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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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