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1) Small town
Author
Language
English
Description
A man, driven insane by the deaths of his wife and children in the collapse of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, embarks on a murder spree in the city of New York, unwittingly changing the lives of a struggling author who is accused of the crimes, a former police commissioner who sets out to catch the killer, and others who somehow become connected to the events.
Author
Language
English
Description
A gripping narrative that spans five decades, The Looming Tower explains in unprecedented detail the growth of Islamic fundamentalism, the rise of al-Qaeda, and the intelligence failures that culminated in the attacks on the World Trade Center. Lawrence Wright re-creates firsthand the transformation of Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri from incompetent and idealistic soldiers in Afghanistan to leaders of the most successful terrorist group in...
Author
Series
Killing volume 11
Language
English
Description
"In the eleventh book in the multimillion-selling Killing series, Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard reveal the startling, dramatic story of the global war against terrorists. In Killing The Killers, #1 bestselling authors Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard take readers deep inside the global war on terror, which began twenty years ago on September 11, 2001. As the World Trade Center buildings collapsed, the Pentagon burned, and a small group of passengers...
5) Up from zero
Author
Publisher
United States Dept. of Labor
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A tribute to the brave men and women of the building trades who risked their lives during and after the September 11 Terrorist attacks of the World Trade Center. Most of the people who worked removing debris and bodies were construction workers. Includes interviews of workers at Ground Zero.: Greg Nolan, crane operator; Rick Ostrander, dockbuilder; Hugh Smith, carpenter; Chris Pillai, iron worker; Will Quinlen, iron work; Father Brian Jordan OFM,...
Author
Series
I survived volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The only thing Lucas loves more than football is his dad's friend Benny, a firefighter and former football star. He taught Lucas the game and helps him practice. So when Lucas's parents decide football is too dangerous and he needs to quit, Lucas has to talk to his biggest fan. On a whim, Lucas takes the train to the city instead of the bus to school. It's a bright, beautiful day in New York. But just as Lucas arrives at the firehouse, everything...
Publisher
IFC FirstTake
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Story about a woman who works with the homeless, and a paranoid Vietnam vet who both become interested in the death of a Pakistani man killed in a drive-by shooting, but for totally different reasons.
Publisher
www.zeitgeistmovie.com
Pub. Date
[c2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A highly controversial documentary in three parts. The first part dissects the origins of Christianity, the second gives an overview of numerous questionable aspects of 9/11 and the third explores the Federal Reserve Bank and its ability to control the economy.
10) Thunder dog: the true story of a blind man, his guide dog, and the triumph of trust at Ground Zero
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
At 12:30 a.m. on 9/11, Roselle whimpered at Michael Hingson's bedside. When the trained guide dog was "on the clock," nothing could faze her. But without her harness she was free to be scared of the coming thunderstorm. The two had a busy day of meetings and an important presentation ahead. A normal day. Until they went to the office. In Thunder Dog, follow Michael and Roselle as their lives are changed forever by two explosions and 1,463 stairs.
Author
Language
English
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Description
Isabel Allende evokes the magnificent landscapes of her country; a charming, idiosyncratic Chilean people with a violent history and an indomitable spirit; and the politics, religion, myth, and magic of her homeland that she carries with her even today. The book circles around two life-changing moments. The assassination of her uncle Salvador Allende Gossens on September 11, 1973, sent her into exile and transformed her into a literary writer. And...
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
"Yusuf is excited to start middle school in his small Texas town, but with the twentieth anniversary of the September 11 attacks coming up, suddenly it feels like the country's same anger and grief is all focused on his Muslim community"--
14) The love we make
Publisher
Eagle Rock Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., b&w with col. inserts; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This film follows Paul McCartney as he journeys through the streets of New York City in the aftermath of the destruction of the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001. It also chronicles the planning and performance of the benefit concert that took place less than six months after the attacks: The Concert For New York City. It also features performance clips from the benefit concert and backstage moments with many of the performers and other famous...
Author
Publisher
Etch, Houughton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
121 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
This graphic novel chronicles the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York City through moving individual stories that bear witness to history and the ways it shapes the future.
17) Ground Zero
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Brandon is visiting his dad on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 when the attack comes; Reshmina is a girl in Afghanistan who has grown up in the aftermath of that attack but dreams of peace, becoming a teacher and escaping her village and the narrow role that the Taliban believes is appropriate for women--both are struggling to survive, both changed forever by the events of 9/11.
18) Fahrenheit 9/11
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Through actual footage, interviews, and declassified documents, Michael Moore illustrates the connections President Bush has to the royal house of Saud of Saudia Arabia and the bin Laden's, how the president got elected on fraudulent circumstances and then proceeded to blunder through his duties while ignoring warnings of the looming betrayal by his foreign partners. When the treachery hits with the 9/11 attacks, Moore explains how Bush failed to...
19) The submission
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
299 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
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 containing the anonymous winner's name -- and discover he is an American Muslim. Instantly they are cast into roiling debate about the claims of grief, the ambiguities of art, and the meaning of Islam. Their conflicted response is only a preamble to the country's. The memorial's designer...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
212 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A surreal and satirical portrait of a pregnant woman adrift in a haunted, post-9/11 Manhattan"--
Percy is pregnant. She hasn't told a soul. Probably she should tell her husband--certainly she means to--but one night she wakes up to find she no longer recognizes him. Now, instead of sleeping, Percy is spending her nights taking walks through her neighborhood, all the while fretting over her marriage, her impending motherhood, and the sinister ways...
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