Delirium In dystopian Portland, Maine, love is declared a disease. The government has found the Cure, given to anyone at the age of eighteen, leaving its patients with a prominent scar behind the patient's ear: three circles forming the shape of a triangle. Lena Haloway lives with her sister, aunt, and cousins. She is ready for her Cure and doesn't think twice about it. Suddenly, ninety-five days before her treatment, she meets Alex, an outgoing, mysterious boy who changes her life forever. Now, Lena is questioning everything she once knew. Once, she thought that the borders kept her safe from what was outside, but she hasn't considered that they are trapping her inside. What happens if Lena and Alex do the impossible and fall in love?
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The Book Thief The novel is about a nine-year-old girl named Liesel Meminger living during World War II in war-filled Germany. The novel is narrated by Death, which gives the story an entirely different perspective, as the reader is able to see the story through how Death sees the characters, through colors and only when someone around the main characters dies (Death can only come to Liesel then). Liesel finds herself at the house of her new foster parents, Hans and Rosa Hubermann. There, she learns how to read the amazing written language. Liesel soon grows to love books with a passion, even going as far as stealing books from public book burnings by the Nazis and stealing from rich peoples' houses. Soon, her life becomes even harder after the family shelters a Jewish man in their house. Will her new family and friends be able to survive in the war-filled German state that shelters the dangerous Hitler.
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