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Radnor Library's 9/11 Materials

Your list of nearly 100 nonfiction, fiction, young adult, children's and multi-media materials available.

The day

Among the heroes : United Flight 93 and the passengers and crew who fought back / Jere Longman. 363.34 LON  

The book of Mychal : the surprising life and heroic death of Father Mychal Judge / Michael Daly.  BIO JUDGE  

The cell: inside the 9/11 plot and why the FBI and CIA failed to stop it / John Miller and Michael Stone, with Chris Mitchell.  973.931 MIL  

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Day of terror : September 11, 2001 / text by Barbara Shangle ; concept and design by Robert D. Shangle; photography by Wide World Photos, Inc. and Associated Press.  973.931 SHA  

Firehouse / David Halberstam.   363.34 HAL  ,  BOOK ON TAPE U NF HAL  

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The ground truth : the untold story of America under attack on 9/11 / John Farmer. 973.931 FAR  

Inside 9-11 : what really happened / by the reporters, writers and editors of Der Spiegel magazine ; translated from the German by Paul De Angelis and Elisabeth Kaestner ; with contributions from Margot Dembo and Christopher Sultan. 973.931 INS  

Last man down : a firefighter's story of survival and escape from the World Trade Center / by FDNY Battalion Commander Richard Picciotto ; with Daniel Paisner. 363.34 PIC  

Leadership / Rudolph W. Giuliani with Ken Kurson. 658.4 GIU  

Let's roll! : ordinary people, extraordinary courage / Lisa Beamer with Ken Abraham. BIO BEAMER  

A nation challenged: a visual history of 9/11 and its aftermath / the New York Times ; introduction by Howell Raines ; photographs edited by Nancy Lee and Lonnie Schlein ; text edited by Mitchel Levitas.  J 973.931 NAT  

New York September 11 / by Magnum photographers ; introduction by David Halberstam. 973.931 NEW  

The 9/11 Commission report: final report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States including Executive summary / National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States. 973.931 NIN

On top of the world : Cantor Fitzgerald, Howard Lutnick, and 9/11 : a story of loss and renewal / Tom Barbash. 332.62 BAR  

102 minutes: the untold story of the fight to survive inside the Twin Towers / Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn. 973.931 DWY  

One nation: America remembers September 11, 2001. 973.931 ONE

Out of the blue: the story of September 11, 2001, from Jihad to Ground Zero / Richard Bernstein and the staff of the New York Times.   973.931 BER  

Perfect soldiers: the hijackers: who they were, why they did it / Terry McDermott. 973.931 MCD

Report from ground zero: [the story of the rescue efforts at the World Trade Center] / Dennis Smith. 363.34 SMI  

Touching history: the untold story of the drama that unfolded in the skies over America on 9/11 / by Lynn Spencer.   973.931 SPE

Unmeasured Strength / Lauren Manning BIO MANNING

Watching the world change : the stories behind the images of 9/11 / David Friend.   974.7 FRI  

 

Fiction

Absent friends / S.J. Rozan.   MYSTERY ROZ

A day at the beach / Helen Schulman. FICTION SCH

A disorder peculiar to the country : a novel / Ken Kalfus. FICTION KAL

Falling man : a novel / Don DeLillo.   FICTION DEL

Foolproof / Barbara D'Amato, Jeanne M. Dams, and Mark Zubro.     FICTION DAM

The good life / Jay McInerney.  FICTION MCI  ,  PB MCI

The good priest's son / Reynolds Price.   FICTION PRI

Ground zero: a Repairman Jack novel / F. Paul Wilson.  FICTION WIL

L'America / Martha McPhee.    FICTION MCP

Once in a promised land : a novel / Laila Halaby.   FICTION HAL

The whole world over : a novel / Julia Glass   FICTION GLA

The writing on the wall : a novel / Lynne Sharon Schwartz.   PB SCH  

 

The day after and beyond: Commentary and reflections

After : how America confronted the September 12 era / Steven Brill.   973.931 BRI  

Against all enemies : inside America's war on terror / Richard A. Clarke. 973.931 CLA  

Al Qaeda : in search of the terror network that threatens the world / Jane Corbin. 973.931 COR  

Al Qaeda: Osama bin Laden's army of terrorists / Phillip Margulies.  J 973.931 MAR  

All American: why I believe in football, God, and the war in Iraq / Robert P. McGovern.  973.931 MCG

American ground, unbuilding the World Trade Center / William Langewiesche. 974.7 LAN  

Bush at war / Bob Woodward. 973.931 WOO  

Closure: the untold story of the Ground Zero recovery mission / William Keegan, Jr.  974.7 KEE  

