The Book Thief

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When her brother dies, Liesel is trusted to another couple by her communist mother. Once there, the illiterate girl learns to read and write, helped by her adoring adoptive father. Meanwhile, Adolf Hitler’s minions shout out their hatred of culture and art from town squares all over Germany as they burn millions of books. The lives of Liesel and her adoptive parents get even more complicated when they take in the son of a Jewish friend...