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Americans Food Communists Vietnam (Republic) Fiction Grand Rapids (Mich.) Biography Immigrants Michigan Grand Rapids Biography Nguyen, Bich Minh Childhood and youth Refugees Science fiction comic books, strips, etc Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Fiction Vietnamese Americans Michigan Grand Rapids Biography Young adult fiction, AmericanNguyen, Hieu Minh
Summary: "Not Here is a flight plan for escape and a map for navigating home; a queer Vietnamese American body in confrontation with whiteness, trauma, family, and nostalgia; and a big beating heart of a book. Nguyen's poems ache with loneliness and desire and the giddy terrors of allowing yourself to hope for love, and revel in moments of connection achieved"--Amazon.com
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Publisher / Publication Date: Coffee House Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 NGUSummary: In 1975, refugee camps were set up across the deserts of the United States to house an exodus of over 100,000 Vietnamese immigrants before and immediately after the fall of Saigon. When Tai arrives at Camp Pendleton, he is confronted by a camp filled with despair. A Marine is in charge of housing the refugees until sponsors can be found to help them assimilate into American life. Tai, who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2002
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRESummary: After the fall of Saigon, millions were dead and nearly another million were sent to re-education camps. From the jungles of Vietnam to the streets of Southern California, learn what happened to the Vietnamese people after the 21-year civil war ended.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ImaginAsian Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN JOUTran, Thi Minh Phuoc
Summary: Collects fifteen Vietnamese folktales, including "Mai An Tiem and the watermelon seeds," which tells the story about orphan Mai An Tiem who is banished to a remote island by the king despite his loyalty.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tuttle Publishing 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 TRANguyen, Bich Minh.
Summary: A memoir of Bich Nguyen and her journey to become a "real" American.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 NGUYEN, BICH MINH NGUNguyen, Bich Minh
Summary: "From the award-winning author of Stealing Buddha's Dinner, a powerful memoir of a mother-daughter relationship fragmented by war and resettlement. At the end of the Vietnam War, when Beth Nguyen was eight months old, she and her father, sister, grandmother, and uncles fled Saigon for America. Beth's mother stayed--or was left--behind, and they did not meet again until Beth was nineteen. Over...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NGUYEN, BICH MINH NGUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B NGUYEN NGUNguyen, Bich Minh.
Summary: Discovering a family heirloom that her mother may have received from Laura Ingalls Wilder, PhD graduate Lee Lien explores the tenuous connection between her ancestors and the famous pioneer author only to discover a trail of clues that lead to fateful encounters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NGUNguyen, Bich Minh.
Summary: Van and Linny Luong are as baffling to each other as their parents' Vietnamese legacy is to them both. When their father, Mr. Luong, summons them home for his American citizenship party, Van and Linny find themselves communing about their past, their late mother, their father's obsession with his Luong Arm invention for short people, even the irony of their romantic straits.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NGUNguyen, Bich Minh.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NGUYEN, BICH NGUNguyen, Bich Minh.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: After a car accident claims the life of his sister-in-law and leaves his 5-year-old nephew an orphan, a thirtysomething man named Thien leaves Saigon for a trip back to his rural hometown. During his meditative, wandering visit, Thien wrestles with his own agnosticism in the face of others' religious beliefs, summons memories of his long-disappeared brother, and reconnects with a former...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NGUNGUYEN, DINH-HOA
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1966
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 495.922 NGUNguyen, Viet Thanh
Summary: "The astonishing sequel to The Sympathizer, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, The Committed follows the "man of two minds" as he comes to Paris as a refugee. There he and his blood brother Bon try to escape their pasts and prepare for their futures by turning their hands to capitalism in one of its purest forms: drug dealing. No longer in physical danger, but still inwardly tortured...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2021
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NGUCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NGUHino, Matsuri.
Summary: Cross Academy is attended by two groups of students: the Day Class and the Night Class. At twilight, when the students of the Day Class return to their dorm, they cross paths with the Night Class on their way to school. Yuki Cross and Zero Kiryu are the Guardians of the school, there to protect the Day Class from the Academy's dark secret: the Night Class is full of vampires. Zero warns Yuki to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hakusensha 2005
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA FOREIGN JAPHino, Matsuri.
Summary: When high school freshman Airi Hoshina loses an ancient mirror that was passed down to her from generations, a boy suddenly appears from a magical kingdom and turns her world upside down.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz 2005
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y GRAPHIC MERHino, Matsuri.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shojo Beat 2002
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y GRAPHIC MERNguyen, Viet Thanh
Summary: It is April 1975 and Saigon is in chaos. At his villa, a general of the South Vietnamese army is drinking whiskey and, with the help of his trusted captain, drawing up a list of those who will be given passage aboard the last flights out of the country. The general and his compatriots start a new life in Los Angeles, unaware that one among their number, the captain, is secretly observing and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC NGUHine, David.
Summary: As the civil war rips apart the Marvel universe, the X-Men find themselves crumbling from the inside out and must admit defeat or finally start to fight back.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Comics 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: (1994-95) Concert Choir: Hallelujah ; Lacrimosa -- Bel Cantos: Father William -- Choral Aires: Maria Magdalene ; Ein Kleiner, hubscher Vogel ; Let me fly (1995-96) Concert Choir: Jubilate deo ; Dirait-on -- Bel Cantos: Psalm 100 ; Under the Greenwood tree ; Hold on -- Men of Note: La virgin lava Panales ; Soon-un will be done -- Vocal Majority: All that hath life and breath, praise ye the Lord...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tonkins Boardman 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LOCAL TraNguyen, Viet Thanh
Summary: "The highly original, blistering, and unconventional memoir by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer, which has now sold over one million copies worldwide. With insight, humor, formal invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two Faces Viet Thanh Nguyen rewinds the film of his own life. He expands the genre of personal memoir by acknowledging larger stories of refugeehood,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press,an imprint of Grove Atlantic 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NGUCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NGUYEN, VIET THANH NGUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B NGUYEN NGUNguyen, Viet Thanh
Summary: It is April 1975 and Saigon is in chaos. At his villa, a general of the South Vietnamese army is drinking whiskey and, with the help of his trusted captain, drawing up a list of those who will be given passage aboard the last flights out of the country. The general and his compatriots start a new life in Los Angeles, unaware that one among their number, the captain, is secretly observing and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2015
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Summary: "All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory. Exploring how this troubled memory works in Vietnam, the United States, Laos, Cambodia, and South Korea, the book deals specifically with the Vietnam War and also war in general. He reveals how war is a part of our identity, as individuals and as citizens of nations armed to the teeth. Venturing through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.7 NGUNguyen, Viet Thanh
Summary: When a wildfire threatens Simone's home, she and Má must rush to take shelter. Guided by her own creativity, and buoyed by Má's memories of her childhood in Việt Nam, Simone navigates her way through an all-too-common crisis. This powerful story, straddling two generations and two countries, shows how communities come together in tough times, and how the youngest can imagine the path to a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minerva, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers, a division of Astra Publishing House 2024