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English
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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 through the air-conditioning vents and takes the entire party hostage. But what begins as a panicked,...
2) Falling Man
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
There is September 11 and then there are the days after, and finally the years. Falling Man is a magnificent, essential novel about the event that defines turn-of-the-century America. It begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and tracks the aftermath of this global tremor in the intimate lives of a few people. First, there is Keith, walking out of the rubble into a life that he'd always imagined belonged to everyone but him. Then Lianne,...
3) Stronger
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A survivor of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, who helped to set off one of the biggest manhunts in the country's history, discusses his experiences that day and his ongoing mission to walk again after losing both legs.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
"The Lake Shore Limited" is the story of how Wilhelmina "Billy" Gertz has come to create the title's play out of emotions surrounding an imagined terrorist bombing of a Chicago train, how the play is then created anew on the stage, and how the play's performance touches and changes the lives that intersect and interweave with Billy's.
Author
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2017].
Language
English
Description
"On April 15, 2013, Rebekah Gregory and her five-year-old son waited at the finish line of the Boston Marathon to support a friend who was running. When the blasts of terrorists' homemade bombs packed with nails and screws went off three feet away, Rebekah's legs took the brunt of the blast, protecting her son from certain death. Eighteen surgeries and sixty-five procedures later, her left leg was amputated."--Amazon.com.
6) Hotel Mumbai
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
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.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
[Blu-ray ed.]
Language
Français
Description
In a monastery in the mountains of Algeria in the 1990s, eight French Christian monks live in harmony with the inhabitants of a nearby Muslim village. When a crew of foreign workers is massacred by an Islamic fundamentalist group, fear sweeps through the region. The army offers the monks protection, but the monks refuse. Should they stay, or return home to France? Despite the growing menace in their midst, they slowly realize that they have no choice...
10) Stronger
Publisher
Roadside Attractions Llc
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
An inspirational and heroic true-life story of Jeff Bauman, the man whose iconic photo from the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing captured the hearts all over the world.
"Stronger' always feels right in the moment, solidified by an outstanding central performance by Gyllenhaal, and some wonderful ensemble work, especially the actors just below the top billing."--San Francisco Chronicle
"Kudos to a brilliant, hilariously unexpected performance from Jake...
11) Hotel Mumbai
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
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.
12) Bel canto
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Blu-ray version.
Language
English
Description
When terrorists seize hostages at an embassy party, an unlikely assortment of people are thrown together, including American opera star Roxanne Coss, and Mr. Hosokawa, a Japanese CEO and her biggest fan.
13) Stronger
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Inspired by the true story. Jeff Bauman, a working-class Bostonian, was at the 2013 marathon when the bomb blast occurred and he tragically lost both of his legs. After regaining consciousness, Jeff was able to help law enforcement identify one of the bombers, but his own battle had just begun. Jeff's deeply personal journey tests a family's bond and defines a community's pride as he overcomes adversity to become the living embodiment of ''Boston...
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"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 through dependence on God's strength, or their own" --
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER "On Friday night you stole the life of an exceptional person, the love of my life, the mother of my son, but you will not have my hate." On November 13, 2015, Antoine Leiris's wife, Helene Muyal-Leiris, was killed by terrorists while attending a rock concert at the Bataclan Theater in Paris, in the deadliest attack on France since World War II. Three days later, Leiris wrote an open letter addressed directly to his wife's...
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