After her mother Amber's death, painter Tilly Austin's life changes dramatically as old secrets come to light and Tilly's brother, thought to be killed with their father in the 9/11 attacks, resurfaces and reveals he's lived for 18 years under another name.

A man whose wife was killed in the November 13, 2015 Bataclan Theater attack in Paris, and whose open letter to the killers went viral on Facebook, provides a memoir of how he and his baby son endured after losing the most important woman in their lives.

Presents in alphabetical order more than nineteen hundred profiles of the people who were killed on September 11, 2001 that appeared as "Portraits of Grief" in the New York Times between the attack and February 3, 2002.

On the morning of September 11, 2001, two men meet in a smoky stairwell of the World Trade Center. One is Eric Michaels, a driven financial manager from Los Angeles who has been busy climbing the corporate ladder, often at the expense of his wife and young son. The other is Jake Bryan, a New York City fireman devoted to his wife and daughter. In the midst of the crisis, Eric falls on the stairs and Jake stops to help him up. The two men freeze momentarily,...

A portrait of Middletown, the New Jersey town that suffered the highest death toll in the World Trade Center terrorist attack, describes how the inhabitants dealt with their grief, anger, and trauma following September 11th.

"Michele Phoenix crafts a poignant story of a young woman recovering from the evils of this world through perseverance, hope, and the light in a centuries-old document"--

New York Times reporters Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn rely on hundreds of interviews; thousands of pages of oral histories; and phone, e-mail, and emergency radio transcripts. They cross a bridge of voices to go inside the infernos, seeing cataclysm and heroism, one person at a time, to tell the affecting, authoritative saga of the men and women -- the 12,000 who escaped and the 2,749 who perished -- who made 102 minutes count as never before.