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Author
Series
Numbland security the volume 1
Publisher
Rover T Hill
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"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...
82) Shock and awe
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The untold true story of an intrepid team of four reporters of Knight Ridder who dared to ask the questions their colleagues did not in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.
84) The usual rules
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Over the last eighteen years, much has been written and said about the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and the profound impact they had on America and the world. But those names, stories, and memories have never before been collected in one place to tell the full, 360-degree story of what happened that day, and in the days after."
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Pam, Daniel, and Joe might be the worst punk band on the Lower East Side. Struggling to scrape together enough cash and musical talent to make it, they are waylaid by surprising arrivals, a daughter for Pam and Daniel; a solo hit single for Joe. As the '90s wane, the three friends share in one another's successes, working together to elevate Joe's superstardom and raise baby Flora. On September 11, 2001, the city's unfathomable devastation coincided...
Author
Publisher
Permuted Press, LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The first-person account of how a small band of Green Berets used horses and laser-guided bombs to overthrow the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan after 9/11. They landed in a dust storm so thick the chopper pilot used dead reckoning and a guess to find the ground. Welcomed by a band of heavily armed militiamen, they climbed a mountain on horseback to meet the most ferocious warlord in Asia. They plotted a war of nineteenth-century maneuvers...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Abbey's world is turned upside-down by both personal and national events of September 11, 2001, as well as their aftermath, but finds greater strength through art, friendship, and family.
Author
Publisher
Bearport Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"As reports came in of planes crashing into the World Trade Center, heroes sprang into action. Follow two EMS workers scrambling to help survivors at Ground Zero on September 11, 2001, based on a true story. The heroic first responders fought with bravery and determination to save lives amid the chaos. Based on the true story and in honor of an EMS team risking everything to help at Ground Zero. Additional material provides an overview of the events...
99) Fahrenheit 9/11
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Through actual footage, interviews, and declassified documents, Michael Moore illustrates the connections President Bush has to the royal house of Saud of Saudia Arabia and the bin Laden's, how the president got elected on fraudulent circumstances and then proceeded to blunder through his duties while ignoring warnings of the looming betrayal by his foreign partners. When the treachery hits with the 9/11 attacks, Moore explains how Bush failed to...
Author
Publisher
Mango Publishing
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"This is a story of being called out of your happy, peaceful life to an extraordinary one. It is about heeding the call to be a helper and taking on the challenge of a lifetime. Fred Guttenberg is one such helper who comes from a family that finds ways, large and small, to change the world for the better. Fred was a successful businessman for whom family was a priority--as father, husband, son, and brother. But extraordinary circumstances would change...
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