Patchett, Ann
Summary: "Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of Mr. Hosokawa, a powerful Japanese businessman. Roxanne Coss, opera's most revered soprano, has mesmerized the international guests with her singing. It is a perfect evening -- until a band of gun-wielding terrorists breaks in, taking the entire party hostage. But what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2007
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Summary: In an unnamed South American country, a world-renowned soprano sings at a birthday party in honor of a visiting Japanese industrial titan. His hosts hope that Mr. Hosokawa can be persuaded to build a factory in their Third World backwater. Alas, in the opening sequence, just as the accompanist kisses the soprano, a ragtag band of 18 terrorists enters the vice-presidential mansion through the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATJohansen, Iris.
Summary: Dr. Jessica Riley and her telepathic sister Melissa are forced into an uneasy alliance with international underworld information dealer Michael Travis in an effort to guard the young daughter of the U.S. president who is being treated by Jessica for catatonic trauma following a bungled kidnapping attempt.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHKingsbury, Karen.
Summary: The last thing Jake Bryan knew was the roar of the World Trade Center collapsing on top of him and his fellow firefighters. The man in the hospital bed remembers nothing. Not rusing with his teammates up the stairway of the south tower to help trapped victims. Not being blasted from the building. and not the woman sitting by his bedside who says she is his wife. Jamie Bryan will do anything to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2003
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Summary: The Lake Shore Limited is a play about the terrorist bombing of that train and about a man waiting to hear the fate of his estranged wife who is traveling on it. How Billy comes to write the play out of her own painful conflicts and ambivalence, how it is then created anew by the actors and the director, how the performance itself touches and changes the other characters' lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MILDeLillo, Don.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2007
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Summary: Devastated by the events of September 11, 2001, Luke Baxter has walked away from everything that mattered to him: his faith, his family, and Reagan, his only love. What Luke doesn't know is that he is about to become a father. Someone in his family discovers the truth, but she has a secret of her own -- one that will change the Baxter's lives forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 2003
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Summary: Keith made it through 9/11 alive; Keith and his family have to deal with the aftermath.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DELChiavaroli, Heidi
Summary: "An antique ring reunites a Boston Marathon bombing survivor and the man who saved her. Together, they unearth the two-hundred-year-old history of a woman who suffered tremendous loss in the Boston Massacre, a woman torn between the love of two men - one a Patriot, and the other a Redcoat. As both women seem to forgive the wrongs done to them, each must decide whether to face their future...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHIBellacera, Carole.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BELPhoenix, Michèle
Summary: "Michele Phoenix crafts a poignant story of a young woman recovering from the evils of this world through perseverance, hope, and the light in a centuries-old document"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PHOHospital, Janette Turner
Summary: When a single father is badgered by a woman who as a child had been on the same hijacked plane where his mother died, his life is transformed into a web of espionage and terrorism, making survival his number-one priority.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOSThomas, Rosie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1987
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Summary: After witnessing his two friends killed by a "small" bomb that detonated in a Dehli marketplace, Mansoor Ahmed becomes involved with a charismatic young activist, whose allegiances and beliefs are more changeable than he could have imagined.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAHMcInerney, Jay.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCISummary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019