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Summary: "Year of the Rabbit tells the true story of one family's desperate struggle to survive the murderous reign of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. In 1975, the Khmer Rouge seizes power in the capital city of Phnom Penh. Immediately after declaring victory in the war, they set about evacuating the country's major cities with the brutal ruthlessness and disregard for humanity that characterized the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 TIASobol, Richard.
Summary: A guided tour by local children leads the author--and readers--inside an ancient Cambodian temple and around its ruins, where they explore the mysteries of the site and discover a little-known secret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 959.602 SOBSummary: The story of New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg's friendship with a Cambodian interpreter, Dith Pran, during the time of the 1975 Khmer Rouge revolution.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA KILShort, Philip.
Summary: A portrait of the Cambodian despot whose rule saw the deaths of one-fifth of the country's population documents how Pol Pot's beliefs about moral purity, self-abnegation, and utopian prosperity degenerated into radical egalitarianism.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.6042 SHOUng, Loung.
Summary: "When readers first met Loung Ung in her critically acclaimed memoir First They Killed My Father, she was a young, innocent child in Cambodia. But forced by the Khmer Rouge into the life of a child soldier, she soon found herself locked in a desperate struggle for survival in Cambodia's notorious killing fields. In Lucky Child, her life took a turn. As a refugee in Vermont, she grappled with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 UNG, LOUNG UNGUng, Loung.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 UNG, CHOU UNGKiernan, Ben.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.604 KIEHim, Chanrithy
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.604 HIMKeat, Nawuth
Summary: The gripping story of a young boy who survived the atrocities in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge and escaped to the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2009
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 959.6042 KEARatner, Vaddey
Summary: An astonishing and powerful new novel from PEN/Hemingway finalist Vaddey Ratner. Leaving the safety of America, Teera returns to Cambodia for the first time since her harrowing escape as a child refugee. She carries a letter from a man who mysteriously signs himself as "the Old Musician" and claims to have known her father in the Khmer Rouge prison where he disappeared twenty-five years ago....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAT1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Ratner 2017Contents: Phnom Penh / Royal University of Fine Arts -- Under the sound of the rain / Sinn Sisamouth -- The story of my love / Chhoun Malay -- Unique child / Huoy Mers -- B.C.K. / Baksey Cham Krong -- Don't be angry / Ros Serey Sother -- Dance a go go / Sinn Sisamouth -- There's nothing to be ashamed of / Pen Ran -- Full moon / Baksey Dham Krong -- Thevary My Love / Sin Sisamouth and Ros Serey Sother --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dust to Digital 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC DONOsborne, Lawrence
Summary: In order to escape his boring English life, Robert, a twenty-eight-year-old teacher, re-imagines himself in Cambodia where he befriends an unstable American, falls in love with a wealthy young woman, and is threatened by the aftermath of the Khmer Rouge.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC OSBSummary: Explores filmmaker Rithy Panh's quest to create the missing images during the period when the Khmer Rouge ruled over Cambodia between 1975 and 1979. The film uses wood figures, archival footage, and narration to recreate his firsthand experiences and those of his family and friends' suffering during the communist regime.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MISSummary: Spalding Gray performs a monologue that mostly recounts his trip to Southeast Asia to create the role of the U.S. Ambassador's aide in the 1984 Oscar-winning film The Killing Fields.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios 2013
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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS SWIMedina, K. T.
Summary: "Tess Hardy thought she had put Luke, her violent ex-husband, firmly in her past. Then he calls from Cambodia, where he is working as a mine-clearer, and there's something in his voice she hasn't heard before: Fear. Two weeks later, he's dead. Against her better judgment, Tess is drawn to Cambodia and to the killing fields. Keeping her relationship to Luke a closely guarded secret, Tess joins...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEDWelaratna, Usha
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stanford University Press 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.604 WELBejo, Berenice
Summary: A young Cambodian woman, who with her husband got separated from their four-year-old son during the Khmer Rouge revolution, is determined to reunite her family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY FOREIGN FUNBehnke, Alison.
Summary: Introduces the ancient city of Angkor Wat and explains the archaeological process behind its discovery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 959.602 BEHLei, Sida
Summary: I was a ten-year-old girl living in Phnom Penh when the Khmer Rouge came and robbed me. First, they took my home, driving us out of the city and into their labor camps. Then one by one, they took my family members. They tried to take me too. They tried to starve me, to wear me down with disease, to catch me stealing so that they could execute me. They tried to work me to death. But every time,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sida Lei 0000
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Summary: "When his land is taken by force, Prince Jayavar of the Khmer people narrowly escapes death at the hands of the conquering Cham king, Indravarman. Exiled from their homeland, he and his mystical wife, Ajadevi, set up a secret camp in the jungle with the intention of amassing an army bold enough to reclaim their kingdom and free their people. Meanwhile, Indravarman rules with an iron fist,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHOContents: Give me one kiss (Dara Chom Chan) -- Don't speak ; Jombang jet (Pan Ron) -- Flowers in the pond ; Shave your beard (Ros Sereysothea) -- I will marry you (Pan Ron) -- I want to shout (Ros Sereysothea) -- Jasmine girl (Sinn Sisamouth and Pan Ron) -- I want to be your lover (Pan Ron) -- Hope to meet you -- Snaeha (Pan Ron) -- Will starve myself to death (Ros Sereysothea) -- Unknown title (Pan Ron)...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minky Records Inc. 2009
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/ASIAN DENAffonco, Denise.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reportage 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.604 AFFONCO, DENISE AFFDean, Jacob
Summary: Ready to experience Thailand? The experts at Fodor's are here to help. Fodor's Essential Thailand: with Cambodia & Laos travel guide is packed with customizable itineraries with top recommendations, detailed maps of Thailand, and exclusive tips from locals. Whether you want to visit Buddhist temples, sample Bangok's street food, indulge in a Thai massage, or shop floating markets, this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fodor's Travel, a division of MH Sub I, LLC, dba Internet Brands 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 915.9304 FODRatner, Vaddey.
Summary: Told from the tender perspective of a young girl who comes of age amid the Cambodian killing fields, this novel is based on the author's personal story. For seven-year-old Raami, the shattering end of childhood begins with the footsteps of her father returning home in the early dawn hours bringing details of the civil war that has overwhelmed the streets of Phnom Penh, Cambodia's capital. Soon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2012