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Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
xviii, 567 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.
Formats
Description
The Commission's Final Report provides a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11th, 2001, terrorist attacks, including preparedness for and the immediate response to the attacks. It also includes recommendations designed to guard against future attacks.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (350 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
With the arrival of a beautiful Mexican maid and her daughter to their houshold the already troubled Clasky family face even more challenges in their domestic life; a businessman falls in love with a mysterious woman; a man who lost all he had in the 9/11terrorist attacks finds strength in a renewed friendship with a former college roommate.
44) The 9/11 report
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
cxxv, 636 p. : ill., maps ; 17 cm.
Author
Formats
Description
Pam, Daniel, and Joe might be the worst punk band on the Lower East Side. Struggling to scrape together enough cash and musical talent to make it, they are waylaid by surprising arrivals-a daughter for Pam and Daniel, a solo hit single for Joe. As the '90s wane, the three friends share in one another's successes, working together to elevate Joe's superstardom and raise baby Flora. On September 11, 2001, the city's unfathomable devastation coincides...
46) 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.
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...
47) Zero dark thirty
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
©2013
Physical Desc
1 DVD (157 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Chronicles the decade-long search for Osama bin Laden following the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of Navy SEAL Team 6.
Publisher
The Disinformation Company
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (68 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Discusses how the USA PATRIOT Act has taken away checks on law enforcement and continues to endanger the civil liberties of all Americans under the guise of being part of the war on terrorism, and how paranoia, fear and racial profiling have led to gross infringements on freedom and democracy without strengthening national security.
50) Somewhere among
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
441 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
Eleven-year-old Emma's life in Tokyo changes for the worse when she and her American mother, who is pregnant, must move in with her Japanese grandmother the summer before 9/11 changes the world.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
212 pages ; 22 cm
Description
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 the city is changing. Amid this alienation?from her husband, home, and rapidly changing body?a package...
52) When I ran away
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Formats
Description
As the Twin Towers collapse, Gigi Stanislawski flees her office building and escapes lower Manhattan on the Staten Island Ferry. Among the crying, ash-covered, and shoeless passengers, Gigi, unbelievably, finds someone she recognizes--Harry Harrison, a British man and a regular at her favorite coffee shop. Gigi brings Harry to her parents' house, where they watch the television replay the planes crashing for hours, and she waits for the phone call...
53) On native soil
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Documents the events of September 11, 2001 and how the 9/11 Commission Report was used to study the terrorist attacks and the ensuing systemic failures.
54) The Afghan solution: the inside story of Abdul Haq, the CIA and how Western hubris lost Afghanistan
Author
Publisher
Bactria Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
xxi, 365 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.), maps ; 25 cm.
Description
"In 2001, in the weeks around the World Trade Centre attacks, a group of Afghan tribal leaders, commanders and senior Taliban regime figures met in Rome and Peshawar and agreed to work together under the banner of the ex King of Afghanistan with the objective of toppling the Taliban regime. They would be led by the famed Resistance leader of the anti-Soviet war period, Abdul Haq. The plan would be financed by two American Republican brothers who had...
55) United 93
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 111 min.) : anamorphic, sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Fact-based story about the 40 passengers and crew aboard San Francisco bound flight United 93, who sat down as strangers and found the courage to stand up as one. This hijacked flight was the fourth terrorist attack plane on September 11, 2001. As a result of a delay on takeoff, the passengers on the flight, are behind the carefully scheduled planned attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Once hijacked, the passengers and crew are able...
58) Enduring freedom
Author
Publisher
Algonquin
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
361 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"In this dual-narrative tale, a teenage American army private and an Afghan boy living under the horrors of the Taliban, caught on separate sides of the world during the tumultuous times leading up to and following 9/11, come to discover how much more they have in common than they ever could have imagined"--
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.
Author
Publisher
Etch, Houughton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2021].
Physical Desc
121 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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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.
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