Brown, Don
Summary: This graphic novel chronicles the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York City through moving individual stories that bear witness to history and the ways it shapes the future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Etch, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 973.93 BROCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 973.931 BROBoutland, Craig
Summary: "Describes attack vehicles being used in war on terrorism"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 623.74 BOUBennett, William J. (William John)
Summary: Argues that the concern for political correctness has weakened the resolve of American political leaders to defeat the radical Islamic terrorists who continue to espouse an agenda harmful to the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 BENSummary: Documents the stories of American men and women who heeded the call for military service in Afghanistan and Iraq and the challenges they faced upon their return home.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GRORaban, Jonathan.
Summary: What does the "war on terror" and a new era of religious ferocity look like to an Englishman living in the Pacific Northwest? Jonathan Raban finds that as he reads the source texts that have inspired modern-day jihad, memories of his own rigidly fundamentalist adolescent atheism help him understand why young people suffering from cultural alienation, spiritual emptiness, and moral uncertainty...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review of Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 RABSummary: Discusses how the USA PATRIOT Act has taken away checks on law enforcement and continues to endanger the civil liberties of all Americans under the guise of being part of the war on terrorism, and how paranoia, fear and racial profiling have led to gross infringements on freedom and democracy without strengthening national security.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disinformation Co. 2004
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC UNCFradin, Dennis B.
Summary: "Covers the 9/11 terrorist attacks as a watershed event in U.S. history, influencing social, economic, and political policies that shaped the nation's future"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marshall Cavendish Benchmark 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.931 FRASummary: Comprised of a miniseries featuring three 46 minute episodes, the group of filmmakers interview the global community, ranging from political figures to on-the-street citizen dialogue, in the Western, European, and indigenous Arabic communities. Examines the dominant discourse on terrorism in the United States and Europe, and offers critics an opportunity to respond. The film casts a critical...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Arab Film Distribution 2007
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ARAOwen, Mark
Summary: An account of the most personally meaningful missions from Owen's thirteen years as a SEAL, including the moments in which he learned the most about himself and his teammates, in both success and failure.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 359.009 Owen 2014Summary: Zeitgeist: A highly controversial documentary in three parts. The first part dissects the origins of Christianity, the second gives an overview of numerous questionable aspects of 9/11 and the third explores the Federal Reserve Bank and its ability to control the economy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: G.M.P. LLC 2007
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ZEIO'Rourke, P. J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 OROSummary: Afghanistan, immediately post-9/11. Small teams of Green Berets arrive on a series of secret missions to overthrow the Taliban. What happens next is equal parts war origin story and cautionary tale, illuminating the nature and impact of fifteen years of constant combat, with unprecedented access to U.S. Special Forces.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LEGCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LEGWasdin, Howard E.
Summary: They are the Outcasts. Because people don't want to know what they do. Alex Brandenburg: SEAL Chief Petty Officer and Outcasts Team Leader. Disobeyed direct orders by refusing to let a deadly terrorist live to kill another day. Francisco "Pancho" Rodriguez and John Landry: SEAL Petty Officers First Class. Took the pursuit of justice into their own hands with explosive results. Catherine "Cat"...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WASO'Reilly, Bill
Summary: "In the eleventh book in the multimillion-selling Killing series, Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard reveal the startling, dramatic story of the global war against terrorists. In Killing The Killers, #1 bestselling authors Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard take readers deep inside the global war on terror, which began twenty years ago on September 11, 2001. As the World Trade Center buildings...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist War O'ReillyO'Reilly, Bill
Summary: "As the World Trade Center buildings collapsed, the Pentagon burned, and a small group of passengers fought desperately to stop a third plane from completing its deadly flight plan, America went on war footing. Killing The Killers narrates America's intense global war against extremists who planned and executed not only the 9/11 attacks, but hundreds of others in America and around the world,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A spectacularly gripping documentary that unfolds like a great political thriller. It's the cross-cut tale of two men whose fateful meeting propelled them on divergent courses with Al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, 9/11, Guantanamo, and the U.S. Supreme Court. The Oath offers a rare window into a hidden realm and the international impact of the U.S. War on Terror.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC OAT1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF OAT
Lebovic, Sam
Summary: "The Espionage Act was passed in 1917 to prosecute spies and critics during World War I. And yet, after a century of piecemeal revisions, the Espionage Act still forms the basis of our national security architecture today - a tool that lets the government keep an untold amount of information secret, without ever justifying the need for that secrecy. In State of Silence, political historian Sam...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 345.7302 LEBEichenwald, Kurt
Summary: Presents an account of the first five hundred days after September 11 that reveals previously undisclosed information about the terror wars, warrantless wiretapping, and the anthrax attacks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 EICGates, Robert Michael
Summary: The former Secretary of Defense offers a candid account of serving Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GATES, ROBERT MICHAEL GATPfarrer, Chuck.
Summary: On May 2, 2011, at 1:03 a.m. in Pakistan, a satellite uplink was sent from the town of Abbottabad crackling into the situation room of the White House in Washington, D.C.: "Geronimo, Echo, KIA." These words, spoken by a Navy SEAL, put paid to Osama bin Laden's three-decade-long career of terror. SEAL Target Geronimo is the story of Bin Laden's relentless hunters and how they took down the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martins Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.325 PFASummary: Amid revelations about faulty prewar intelligence and a scandal surrounding the indictment of the vice president's chief of staff and presidential adviser, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Frontline goes behind the headlines to investigate the internal war that was waged between the intelligence community and Richard Bruce Cheney, the most powerful vice president in the nation's history. In "The Dark...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2006
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV DARJacobson, Sidney.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hill and Wang 2006