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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Description
Now a major motion picture starring Julianne Moore and Ken Watanabe.
New York Times Bestseller Ann Patchett's award winning, bestselling novel that balances themes of love and crisis as disparate characters learn that music is their only common language-now a major motion picture starring Julianne Moore and Ken Watanabe.
Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of the powerful...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"The definitive story of one American family at the center of a single, shocking act of international terrorism that 'manages to capture the essence of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict'(Dan Ephron) On October 3, 1985, Leon Klinghoffer, a disabled Jewish New Yorker, and his wife boarded the Achille Lauro to celebrate their 36th wedding anniversary with a Mediterranean cruise. Four days later, four Palestinian fedayeen hijacked the Italian luxury liner...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2007
Description
There is September 11 and then there are the days after, and finally the years. Falling Man is a magnificent, essential novel about the event that defines turn-of-the-century America. It begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and tracks the aftermath of this global tremor in the intimate lives of a few people. First, there is Keith, walking out of the rubble into a life that he'd always imagined belonged to everyone but him. Then Lianne,...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Brigitte Gabriel lost her childhood to militant Islam. In 1975 she was ten years old, living in Southern Lebanon, when militant Muslims poured into her country and declared jihad against the Lebanese Christians. The Lebanese Civil War was the first front in what has become the worldwide jihad of fundamentalist Islam against non-Muslim peoples. In this political wake-up call, Gabriel warns that the U.S. is threatened by fundamentalist Islamic theology...
5) Return
Author
Series
Baxter Family volume Book 3
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Formats
Description
"A Shattered Relationship
Luke, the Baxter family’s golden boy and only son, has walked away from everything that mattered most to him: his faith, his family, and Reagan, his only love. Devastated by the events of September 11, 2001, Luke decides that life is random, faith a fraud, and God a fantasy.
A Secret
A baby is about to be born, but with Reagan a thousand miles away in New York City, Luke has no idea he’s the father. Now, though, someone...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
A profoundly moving nonfiction picture book about tragedy, hope, and healing from the award-winning author. Sometimes bad things happen, and you have to tell everyone. Sometimes terrible things happen, and everybody knows. On April 19, 1995, something terrible happened in Oklahoma City: a bomb exploded, and people were hurt and killed. But that was not the end of the story. Those who survived--and those who were forever changed--shared their stories...
9) Hotel Mumbai
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Formats
Description
A true story of humanity and heroism, this film vividly recounts the 2008 siege of the famed Taj Hotel by a group of terrorists in Mumbai, India. Among the dedicated hotel staff is the renowned chef Hemant Oberoi and a waiter who choose to risk their lives to protect their guests. As the world watches on, a desperate couple is forced to make unthinkable sacrifices to protect their newborn child.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2010
Description
"The Lake Shore Limited" is the story of how Wilhelmina "Billy" Gertz has come to create the title's play out of emotions surrounding an imagined terrorist bombing of a Chicago train, how the play is then created anew on the stage, and how the play's performance touches and changes the lives that intersect and interweave with Billy's.
13) Bel canto
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Roxanne Coss becomes trapped in a hostage situation when she's invited to perform at a lavish party for a wealthy industrialist in South America. As a lengthy standoff ensues, hostages and captors form unexpected bonds as they overcome their differences to find their shared humanity.
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Series
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 19
Description
Mistaken for a heroic World Trade Center victim, Eric Michaels, who is suffering from amnesia, struggles to relate to a family he does not remember, while his real wife, believing herself a widow, is comforted by her adoring brother-in-law.
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Popular and dramatic series returns with ten new episodes featuring the true stories of everyone from drug dealers to hostages who find themselves passing time in foreign prisons. Told in their own words, we hear from criminals, conmen and those who have been conned. In this series, we meet American, David, who was on a drug smuggling road trip from Afghanistan to Germany with his friend, Tom, when they were caught on the Turkish/Greek border and...
18) Stronger
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Formats
Description
Inspired by the true story. Jeff Bauman, a working-class Bostonian, was at the 2013 marathon when the bomb blast occurred and he tragically lost both of his legs. After regaining consciousness, Jeff was able to help law enforcement identify one of the bombers, but his own battle had just begun. Jeff's deeply personal journey tests a family's bond and defines a community's pride as he overcomes adversity to become the living embodiment of ''Boston...
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 13
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...
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