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We Will Never Forget

There are many unsung heroes from 9/11. Like the former Navy Seal who ran into the flames of the Pentagon over and over again to save his colleagues, or the national operations manager of the FAA Command Center, who, on his very first day closed U.S. airspace and brought over 4,000 planes safely to the ground.

Patrick Creed and Rick Newman, Firefight: Inside the Battle to Save the Pentagon on 9/11 tell the inside story of the fires at the Pentagon. Then...

Lynn Spencer, Touching History: The Untold Story of the Drama That Unfolded in the Skies over America on 9/11 takes us behind the scenes of the response to the attack coming from the air.

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Lessons From the Heartland

Pulitzer Prize winning literary critic Michael Dirda, An Open Book: Coming of Age in the Heartland describes his youth in the small working-class town of Lorain, Ohio. Michael Dirda has been a writer and senior editor for the Washington Post's Book World for over 25 years. Then...

After failing at twenty-two other jobs, Barbara Corcoran, Use What You've Got, and Other Business Lessons I Learned from My Mom borrowed money, quit her job as a diner waitress, and started a tiny real estate business in New York City. Today, the Corcoran group is New York's premier real estate company.

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And You Thought Your Summer Vacation Was Exotic?

One of National Geographic's first female photographers, Annie Griffiths Belt, A Camera, Two Kids, and a Camel: My Journey in Photographs discusses her travels to remote areas of the globe, often with her two kids in tow.

Ralph Peters, Looking for Trouble: Adventures in a Broken World, has been a lifelong traveler, in and out of uniform. He has experience in 70 countries on six continents, and has a talent for spotting (and enjoying) crises.

"The one thing you will absolutely learn [from travel] is that humanity is endlessly fascinating. I always tell people, that to be a good intelligence officer, is very much like being a novelist. You don’t have to love humanity, but you have to be fascinated by human beings."

- Ralph Peters

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