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McDermott, Alice

Summary: Tricia is a shy newlywed, married to a rising attorney on loan to navy intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a beauty and a bully. In Saigon in 1963, the two women form a wary alliance as they balance the era's mandate to be "helpmeets" to their ambitious husbands with their own, inchoate impulse to "do good" for the people of Vietnam. Sixty years later,...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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DeMille, Nelson.

1 hold on 3 copies

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2002

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DEM

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEM

DeMille, Nelson.

Summary: There is a name carved into the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, D.C., of an American Army lieutenant whose death is shrouded in mystery. The authorities have reason to believe that he was not killed by the enemy or by friendly fire; they suspect he was murdered. The incident happened over three decades ago in Vietnam but the only evidence is a recently discovered letter written by an enemy...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Time Warner AudioBooks 2002

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DEM

Butler, Robert Olen.

Summary: After letting a Viet Cong suspect escape, a soldier faces a court-martial, but during the trial, he realizes that he may have left a child behind, and he returns to Vietnam.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Holt 1993

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC Butle

Webb, James H.

Summary: Portrays the story of the Vietnam War through the eyes of Brandon Condley, who remembers how Vietnam was when he served there as a Marine when he returns to it after a thirty year absence.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2001

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEB

Henley, Patricia.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2002

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEN

Robinson, Jeremy

Summary: When the President of the United States falls victim to a weaponised and contagious strain of genetic disease -- one that kills its victims without warning or symptom -- Special Forces commander Jake "King" Sigler is on the case. He and his team of highly trained operators have been assigned to protect a CDC detective as she journeys to the source of the new strain: Vietnam's Annamite Mountains.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Paperbacks 2011

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROB

Jennings, Phillip.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2005

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JEN

Soli, Tatjana.

Summary: A story that follows an American female combat photographer in the Vietnam War as she captures the wrenching chaos and finds herself torn between the love of two men.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2010

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOL

Shors, John

Summary: When Iris' father, a Vietnam vet, makes a dying wish that she take over the operation of a shelter for street children in Ho Chi Minh City, she agrees--and takes with her her long-time friend Noah, an Iraq War veteran.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SHO

McDermott, Alice

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Summary: In Saigon in 1963, two young American wives form a wary alliance. Tricia is a starry-eyed newlywed, married to a rising oil engineer “on loan” to US Navy Intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a talented hostess and determined altruist, on a mission to relieve the “wretchedness” she sees all around her. When Tricia miscarries, Charlene sweeps her into a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023

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Nguyẽ̂n, Phan Qué̂ Mai

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Summary: "An American GI, two Vietnamese bargirls, and an Amerasian man are forced to make decisions during and after the Viet Nam War that will reverberate throughout one another's lives"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2023

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC NGU

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NGU

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Nguyen

Tran, Trang Thanh

Summary: When Jade Nguyen arrives in Vietnam for a visit with her estranged father, she has one goal: survive five weeks pretending to be a happy family in the French colonial house Ba is restoring. She's always lied to fit in, so if she's straight enough, Vietnamese enough, American enough, she can get out with the college money he promised. But the house has other plans. Night after night, Jade wakes...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2023

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Myers, Walter Dean

Summary: Seventeen-year-old Richie Perry, just out of his Harlem high school, enlists in the Army in the summer of 1967 and spends a devastating year on active duty in Vietnam.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 1988

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MYE

Finkbeiner, Susie

Summary: "When Mindy announces that she is returning to Vietnam to find her birthmother, it inspires her father, mother, and sister to recall the events of her adoption at the end of the Vietnam War during Operation Baby Lift. In this beautiful time-slip story, Mindy's family reexamines what it means to grow together beyond genetic code"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Revell 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FIN

Sánchez, Erika L.

Summary: "Julia no es la hija mexicana perfecta. Ese era el rol de su hermana Olga. Olga no fue a la universidad, se quedó en casa para cuidar a sus padres, limpiar la casa y trabajar a medio tiempo. Julia tiene grandes sueños y no quiere formar parte del camino de su hermana mayor. Pero un solo error, que ocurre mientras enviaba un mensaje de texto al mismo tiempo que cruzaba la calle más concurrida de...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Español 2018

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1 available in Foreign Language, Call number: 468 SPANISH SAN

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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA FOREIGN SPANISH SAN

Martinez, Claudia Guadalupe

Summary: En el primer libro infantil que describe el capítulo olvidado de la historia de los Estados Unidos conocido como la Repatriación Mexicana, un niño y su familia dejan su amado hogar para evitar ser separados por el gobierno. Ante la perspectiva de ser separados, un niño y su familia toman la difícil decisión de dejar su hogar y emprender un viaje lleno de incertidumbre. En el camino, se...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Book Press, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc. 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MAR

Nguyen, Viet Thanh

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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,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press,an imprint of Grove Atlantic 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NGU

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NGUYEN, VIET THANH NGU

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B NGUYEN NGU

Salazar, Alicia

Summary: Camila and her Papa enter a televised baking competition, but trying to do everything herself results in a mess so Papa helps to bake strawberry-iced cake pops that could make them sta

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2021

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