missing in action

When her brother Rob, a Navy cook, goes missing in action in 1944, Jayna, desperate for family, leaves upstate New York and their cranky landlady, accompanied by a turtle and a ghost, to seek their grandmother, who Rob believes may live in Brooklyn.

Despite the fact that his brother is missing in action in the Pacific theater, Theo McCallum, a gunner on a B-24 Liberator returns to his unit in Europe to continue the war because he feels that the other men in his unit feel like family to him--and he cannot believe that his brother is actually dead.

Small-town newspaper editor Jason Harper's life is turned upside-down when a shabbily dressed man arrives on his doorstep, claiming to be Jason's older brother, who has been missing for more than three decades.

Devoted to the memory of her father, who has been missing in action in Vietnam for more than ten years, Ancil has difficulty accepting her new stepfather. A Companion volume to Last Was Lloyd.

Investigating a World War II Russian sniper who was hunted by both Stalin and Hitler, former marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger wonders why such pains were taken to erase the woman's records before finding himself targeted by an unknown adversary.

Kiki's mother tries to sooth her worries about her father, a doctor who goes on dangerous missions to war zones, but when he actually disappears, Kiki believes it is up to her to save him.

In 1946, imaginary conversations with President Truman help ten-year-old Annie cope with having to live with her grandmother in Walla Walla, Washington, her uncle's prejudice toward her grandmother's black tenant, and her intense desire for news of her father, a pilot in the Army Air Corps who was reported missing in action.

When her brother Rob, a Navy cook, goes missing in action during World War II, Jayna, desperate for family, leaves upstate New York and their cranky landlady, accompanied by a turtle and a ghost, to seek their grandmother, who Rob believes may live in Brooklyn. Includes soup recipes.