Show 'Agatha Raisin and the Day the Floods Came' ’ by MC Beaton 'An Accidental Woman' by Barbara Delinsky 'The Blood Doctor by Barbara Vine 'meCaf Next Door' by Marian Babson ' i Lalie in the Clouds' by Sara Dpnati A monthly look at whaTs flying off the shelves of Logan's Library Complied by librarian Karen Clark I New September 11 Picks: “Among the Heroes “by Jere Longman published by HarperCollins 2002 ISBN: 0000099089 Of the four horrific hijackings on September 11 Right 93 which crashed into a field outside Shanksville Pennsylvania resonates as one of epic resistance A number of passengers phoned relatives and others on the ground to tell them of the hijacking and what they planned to do about it Their battle to take back die plane brought consolation to countless confused and Americans: At a time when the United States appeared defenseless against an unfamiliar foe the gallant passengers and crew of Flight 93 provided for many Americans a measure of victory in the midst pf unthinkable defeat Together they seem: ingly accomplished what all the security guards and soldiers military pilots and government officials could not — they thwarted the terrorists sacrificing their own lives so drat others might live The culmination of hundreds of interviews and months of investigation ‘Among die Heroes’ is the definitive story of die courageous men and women aboard Flight 93 and ' of the day that forever changed the way Americans view the world and grief-strick-en My Father's House 'Red Rabbit by lorn 'Shadow of an A — MYSTERY FICTION Delinsky MYSTERY Vine MYSTERY Babson FICTION Donati FICTION Plain FICTION Clancy Belva Plain by Migrion Ballard 'Shadow Ptij Orson Scott Card v by Fannie Flagg 'Standing in the Rai “Firehouse” by David Halberstam published by Hyperion 2002 ISBN: 1401300057 In the firehouse the men not only live and eat with each other they play sports together go off to dnnk together help repair one another’s both reeling from disbelief and searching for support To paraphrase “Portraits” reporter Charlie LeDuff there’s more than one Ground Zero — there are thousands of Ground Zeros Portraits: 91 101 a collection of the over 1800 profiles published in the Times helps us visit them all Beaton MYSTERY Ballard SCIENCE FICTION FANTASY Card FICTION Flagg “A Just Response’' Edited by Katrina Vanden Heuvel published by Thunders Mouth PremNation Books 2002 ISBN: 1560254009 Some of the most respected figures on the progressive left in a series of thoughtful informed and provocative houses and most important essays began to analyze the share terrifying risks their causes and consequences of this new American wound and to each other must loyalties ' by the demands of die dangers spoke out against “Fascism with an Islamic face” jingothey face be instinctive and absolute” So writes David ism die undermining of civil Halberstam one rtf America’s rights phony mnltilatpraligm most distinguished reporters the confusion between dissent in this stunning book about and treason and articulated a vision of a just response to terEngine 40 Ladder 35 — one of the firehouses hardest hit in rorism Others reflected on the aftermath of the terrorist Osama ban Laden the concept ' attacks on die World Trade of “Blowback”: modem Center Towers “On the morntechnological society turned ing of Sept 11 2001 two rigs unwittingly against itself the American right wing’s carrying 13 men set out from this firehouse only one fireexploitation of a national man survived “Firehouse” emergency to further its politi- takes us to the very epicenter cal agenda theology versus of die tragedy Through die technology die futility of kind of intimate portraits of space weapons to defend the men and their families that against apocalyptic nihilism are Halberstam’s trademark and secular versus fundamenWe watch the day unfold We talist Islam The magazine come to understand the culpublished dispatches from ' ' ture of the firehouse itself other countries around the what makes these gifted men world and brief background want to be firemen and why histories of bin Laden’s oriin so many instances they are gins the roots of fundamentalism asymmetrical warfare eager to follow in their fathers’ footsteps and serve in and a press watch These so dangerous a profession selected articles from issues of And why more than anything The Nation and other sources else it’s not just a job but a are now brought together in book form to counter die bomcalling bast and jingoism of so much media coverage since Sept 11 — while providing informed analysis provocative commentary and reasoned debates “Portraits 91101” by Howell Raines and The New York Times published by Times Books 2002 ISBN: 0805072225 Few aspects of The New York Times’ coverage of September and of all that has followed have attracted as much comment as ‘Portraits of Grief’ A page or two buried deep in die B section every day for 15 weeks die series profiled the lives lost in the attacks on the World Ttade Center and has become a story in itself becoming required reading for many the world Over Beginning on Sept 14 a Times reporters from a stack of working began 100 missing person fliers collected from points around the World Trade Center site: They crafted profiles — stories containing short but signature details of the lives they strove to present These portraits transcend race class and gender lines and tell of the old ' and the young (raising their individuality while at foe same time cutting through their differences to capture the poignancy of their shared similarity: life cut short in an American tragedy The stories have become a source of con-nection and consolation a focus for die sorrow of readers 11 half-doz- en Librarian’s Pick: “Last Man Down: A New York City Fire Chief and the Collapse of the World Trade Center” by Richard Berkley Pub Group 2002 ISBN: 0425186770 On September 11 2001 FDNY Battalion Chief Richard “Pitch" Picciotto answered the call heard around the world In minutes he was at Ground Zero of the worst terrorist attack on American soil as the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center began to bum-an- d then to buckle A veteran of the 1993 bombing of the World " Trade Center Picciotto was ' eerily familiar with foe inside of the Noth Tower And it was there that he concentrated his rescue efforts It was in its smoky stairwells where he heard and felt the South Tower collapse Where he made the call for firemen ami rescue workers to evacuate while he stayed behind with a skeleton team of men to help evacuate a group of disabled and infirm civilians And it was in the rubble of the North Tower where Picciotto found himself buried-fo- r iqore than four hours after the building’s collapse This is the harrowing true story of a true American hero a man who thought nothing of himself — mid ' gave nearly everything for others during one of New York City’s — and the coun- try’s — darkest hours Timberland 129 N Mam Logan Hours Mon - Fn TFree 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