victims of terrorism

A collection of true stories which recount how the residents of Middletown, New Jersey, are trying to put their lives back together after more than fifty members of its community were killed in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

The suspicious death of Lowell Hawthorne's CIA agent father, and the discovery of a cache of documents and videos, spurs Lowell to join forces with Samantha to seek out the complete truth about the 1987 hijacking of Air France 64, an incident in which his mother died, and Samantha, then a child, survived.

Jeff Bauman remembered everything from the bombing of the Boston Marathon in April 2013. When he woke up after his lifesaving surgeries (including having his legs amputated), on April 16, 2013, he asked for a pad and paper and wrote "Saw the guy. Looked right at me." setting off one of the biggest manhunts in the country's history. Jeff had been at the finish line, cheering on his girlfriend Erin, when the first bomb went off at his feet. And what he remembered would give the Boston police their first important breakthrough.

Shares the stories of Middletown, New Jersey families who lost loved ones in the September, 11 terrorist attacks.

The author compiled over 300 interviews for these vignettes about the ripples of the Sept. 11 attacks. Customs officers, New York merchants, WTC widows, air marshal trainees, ACLU staff, and many others speak about how the terror attacks affected them.

A collection of diaries, letters, poems, and drawings by Bat-Chen Shahak, a teenager who was killed by a suicide bomber in Tel Aviv's Dizengoff Center in 1996.

A collection of short inspirational stories that tell of men and women who acted heroically in the wake of the terrorist attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001.