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Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
2003 ECPA Gold Medallion Award winner! The best-seller that has brought comfort and hope to millions in the wake of 9/11 is now available in softcover! Let's Roll!-the moving, behind-the-scenes story of United Flight 93 hero Todd Beamer and his widow, Lisa-is so much more than a tribute. A message of character, courage, and undeniable faith in the face of horrifying tragedy, it encourages anyone who reads it to live real life right now . . . and to...
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
On the azure blue morning of 9/11 the skies were pronounced 'severe clear,' in the parlance of airline pilots; a gorgeous day for flying. Nearly 5,000 flights were cruising the skies over America when FAA Operations Manager Ben Sliney arrived at the Command Center for his first day on that job. He could never have anticipated the historic drama that was about to unfold as Americans who found themselves on the front lines of a totally unprecedented...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
“A powerful reconstruction of the flight’s final moments. . . . Made me think of John Hersey’s Hiroshima.” — New York Times Book Review
Thedefinitive story of the courageous men and women aboard Flight 93 on September 11, 2001, and of the day that forever changed the way Americans view the world and themselves.
Of the four horrific hijackings on September 11,
...4) United 93
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Fact-based story about the 40 passengers and crew aboard San Francisco bound flight United 93, who sat down as strangers and found the courage to stand up as one. This hijacked flight was the fourth terrorist attack plane on September 11, 2001. As a result of a delay on takeoff, the passengers on the flight, are behind the carefully scheduled planned attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Once hijacked, the passengers and crew are able...
Author
Publisher
Lyons Press, an imprint of Globe Pequot Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The passengers of United Airlines Flight 93 on September 11, 2001 have earned their rightful place among the pantheon of American heroes. Flight 93 provides a riveting narrative based on interviews, oral histories, transcripts, recordings, personal tours of the crash site, and voluminous trial evidence made public only in recent years. There also is plenty of chilling new detail for readers who think they know the story of the flight. Utilizing research...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
It seemed like just plain bad luck. On September 11, 2001, Jeremy Glick boarded United Flight 93 only because a fire at Newark Airport had prevented him from flying out the day before. That morning, he called his wife, Lyz, to tell her the plane had been hijacked and that he and a group of others were going to storm the cockpit, an effort that doomed Glick and his fellow passengers yet doubtless saved lives on the ground and instantly became known...
Author
Series
Report / 107th Congress 2d session House of Representatives volume 107-597
Publisher
U.S. G.P.O
Pub. Date
2002]
Language
English
14) A plague year
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
A ninth-grader who works with his father in the local supermarket describes the plague of meth addiction that consumes many people in his Pennsylvania coal mining town from 9/11 and the nearby crash of United Flight 93 in Shanksville to the Quecreek Mine disaster in Somerset the following summer.
Publisher
Sterling Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
The heartbreaking true story of the heroic passengers and crew aboard United Flight 93 on September 11, 2001. Trapped onboard a hijacked flight, these ordinary citizens disregarded their own personal safety to bond together and overthrow their terrorist captors.
Publisher
Topics Entertainment
Pub. Date
[c2002-2005]
Language
English
Description
Four films exploring the intersection of everyday life with the single worst act of terrorism in United States history.
Rudy: A depiction of Rudy Giuliani focusing largely on the September 11th terrorist attack.
Brothers lost: "Award-winning filmmaker Sean McGinly lost his brother Mark in the attack on the Twin Towers. Overwhelmed with grief and unwilling to let Mark fade away. Sean set out to find other men who had lost brothers on 9/11."--Amazon....
18) Flight 93
Publisher
MTI Home Video
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
The heartbreaking true story of the heroic passengers and crew aboard United Flight 93 on September 11, 2001. Trapped onboard a hijacked flight, these ordinary citizens disregarded their own personal safety to bond together and overthrow their terrorist captors.
Publisher
Skira Rizzoli
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
This poignant selection of artifacts - and their stories - from September 11 provides an official, lasting record of that day's experience. In both text and photography, the story of September 11 is told through a selection of powerfully moving artifacts from the 9/11 museum's collection that serve as touchstones to the day and its aftermath. From crushed FDNY trucks to the steel that was pierced as planes struck the Twin Towers, from victims' property...
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