When his father is killed in the September 11th attacks, nine-year-old Oskar Schell sets out to solve the mystery of a key he discovers in his father's closet. It leads him into the lives of strangers, into history, to the bombings of Dresden and Hiroshima, and on an inward journey which brings him ever closer to some kind of peace.

An epic count of ordinary men and women, that includes stories of bravery, courage, and overcoming odds including the construction manager and his colleagues who pried open the doors and saved dozens of people in the north tower. This work tells the saga of the men and women as they made 102 minutes count as never before.

Observed with a fifteen-year-old's regard for truth, this is a novel about secrets and ghosts, love and honour, the stories we tell ourselves and the lies to which we cling. It tells the story of the teenage Sagesse LaBasse and her family, French Algerian emigrants haunted by their history.

Lee Fiora is an intelligent fourteen-year-old when her father drops her off at the prestigious Ault School in Massachusetts. As Lee soon learns, Ault is quite unlike anything she has previously experienced. She eventually finds her own place in the pecking order - until a single act of spontaneous folly shatters her carefully honed identity.

In the Polish village where he was born, Leo Gursky fell in love with a young girl called Alma and wrote a book in her honour. These days he is just about surving life in America. Meanwhile, a young girl, hoping to find a cure for her mother's loneliness, stumbles across a book that changed her mother's life and she goes in search of the author.

The only publication authorized by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks of the final report of the 9/11 Commission.