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1	Because They Hate: A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns America more books like this by Brigitte Gabriel add to wishlist Brigitte Gabriel lost her childhood to militant Islam. In 1975 she was ten years old and living in Southern Lebanon when militant Muslims from throughout the Middle East poured into her country and declared jihad against the Lebanese Christians. Lebanon was the only Christian influenced country in the Middle East, and the Lebanese Civil War was ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.92! \| signed copies \| SVS
2	Out of Control more books like this by Suzanne Brockmann add to wishlist When Savannah van Hopf's uncle is kidnapped in Indonesia, she enlists Navy SEAL Ken Karmody to help her rescue him. Romance blooms during the course of Savannah and Ken's dangerous adventure in the jungles of Indonesia. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.00! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Bel Canto more books like this by Ann Patchett add to wishlist An opera singer becomes a long-term hostage in a South American country bedeviled by terrorists. Removed from the outside world, hostages and captors gradually forge a life together that, surprisingly, contains its own satisfactions. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Falling Man more books like this by Don DeLillo add to wishlist Falling Man begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and follows the aftermath in the intimate lives of a few individuals. This is the inner seam of history, a novel that traces the way the events of September 11th reconfigured our emotional landscape, our memory, and our perception of the world. It is beautiful, heartbreaking, and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.49! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	A Woman in Jerusalem more books like this by Abraham B Yehoshua, Hillel Halkin (Translator) add to wishlist A suicide bomb explodes in a Jerusalem market. One of the victims is a migrant worker without any papers, only a salary slip from the bakery where she worked as a night cleaner. As her body lies unclaimed in the morgue, her employers are labelled unfeeling and inhuman by a local journalist. The manager of human resources is given the task of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Let's Roll!: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Courage more books like this by Lisa Beamer, Ken Abraham add to wishlist Lisa Beamer was thrust into the national spotlight after her husband, Todd, led a counterattack against terrorists on United Flight 93. Todd's last known words, "Let's roll!" have become a rallying cry for the nation to move ahead in hope. This is the story of her marriage, the events of 9/11, and the aftermath. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Two Lives more books like this by William Trevor add to wishlist Two beautiful, memorable novels in one volume, both focussing on women who retreat into their imaginations until the boundaries between what is real and what is not become blurred. In "Reading Turgenev", which was shortlisted for the 1991 Booker Prize, an Irish country girl is trapped in a loveless marriage with an older man. But she finds unusual ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.91! \| first editions \| SVS
8	With Their Eyes: September 11th-The View from a High School at Ground Zero more books like this by Annie Thoms (Editor), Anna Deavere Smith (Foreword by) add to wishlist A collection of essays about September 11, 2001, written by students of Stuyvesant High School, which is located just a few blocks away from where the World Trade Center stood. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	No Control more books like this by Shannon K Butcher add to wishlist Caleb Stone has no business being this close to the woman he nearly killed 18 months ago. As a Delta Force operative, Caleb was there when Lana Hancock was captured, beaten and tortured within an inch of her life by a terrorist group called the Swarm. Under orders to infiltrate the Swarm from the inside, Caleb had no choice but to mask himself as ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.76! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Portraits: 9/11/01: The Collected "Portraits of Grief" from the New York Times more books like this by New York Times add to wishlist This compilation of the "Portraits of Grief" that appeared in the New York Times in response to the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center are based on interviews with friends and family. Not meant to be complete or encyclopedic, these brief sketches attempt to capture the personalities and character of their subjects, and to convey ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.59! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Your Father's Voice: Letters for Emmy about Life with Jeremy--And Without Him After 9/11 more books like this by Lyz Glick, Dan Zegart add to wishlist Jeremy Glick was one of the passengers on United Airlines flight 93 on 9/11, which crashed in Pennsylvania when those aboard rushed the cabin. Here, his widow recalls Glick in many contexts, including his last phone call from the doomed plane, in poignant letters to her daughter, who was only three months old when her father died. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.99! \| SVS
