Tran, 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 TRANguyen-Kim, Mai Thi
Summary: "In Chemistry for Breakfast, award-winning chemist and science communicator Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim reveals the amazing chemistry behind everyday things (like baking and toothpaste) and not-so-everyday things (like space travel). With a relatable, funny, and conversational style, she explains essential chemical processes everyone should know--and turns the ordinary into extraordinary"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greystone Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 500 NGUCarters (Hip-hop group)
Contents: Summer -- Apeshit -- Boss -- Nice -- 713 -- Friends -- Heard about us -- Black effect -- Lovehappy.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Roc Nation 2018
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP CARSummary: 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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Place a hold to request this item.Nguyen, Hoa
Summary: "A new collection of poetry by Hoa Nguyen"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wave Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 NGUSummary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ONC1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD FOREIGN ONC
NGUYEN, DINH-HOA
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1966
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 495.922 NGUSummary: This take on the traditional wuxia film, set in 9th century China, centers on Nie Yinniang, a young woman who was abducted in childhood from a decorated general and raised by a nun who trained her in the martial arts to be an assassin who is directed to slay corrupt government officials. After 13 years of exile, she is returned to the land of her birth with orders to kill her betrothed...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ASSNguyen, Mai
Summary: "A tender, humorous, and page-turning debut about a Vietnamese Canadian family in Toronto who will do whatever it takes to protect their no-frills nail salon after a new high end salon opens up-even if it tears the family apart. Perfect for readers of Olga Dies Dreaming and The Fortunes of Jaded Women. Vietnamese refugees Debbie and Phil Tran have built a comfortable life for themselves in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NGUSummary: 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 THIContents: Personality crisis (New York Dolls) -- Calling all destroyers (T. Rex) -- Sick on you (Hollywood Brats) -- Watch your step (Jook) -- Teenage letter (Count Bishops) -- Gatecrasher (The Hammerstein Gorillas) -- Rough kids (Kilburn and the High Roads) -- Riot in Cell Block no. 9 (Dr. Feelgood) -- 96 tears (Eddie and the Hot Rods) -- Thunderbuck ram (Mott the Hoople) -- Hawkwind (Motörhead) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Mojo 2006
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MOJCall number: CD POP/ROCK MOJO
Hot Chip
Contents: CD. Thieves in the night -- Hand me down your love -- I feel better -- One life stand -- Brothers -- Slush -- Alley cats -- We have love -- Keep quiet -- Take it in --
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Astralwerks 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Hot Chip
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Alliance Entertainment 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK HOTHot Chip
Contents: Careful -- And I was a boy from school -- Colours -- Over and over -- (Just like we) breakdown -- Tchaparian -- Look after me -- The warning -- Arrest yourself -- So glad to see you -- No fit state.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Astralwerks 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK HOTContents: Disc one. Pyjamarama (Roxy Music) -- Ma-Ma-Ma Belle (Electric Light Orchestra) -- Barbecutie (Sparks) -- Joey (single version) (Pretty Things) -- Tumble with me (The Hollywood Brats) -- Rolling with my baby (single version) Silverhead -- Teenage archangel (Be-Bop Deluxe) -- On the ball (Streak) -- Once bitten twice shy (album version) (Ian Hunter) -- Kerb crawler (Hawkwind) -- Payroll (Brutus)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK OH!Fridolfs, Derek
Summary: Collection of short stories with a classic fairy-tale twist set in Batman's Gotham City.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 FRINguyen, Diana Khoi
Summary: Ghost Of is a mourning song, not an exorcism or un-haunting of that which haunts, but attuned attention, unidirectional reaching across time, space, and distance to reach loved ones, ancestors, and strangers. By working with, in, and around the photographs that her brother left behind (from which he cut himself out before his death), Nguyen wrestles with what remains: memory, physical voids,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Omnidawn Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: 811.6 NGUNguyen, Diana Khoi
Summary: "National Book Award finalist Diana Khoi Nguyen's second poetry collection, a haunting of a family's past upon its present, and a frank reckoning with how loss and displacement transform mothers and daughters across generations. In Root Fractures, Diana Khoi Nguyen excavates the moments of rupture in a family: a mother who was forced underground after the Fall of Saigon, a father who engineered...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Classics 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ROANguyen, Phan Qué̂ Mai
Summary: "The multigenerational tale of the Trà̂n family, set against the backdrop of the Việt Nam War. Trà̂n Diệu Lan, who was born in 1920, was forced to flee her family farm with her six children during the Land Reform as the Communist government rose in the North. Years later in Hà Nội, her young granddaughter, Hương, comes of age as her parents and uncles head off down the Hồ Chí Minh Trail to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC NGUCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NGUHot Chip (Musical group)
Contents: Motion sickness -- How do you do? -- Don't deny your heart -- Look at where we are -- These chains -- Night & day -- Flutes -- Now there is nothing -- Ends of the Earth -- Let me be him -- Always been your love.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Domino 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK HOTHot Chip (Musical group)
Contents: Out at the pictures -- Shake a fist -- Ready for the floor -- Bendable poseable -- We're looking for a lot of love -- Touch too much -- Made in the dark -- One pure thought -- Hold on -- Wrestlers -- Don't dance -- Whistle for will -- In the privacy of our love.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Astralwerks 2008
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK HOTSummary: 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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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRENgo, Vinh-Hoi.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lowell House Juvenile 1997