September 11, 2001 Attacks & the War on Terror

  • Above hallowed ground: a photographic record of September 11, 2001. 973.931 ABO
  • After: how America confronted the September 12 era. Steven Brill. 973.931 BRI
  • Aftermath: World Trade Center archive. Joel Meyerowitz. 973.931 MEY
  • Against all enemies: inside America’s war on terror. Richard A. Clarke. 973.931 CLA, CD 973.931 CLA, Spanish Lang. 973.931 CLA
  • Al Qaeda’s great escape: the military and the media on terror’s trail. Philip Smucker. 958.104 SMU
  • America between the wars, from 11/9 to 9/11: the misunderstood years between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the start of the War on Terror. Derek Chollet. 973.928 CHO
  • American ground: unbuilding the World Trade Center. William Langewiesche. 973.931 LAN
  • The American spirit: meeting the challenge of September 11. 973.931 AME
  • Among the heroes: United Flight 93 and the passengers and crew who fought back. Jere Longman. 973.931 LON
  • At the center of the storm: my years at the CIA. George Tenet. 327.12 TEN
  • Between heaven and Ground Zero. Leslie D. Haskin. B Haskins
  • The Bin Ladens: an Arabian family in the American century. Steve Coll. B Bin Laden
  • Breakdown: how America’s intelligence failures led to September 11. Bill Gertz. 973.931 GER
  • Brotherhood. 628.92 BRO
  • Bush at war. Bob Woodward. 973.931 WOO, Large Type 973.931 WOO
  • Called: “Hello, my name is Mrs. Jefferson, I under- stand your plane is being hijacked…”: 9:45AM, Flight 93, September 11, 2001. Lisa D. Jefferson. 973.931 JEF
  • The cell: inside the 9/11 plot and why the FBI and CIA failed to stop it. John Miller. 973.931 MIL, Large Type 973.931 MIL, CD 973.931 MIL
  • Closure: the untold story of the Ground Zero recovery mission. William Keegan, Jr. 973.931 KEE
  • Come back to Afghanistan: a California teenager’s story. Said Hyder Akbar, Susan Burton. Y 958.104 AKB
  • The Commission: the uncensored history of the 9/11 investigation. Philip Shenon. 973.931 SHE
  • Cultures of war: Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, 9-11, Iraq. John W. Dower. 355.009 DOW
  • The day the world came to town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland. Jim DeFede. 971.8 DEF
  • Debunking 9/11 debunking: an answer to Popular mechanics and other defenders of the official conspiracy theory. David Ray Griffin. 973.931 GRI
  • Debunking 9/11 myths: why conspiracy theories can’t stand up to the facts. 973.931 DEB
  • Dog heroes of September 11th: a tribute to America’s search and rescue dogs. Nona Kilgore Bauer. 636.708 BAU
  • The fighting 69th: one remarkable National Guard unit’s journey from Ground Zero to Baghdad. Sean Michael Flynn. 355.37 FLY
  • Firefight: inside the battle to save the Pentagon on 9/11. Patrick Creed, Rick Newman. 973.931 CRE
  • Firehouse. David Halberstam. 628.92 HAL
  • First in: an insider’s account of how the CIA spearheaded the war on terror in Afghanistan. Gary C. Schroen. 958.1046 SCH
  • Fixed ideas: America since 9-11. Joan Didion. 320.5 DID
  • Fortress America: on the frontlines of homeland security– an inside look at the coming surveillance state. Matthew Brzezinski. 363.32 BRZ
  • From the ashes: a spiritual response to the attack on America: experience, strength, and hope from spir-itual leaders and extraordinary citizens. 291.44 FRO
  • Ghost wars: the secret history of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet invasion to September 10, 2001. Steve Coll. 958.104 COL
  • Good Muslim, bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the roots of terror. Mahmood Mamdani. 320.55 MAM
  • The grand illusion: the untold story of Rudy Giuliani and 9/11. Wayne Barrett, Dan Collins. 974.71 BAR
  • The ground truth: the untold story of America under attack on 9/11. John Farmer. 973.931 FAR
  • Growing up Bin Laden: Osama’s wife and son take us inside their secret world. Najwa bin Laden, Omar bin Laden, Jean Sasson. B Bin Laden
  • House of Bush, house of Saud: the secret relationship between the world’s two most powerful dynasties. Craig Unger. 973.92 UNG
  • The hunt for Bin Laden: Task Force Dagger. Robin Moore. 958.104 MOO
  • Imperial hubris: why the West is losing the war on terror. Anonymous. 973.931 IMP
  • Inside the kingdom: my life in Saudi Arabia. Carmen Bin Ladin. B Bin Ladin, Spanish Lang. B
  • Inside the mirage: America’s fragile partnership with Saudi Arabia. Thomas W. Lippman. 953.8 LIP
  • Intelligence matters: the CIA, the FBI, Saudi Arabia, and the failure of America’s war on terror. Bob Graham. 973.931 GRA
  • Jawbreaker: the attack on Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda: a personal account by the CIA’s key field commander. Gary Berntsen, Ralph Pezzullo. 327.12 BER
  • A just response: The Nation on terrorism, democracy, and September 11, 2001. 973.931 JUS
  • Kafka comes to America: fighting for justice in the war on terror. Steven T. Wax. 345.056 WAX
