disappeared persons

Teenaged Silvia tries to save her brother, Eduardo, after he is captured by the military government in 1970s Argentina.

In 1976 Argentina, in the midst of the dirty war, the lives of Kaddish Poznan, a Jewish man who makes his living erasing names from gravestones of Jewish prostitutes and pimps whose descendants wish to erase all connections, and his wife are turned upside down when their son, an idealistic college student, becomes one of "the disappeared, " secretly arrested by the military dictatorship.

Presents controversial facts about such famous disappearances as those of Judge Crater, hijacker D. B. Cooper, and the inhabitants of the Lost Colony, and allows readers to make up their own minds.

Three years after the death of his father in a coal mining accident, thirteen-year-old Lucas Lessar's mother disappears without a trace, prompting the young man to leave his home in search of her and giving him the chance to learn about his immigrant roots and how he has been shaped by his experiences.

When Carlos Rueda's wife suddenly disappears, he discovers he has visions of the fates of the desaparecidos, the disappeareds. However, he has none about his wife.

A young couple manages to dig their way out of the snow when a flash avalanche interrupts their skiing trip in the remote French Pyrenees, but once freed the couple discovers the world has been overtaken by a terrible silence with cell phones and land lines cut off and a swift evacuation leaves them alone to face the coming threat of another deadly storm.