The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundlandby Jim DeFede.  On 9/11, when the United States shut down its airspace, many planes were forced to land in Canada, including in Gander.  The town is tiny – only about 10,000 people – but the airport is massive, a vestige of WWII when it was a refueling site for transatlantic flights.  The story of the hospitality the quirky people of Gander showed their nearly 7,000 displaced visitors makes for wonderful, heartwarming reading. Because the book is a series of stories about various passengers, it is also evocative of the reactions on that horrible day.

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