Book Reviews October 2008

The Book Thief Markus Zusak Transworld Publishers, 2005 ISBN: 9780552773898 Nazi Germany. For reasons she doesn't quite understand - something to do with the word Kommunist - nine year old Liesel is going to live with a foster family. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak is her story. Continued..

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spoken here Mark Abley Arrow, 2003 ISBN: 009946022X With the ever increasing dominance of English, many of the world's languages are in great danger of being overwhelmed. InSpoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages Mark Abley talks to some of the speakers of such languages, and sees what they are doing about it. Continued..

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