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Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Years in the making, this spellbinding, heartbreaking, and ultimately uplifting narrative is an unforgettable portrait of 9/11. This is a 9/11 book like no other. Masterfully weaving together multiple strands of the events in New York, at the Pentagon, and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, Fall and Rise is a mesmerizing, minute-by-minute account of that terrible day. In the days and months after 9/11, Mitchell Zuckoff, then a reporter for the Boston Globe,...
Author
Publisher
Ancient City Press
Pub. Date
�2021.
Language
English
Description
"Audrey has made it to the final weeks of the police academy, and after five grueling months, she's solely focused on graduating. But on a quiet Tuesday morning, her life changes in an instant when she hears that an airplane has struck the World Trade Center. She knows her sister, Hannah, is in trouble; she can feel it. In a bold move, she risks all and finds herself at Ground Zero--a decision that will change her world forever." -- Book jacket.
10) The submission
Author
Language
English
Description
Entertainment Weekly's Favorite Novel of 2011
Esquire's 2011 Book of the Year
A New York Times Notable Book for 2011
A Washington Post Notable Fiction Book for 2011
One of NPR's 10 Best Novels of 2011
Ten years after 9/11, a dazzling, kaleidoscopic novel reimagines its aftermath
A jury gathers in Manhattan to select a memorial for the victims of a devastating terrorist attack. Their fraught deliberations complete, the jurors open the envelope...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
A new novel by the author of Everything Is Illuminated introduces Oskar Schell, the nine-year-old son of a man killed in the World Trade Center bombing who searches the city for a lock that fits a black key his father left behind. Jonathan Safran Foer emerged as one of the most original writers of his generation with his best-selling debut novel, Everything Is Illuminated. Now, with humor, tenderness, and awe, he confronts the traumas of our recent...
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Twenty-four foreign affairs experts examine various factors involved in the terrorist attacks upon America on September 11, 2001, discussing Al Qaeda's finances, airport security, bioterrorism, religion, the U.S. military, and American society's response.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Provides a chronological account of September 11, 2001, and the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and the hijacking of a plane that crashed in Pennsylvania.
18) Thunder dog: the true story of a blind man, his guide dog, and the triumph of trust at Ground Zero
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Michael Hingson, blind since infancy, shares the story of his escape from the seventy-eighth floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, with the help of his guide dog, Roselle, and discusses how his life, faith, parents, friends, and mentors throughout the years prepared him to meet the emergency without panic.
Author
Series
Publisher
Zando
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"The unflinching Pulitzer Prize-winning essay on mourning and recovery in the wake of an inconceivable tragedy. When Bobby McIlvaine died in the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001, his loved ones spun off in radically different directions, each mourning in his or her own distinct--and often highly idiosyncratic--way. Twenty years later, Jennifer Senior, a family friend and award-winning reporter, revisits the McIlvaines, examines their present lives,...
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