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  The Man Who Walked Between The Towers

  by Mordicai Gerstein

  In 1974, French aerialist Philippe Petit threw a tightrope between the two towers of the World Trade Center and spent an hour walking, dancing, and performing high-wire tricks a quarter mile in the sky. This picture book captures the poetry and magic of the event with a poetry of its own: lyrical words and lovely paintings that present the detail, daring, and--in two dramatic foldout spreads-- the vertiginous... (more)
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  Skinjacker Trilogy: Book 1

  Everlost

  by Neal Shusterman

  It begins with an accident. Nick and Allie don't survive the crash, and now their souls are stuck halfway between life and death in a sort of limbo called Everlost. It's a magical yet dangerous place, where bands of lost souls run wild and anyone who stands in the same spot too long sinks to the center of the Earth. Frightened and determined, Nick and Allie aren't ready to rest in peace just yet. They want their... (more)
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  Let the Great World Spin

  by Colum McCann

  In the dawning light of a late-summer morning, the people of lower Manhattan stand hushed, staring up in disbelief at the Twin Towers. It is August 1974, and a mysterious tightrope walker is running, dancing, leaping between the towers, suspended a quarter mile above the ground. In the streets below, a slew of ordinary lives become extraordinary in bestselling novelist Colum McCann’s stunningly intricate portrait... (more)
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  We All Fall Down

  by Eric Walters

  A novel from one of the country’s most prolific and popular YA authors, this book, set in New York City on September 11th, shows us how the experiences of that day profoundly changed one teen’s life and relationships. Today is September 10, 2001, and Will, a grade nine student, is spending the day at his father’s workplace tomorrow. As part of a school assignment, all the students in his class will be going to... (more)
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  United We Stand

  by Eric Walters

  Dramatic, gripping, and moving, this sequel to the award-winning We All Fall Down will captivate readers. It’s September 12th, 2001, and New York City is at a standstill: somber, bleak and shocked in the aftermath of the World Trade Center attacks. Will knows he and his father are lucky to have escaped; others, like his best friend James’ father are still missing . . . and soon presumed to be dead. Poignant... (more)
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  One Tuesday Morning / Beyond Tuesday Morning

  by Karen Kingsbury

  Based on the tragedy of the Twin Towers ... two powerful novels of heroism, loss, and redemption by New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury.
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  102 Minutes

  The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers

  by Jim Dwyer, Kevin Flynn

  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... (more)
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  Ten True Tales - Heroes of 9/11 (Ten True Tales)

  by Allan Zullo

  10 tales of heroism
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  The 9/11 Commission Report

  Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

  by Thomas H. Kean, Lee Hamilton

  Nearly three thousand people died in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. In Lower Manhattan, on a field in Pennsylvania, and along the banks of the Potomac, the United States suffered the single largest loss of life from an enemy attack on its soil. In November 2002 the United States Congress and President George W. Bush established by law the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the... (more)
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  Waiting for 9/11

  by Mary Maxie

  9/11 revisited: 26 women, 26 stories. The women who are “Waiting for 9/11” range from the wife of a terrorist, to a flight attendant on one of the planes, to a rescue worker, to a grandmother waiting for her grandson to take her to lunch. They could have been anyone in the world, but in one small minute in time, they were connected as they waited for disaster to strike. None of them realized that there was a... (more)
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  Just Beyond the Clouds (Cody Gunner Series #2)

  by Karen Kingsbury

  #1 bestselling author Karen Kingsbury tells the heartwrenching story of Cody Gunner, a widower fighting for stability, and the woman who wants to help him trust again--even when trust is the most terrifying thing of all. Still aching over his wife's death, Cody Gunner can't bear the thought of also letting go of his Down's Syndrome brother, Carl Joseph. Cody wants his brother home, where he will be safe and cared... (more)
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  To Reach the Clouds

  by Philippe Petit

  In 1974, a young Frenchman secretly - and illegally - rigged a tightrope between the Twin Towers. He made eight corssings in an hour, while 100,000 people watched in the streets of New York. In "To Reach The Clouds", Petit recreates his six-and-a-half-year quest to realize his dream. Animated by numerous photographs and Petit's sketches, this text is a serenade to his beloved towers and the unfettered aspiration... (more)
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  Women at Ground Zero: Stories of Courage and Compassion

  by Susan Hagen, Mary Carouba

  This book is a powerful collection of first-person stories told by female firefighters, police officers, paramedics, EMTs, and others who responded to the events of September 11 and its aftermath. Women at Ground Zero provides a unique perspective on the events of that terrible day through the eyes of women rescuers who risked their lives to save others. Through their heartbreaking and inspiring... (more)
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  What Will You Do for Peace? Impact of 9/11 on New York City Youth

  Following the tragic events on 9/11, New York City youth from many cultures came together to document their experiences on 9/11. In their own words and images, they produced a remarkable book calling for peace and understanding. Their powerful artwork caught the eye of celebrated artist, Faith Ringgold, and they are honored to publish this book in association with her. In her introduction to the Peace Book,... (more)
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  Falling Man

  by Don DeLillo

  There is September 11 and then there are the days after, and finally the years. Falling Man is a magnificent, essential novel about the event that defines turn-of-the-century America. It begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and tracks the aftermath of this global tremor in the intimate lives of a few people. First there is Keith, walking out of the rubble into a life that he'd always imagined... (more)
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  Fangland: A Novel

  by John Marks

  An acclaimed novelist and former 60 Minutes producer grandly reinvents the Dracula epic in the halls of a certain television newsmagazine In the annals of business trips gone horribly wrong, Evangeline Harker's journey to Romania on behalf of her employer, the popular television newsmagazine The Hour , deserves pride of place. Sent to Transylvania to scout out a possible story on a notorious Eastern... (more)
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  Journalism After September 11 (Communication and Society)

  The events of September 11 continue to resonate in powerful, yet sometimes unexpected ways. For many journalists, the crisis has decisively recast their sense of the world around them. The familiar notions of what it means to be a journalist, how best to practice journalism, and what the public can reasonably expect of journalists in the name of democracy, have been shaken to their foundations. Journalism... (more)
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  September 11

  An Oral History

  by Dean Murphy

  About 3,000 people lost their lives in the terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C., on September 11, 2001. Thousands more narrowly escaped, their survival a result of eerily prescient spur-of-the-moment decisions, acts of superhuman courage, the unfailing kindness of strangers, and, in some cases, fortuitous strokes of luck. September 11: An Oral History unites the voices of that day. It is at... (more)
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  The Ground Zero Rebuilding Scandal: The Dirty Politics of Creating a New World Trade Center

  by Justin Berzon

  Award-winning investigative journalist Justin Berzon exposes the total corruption of the Ground Zero rebuilding efforts in New York City. Berzon, whose research on the subject has been featured in the New York Post and National Review Online, explains how a handful of politicians rigged the international design competition for the new World Trade Center. Despite a staggering 70% of New Yorkers voting to... (more)
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  Touching History: The Untold Story of the Drama That Unfolded in the Skies Over America on 9/11

  by Lynn Spencer

  On the azure blue morning of 9/11 the skies were pronounced "severe clear," in the parlance of airline pilots; a gorgeous day for flying. Nearly 5,000 flights were cruising the skies over America when FAA Operations Manager Ben Sliney arrived at the Command Center for his first day on that job. He could never have anticipated the historic drama that was about to unfold as Americans who found themselves on the... (more)