  • Last man down: a firefighter’s story of survival and escape from the World Trade center. Richard Picciotto. 973.931 PIC
  • Let’s roll!: ordinary people, extraordinary courage. Lisa Beamer. 973.931 BEA, Spanish Lang. 973.92 BEA, CD 973.931 BEA
  • Longitudes and attitudes: exploring the world after September 11. Thomas L. Friedman. 973.931 FRI, Large Type 973.931 FRI, CD 973.93 FRI
  • The looming tower: Al Qaeda and the road to 9/11. Lawrence Wright. 973.931 WRI, CD 973.931 WRI
  • Love, Greg & Lauren. Greg Manning. 617.11 MAN
  • Love you, mean it: a true story of love, loss, and friendship. Patricia Carrington. 973.931 LOV
  • Middletown, America: one town’s passage from trauma to hope. Gail Sheehy. 974.71 SHE
  • My hope for peace. Jehan Sadat. 956.05 SAD
  • A nation challenged: a visual history of 9/11 and its aftermath. 973.931 NAT
  • National security: opposing viewpoints. 363.32 NAT
  • Never again: securing America and restoring justice. John Ashcroft. 973.931 ASH
  • The new Pearl Harbor: disturbing questions about the Bush administration and 9/11. David Ray Griffin. 973.931 GRI
  • The new Pearl Harbor revisited: 9/11, the cover-up, and the expose. David Ray Griffin. 973.931 GRI
  • The next attack: the failure of the War on Terror and a strategy for getting it right. Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon. 973.931 BEN
  • 9-11: artists respond. Y 741.5 NIN
  • The 9/11 Commission report: final report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States. 363.32 NIN
  • 9-11 emergency relief. Y 973.931 NIN
  • 9-11: the world’s finest comic book writers and artists tell stories to remember. Y 741.5 NIN
  • Nine months at Ground Zero: the story of the brotherhood of workers who took on a job like no other. Glenn Stout, Charles Vitchers, Robert Gray. 973.931 STO
  • 102 minutes: the untold story of the fight to sur-vive inside the Twin Towers. Jim Dwyer. 973.931 DWY
  • One nation: America remembers September 11, 2001. 973.931 ONE
  • The one percent doctrine: deep inside America’s pursuit of its enemies since 9/11. Ron Suskind. 973.931 SUS
  • Osama bin Laden: a war against the West. Elaine Landau. Y 958.104 LAN
  • Osama: the making of a terrorist. Jonathan Randal. B Bin Laden
  • Out of the blue: the story of September 11, 2001, from Jihad to Ground Zero. Richard Bernstein. 973.931 BER
  • Peace. Tucker Shaw. Y 327.172 SHA
  • The Pentagon: a history: the untold story of the wartime race to build the Pentagon–and to restore it sixty years later. Steve Vogel. 355.609 VOG
  • Perfect soldiers: the hijackers: who they were, why they did it. Terry McDermott. 973.931 MACD
  • The politics of heaven: America in fearful times. Earl Shorris. 973.93 SHO
  • Preemption: a knife that cuts both ways. Alan M. Dershowitz. 363.32 DER
  • A pretext for war: 9/11, Iraq, and the abuse of America’s intelligence agencies. James Bamford. 956.7044 BAM
  • The punishment of virtue: inside Afghanistan after the Taliban. Sarah Chayes. 958.1047 CHA
  • Report from Ground Zero. Dennis Smith. 973.931 SMI, Large Type 973.931 SMI
  • The second plane: September 11: terror and boredom. Martin Amis. 973.931 AMI
  • September 11, 2001. 973.931 SEP
  • September 11, 2001: attack on New York City. Wilborn Hampton. Y 973.931 HAM
  • September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows: turning our grief into action for peace. David Potorti. 303.66 POT
  • The terrorist watch: inside the desperate race to stop the next attack. Ronald Kessler. 363.32 KES
  • The test of our times: America under siege … and how we can be safe again. Tom Ridge. 363.32 RID
  • Touching history: the untold story of the drama that unfolded in the skies over America on 9/11. Lynn Spencer. 973.931 SPE
  • Tower stories: an oral history of 9/11. 973.931 TOW
  • Unmeasured strength. Lauren Manning. B Manning
  • Wake-up call: the political education of a 9/11 widow. Kristen Breitweiser. 973.931 BRE
  • Watching the world change: the stories behind the images of 9/11. David Friend. 973.931 FRI
  • What is life worth?: the unprecedented effort to compensate the victims of 9/11. Kenneth R. Feinberg. 362.88 FEI
  • What terrorists want: understanding the enemy, containing the threat. Louise Richardson. 363.32 RIC
  • What we saw. 973.931 WHA
  • What went wrong?: Western impact and Middle Eastern response. Bernard Lewis. 956 LEW
  • When you ride alone you ride with bin Laden: what the government should be telling us to help fight the War on Terrorism. Bill Maher. 973.931 MAH
  • Why America slept: the failure to prevent 9/11. Gerald Posner. 973.931 POS
  • A widow’s walk. Marian Fontana. 973.931 FON
  • With their eyes: September 11th: the view from a high school at ground zero. Y 812 WIT
  • Without precedent: the inside story of the 9/11 Commission. Thomas H. Kean, Lee H. Hamilton. 973.931 KEA
  • The World Trade Center: a tribute. Bill Harris. 725.2 HAR
  • The wrong war: grit, strategy, and the way out of Afghanistan. Bing West. 958.1047 WES

