Pham, Thien

Summary: "Thien's first memory isn't a sight or a sound. It's the sweetness of watermelon and the saltiness of fish. It's the taste of the foods he ate while adrift at sea as his family fled Vietnam. After the Pham family arrives at a refugee camp in Thailand, they struggle to survive. Things don't get much easier once they resettle in California. And through each chapter of their lives, food takes on a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2023

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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 921 PHA

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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 921 PHA

Summary: An attractive and successful ophthalmologist quits her job and places a personal ad in the newspaper. She has a specific purpose in her ad - she is looking for marriage. After a series of blind dates with men who are either lonely, desperate, strange, perverted, or all of the above, what she really wants is her mysterious ex-lover to came back to her.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2001

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PER

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...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD

Summary: "A vital collection of essays on the power of literature and the craft of writing from an international array of writers of color, sharing the experiences, cultural traditions, and convictions that have shaped them and their work"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.3 LET

Shraya, Vivek

Summary: "In the fall of 2017, the acclaimed writer and musician Vivek Shraya began receiving vivid and disturbing transphobic hate mail from a stranger. Celebrated artist Ness Lee brings these letters and Shraya's responses to them to startling life in "Death Threat", a comic book that, by its existence, becomes a compelling act of resistance. Using satire and surrealism, "Death Threat" is an...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Arsenal Pulp Press 2019

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SHR

Summary: In the beginning and eleven years ago, two immortal beings decide that it might not be time to start an Apocalypse. Having followed the wrong boy for years, Aziraphale and Crowley must now try to locate the whereabouts of the real Antichrist. Perhaps the story of Agnes Nutter and her famous prophecies will hold the answer?

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV GOO

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Summary: Celebrate the lasting impact of Return of the Jedi with this exciting reimagining of the timeless Star Wars film featuring new perspectives from forty contributors. On May 25, 1983, Star Wars cemented its legacy as the greatest movie franchise of all time with the release of Return of the Jedi. In honor of its fortieth anniversary, forty storytellers re-create an iconic scene from Return of the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Worlds 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STA

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Summary: Once upon a time in China: The legendary martial arts teacher Wong Fei-hung, with a band of disciples, battles a host of nefarious forces--foreign and local--who are threatening Chinese sovereignty as British and American imperialists encroach upon the Mainland.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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Pram

Contents: Loose threads -- Little scars -- Earthing and protection -- Cotton candy -- Three wild Georges -- Serpentine -- Crystal tips -- Crooked tiles -- Eels -- Sea swells and distant squalls.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Too Pure 1995

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Chieng, Chieh.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2005

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHI

Do Make Say Think (Musical group)

Contents: Classic noodlanding. -- End of music. -- White light of Chinatown. -- Reitschule. -- Soul and onward. -- Anything for now.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Constellation 2000

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK DO

Summary: Includes 7 Steven Kings classics, over 19 hours of thrills & chills.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD STE

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Stephen

UGK (Musical group)

Summary: The rap duo UGK, featuring Pimp C and Bun B, includes a large array of guest artists and producers, from Rick Ross and Slim Thug to Lil' Jon and Swizz Beatz.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Jive 2007

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP UND

Summary: An adventure story set in the world of a modern Mark Twain that begins when Zak, a young man with Down syndrome, runs away from a nursing home where he lives to chase his dream of becoming a professional wrestler and attending the wrestling school of The Salt Water Redneck, his idol. Through circumstances beyond their control, Tyler, a small-time outlaw on the run, becomes Zak's unlikely coach...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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3 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY PEA
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Peanut 2019

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Contents: Ain't she sweet / Beatles. -- Telstar / Tornados. -- Shout / Lulu & the Luvers. -- Some other guy / Big Three. -- Yeh, yeh / George Fame & the Blue Flames. -- My Bonnie / Beatles with Tony Sheridan. -- Everything's alright / Mojos. -- Downtown / Petula Clark. -- Game of love / Wayne Fontana & the Mindbenders. -- Baby, please don't go / Them. -- Road runner / Pretty Things. -- Diane / Bachelors....

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino 1991

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BRI

Summary: Did Henry Kissinger sabatoge the 1968 Vietnam peace talks for his own personal gain? Did he orchestrate the secret bombing of Cambodia? Did he authorize covert operations to overthrow a Chilean President? This explores how a young boy who fled Nazi Germany grew up to become one of the most powerful and controversial figures in United States history.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2003

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TRI

Summary: In a world replete with greed, betrayal, sexual intrigue and rivalry, the series is based on the famed explorer's adventures in Kublai Khan's court in thirteenth century China.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MAR

Nhat Hạnh

Summary: "One of the most revered spiritual leaders in the world today, Thich Nhat Hanh's masterful work on how to be the change we want to see in the world"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 294.3 NHA

Summary: Is college worth the cost? Groundbreaking filmmaker Andrew Rossi asks the critical question about the value of higher education, revealing how colleges have come to embrace a business model that often promotes expansion over quality learning. With student-loan debt now over the one trillion dollar mark, the once-great American institution is at a breaking point. The film explores the current...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC IVO

Nhat Hanh

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 1996

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 294.337 NHA

Thien, Madeleine

Contents: Simple recipes -- Four days from Oregon -- Alchemy -- Dispatch -- House -- Bullet train -- A map of the city.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2001

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THI

Summary: 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.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: ImaginAsian Home Entertainment 2007

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN JOU