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Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The destruction of the World Trade Center complex on 9/11 set in motion a chain of events that fundamentally transformed both the United States and the wider world. War has raged in the Middle East for a decade and a half, and Americans have become accustomed to surveillance, enhanced security, and periodic terrorist attacks. But the symbolic locus of the post-9/11 world has always been "Ground Zero"--the sixteen acres in Manhattan's financial district...
123) Windows on the world
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
An undocumented immigrant father has been bussing tables at the famous Windows on the World restaurant to support his family in Mexico. Then, tragedy strikes. His family hears no word for weeks. Refusing to give up hope, they send young Fernando on a quixotic mission across the border to find his father and bring him home. Along the way, Fernando experiences a warm embrace from fellow immigrants and a cold shoulder from The City That Never Sleeps....
125) Ground Zero
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Brandon is visiting his dad on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 when the attack comes; Reshmina is a girl in Afghanistan who has grown up in the aftermath of that attack but dreams of peace, becoming a teacher and escaping her village and the narrow role that the Taliban believes is appropriate for women--both are struggling to survive, both changed forever by the events of 9/11.
126) Mi país inventado
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
The author explores the landscapes and people of her native country; recounts the 1973 assassination of her uncle, which caused her to go into exile; and shares her experiences as an immigrant in post-September 11 America.
Publisher
Arlington Information Channel 31
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Recording of post 9/11 Arlington County Government Cable Information Channel 31's coverage including: 1. Audio of a 911 call sending first responders to the Pentagon (9/11/2001). 2. Arlington County Board press conference (9/13/2001) with first responders. 3. Intercultural tolerance press conference (9/14/2001). 4. Morning press conference from county regarding mental health services for the Arlington first responders & community members (9/14/2001)...
128) Survivor tree
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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The Callery pear tree standing at the base of the World Trade Center is almost destroyed on September 11, but it is pulled from the rubble, coaxed back to life, and replanted as part of the 9/11 memorial.
Author
Series
Ranger in time volume 11
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Ranger the time-traveling Golden retriever was trained for search-and-rescue and even though he did not pass the tests he has used his training on his many trips to help people caught up in disasters; now he has arrived at the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11, 2001 just as the first plane hits, and he must rescue fifth-graders Risha and Max who are trapped in the wreckage, guide them to safety, and hopefully reunite them with Risha's...
Publisher
Arlington Information Channel 31
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Recording of post-9/11 Arlington County Government's Cable Information Channel coverage including: 1. Footage of Pentagon crash site (9/15/2001) ; 2. Footage of citizens memorial (9/15/2001) ; 3. News interview (inaudible) ; 4. Press conference about ACPD involvement at Pentagon crash site, supporting first responders with military chaplains, offering mental health services ; 5. ACFD (Steve Holl & Benjamin Barksdale) press conference ; 6. Afternoon...
Author
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A graphic novel of the report of the 9/11 Commission reveals the Commission's findings regarding the terrorist attacks on the United States and its recommendations concerning what the United States government needs to do in its wake.
133) Big Apple diaries
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
�2021.
Language
English
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"In Big Apple Diaries, a heartfelt diary-style graphic memoir by Alyssa Bermudez, a young New Yorker doodles her way through middle school--until the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack leaves her wondering if she can ever be a kid again. It's the year 2000 in New York City. For 12-year old Alyssa, this means splitting time between her Puerto Rican dad's apartment in Manhattan and her white mom's new place in Queens, navigating the trials and tribulations...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Despite assertions about the unprecedented nature of his presidency, few of Trump's policies have been novel; many had been proposed in varied form throughout the latter years of the 20th century. Yet it was not until 9/11 that many of these policies started to take hold. In this intellectual and political history, Greenberg traces the evolving language, law, governance and policy that began to redefine the nation in the wake of 9/11 and shows how...
Author
Publisher
PowerHouse Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"What are the words we use to describe something that we never thought we'd have to describe? In Seven American Deaths and Disasters, Kenneth Goldsmith transcribes historic radio and television reports of national tragedies as they unfurl, revealing an extraordinarily rich linguistic panorama of passionate description. Taking its title from the series of Andy Warhol paintings by the same name, Goldsmith recasts the mundane as the iconic, creating...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
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For Art Spiegelman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Maus, the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 were both highly personal and intensely political. In the Shadow of No Towers, his first new book of comics since the groundbreaking Maus, is a masterful and moving account of the events and aftermath of that tragic day. Spiegelman and his family bore witness to the attacks in their lower Manhattan neighborhood: his teenage daughter had started...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Abbi Hope Goldstein is like every other teenager, with a few smallish exceptions: her famous alter ego, Baby Hope, is the subject of internet memes, she has asthma, and sometimes people spontaneously burst into tears when they recognize her. Abbi has lived almost her entire life in the shadow of the terrorist attacks of September 11. On that fateful day, she was captured in what became an iconic photograph: in the picture, Abbi (aka "Baby Hope") wears...
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