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Summary: It happened the way attraction happens best: suddenly, passionately, uncontrollably, and unforgettably. Thousands of feet above the ground on a crowded flight to Washington, D.C., radio personality Keely Williams felt the irresistible pull of handsome congressman Dax Devereaux. They were speaking at the same congressional hearing about Vietnam soldiers listed as MIA. Tragically, Keely's husband...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BRORotondi, Jessica Pearce.
Summary: After years of being misled by the US government, Jessica Pearce Rotondi travels to Laos with the hope of finding answers for her family, but instead finds a country still reeling from a secret war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Unnamed Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.704 ROTWagner, Sarah E.
Summary: Nearly 1,600 Americans who took part in the Vietnam War are still missing and presumed dead. Sarah Wagner tells the stories of those who mourn and continue to search for them. Today's forensic science can identify remains from mere traces, raising expectations for repatriation and forcing a new reckoning with the toll of America's most fraught war.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.704 WAGHylton, Wil S.
Summary: " From a mesmerizing storyteller, the gripping search for a missing World War II crew, their bomber plane, and their legacy. On September 1, 1944, a massive American bomber carrying eleven men vanished over the tiny Pacific archipelago of Palau, leaving behind a trail of mysteries. For more than sixty years, the U.S. government, the children of the missing airmen, and a maverick team of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5426 HYLSummary: During World War II, Navy Lt. Neil Thomas bids Caroline, his pregnant young wife, farewell at Union Station. Before their son is born, Neil's plane goes down in the Pacific and he's declared MIA. Caroline is devastated, but her love never dies. For the next 65 years, Caroline returns to Union Station on the anniversary of her loss to salute his memory. When a TV journalist learns of the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Hallmark Hall Of Fame 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LOSCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE LOSSummary: Project Recover, a small team of accomplished scientists, historians, and military veterans, scour the depths of the ocean and the farthest corners of the earth, to search for and recover the remains of the more than 80,000 Americans who have been missing in action since World War II. They aim to deliver closure, solace, and kinship to MIA families who have gone generations without answers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TOChild, Lee.
Summary: Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher is enjoying a life of anonymity in Key West when a private detective named Costello comes around with prying questions. Reacher conceals his identity, but is no less annoyed by the situation. Even more troublesome, Costello turns up dead soon after with his fingertips sliced off. Left with several questions, Reacher hits the road to find some answers. Answers...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Claudette Colbert, Orson Welles, George Brent, and Natalie Wood star in a moving, romantic drama about a soldier, previously thought lost in action, who returns years later to find his wife remarried.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer 2011
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TOMHunter, Stephen
Summary: "Bob Lee Swagger is in love--with a woman who died 70 years ago. Ludmilla "Mili" Petrova was a great Russian sniper in World War II until she disappeared on a mission and was virtually erased from history. When Kathy Reilly of the Washington Post encounters a brief mention of Petrova in an old Russian propaganda magazine, she begins building a story around the legendary female sniper, who was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Hunter, Stephen
Summary: "Washington Post correspondent Kathy Reilly taps her friend, former marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger to find information on a World War II female sniper. As they travel to Russia and the Carpathian Mountains, someone is determined to stop them at any cost"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HUNBrown, Sandra
Summary: It happened the way attraction happens best: suddenly, passionately, uncontrollably and unforgettably. Thousands of feet above the ground on a crowded flight to Washington, D.C., radio personality Keely Williams felt the irresistible pull of handsome congressman Dax Devereaux. They were speaking at the same congressional hearing about Vietnam soldiers listed as MIA. Tragically, Keely's husband...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mira Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROWinspear, Jacqueline
Summary: In 1930 London a deathbed plea from his wife leads Sir Cecil Lawton to seek the aid of Maisie Dobbs, psychologist and investigator. As Maisie soon learns, Agnes Lawton never accepted that her aviator son was killed in the Great War, a torment that led her not only to the edge of madness but to the doors of those who practice the dark arts and commune with the spirit world. In accepting the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: M WINCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS WINKehl, Jacqueline.
Summary: It's June 9, 1944, three days after D-Day. On the orders of the government, Captain John Miller and his men go to look for Private James Ryan. They must bring him home. But how many will survive the mission?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pearson Educational Limited 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KEHSummary: Mia, a wild-haired young girl, sets off on an adventure to rescue her father. Along the way, she befriends the magical, shape-shifting forest spirits 'The Migoo,' and together they join forces to save a sacred tropical island from destruction.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: E1 Entertainment 2012
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF MIAZuckoff, Mitchell.
Summary: Award-winning former Boston Globe reporter Mitchell Zuckoff unleashes the exhilarating, untold story of an extraordinary World War II rescue mission, where a plane crash in the South Pacific plunged a trio of U.S. military personnel into the jungle-clad land of New Guinea.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.54 ZUCCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.548 ZUCWinspear, Jacqueline
Summary: London investigator Maisie Dobbs must unravel a case of wartime love and death--an investigation that leads her to a doomed affair between a young cartographer, listed as missing in action when World War I ends, and a mysterious nurse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2010
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: MYS WINCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Mystery WinRobbins, Tom.
Summary: The arrest of a drug-smuggling priest who is actually an MIA American threatens to blow the cover of his flight crew who chose to remain incognito in Laos after the end of the Vietnam war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Renaissance 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WINHickam, Homer H.
Summary: In 1943, Coast Guard captain Josh Thurlow leads a desperate venture to Japanese-held islands of the South Pacific to track down a Medal of Honor hero and an ambassador's missing son.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HICRobbins, Tom
Summary: American MIAs choose to remain missing after the end of the Vietnam War, while four generations of women share a unique link to a mysterious figure from Japanese folklore.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBHickam, Homer H.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HICSummary: Recounts one of the strangest legends of the First World War - the disappearance of the Sandringham Company in action in Gallipoli in 1915.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Follow Dr. Patrick Scannon and his team of volunteers as they search the waters and jungles of Palau to find out what really happened to American MIAs and their aircraft.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Inecom Entertainment Co. 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV LASMacintyre, Ben
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2002