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Author
Publisher
Clarity Press, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
214 pages ; 23 cm
Description
"The anthrax letter attacks occurred from September through November of 2001, killing five and wounding many. The attacks were widely held to be the work of Muslims and were used to support the invasion of Afghanistan and, later, the invasion of Iraq. They were used explicitly and repeatedly to justify the passing of the Patriot Act. They were also meant to support withdrawal from the Antiballistic Missile Treaty, a withdrawal eagerly sought by the...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
269 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
"The Lake Shore Limited" is the story of how Wilhelmina "Billy" Gertz has come to create the title's play out of emotions surrounding an imagined terrorist bombing of a Chicago train, how the play is then created anew on the stage, and how the play's performance touches and changes the lives that intersect and interweave with Billy's.
4) Bel canto
Publisher
Screen Media
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Roxanne Coss becomes trapped in a hostage situation when she's invited to perform at a lavish party for a wealthy industrialist in South America. As a lengthy standoff ensues, hostages and captors form unexpected bonds as they overcome their differences to find their shared humanity.
5) Stronger
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Formats
Description
A survivor of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, who helped to set off one of the biggest manhunts in the country's history, discusses his experiences that day and his ongoing mission to walk again after losing both legs.
Author
Formats
Description
After the violent death of his oldest daughter during a terrorist bombing, small town college professor Alan "Woody" Woodhall finds himself standing in the cemetery where she was buried. Woody is convinced that life has taught him all the lessons he has to learn: His wife has left him, and his two remaining daughters have grown up and moved away. Yet a new life, which Woody both longs for and resists, begins with his decision to attend the trial of...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
278 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
"Shahbaz Taseer's memoir of his experience leading up to and throughout his kidnapping by Islamic extremists, one of Pakistan's highest-profile kidnapping incidents"--
Series
Film Movement volume 9, film 10
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Galia, a young Israeli, and her boyfriend Oren board a local bus. The bus explodes, leaving Oren in a coma and Galia with severe burns and such memory loss that she cannot remember the terrorist attack nor the days leading up to it. The film begins one year after the attack, upon Oren's death. As Galia undergoes physical and mental therapy, she attempts to stitch together the shattered fragments of her life and soul. A necklace sent to her from an...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2013], ©2013
Physical Desc
272 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Surviving the 2002 nightclub bombings in Bali, American adventure guide Jamie is haunted by traumatic memories, meets a range of colorful fellow survivors, and fears risking her heart when she finally reconnects with Gabe, the man who saved her from the blast.
13) Taking my life back: my story of faith, determination, and surviving the Boston Marathon bombing
Author
Formats
Description
"On April 15, 2013, Rebekah Gregory and her five-year-old son waited at the finish line of the Boston Marathon to support a friend who was running. When the blasts of terrorists' homemade bombs packed with nails and screws went off three feet away, Rebekah's legs took the brunt of the blast, protecting her son from certain death. Eighteen surgeries and sixty-five procedures later, her left leg was amputated."--Amazon.com.
14) Hotel Mumbai
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A true story of humanity and heroism, this film vividly recounts the 2008 siege of the famed Taj Hotel by a group of terrorists in Mumbai, India. Among the dedicated hotel staff is the renowned chef Hemant Oberoi and a waiter who choose to risk their lives to protect their guests. As the world watches on, a desperate couple is forced to make unthinkable sacrifices to protect their newborn child.
15) Hotel Mumbai
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A true story of humanity and heroism, this film vividly recounts the 2008 siege of the famed Taj Hotel by a group of terrorists in Mumbai, India. Among the dedicated hotel staff is the renowned chef Hemant Oberoi and a waiter who choose to risk their lives to protect their guests. As the world watches on, a desperate couple is forced to make unthinkable sacrifices to protect their newborn child.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
After witnessing his two friends killed by a "small" bomb that detonated in a Dehli marketplace, Mansoor Ahmed becomes involved with a charismatic young activist, whose allegiances and beliefs are more changeable than he could have imagined.
18) Stronger
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 DVD (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Inspired by the true story. Jeff Bauman, a working-class Bostonian, was at the 2013 marathon when the bomb blast occurred and he tragically lost both of his legs. After regaining consciousness, Jeff was able to help law enforcement identify one of the bombers, but his own battle had just begun. Jeff's deeply personal journey tests a family's bond and defines a community's pride as he overcomes adversity to become the living embodiment of ''Boston...
19) Oklahoma City
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Recounts the events of the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
252 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
Traces the decade-long recovery journey of a September 11 survivor who suffered burns on more than eighty percent of her body, describing her experiences during the attacks and the ways she needed to change to renew her commitments to life and her loved ones.
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