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With Their Eyes: September 11th--The View from a High School at Ground Zero

With Their Eyes: September 11th--The View from a High School at Ground Zero

September 11, 2001Monologues from Stuyvesant High School Tuesday, September 11, seemed like any other day at Stuyvesant High School, only a few blocks away from the World Trade Center. The semester was just beginning, and the students, faculty, and staff were ready to start a new year. Within a few hours that Tuesday morning, they would experience an event that transformed all their lives completely. Here, in... (more)

Ghosts of the Abyss: A Journey Into The Heart of the Titanic

Ghosts of the Abyss: A Journey Into The Heart of the Titanic

by Donald Lynch, Ken Marschall

A breathtakingly illustrated true tale of adventure and discovery to tie in with a groundbreaking new 3-D large-screen movie from the director-producer of Titanic . In the late summer of 2001, James Cameron, the director-producer of the highest-grossing picture in Hollywood history, led a new deep-diving expedition to the wreck of the lost liner Titanic . With him was a team of underwater explorers that... (more)

The Mammoth Book of Heros: True Tales of Courage from Ancient Times to September 11, 2001

The Mammoth Book of Heros: True Tales of Courage from Ancient Times to September 11, 2001

Whoever is heroic will always find crises to try their edge," Ralph Waldo Emerson writes in his essay "Heroism," and popular Mammoth editor Jon E. Lewis has chosen crises throughout history that have tested human courage to the extreme. Heroism has inspired writers from Livy (on Horatius at the bridge) to Tom Wolfe (on Chuck Yaeger’s breaking the sound barrier), from Plato (on the death of Socrates) to St. John... (more)

Chicken Soup for the Soul of America: Stories to Heal the Heart of Our Nation

Chicken Soup for the Soul of America: Stories to Heal the Heart of Our Nation

by Jack Canfield

Stories of compassion and heroism celebrate those who are making a difference. Most American heroes aren't in our history books, nor do they have monuments erected in their honor. Their names aren't in the headline news or memorialized in song. The true hero is simply someone who makes a difference-large or small-in the lives of others. They battle disease, crime, poverty and human rights violations. They... (more)

102 Minutes : The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers

102 Minutes : The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers

by Jim Dwyer

The dramatic and moving account of the struggle for life inside the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11, when every minute counted. At 8:46 AM on September 11, 2001, 14,000 people were inside the twin towers -- reading e-mails, making trades, eating croissants at Windows on the World. Over the next 102 minutes, each would become part of a drama for the ages, one witnessed only by the people who... (more)

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