Years in the making, this spellbinding, heartbreaking, and ultimately uplifting narrative is an unforgettable portrait of 9/11. This is a 9/11 book like no other. Masterfully weaving together multiple strands of the events in New York, at the Pentagon, and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, Fall and Rise is a mesmerizing, minute-by-minute account of that terrible day. In the days and months after 9/11, Mitchell Zuckoff, then a reporter for the Boston Globe,...

When Lucas decides to skip school because he wants to discuss football with a firefighter friend of his father, he finds himself caught up in the terrorist attacks on New York City.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • A “heart-stopping account of the events leading up to 9/11” (The New York Times Book Review), this definitive history explains in gripping detail the growth of Islamic fundamentalism, the rise of al-Qaeda, and the intelligence failures that culminated in the attacks on the World Trade Center.

In gripping narrative that spans five decades,

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Elliott and Joni first meet on a plane. Bound for New York. On the morning of September 11, 2001. When all flights are grounded, the two strangers are thrown together amidst the chaos of that day. Both desperately needing to get back to New York, together they embark on a cross-country road trip in a 1972 Chevy van.

The untold true story of an intrepid team of four reporters of Knight Ridder who dared to ask the questions their colleagues did not in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.

"Presents the heroic sea evacuation of September 11, 2001 with narrative text and vivid illustrations"--

Luke and Reagan were saving themselves for marriage. But on September 10, 2001 they are swept up by passion for each other. The next day terrorists killed three thousand Americans and Luke's faith in God. He walks out on his church, on his girlfriend, and on their unborn child. Will Luke find peace as a "freethinker?" Or is he a prodigal son who has yet to return?