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  'Thief,' enhanced: Thanks to a new film adaptation, The Book Thief, Markus Zusak's 2006 teen novel set in 1939 Germany, continues to move up USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list -- to No. 4, its highest position ever. Publisher Random House has released an enhanced e-book that i...

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Published inThe Courier
Main Author Deutsch, Lindsay
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Houma, La Halifax Media Group 21.11.2013
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Minzesheimer, Bob
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Summary:  'Thief,' enhanced: Thanks to a new film adaptation, The Book Thief, Markus Zusak's 2006 teen novel set in 1939 Germany, continues to move up USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list -- to No. 4, its highest position ever. Publisher Random House has released an enhanced e-book that includes the movie trailer, clips from the film that are imbedded in the text of the novel, video features with actors Sophie Nelisse and Geoffrey Rush, and a video interview with the author. - Bob Minzesheimer National Book Awards: James McBride has won the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction for his novel The Good Lord Bird, which imagines a teenage slave joining abolitionist John Brown's 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry. The Nonfiction prize went to George Packer's The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America; Cynthia Kadohata won in Young People's Literature for The Thing About Luck; and Mary Szybist's Incarnadine took home the prize for Poetry.