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If you didn't know September 11 was moving closer, all you'd have to do to tell is look at this week's bestseller list. Predictably, as the first anniversary of the tragedy approaches, books dissecting some aspect of the disaster will be hot news over the next couple of weeks. Bill Gertz sets his right wing eye on the disaster in Breakdown: How America's Intelligence Failures Led to September 11. Gertz' take on most of the topics he's covered tends to be interesting and somewhat sensational. Check out the titles of other Gertz-penned books: Betrayal: How the Clinton Administration Undermined American Security and The China Threat: How the People's Republic Targets America. Are we seeing a pattern here? New author Lisa Beamer is the widow of Todd Beamer, who was one of the passengers that resisted terrorists on Flight 93 on 9-11, causing the plane to crash into a Pennsylvania field rather than its intended target. In Let's Roll! Beamer explores her relationship with Todd, their lives together and the meaning she's been able to extract from her husband's heroic death. Though not strictly speaking a 9-11 title, rising cable icon Sean Hannity's opinion-soaked Let Freedom Ring centers around issues of greater concern since that day. The title, cover and release date all seem to point to a not-so-coincidental tie-in, as well. A couple of books not soaked in US politics or tragedy debut on the January list this week, as well. Fans of Irvine Welsh's dark and hypnotic Trainspotting can finally breath again: in Porno Sick Boy, Renton, Begbie and company are back for another round in a sequel every bit as sick and twisted as the original. The heir apparent to Carl Sagan, noted science writer Timothy Ferris, brings us an up close and personal look at the work being done by amateur astronomers in his engagingly subtitled Seeing in the Dark: How Backyard Stargazers Are Probing Deep Space and Guarding Earth from Interplanetary Peril. Ferris is also the author of Coming of Age in the Milky Way, Life Beyond Earth and many other gripping science titles.
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