Lançon, Philippe
Summary: "Paris, January 7, 2015. Two terrorists who claim allegiance to ISIS attack the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo. The event causes untold pain to the victims and their families, prompts a global solidarity movement, and ignites a fierce debate over press freedoms and the role of satire today. Philippe Lançon, a journalist, author, and a weekly contributor to Charlie Hebdo is gravely wounded in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LANCON, PHILIPPE LANSummary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HOTCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HoTaseer, Shahbaz
Summary: "In late August 2011, Shahbaz Taseer was driving to his office in Lahore when he was dragged from his car at gunpoint and kidnapped by members of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), a Taliban-affiliated Uzbek terrorist group. Shahbaz's father, the late Pakistani governor, had recently been assassinated. His crime: speaking in support of a Christian woman who had been accused of blasphemy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD, Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TASEER, SHAHBAZ TASPatchett, 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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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: It traces the events that led McVeigh to that day and recounts the stories of the survivors, first-responders, US Marshals, FBI investigators, and journalists who covered the events. The film provides an in-depth and provocative exploration of the white supremacist, extremist militia movement that rose to prominence in the early 1990s and still makes news today.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Galia, a young Israeli, and her boyfriend Oren board a local bus. The bus explodes, leaving Oren in a coma and Galia with severe burns and such memory loss that she cannot remember the terrorist attack nor the days leading up to it. The film begins one year after the attack, upon Oren's death. As Galia undergoes physical and mental therapy, she attempts to stitch together the shattered...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Film Movement 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SEVSummary: For some 25 years, Frontline producer Ken Dornstein has been haunted by the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, a terrorist act that killed 270 people, including his older brother David. Now, Dornstein sets out to find the men responsible, hunting for clues to the identities and whereabouts of the suspects in the ruins and chaos of post-Qaddafi Libya in this rare, real-life...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MYGabriel, Brigitte.
Summary: A Christian-Arab journalist recalls her eyewitness to the deadly beginnings of fundamentalist Islam as her family spent seven years in an underground bomb shelter in order to survive a jihad against non-Muslim people, looking at the history, social movements, and religious divisions that have led to the current conflict.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 956.7204 GabriSummary: Tells the riveting, behind-the-scenes story of Cantor Fitzgerald. On September 10, 2001, financial firm Cantor Fitzgerald was headquartered on the top 5 floors of the World Trade Center. On September 11, 2001, 658 of their 960 employees were missing, presumed dead, in the nation's worst terrorist attacks. Tells twin stories' the saga of the ravaged business and surviving employees, and an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC OUTBrill, Steven.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 BRIMcMillan, Tom
Summary: The book offers the most complete account of what actually took place aboard Flight 93 – from its delayed takeoff in Newark to the moment it plunged upside-down at 563 miles per hour into an open field in rural Somerset County, Pennsylvania. Flight 93 provides a riveting and complete narrative of the lead-up, event, and aftermath of the flight, based on interviews, oral histories, personal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press, an imprint of Globe Pequot Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 MCMBernstein, Richard
Summary: Following the lives of heroes, victims, and terrorists, "New York Times" journalist Bernstein weaves a complex tale of a multitude of lives colliding in conflagration on the fateful morning of September 11, 2001.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: 973.931 BERSheehy, Gail.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.71 SHESummary: An alphabetically arranged collection of photographs and brief biographical sketches from the "New York Times" "Portaits of Grief" feature, which profiles the men and women who died in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books/Henry Holt and Company 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.7 PORScott-Clark, Cathy
Summary: Describes what took place during the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai when terrorists assailed the luxurious Taj Mahal Palace Hotel and how the combined efforts of courageous staff and guests helped keep the death toll down.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.325 SCOFink, Mitchell.
Summary: Intimate stories from September 11, 2001, and the days following are told by those forever affected--from survivors of the attacks to rescuers and family members. This collection is ultimately a very real and memorable look at the tragedy and its effects on the people who were willing to share their stories with generations to come.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regan Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.71 FINKingsbury, 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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Place a hold to request this item.DeLillo, Don.
Summary: Keith made it through 9/11 alive; Keith and his family have to deal with the aftermath.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DELKingsbury, Karen.
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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Place a hold to request this item.Miller, Sue
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 Fiction, Call number: FIC MILCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MILSummary: 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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Publisher / Publication Date: Screen Media Films 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BELDeLillo, Don.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2007