FICTION

  • Ask me no questions. Marina Budhos. Y Fic BUD
  • Beyond Tuesday morning. Karen Kingsbury. Rel. Fic KIN, Large Type Fic KIN, CD Fic KIN
  • Clear blue sky. F.P. Lione. Rel. Fic LIO
  • Crossers. Philip Caputo. Fic CAP
  • A day at the beach. Helen Schulman. Fic SCH
  • The days of awe. Hugh Nissenson. Fic NIS
  • Dear John. Nicholas Sparks. Fic SPA, Large Type Fic SPA, Spanish Lang. Fic SPA, CD Fic SPA
  • A disorder peculiar to the country. Ken Kalfus. Fic KAL
  • Every now & then. Karen Kingsbury. Rel. Fic KIN, Large Type Fic KIN
  • Falling man. Don DeLillo. Fic DEL, Spanish Lang. Fic DEL
  • The flame tree. Richard Lewis. Y Fic LEW
  • Foolproof. Barbara D’Amato, Jeanne M. Dams, Mark Zubro. Mystery DAM
  • A fortunate age. Joanna Smith Rakoff. Fic RAK
  • From ashes to honor. Loree Lough. Rel. Fic LOU
  • A gate at the stairs. Lorrie Moore. Fic MOO
  • The good life. Jay McInerney. Fic MACI
  • The good priest’s son. Reynolds Price. Fic PRI
  • Ground zero: a Repairman Jack novel. F. Paul Wilson. Fic WIL
  • Home boy. H.M. Naqvi. Fic NAQ
  • The legacy. Kirsten Tranter. Fic TRA
  • Love is the higher law. David Levithan. Y Fic LEV
  • Netherland. Joseph O’Neill. Fic ONE
  • New York: the novel. Edward Rutherfurd. Fic RUT
  • One Tuesday morning. Karen Kingsbury. Rel. Fic KIN, Large Type Fic KIN
  • Refugees. Catherine Stine. Y Fic STI
  • The reluctant fundamentalist. Mohsin Hamid. Fic HAM
  • The submission. Amy Waldman. Fic WAL
  • Sweet & crazy. Patty Dann. Fic DAN
  • Under the persimmon tree. Suzanne Fisher Staples. Y Fic STA
  • The whole world over. Julia Glass. Fic GLA
  • The writing on the wall: a novel. Lynne Sharon Schwartz. Fic SCH