12 view cover	On Suicide Bombing more books like this by Professor Talal Asad add to wishlist Like many people in America and around the world, Talal Asad experienced the events of September 11, 2001, largely through the media and the emotional response of others. For many non-Muslims, "the suicide bomber" quickly became the icon of "an Islamic culture of death"& mdash;a conceptual leap that struck Asad as problematic. Is there a ... see all copies from $15.70! new only from $16.40! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Children of Cain: Violence and the Violent in Latin America more books like this by Tina Rosenberg add to wishlist Award-winning journalist Tina Rosenberg spent five years in Latin America--drinking coffee with hit men and sunbathing with death-squad financiers--to understand people for whom violence is a way of life. Her six vivid and haunting portraits illuminate the human face of violence, not only in Latin America, but all over the world. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.00! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Underground : the Tokyo gas attack and the Japanese psyche more books like this by Haruki Murakami add to wishlist Monday, 20 March 1995. It is a clear spring morning. You get up at the normal time, wash, dress, breakfast, and head for the subway. You board the train, crowded as usual. Nothing out of the ordinary. It promises to be a run-of-the-mill day. You don't notice, but as he is about to leave the carriage a man drops a plastic bag to the floor and ... see all copies from $5.56! new only from $8.58! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	This Connection of Everyone with Lungs: Poems more books like this by Juliana Spahr add to wishlist Part planetary love poem, part 24/7 news flash, the hypnotic poems of This Connection of Everyone with Lungs wrap with equal, angular grace around lovers and battleships. These poems hear the tracer fire in a bird's song and capture cell division and troop deployments in the same expansive thought. They move through concentric levels of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.35! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Chicken Soup for the Soul of America: Stories to Heal the Heart of Our Nation more books like this by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Matt Adams add to wishlist Created in the aftermath of September 11 to celebrate the everyday people that make a difference, this new CHICKEN SOUP collection celebrates heroes of every stripe. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Among the Heroes: United Flight 93 and the Passengers and Crew Who Fought Back more books like this by Jere Longman add to wishlist This is the story of United Flight 93, which was hijacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001, and of the heroic action of those on board who rose up to retake the plane, thus making the ultimate sacrifice. Author Longman, a New York Times reporter, conducted extensive interviews with family and friends of the passengers and crew, and he reveals ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Pan Am 103: The Bombing, the Betrayals, and a Bereaved Family's Search for Justice more books like this by Susan Cohen, Daniel Cohen add to wishlist The 1988 bombing of Pam Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, is explored by the parents of one of the passengers killed in the explosion. The Cohens vowed to discover the truth about the bombing--by asking demanding questions no one else in the world dared to. of personal photos. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $36.99! \| first editions
19 view cover	The Monks of Tibhirine: Faith, Love, and Terror in Algeria more books like this by John W Kiser add to wishlist This narrative traces the events that led to the murder of seven Trappist Monks in Algeria in 1992 by a group of Islamic extremists. In doing so, it explores the relationship between the Christian group and their Muslim neighbors and asks whether different faiths can live peacefully side-by-side. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.20! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20	Triumph Over Terror on Flight 847 more books like this by John Testrake, David Wimbish add to wishlist The dramatic story of how TWA flight 847, flying from Athens and hijacked by terrorists, drastically changed America's attitude towards terrorism, told by the pilot of that flight. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.83! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Miles to Go Before I Sleep: A Survivor's Story of Life After a Terrorist Hijacking more books like this by Jackie Nink Pflug, Peter Kizilos, Jackie Nink Pflug add to wishlist ... her memoir is an inspirational chronicle of personal tragedy surmounted by raw courage Publishers Weekly Jackie Nink Pflug's gripping true story of courage and inspiration, told from a survivor's perspective, with a new preface written by the author. Ms. Pflug, who was shot and thrown onto the tarmac during the hijacking of EgyptAir Flight ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22	Their Darkest Day: The Tragedy of Pan Am 103 and Its Legacy of Hope more books like this by Matthew Cox, Tom Foster add to wishlist When Pan Am 103 exploded in the sky over Lockerbie on 21st December 1988, the world was horrified as the tale of international terrorism, airline ineptitude and political gamesmanship unfolded. This book presents the human suffering behind the disaster, and is a tale of loss and recovery as families piece together lives shattered by the explosion ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.50! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Due Preparations for the Plague more books like this by Janette Turner Hospital add to wishlist In 1987, an Air France airliner is taken over en route to New York by a terrorist group, and 13 years later the incident--which ended in tragedy--is still not completely understood. A woman who survived, and the son of a woman who perished, combine forces to find out the truth about the group known as "Black Death." see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Guys: A Play more books like this by Anne Nelson add to wishlist The sold-out play, soon to be a movie starring Sigourney Weaver and Anthony LaPaglia--is about a woman who volunteers to help a fire captain write tributes to the men he lost in the World Trade Center disaster--ordinary human beings who became heroes. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Psychology of Terrorism more books like this by Bruce Bongar, Ph.D., ABPP, PhD (Editor), Lisa M Brown (Editor), Larry E Beutler, PH.D. (Editor) add to wishlist The past decade has witnessed a dramatic transformation in the nature and use of political terrorism. "Psychology of Terrorism" is an indispensable resource in the field of psychology and terrorism. Given the relative newness of the discipline, there is a great need for a text that covers relevant aspects of psychology related to terrorism. This ... see all copies from $21.41! new only from $21.41! \| SVS

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