемното семейство на Лизел укрива евреин в мазето си, светът на Лизел едновременно се отваря и се затваря. С превъзходно изграден текст, който гори от сила, награждаваният автор Маркус Зюсак ни е дал една от най-трайните истории на нашето време. (Бележка: това заглавие не е публикувано като литература за младежи.)

Marie-Laure lives in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where her father works. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel. In a mining town in Germany, Werner Pfennig, an orphan, grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find that brings them news and stories from places they have never seen or imagined. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments and is enlisted to use his talent to track down the resistance. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the stunningly beautiful instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here

Bearded, bad-boy barber Knox prefers to live his life the way he takes his coffee: Alone. Unless you count his basset hound, Waylon. Knox doesn’t tolerate drama, even when it comes in the form of a stranded runaway bride. Naomi wasn’t just running away from her wedding. She was riding to the rescue of her estranged twin to Knockemout, Virginia, a rough-around-the-edges town where disputes are settled the old-fashioned way…with fists and beer. Usually in that order. Too bad for Naomi her evil twin hasn’t changed at all. After helping herself to Naomi’s car and cash, Tina leaves her with something unexpected. The niece Naomi didn’t know she had. Now she’s stuck in town with no car, no job, no plan, and no home with an 11-year-old going on thirty to take care of. There’s a reason Knox doesn’t do complications or high-maintenance women, especially not the romantic ones. But since Naomi’s life imploded right in front of him, the least he can do is help her out of her jam. And just as soon as she stops getting into new trouble he can leave her alone and get back to his peaceful, solitary life. At least, that’s the plan until the trouble turns to real danger.