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Book cover for "Nine, ten".
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730L
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English
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Relates how the lives of four children living in different parts of the country intersect and are affected by the events of September 11, 2001.
Book cover for "Mike Filey's Toronto Sketches".
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Dundurn Press
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English
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Mike Filey's column "The Way We Were" first appeared in the Toronto Sunday Sun not long after the first edition of the paper hit the newsstands on September 16, 1973. Now, over four decades later, Filey's column has enjoyed an uninterrupted stretch as one of the newspaper's most popular features. In 1992 a number of his columns were reprinted in Toronto Sketches: "The Way We Were." Since then another ten volumes have been published. Each column looks...

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Seven Stories Press
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English
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In 9-11, published in November 2001 and arguably the single most influential post 9-11 book, internationally renowned thinker Noam Chomsky bridged the information gap around the World Trade Center attacks, cutting through the tangle of political opportunism, expedient patriotism, and general conformity that choked off American discourse in the months immediately following. Chomsky placed the attacks in context, marshaling his deep and nuanced knowledge...
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Publisher:
Smithsonian Channel
Pub. Date:
[2012]
Language:
English
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Presents two documentary films that examine the events surrounding the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center ten years after September 11, 2001, including "9/11: Day that Changed the World," which examines how the nation's leaders made decisions on that day with interviews with Rudy Giuliani, Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, and others; and "9/11: Stories in Fragments," which looks at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History and their...
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Scholastic
Lexile measure:
980L
Language:
English
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Ten stories of the first-responders who risked their lives on September 11, 2001.
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Diversion Books
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English
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"Deanne Quinn Miller was five years old when her father-William "Billy" Quinn-was murdered in the first minutes of the Attica Prison Riot, the only corrections officer to die at the hands of inmates. But how did he die? Who were the killers? Those questions haunted Dee and wreaked havoc on her psyche for thirty years. Finally, when she joined the Forgotten Victims of Attica, she began to find answers. This began the process of bringing closure not...