Dương, Bình.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prentice Hall 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.59597 DUOSummary: In nineteenth-century rural Vietnam, fourteen-year-old May becomes the third wife of wealthy landowner Hung. Soon, she learns that she can only gain status by asserting herself as a woman who can give birth to a male child. May's hope to change her status turns into a real and tantalizing possibility when she gets pregnant. Faced with forbidden love and its devastating consequences, May finally...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN THISummary: 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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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 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 GREBono
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 781.66 ASSTran, 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 TRASummary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Nguyen, 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: 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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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, Call number: B NGUYEN NGUBono
Summary: "Bono, artist, activist, and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2, has written a memoir: honest and irreverent, intimate and profound, Surrender is the story of the remarkable life he's lived, the challenges he's faced, and the friends and family who have shaped and sustained him. 'When I started to write this book, I was hoping to draw in detail what I'd previously only sketched in songs. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio BonoNguyen, 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: Penguin Books 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 977.4 NGUNguyen, Bich Minh.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2007
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Summary: Hò̂ Xuân Hương, whose name means Spring Essence, was an eighteenth-century concubine who wrote subtly risque poems that used double entendre and sexual innuendo as a vehicle for social, religious, and political commentary. Her attacks on male authority were shocking and risky, but she and her work survived because of her exquisite cleverness and skill at poetry. Translated from the older...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Canyon Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 495.9 HOLewis, Dzung
Summary: "The Honeysuckle Cookbook is stuffed with new ideas for easy, approachable Asian-influenced cooking at home. With 90 recipes, from the breakfast favorites that consistently rate the highest in views on the author's YouTube channel (like her Overnight Oats, 6 Ways) to original twists on one-pan and pressure-cooker meals, this book is for seriously busy young professionals who want crave-worthy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.595 LEWPhương, Tâm.
Contents: Có Nhớ Đêm Nào(2:59 min) -- Buồn 18(3:09 min) -- 20-40(3:07 min) -- Anh Đâu Em Đó(3:18 min) -- Nếu Có Xa Nhau(3:58 min) -- Phút Say Mơ(3:28 min) -- Đêm Huyền Diệu(3:26 min) -- Nhịp Đàn Vui(2:53 min) -- Ai?(2:41 min) -- Vẫn Yêu Hoà(2:34 min) -- Ngày Phép Của Lính(3:10 min) -- Lá Thư(3:38 min) -- Đôi Tám(2:56 min) -- Thần Tượng(3:21 min) -- Nhớ Mình Anh Thôi(2:50 min) -- 60 Năm(3:05 min) -- Tình...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sublime Frequencies 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK PHUBach, Johann Sebastian
Summary: Cellist Yo-Yo Ma, mandolinist Chris Thile, and bassist Edgar Meyer perform works by J.S. Bach originally written for keyboard instruments plus a sonata for viola da gamba.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL MABach, Johann Sebastian
Contents: Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis, BWV 21 (41:04) -- Aus der Tiefe rufe ich, Herr, zu dir, BWV 131 (22:15) -- Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis, BWV 21 (appendix) (5:48) -- Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit (Actus tragicus), BWV 106 (19:40) -- Der Herr denket an uns, BWV 196 (10:54) -- Gott ist mein König, BWV 71 (18:15) -- Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich, BWV 150 (14:34) -- Der Himmel lacht! die Erde...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Erato 1995
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Summary: Bana's mother tells her of the strong bana tree that grows in their homeland, Syria, and how Bana's strength helped her survive war, being a refugee, and starting fresh in a new country.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Salaam Reads 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ALASwingle Singers
Contents: Sonata no. 15, K. 545 -- Ah! Vous dirais-je maman, K. 265 -- Sonata no. 14, K. 333. Allegro -- Sonata no. 37, K. 402. Fugue -- Eine kleine Nachtmusik, K. 525 / W.A. Mozart -- Suite in B minor. Badinerie / J.S. Bach -- Harpsichord suite in E major. Air / G.F. Handel -- Cello suite in C major. Gigue -- Harpsichord concerto in F minor. Largo -- Well-tempered clavier, 1st book. Prelude no. 19 --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philips 1986
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CL SwingleAshburn, Boni
Summary: Illustrations and simple, rhyming text explore the joys and challenges of having a twin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE ASHBeah, Ishmael
Summary: "Ishmael Beah, now twenty-six years old, tells a powerfully gripping story. At the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he'd been picked up by the government army, and Beah, at heart a gentle boy, found that he was capable of truly terrible acts. At sixteen, he was removed from fighting by UNICEF, and through the help of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 966.404 BEABenz, Derek.
Summary: Aided by the Knights Templar, the four young Grey Griffins face a host of evil forces, including Morgan LaFey's Black Wolves, who kidnap Max's father while the quartet is spending what at first seemed a fairytale Christmas break at the Sumner's castle in Scotland.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books 2007