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We Remember September 11 - Adults

8/16/2021

 
Nonfiction focused on history, facts of the day, or specific aspects of the events, causes, and locations of 9/11:
  • Out of the Blue, Richard Bernstein, print
  • Understanding September 11, Mitch Frank, print
  • The Only Plane in the Sky, Garrett M. Graff, print | ebook | eaudio
  • American Ground, William Langewiesche, print
  • The Cell, John Miller, et al., print
  • New York September 11, print
  • The 9/11 Commission Report, print
  • Why America Slept, Gerald Posner, print
  • Once More to the Sky, Scott Raab & Joe Woolhead (Coming in August)
  • Touching History, Lynn Spencer, print
  • What We Saw, Joe Klein, print
  • The Looming Tower, Lawrence Wright, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Fall and Rise, Mitchell Zuckoff, print
Nonfiction focused on personal stories, people's actions on 9/11, and impact on day-to-day life:
  • Because We Are Americans, print
  • The Day the World Came to Town, Jim DeFede, print | audio | ebook | eaudio
  • 102 Minutes, Jim Dwyer & Kevin Flynn, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Thunder Dog, Michael Hingson, large print | ebook | eaudio
  • Love, Greg & Lauren, Greg Manning, print
  • 9/11: Inside the Pentagon, dvd
  • Ordinary Heroes, Joseph Pfeifer (Coming in September)
  • Last Man Down, Richard Picciotto, print
  • The Red Bandanna, Tom Rinaldi, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Middletown, America, Gail Sheehy, print
  • Report from Ground Zero, Dennis Smith, print
Nonfiction focused on the Afghan War, soldiers, and veterans:
  • The Finish: The Killing of Osama bin Laden, Mark Bowden, print | ebook
  • Shooting Ghosts, Thomas J. Brennan & Finbarr O’Reilly, print
  • Un-American, Erik Edstrom, print
  • American Cipher, Matt Farwell, print
  • Shoot Like a Girl, Mary Jennings Hegar, print
  • Hell and Back Again, dvd
  • War, Sebastian Junger, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Where Men Win Glory, Jon Krakauer, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Lone Survivor, Marcus Luttrell, print | ebook | eaudio
  • The American War in Afghanistan, Carter Malkasian, print
  • My Share of the Task, Stanley A. McChrystal, print | ebook
  • No Easy Day, Mark Owen, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Restrepo, dvd
  • The Outpost, Jake Tapper, print | eaudio
  • The Wrong War, Bing (Francis J.) West, print | ebook
  • The Afghanistan Papers, Craig Whitlock, print
Fiction, Graphic Novel, and Drama:
  • Windows on the World, Robert Mailer Anderson, et al., print
  • Come From Away, cd
  • Flight 93, dvd
  • Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer, print | audio | ebook
  • Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, blu
  • Redeployment, Phil Klay, print | ebook | eaudio
  • The Looming Tower (series), dvd
  • The Usual Rules, Joyce Maynard, print
  • The Good Life, Jay McInerney, print
  • The Stringer, Ted Rall, print
  • 12 Strong, dvd | blu  
  • The Submission, Amy Waldman, print | eaudio
  • Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, dvd
Download this list (PDF).
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We Remember September 11 - Kids & Teens

8/16/2021

 
Children's:
  • Nine, Ten: a September 11 Story, Nora Raleigh Baskin, print | audio | ebook | eaudio 
  • America Is Under Attack, Don Brown, print
  • Cows for America, Carmen Agra Deedy, print
  • The Breadwinner Trilogy, Deborah Ellis, print | ebook
  • Saved by the Boats: the Heroic Sea Evacuation of September 11, Julie Gassman, print
  • Ground Zero, Alan Gratz, print | ebook
  • Fireboat: the Heroic Adventures of the John J. Harvey, Maira Kalman, print
  • Messages to Ground Zero, Shelley Harwayne, print
  • A Nation Challenged, ed. Nancy Lee, et al., print
  • What Were the Twin Towers?, Jim O’Connor, print | ebook
  • Towers Falling, Jewell Parker Rhodes, print | ebook
  • This Very Tree: a Story of 9/11, Resilience, and Regrowth, Sean Rubin, print
  • I Survived the Attacks of September 11, 2001, Lauren Tarshis, print | ebook
  • Nasreen’s Secret School, Jeanette Winter, print
Teen:
  • In the Shadow of the Fallen Towers, Don Brown, print
  • Hope and Other Punchlines, Julie Buxbaum, print
  • An Emotion of Great Delight, Tahereh Mafi, print | ebook | eaudio
  • The Memory of Things, Gae Polisner, print
Adult books that may be appropriate for children and teens:
  • American Heroes, print
  • Understanding September 11, Mitch Frank, print
  • New York September 11, print
  • 9-11: A Tribute, print
Download this list (PDF).
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    Booklists and reading suggestions from the team at Monroe Public Library.

    After each title, you'll find links to reserve these items on LINKcat and Wisconsin's Digital Library. In many cases, you can choose from print, large print, audio CD, and Playaway, or ebooks and eaudiobooks.

    (LINKcat links from 2021 through 4/2022 may be broken. We'll fix them ASAP!)

    For lists before 2021:
    Titles with an asterisk * are available as ebooks and titles with an ª are available as digital audiobooks on Wisconsin's Digital Library.
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