Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is a precocious Francophile who idolizes Stephen Hawking and plays the tambourine extremely well. He's also a boy struggling to come to terms with his father's death in the World Trade Center attacks. As he searches New York City for the lock that fits a mysterious key he left behind, Oskar discovers much more than he could have imagined.

"Idlewild is a tiny, artsy Quaker high school in lower Manhattan. Students call their teachers by their first names, there are no grades, and every day begins with 20 minutes of contemplative silence in the Meetinghouse. It is during one of those meetings that an airplane hits the Twin Towers. For two Idlewild outcasts, 9/11 serves as the first day of an intense, 18-month friendship. Fay is prickly, aloof, and obsessed with gay men; Nell is shy, sensitive,...

"When her veteran dad is committed to a psych ward, one girl must unravel a conspiracy that connects her past and the terrorist attack on 9/11"--

"Asked by Victoria Ford's sister to prove Victoria's innocence in the murder of her married lover 20 years ago before she died on 9/11, Avery Mason, host of American Events, delves into her twisted private life only to discover that someone is more interested in Avery's secret past"--

"National intelligence officers, governors, and congressional oversight leaders seek her advice. Carrie Station is a rising star inside the top-secret world of national security at NOIHMLA, tha National Office of Intelligence, Homeland and Military Liasion Agency. Detecting and stopping threats against the US is part of her day. After helping take down another threat, Carrie looks in the mirror and asks, How did I get here? The answer: 9/11 Over a...

"A surreal and satirical portrait of a pregnant woman adrift in a haunted, post-9/11 Manhattan"-- 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...

Abbi Hope Goldstein has lived almost her entire life in the shadow of the terrorist attacks of September 11: in an iconic photograph, Abbi wears a birthday crown and grasps a red balloon; just behind her, the South Tower of the World Trade Center is collapsing. Now her alter ego, Baby Hope, is the subject of internet memes, and Abbi is desperate for anonymity. Spending the summer before her seventeenth birthday incognito as a counselor at Knights...