GRAPHIC

  • After 9/11: America’s war on terror (2001- ). Sid Jacobson, Ernie Colon. Graphic 973.931 JAC
  • In the shadow of no towers. Art Spiegelman. Graphic 973.931 SPI, Spanish Lang. 741.5 SPI
  • To Afghanistan and back: a graphic travelogue. Ted Rall. Graphic 958.104 RAL, Y 958.104 RAL

CHILDREN’S BOOKS

  • Chief: the life of Peter J. Ganci, a New York City firefighter. Chris Ganci. J 628.9 GAN
  • Fireboat: the heroic adventures of the John J. Harvey. Maira Kalman. E 974.7 KAL
  • 14 cows for America. Carmen Agra Deedy. J 327 DEE, Sp. Lang. J 327 DEE
  • Ground Zero. Nancy Louis. J 973.931 LOU
  • Heroes of the day. Nancy Louis. J 973.931 LOU
  • The 9/11 terror attacks. Valerie Bodden. J 973.931 BOD
  • 9.11.01: terrorists attack the U.S. Patrick Lalley. J 973.931 LAL
  • Operation Enduring Freedom. John Hamilton. J 958.1 HAM
  • Operation Noble Eagle. John Hamilton. J 973.931 HAM
  • Osama bin Laden. Nancy Louis. JB Bin Laden
  • September 11, 2001. Andrew Santella. J 973.931 SAN
  • September 11, 2001: the day that changed America. Jill C. Wheeler. J 973.931 WHE
  • September 11th, 2001: a simple account for children. Nancy Poffenberger. E 973.931 POF
  • September roses. Jeanette Winter. Pic WIN
  • Terrorism. Gail B. Stewart. J 303.6 STE
  • This place I know: poems of comfort. J 811 THI
  • United we stand. Nancy Louis. J 973.931 LOU

AUDIOBOOKS & MUSIC CDS

  • Global jihad: understanding September 11.  Quintan Wiktorowicz. CD 303.625 WIK
  • On the transmigration of souls. John Adams. CD C ADAM OTS N-62

DVDS & VIDEOS

  • The al-Qaeda files. DVD 364.1088
  • The guys. DVD Drama G
  • Inside 9/11. DVD 973.931
  • Liberty kid. DVD Drama L
  • The missing person. DVD Mystery M
  • 102 minutes that changed America. DVD 973.931
  • Remembering September 11th. VIDEO Children R
  • Scared sacred: unwrap the darkness, reveal the light. DVD 155.24
  • The tin forest. Kit Children R
  • Unconstitutional: the war on our civil liberties. DVD 342.085
  • Why the towers fell. VIDEO 720.483
  • World Trade Center: anatomy of the collapse. VIDEO 720.483

EN ESPAÑOL / SPANISH-LANGUAGE

  • El gigante de los pies de barro: cronica personal de la tragedia y sus repercusiones. Marian de la Fuente. Spanish Lang. 973.931 FUE
  • Jefe Atta: el secreto de la Casa Blanca. Pilar Urbano. Spanish Lang. 973.931 URB
  • Nuestros heroes. Carolina Aguilera. Spanish Lang. 363.37 AGU
  • Yihad: como se financia el terrorismo en la nueva economia. Loretta Napoleoni. Spanish Lang. 303.625 NAP
  • El hombre del salto. Don DeLillo. Spanish Lang. Fic DEL
  • 14 vacas para America. Carmen Agra Deedy. Sp. Lang. J 327 DEE

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