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Batman: Li'l Gotham 5Lê, Nguyên
Contents: Speak to me (1:56) -- Inspire (2:54) -- Breathe (2:33) -- On the run (2:42) -- Time (9:51) -- Magic spells (2:20) -- Hear this whispering (2:01) -- The great gig in the sky (2:17) -- Gotta go sometime (3:14) -- Money (6:12) -- Us and them (7:52) -- Purple or blue (2:53) -- Any colour you like (5:18) -- Brain damage (4:13) -- Eclipse (2:34).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: ACT Music + Vision 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ LESummary: 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...
Format: moving image
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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "Real life isn't a fairytale. But Tié̂n still enjoys reading his favorite stories with his parents from the books he borrows from the local library. It's hard enough trying to communicate with your parents as a kid, but for Tié̂n, he doesn't even have the right words because his parents are struggling with their English. Is there a Vietnamese word for what he's going through? Is there a way to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: RH Graphic 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 TRUCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Nguyen 2020Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte
Summary: This little book, A Short and Easy Method or Prayer, was written for a few individuals who wanted to love God with their whole hearts by Madame Guyon, a celebrated French mystical writer of the Quietist school. This book gives simple instructions in contemplative prayer, prayer without words or distinct ideas. It also encourages readers to accept all things as from God's hand. At the time of...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: CCEL 2015
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Summary: A deeply moving tale of tradition, love and deception. Three sisters, a brother, two husbands and a child are living and loving in a supportive clan that they have forged since the death of their parents. However, there are deep secrets that are threatening to disrupt the harmony and balance of their daily existence. Life is much more tenuous and complicated then it seems on the surface.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN VERLê, Minh
Summary: "A picture book about a baby with superhero-like abilities...and the parents who are racing to keep up with her!"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LELê, Minh
Summary: Tai Pham struggles with balancing school, his work in the family business, his friendships, and his new Green Lantern responsibilities, but Kid Flash arrives on the scene to become the super-hero partner Tai just might need.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2022
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Summary: When thirteen-year-old Tai Pham inherits his grandmother's jade ring, he soon finds out he has been inducted into a group of space cops known as the Green Lanterns.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2020
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Summary: Eager to read together, a parent and child search for the perfect seat.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney * Hyperion 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LESummary: Trinh is a mercenary assigned to recover a stolen hard drive containing codes to Vietnam`s first satellite, the VINASAT.1. She creates an ensemble of specialists to regain control of the hard drive before it is sold to the Chinese Triad. Lies and betrayal unfold as Trinh uncovers the truth behind her squad. Who can she trust?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Chanh Phuong Films 2011
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF CLASummary: 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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2002
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRELê, Minh
Summary: When Bình fights back against a bully who makes fun of his Vietnamese heritage, he expects to be cheered as the hero. He defeated the bad guy, right? Instead, it gets him a stern warning from his vice principal and worried parents. Now he's stuck on a family trip to a silent meditation retreat. That means no talking--and no video games!--for a whole weekend. Could things possibly get any worse?...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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Summary: From the award-winning and bestselling creators of Drawn Together comes the fantastic tale of a magical elevator that will lift your spirits--and press all the right buttons! Iris loves to push the elevator buttons in her apartment building, but when it's time to share the fun with a new member of the family, she's pretty put out. That is, until the sudden appearance of a mysterious new button...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LELê, Minh
Summary: Told from the perspective of an imaginary friend who grapples with the complex feelings of growing apart from their human.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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Contents: Muddy waters -- No witness -- Lost on you -- When we're high -- Switchblade -- Up against me -- Suspicion -- Other people -- Tightrope -- Strange -- Death Valley -- You want it all -- Long way to go to die.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Vagrant Records. 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK LPSummary: To mark its 100-year anniversary, the American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman to bring together many of our greatest living writers, each contributing an original piece inspired by a historic ACLU case. On January 19, 1920, a small group of idealists and visionaries, including Helen Keller, Jane Addams, Roger Baldwin, and Crystal...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.06 FIGNguyễn, Trang
Summary: Young conservationist Chang overcomes the odds to save and return an elephant to its natural habitat.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 NGUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: JFIC NGU (GRAPHIC NOVEL)Nguyễn, Duy
Summary: "Widely considered the most important poet of his generation, Duy began his career as a writer on the battlefields of Vietnam. The power of his highly-crafted poetry stems from its distinct sense of time and place, his unrelenting honesty, and his deep compassion. Born into a peasant family, Duy captures the essence of village life in his poetry. Whether it is love, family, war, present or lost...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Curbstone Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 495.7 NGUNguyẽ̂n, Du
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1973
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 895.9 NGUTran, 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tuttle Publishing 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 TRANguon, Chantha
Summary: "Chantha Nguon recounts her life as a Cambodia refugee who lost everything and everyone--her house, her country, her parents, her siblings, her friends--everything but the memories of her mother's kitchen, the tastes and aromas of the foods her mother made before the dictator Pol Pot tore her country apart"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.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 JOUNguyen, Dustin
Summary: It is April and Mr. Freeze is being released from Arkham Asylum, and it is up to Batman to make sure he has really mended his ways--then on Cinco de Mayo, Robin leads his friends into battle in Gotham's seedy underworld.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014