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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
The Book Thief
Title Page
Dedication
Contents
Prologue: A Mountain Range of Rubble
Death and Chocolate
Beside the Railway Line
The Eclipse
The Flag
Part One - The Grave Digger’s Handbook
Chapter 1 - Arrival on Himmel Street
Chapter 2 - Growing Up A Saumensch
Chapter 3 - The Woman with the Iron Fist
Chapter 4 - The Kiss
Chapter 5 - The Jesse Owens Incident
Chapter 6 - The Other Side of Sandpaper
Chapter 7 - The Smell of Friendship
Chapter 8 - The Heavyweight Champion of the School-Yard
Part Two - The Shoulder Shrug
Chapter 9 - A Girl Made of Darkness
Chapter 10 - The Joy of Cigarettes
Chapter 11 - The Town Walker
Chapter 12 - Dead Letters
Chapter 13 - Hitler’s Birthday, 1940
Chapter 14 - 100 Percent Pure German Sweat
Chapter 15 - The Gates of Thievery
Chapter 16 - Book of Fire
Part Three - Mein Kampf
Chapter 17 - The Way Home
Chapter 18 - The Mayor’s Library
Chapter 19 - Enter the Struggler
Chapter 20 - The Attributes of Summer
Chapter 21 - The Aryan Shopkeeper
Chapter 22 - The Struggler, Continued
Chapter 23 - Tricksters
Chapter 24 - The Struggler, Concluded
Part Four - The Standover Man
Chapter 25 - The Accordionist
Chapter 26 - A Good Girl
Chapter 27 - A Short History of the Jewish Fist Fighter
Chapter 28 - The Wrath of Rosa
Chapter 29 - Liesel’s Lecture
Chapter 30 - The Sleeper
Chapter 31 - The Swapping of Nightmares
Chapter 32 - Pages from the Basement
Part Five - The Whistler
Chapter 33 - The Floating Book (Part I)
Chapter 34 - The Gamblers (A Seven-Sided Die)
Chapter 35 - Rudy’s Youth
Chapter 36 - The Losers
Chapter 37 - Sketches
Chapter 38 - The Whistler and the Shoes
Chapter 39 - Three Acts of Stupidity by Rudy Steiner
Chapter 40 - The Floating Book (Part II)
Part Six - The Dream Carrier
Chapter 41 - Death’s Diary: 1942
Chapter 42 - The Snowman
Chapter 43 - Thirteen Presents
Chapter 44 - Fresh Air, An Old Nightmare, and What to Do with A Jewish Corpse
Chapter 45 - Death’s Diary: Cologne
Chapter 46 - The Visitor
Chapter 47 - The Schmunzeler
Chapter 48 - Death’s Diary: The Parisians
Part Seven - The Complete Duden Dictionary and Thesaurus
Chapter 49 - Champagne and Accordions
Chapter 50 - The Trilogy
Chapter 51 - The Sound of Sirens
Chapter 52 - The Sky Stealer
Chapter 53 - Frau Holtzapfel’s Offer
Chapter 54 - The Long Walk to Dachau
Chapter 55 - Peace
Chapter 56 - The Idiot and the Coat Men
Part Eight - The Word Shaker
Chapter 57 - Dominoes and Darkness
Chapter 58 - The Thought of Rudy Naked
Chapter 59 - Punishment
Chapter 60 - The Promise Keeper’s Wife
Chapter 61 - The Collector
Chapter 62 - The Bread Eaters
Chapter 63 - The Hidden Sketchbook
Chapter 64 - The Anarchist’s Suit Collection
Part Nine - The Last Human Stranger
Chapter 65 - The Next Temptation
Chapter 66 - The Cardplayer
Chapter 67 - The Snows of Stalingrad
Chapter 68 - The Ageless Brother
Chapter 69 - The Accident
Chapter 70 - The Bitter Taste of Questions
Chapter 71 - One Toolbox, One Bleeder, One Bear
Chapter 72 - Homecoming
Part Ten - The Book Thief
Chapter 73 - The End of The World (Part I)
Chapter 74 - The Ninety-Eighth Day
Chapter 75 - The War Maker
Chapter 76 - Way of the Words
Chapter 77 - Confessions
Chapter 78 - Ilsa Hermann’s Little Black Book
Chapter 79 - The Rib-Cage Planes
Chapter 80 - The End of The World (Part II)
Epilogue: The Last Color
Death and Liesel
Wood in the Afternoon
Max
The Handover Man
Acknowledgments
I Am the Messenger
Title Page
Contents
Dedication
Part One: The First Message
The Holdup
Sex Should be Like Math: An Introduction to My Life
The Ace of Diamonds
The Judge and the Mirror
Watching, Waiting, Raping
Pieces
Harrison Avenue
Being Jimmy
The Barefoot Girl
The Shoe Box
Janother Stupid Human
Edgar Street Revisited
Murder at the Cathedral
Part Two: The Stones of Home
Aftermath
The Visit
The Envelope
Just Ed
Cabs, the Hooker, and Alice
The Stones
The Priest
Juveniles
The Cops Show Up
The Easy One and Ice Cream
The Color of her Lips
Blood and Roses
The Face of Clubs
Part Three: Trying Times for Ed Kennedy
The Game
Twenty Dollars for the Dog and the Card
Dig
The Benefits of Lying
The Power and the Glory
A Moment of Beauty
A Moment of Truth
Clown Street. Chips. The Doorman. and Me
The Woman
Front-Porch Cyclone
A Phone Call
The Bell Street Theater
The Last Reel
Part Four: The Music of Hearts
The Music of Hearts
The Kiss, the Grave, the Fire
The Casual Suit
To Feel the Fear
Ritchie’s Sin
God Bless the Man with the Beard, the Missing Teeth, and the Poverty
The Secret Marv
Each to Each
The Swings
Audrey, Part One: Three Nights to Wait
Marv’s Afterthought
Audrey, Part Two: Three Minutes to Take
The End
Part Five: The Joker
The Laughter
The Weeks
The End is not the End
The Folder
The Message
About the Author
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