The connection: how al Qaeda's collaboration with Saddam Hussein has endangered America / Stephen F. Hayes. 303.625 HAY  

Cultures of war: Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, 9-11, Iraq / John W. Dower.   355 DOW  

The Dark side: the inside story of how the war on terror turned into a war on American ideals / Jane Mayer.  973.931 MAY  

A decade of hope: stories of grief and endurance from 9/11 families and friends / Dennis Smith with Deirdre Smith.  974.71 SMI

The fighting 69th: one remarkable National Guard Unit's journey from Ground Zero to Baghdad / Sean Michael Flynn.  356.113 FLY

Flying blind /  Michael A. Smerconish ; foreword by Senator Arlen Specter. 973 SME

The greatest story ever sold : the decline and fall of truth in Bush's America / Frank Rich. 973.931 RIC

A heart, a cross & a flag: America today / Peggy Noonan.  973.931 NOO  

Imperial America: the Bush assault on the world order / John Newhouse. 327.73 NEW  

Longitudes and attitudes : exploring the world after September 11 / Thomas L. Friedman. 973.931 FRI

The looming tower: Al-Qaeda and the road to 9/11 / Lawrence Wright. 973.931 WRI  

Love, Greg & Lauren / Greg Manning. BIO MANNING  

Messages : signs, visits, and premonitions from loved ones lost on 9/11 / Bonnie McEneaney. 133.9 MCE

Middletown, America : one town's passage from grief to recovery / Gail Sheehy.  974.9 SHE

My hope for peace / Jehan Sadat.  956.053 SAD  

My invented country: a nostalgic journey through Chile / Isabel Allende ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden.  BIO ALLENDE  

Nine months at Ground Zero: the story of the brotherhood of workers who took on a job like no other / Glenn Stout, Charles Vitchers, and Robert Gray. 974.71 STO  

The terror dream: fear and fantasy in post-9/11 America / Susan Faludi. 306.2 FAL

Terrorism / John Pynchon Holms with Tom Burke. 363.3 HOL  

The test of our times: America under siege—and how we can be safe again / Tom Ridge with Lary Bloom. 363.325 RID  

Voices of healing: spirit and unity after 9/11 in the Asian American and Pacific Islander community / editor, Icy Smith. 974.7 VOI  

What terrorists want: understanding the enemy, containing the threat / Louise Richardson. 363.325 RIC  

Where You Left Me / Jennifer Gardner Trulson  BIO TRULSON

Why America slept: the failure to prevent 9/11 / Gerald Posner.  973.931 POS  

A widow's walk / Marian Fontana.   974.71 FON  

Without precedent: the inside story of the 9/11 Commission / Thomas H. Kean and Lee H. Hamilton, with Benjamin Rhodes. 973.931 KEA  

 

Young Adult

Bullyville / Francine Prose.  YA FIC PRO

Love is the higher law / David Levithan. YA FIC LEV  

Extremely loud & incredibly close / Jonathan Safran Foer. YA FIC FOE

9-11 : artists respond. YA GRAPHIC NOVEL 9-11

Shine, coconut moon / Neesha Meminger. YA FIC MEM  

The usual rules / Joyce Maynard.  FICTION MAY  ,  YA FIC MAY  

 

Children’s

Playing dad's song / D. Dina Friedman.  J FRI  

9.11.01: Terrorists attack the U.S. / Patrick Lalley. J 973.931 LAL  

14 cows for America / written by Carmen Agra Deedy ; in collaboration with Wilson Kimeli Naiyomah ; illustrated by Thomas Gonzalez.   J 327.676 DEE  

Fireboat : the heroic adventures of the John J. Harvey /  Maira Kalman. J 974.7 KAL  

Al Qaeda : Osama bin Laden's army of terrorists / Phillip Margulies.   J 973.931 MAR  

September 11, 2001 / Andrew Santella.  J 973.931 SAN  

September 11, 2001 / Dennis Brindell Fradin.  J 973.931 FRA  

September 11 : a primary source history / Alan Wachtel.  J 973.931 WAC  

 

Films and music

American anthem [sound recording] : songs and hymns.  CD GOSPEL GRAVES, DENYCE  

Fahrenheit 9/11 [videorecording] / Lions Gate Films and IFC Films and The Fellowship Adventure Group present a Dog Eat Dog Films production, a film by Michael Moore. DVD FAH RATED R  

Reign over me [videorecording] DVD REI R  

United 93 [videorecording] / Universal Pictures and Studiocanal present in association with Sidney Kimmel Entertainment a Working Title production. DVD UNI R  

World Trade Center (Motion picture) DVD WOR PG 13  

 


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