Cao, Lan
Summary: "A mother-daughter memoir exploring loss, love, and healing, told in two alternating voices, from the critically acclaimed novelist and her teenage daughter"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 CAOCan
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wea Corp 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK CANCao, Lan
Summary: "An epic tale of love, loyalty, and war from the acclaimed author of Monkey Bridge Half a century after it began, the Vietnam War still has a hold on our national psyche. Lan Cao's now-classic debut, Monkey Bridge, won her wide renown for "connecting . .. the opposite realities of Vietnam and America" (Isabel Allende). In her triumphant new novel, Cao transports readers back to the war,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Cao 2014Cao, Lan.
Summary: A memoir of a Vietnamese refugee. The narrator, Mai Nguyen, was 13 when a helicopter lifted her from Saigon. Scenes of war written in lyrical Oriental style alternate with reflections on America, such as the obsession with winning and the usurping of parental authority by teachers. By the author of Everything You Need to Know about Asian Americans.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAOSummary: As a son helps his mother arrange for the burial of his father in the traditional Chinese custom of his mother's village, the beautiful and touching story of his parent's courtship unfolds. His father was from the city and came to his mother's village to become the schoolmaster. In the days of arranged marriages, the son discovers that his parents marriage was the first marriage based on love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Classics 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ROASummary: After having the emperor's minister of defense executed, a power-grabbing eunuch sends assassins to trail the victim's children to a remote point on the northern Chinese border. But that bloodthirsty mission is confounded by a mysterious group of fighters who arrive on the scene, intent on delivering justice and defending the innocent.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DRASummary: In National Lampoon's Animal house, the members of Delta Tau Chi fraternity offend the straight-arrow and up-tight people on campus in a comedy film which irreverently mocks college traditions. In The Blues Brothers, Jake Blues, recently released from prison, and his brother Elwood reassemble their blues band and stage a concert to raise money for the orphanage where they grew up. The jerk is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Jennifer Kroot's documentary about the creator of Tales of the City moves nimbly between playful and poignant and laugh-out-loud funny. Maupin offers a disarmingly frank look at the journey that took him from the jungles of Vietnam to the bathhouses of '70's San Francisco to the front line of the American culture war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wolfe Video 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC UNTBang on a can
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Publisher / Publication Date: Canteloupe Music 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL BANContents: Indhold: Music Box: Songs Of Sunshine(4:16 min) -- Hennessy, Christie: High In The Trees(2:44 min) -- Raven, Michael: Death And The Lady(4:29 min) -- Penny Wager: Marcie(4:05 min) -- Folkal Point: Sweet Sir Galahad(3:37 min) -- Donald, Mike: Visions Of Cumbria(2:48 min) -- Blue Horizon: Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye(3:36 min) -- Cunningham, Porter: Photographs(2:27 min) -- Peregrine: Lazy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grapefruit Records 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK BEFJarman, Cat
Summary: An acclaimed bioarchaeologist traces the path of an ancient piece of jewelry found in a Viking grave in England back to eighth-century Baghdad and India, explaining that the Vikings' route may have been far more varied than previously known.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 948.022 JARSummary: The Kid thinks he's the best 5-card stud player in town, but The Man has never been beaten. It is therefore inevitable that they go head-on, and what a game it will be: a non-stop, stud poker duel-to-the-death to decide who will be the reigning king of the New Orleans gambling world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2005
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: DVD Movie Cincinnati 2005Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PERSummary: Though almost forgotten today, Veit Harlan was one of Nazi Germany's most notorious filmmakers. Millions across occupied Europe saw his films, the most infamous of which was the horrific anti-Semitic propaganda film Jew Suss, which was required viewing for all SS members. Harlan was also the only artist from the Nazi era to be charged with war crimes. Included are never-before-seen archival...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2010
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF HARPhi, Bao
Summary: "As a young boy, Bao Phi awoke early, hours before his father's long workday began, to fish on the shores of a small pond in Minneapolis. Unlike many other anglers, Bao and his father fished for food, not recreation. Between hope-filled casts, Bao's father told him about a different pond in their homeland of Vietnam"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PHICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE PHIBas Jan
Contents: Indhold: At the Counter(5:16 min) -- No More Swamp(3:37 min) -- Credit Card(3:11 min) -- Ding Dong(3:38 min) -- Margaret Calvert Drives Out(4:44 min) -- Back to the Swamp(4:15 min) -- Singing Bar(3:19 min) -- Cried a River(4:27 min) -- Tarot Card(5:14 min)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fire Records 2023
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1 available in NEW Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BASPhi, Bao
Summary: Every child is bursting with amazing possibilities and poet Bao Phi celebrates the complex identity of the children of immigrants and refugees.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Editions 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PHIBao, Karen
Summary: When Ver and Aryl, rival apprentices at the biology lab in the Pangu Star System, become the prime suspects in their teacher's murder, they reluctantly team up to find the real culprit, running up against system-wide inequalities and conspiracies along the way.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Lab 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Cho, Margaret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN CHOSqürl (Musical group)
Summary: The soundtrack to Jim Jarmusch's 'crypto-vampire love story'. SQURL is a marginal rock band from New York City who like big drums and broken guitars, cassette recorders, loops, feedback, sad country songs, molten stoner core, copped and screwed hip-hop, and imaginary movie scores. Jozef Van Wissem is a Dutch minimalist composer and lute player based in Brooklyn.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC ONLCho, Margaret.
Contents: Intro ; News -- The pope ; Terry Schiavo -- Bush is embarrassing -- Laura & Barbara Bush -- Mullet fantasia -- Mary Cheney -- They turned off the microphone -- Reagan -- Hurricane poontang -- Bam Bam and Celeste -- Margaret, do something -- Gay agenda -- Gay cruise -- Mommy heart attack -- Jeff Stryker -- Martha ; Arnold -- Björk -- The Grammys -- Rush Limbaugh ; Tommy Chong -- Hate mail from...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Nettwerk America 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN CHOCho, Margaret.
Contents: Disc One So good to be home -- Karl Lagerfeld -- I am a fag hag -- Chippendales -- Gay porn -- Lesbians love whale watching -- Are you gay? -- Grandma and Grandpa -- Disc Two Once upon a time I had myown tv show -- KKK-Mart -- Saved by the Gong -- Fatty choices -- Gwen -- "Margaret Cho, you're a star!" -- Mother's Day -- But I'm a size 4 -- Chow-like Cho diet-- Koren a̲merican role model --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nettwerk America 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN CHOCan (Musical group)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thunderbolt Records 0000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK CANCan (Musical group)
Contents: Future days (9:32) -- Spray (8:29) -- Moonshake (3:04) -- Bel Air (19:53).
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014