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Remembering September 11th |
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On That Day : The Definitive Timeline of 9/11
by William M. Arkin
A veteran military and security analyst and commentator, reconstructing a minute-by-minute narrative of 9/11, asks and answers some vital questions: What did we learn from 9/11? And are we any more likely to be ready if something like it ever happened again? .
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Cleared for Takeoff: A Pilot's Memoir of Purpose and Resilience After 9/11
by Captain Nia Gilliam
Captain Nia Gilliam woke up on September 11 ready to soar. Having dreamt of the skies since she was a child, Gilliam grew up believing nothing was out of reach. But what starts as a beautiful day to fly turns into a harrowing experience. While waiting to be cleared for takeoff, Gilliam sees smoke pouring from the North Tower of the World Trade Center. From the co-pilot's seat, she witnesses United Airlines Flight 175 crash into the South Tower. Cleared for Takeoff recounts the unforgettable day Gilliam escapes from the chaos of what she witnessed alongside a coming-of-age story of a young woman whose dreams were nurtured.
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Justice for the Forgotten Families of 9/11
by Tom McMillan
Nearly twenty-five years after 9/11, the families of the victims are still waiting for justice. While most of America has moved on through four presidential administrations while images of those devastating attacks fade from memory, the families of 9/11 are still waiting for some kind of accountability.
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The Only Plane in the Sky : An Oral History of 9/11
by Garrett M. Graff
A panoramic oral history of the September 11 attacks draws on hundreds of interviews with government officials, first responders, survivors, friends and family members to recount events from the perspectives of firsthand witnesses.
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Fall and Rise : The Story of 9/11
by Mitchell Zuckoff
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.
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Tower Stories: An Oral History of 9/11 (20th Anniversary Commemorative Edition)
by Damon DiMarco
In the tradition of Studs Terkel, DiMarco's literary time capsule includes a wide variety of viewpoints, including: the small group of people who miraculously made it safely down from the 89th floor of Tower 1, the New York Times reporter who desperately fought her way through the fleeing crowds to get back into Lower Manhattan, the paramedic who set up a triage area 200 yards from the base of the Towers before they collapsed, and the bereaved citizens of New York City who struggled to get on with their lives in the days and months following the tragic event, among dozens of others.
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The Looming Tower : Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
by Lawrence Wright
Exploring both the American and Arab sides of the September 11th terrorist attacks interweaves the stories of four men--Al Qaeda leaders Ayman al-Zawahiri and Osama bin Laden, FBI counterrorism head John O'Neill, and Prince Turki al-Faisal, former chief of Saudi intelligence--in the story of the people, ideas, events, and intelligence failures that led to the attacks.
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102 Minutes : The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers
by Jim Dwyer
A dramatic account of the survival efforts of thousands of people who were inside the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11 draws on hundreds of interviews as well as phone, e-mail, and radio transcripts, in an account that also raises questions about building safety and New York's emergency preparedness.
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In the Shadow of the Fallen Towers: The Seconds, Minutes, Hours, Days, Weeks, Months, and Years After the 9/11 Attacks: A Graphic Novel
by Don Brown
The consequences of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York City, both political and personal, were vast, and continue to reverberate today. Don Brown brings his journalistic eye and attention to moving individual stories to help teens contextualize what they already know about the day, as well as broaden their understanding of the chain of events that occurred in the attack's wake. Profound, troubling, and deeply moving, In the Shadow of the Fallen Towers bears witness to our history--and the ways it shapes our future--Page 4 of cover.
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I Survived the Attacks of September 11, 2001
by Lauren Tarshis
Published to coincide with the 20th anniversary of 9/11, this gripping graphic novel adaptation of the best-selling I Survived the Attacks of September 11, 2001 follows a young boy's firsthand account of the events that unfolded during that fateful day.
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Ground Zero
by Alan Gratz
A dual tale published to mark the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks finds a young boy struggling to find his father and escape the World Trade Center in 2001, before a girl in battle-torn 2020 Afghanistan risks her life to help a wounded soldier.
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America is Under Attack : The Day the Towers Fell : September 11, 2001
by Don Brown
On the 10th anniversary of the September 11 tragedy, a straightforward and sensitive book for a generation of children too young to remember that terrible day takes readers chronologically through the morning--from the plane hijackings and crashes at the World Trade Center (WTC), the Pentagon and in Pennsylvania, to the rescue operations at the WTC site and the collapse of the buildings.
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Hero Dogs : Courageous Canines in Action
by Donna M. Jackson
Presents a variety of stories about working and rescue dogs who help humans in many ways, such as those involved in the work at the World Trade Center site after the disaster of September 11, 2001.
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Fireboat : The Heroic Adventures of the John J. Harvey
by Maira Kalman
Offers the true story of this historic fireboat that was pulled from its retirement on the day of the attacks on the World Trade Center in order to assist firefighters tending to the massive blaze and, with a few adjustments, succeeded in completing its mission.
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