September 10, 2021



World Trade Center

When the World Trade Center's Twin Towers opened to the public in 1973, they were the tallest buildings in the world. Even before they became iconic features of the New York City skyline, they reflected America's soaring ambition, innovation and technological prowess. The towers' eye-popping statistics amply illustrate that ambition: They rose a quarter-mile in the sky. They contained 15 miles of elevator shafts and nearly 44,000 windows-which took 20 days to wash. From the South Tower observation deck on a clear day, visitors could see 45 miles. The Trade Center complex was so big, it had its own zip code. But some of the same impressive architectural elements may have also helped worsen the tragedy on the fateful morning of September 11, 2001. Calling the project "the architecture of power," Ada Louise Huxtable, an architecture critic for The New York Times offered a prescient warning when the towers were going up in 1966: "The trade-center towers could be the start of a new skyscraper age or the biggest tombstones in the world," she wrote. NEVER FORGET and check out these titles



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Anthony Doerr

Anthony Doerr was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. He is the author of All the Light We Cannot See, which was awarded the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the 2015 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. Doerr's short stories and essays have won five O. Henry Prizes and been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories, New American Stories, The Best American Essays, The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Fiction, and many other places. His work has won the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize, the Rome Prize, the New York Public Library's Young Lions Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an NEA Fellowship, an Alex Award from the American Library Association, the National Magazine Award for Fiction, four Pushcart Prizes, two Pacific Northwest Book Awards, four Ohioana Book Awards, the 2010 Story Prize, which is considered the most prestigious prize in the U.S. for a collection of short stories. All the Light We Cannot See was a #1 New York Times bestseller, remained on the list for over 200 weeks, and is being adapted as a limited series by Netflix. Doerr lives in Boise, Idaho with his wife and two sons. Check out his books here.



Library Reads-September

Library Reads-The top ten books published this month that library staff across the country love, with additional hall of fame authors. Check them out here



What separates us from the animals, what separates us from the chaos, is our ability to mourn people we've never met.-Author David Levithan



        

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