Exploring September 11
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Victims and Survivors
Never Forget: An Oral History of September 11, 2001
974.71044 F49n
A collection of the stories of people directly affected by the September 11 attacks, including New York City Police Commissioner Bernard B. Kerik, Fire Commissioner Thomas Von Essen, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and NYPD Lieutenant Tim McGinn.
search Novelist® PlusLove You, Mean It: A True Story of Love, Loss and Friendship
974.71044 L89
Recounts how the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center brought together four thirty-something women whose husbands died in the tragedy, explaining how their special friendship became a source of hope, solace, empathy, and joy.
search Novelist® PlusFalling Man
Escaping from the World Trade Center during the September 11 attacks, Keith makes his way to the uptown apartment where his ex-wife and young son are living and considers how the day's events have irrevocably changed his perception of the world.
search Novelist® PlusOne Tuesday Morning
Mistaken for a heroic World Trade Center victim, financial manager Eric Michaels, who is suffering from amnesia, struggles to relate to a family he does not remember, while his real wife, believing herself a widow, is comforted by her adoring brother-in-law.
search Novelist® PlusLet's Roll! : Ordinary People, Extraordinary Courage
B B366
Shares details of the author's marriage and recounts her struggle to cope with the tragedy that cost the life of her husband. This would be a good companion to Among the Heroes: United Flight 93 and the Passengers and Crew Who Fought Back by Jere Longman.
search Novelist® PlusWake-Up Call: The Political Education of a 9/11 Widow
973.931 B83w
A happy young suburban mother and housewife, Breitweiser saw her world shattered by terrorism and found the courage and strength not only to build a new life, but to become one of the country's most outspoken activists and harshest critics of the current administration.
search Novelist® PlusWhat is Life Worth?: The Unprecedented Effort to Compensate the Victims of 9/11
362.88 F292w
Presents a memoir of the attorney appointed to administer the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, detailing his encounters with victims' families and the means he used to derive the amount of compensation they received.
search Novelist® PlusMessages: Signs, Visits and Premonitions from Loved Ones Lost on 9/11
133.9 M14m
The wife of a 9/11 victim relates true stories about the spiritual and paranormal experiences including premonitions, signs, dreams, visitations, and communications through mediums and psychics of others who lost loved ones during the deadliest terrorist attack on American soil.
search Novelist® PlusAbsent Friends
The lives of seven childhood friends are forever altered by the dark secrets of the past, until a reporter's suicide and a colleague's search for answers in the aftermath of the September 11th tragedy that claimed the life of one of the seven threatens to unlock their silence.
search Novelist® PlusBullyville
After the death of his estranged father in the World Trade Center on 9/11, thirteen-year-old Bart, still struggling with his feelings of guilt, sorrow and loss, wins a scholarship to the local preparatory school and there encounters a vicious bully whose cruelty compounds the aftermath of the tragedy.
search Novelist® PlusPlaying Dad's Song
While wrestling with memories of his father, who died when the Twin Towers fell on September 11, 2001, eleven-year-old Gus, born into a family of musicians, starts taking oboe lessons, begins to compose music, and joins his sister in auditioning for a school musical.
search Novelist® PlusThe Usual Wars
After losing her mother in the September 11th attacks, young Wendy moves in with her father in California, where she meets her father's girlfriend and a sad bookstore owner while missing her half-brother back in New York.
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