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Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
The tenth anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon is an occasion sure to be observed around the world. But among the memorials, political speeches, and news editorials, the most pressing consideration--and often the most overlooked--is the lives and well-being of the 9/11 first responders, their families, and the victims' families over the past decade.
Author
Series
Publisher
University Press of New England
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A haunting record of the destruction and rebirth of the neighborhood surrounding Ground Zero.
When writer and feature filmmaker Peter Josyph spent a year and a half combing the historic streets and debris-blasted buildings of Ground Zero in Lower Manhattan, talking with workers and residents, capturing its struggles and transformations, he became what he calls a "citizen-artist," personally shooting over two hundred hours of footage for his film...
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Journalist and historian Garrett Graff tells the story of September 11, 2001 as it was lived, in the words of those who lived it. Drawing on transcripts, recently declassified documents, original interviews, and oral histories from nearly five hundred government officials, first responders, witnesses, survivors, friends, and family members, Graff paints a vivid and human portrait of the September 11 attacks. Beginning in the predawn hours of airports...
6) Thunder dog: the true story of a blind man, his guide dog, and the triumph of trust at Ground Zero
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Faith. Trust. Triumph.
First came the boom — the loud, deep, unapologetic bellow that seemed to erupt from the very core of the earth. Eerily, the majestic high-rise slowly leaned to the south. On the seventy-eighth floor of the World Trade Center's north tower, no alarms sounded, and no one had information about what had happened at 8:46 a.m. on September 11, 2001 — what should have been a normal workday for thousands of people. All that was...
Author
Publisher
Integrity Publishers
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
"This is the riveting account of criminal investigator-turned crisis chaplain, Ray Giunta, as he spends sixty-eight life-changing days at Ground Zero, the heart of the worst terrorist attack in American history ... There he is an eyewitness and confessor to the heroic and horrific, to the miraculous and the macabre ... and Chaplain Ray becomes a listening ear ... 'God @ Ground Zero' is a remarkable, unforgettable true story [of September 11, 2001]...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Two love stories with healing in between, this book is an account of the events of September 11, 2001, and their aftermath. Lucky, that is how the author would describe herself. She had a successful law career, met the love of her life in Doug, married him, had an apartment in New York City, a house in the Hamptons, two beautiful children, and was still madly in love after nearly seven years of marriage. She was living the kind of idyllic life that...
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