Nguyẽ̂n, Phan Qué̂ Mai
Summary: "An American GI, two Vietnamese bargirls, and an Amerasian man are forced to make decisions during and after the Viet Nam War that will reverberate throughout one another's lives"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction NguyenBond, Larry.
Summary: CIA officer Mara Duncan is on assignment in bomb-torn Hanoi to get scientist Josh MacArthur and a seven-year-old witness to Chinese atrocities in Vietnam out of the country safely. Meanwhile, U.S. Army advisor Zeus Murphy is given the impossible task of preventing the Chinese from landing on Vietnam's coast. This operation will go down in the annals of SpecWar history as either one of the most...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BONNguyen, Viet Thanh
Summary: It is April 1975 and Saigon is in chaos. At his villa, a general of the South Vietnamese army is drinking whiskey and, with the help of his trusted captain, drawing up a list of those who will be given passage aboard the last flights out of the country. The general and his compatriots start a new life in Los Angeles, unaware that one among their number, the captain, is secretly observing and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2015
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Summary: A story that follows an American female combat photographer in the Vietnam War as she captures the wrenching chaos and finds herself torn between the love of two men.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOLButler, Robert Olen.
Summary: After letting a Viet Cong suspect escape, a soldier faces a court-martial, but during the trial, he realizes that he may have left a child behind, and he returns to Vietnam.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holt 1993
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Summary: It is April 1975 and Saigon is in chaos. At his villa, a general of the South Vietnamese army is drinking whiskey and, with the help of his trusted captain, drawing up a list of those who will be given passage aboard the last flights out of the country. The general and his compatriots start a new life in Los Angeles, unaware that one among their number, the captain, is secretly observing and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: "Follows young Mai and her mother's perilous journey from Vietnam to America to find Papa--who left ahead of them to start a better life for their family"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KRADeMille, Nelson.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2002
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Summary: There is a name carved into the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, D.C., of an American Army lieutenant whose death is shrouded in mystery. The authorities have reason to believe that he was not killed by the enemy or by friendly fire; they suspect he was murdered. The incident happened over three decades ago in Vietnam but the only evidence is a recently discovered letter written by an enemy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Time Warner AudioBooks 2002
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DEMWebb, James H.
Summary: Portrays the story of the Vietnam War through the eyes of Brandon Condley, who remembers how Vietnam was when he served there as a Marine when he returns to it after a thirty year absence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEBCoonts, Stephen
Summary: A secret service agent is dead by apparent suicide, a presidential candidate narrowly escapes assassination, and Desk Three is searching for a chilling connection deep inside the Republic of Vietnam. Charlie Dean is in Vietnam to find the source of some threatening email when he comes face to face with a man he thought he had killed; while Deep Black agent, Lia DeFrancesca uncovers the man in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC COOGlenn, Tom
Summary: "A novel that transcends the limitations of "war fiction," Tom Glenn's Last of the Annamese is a book that examines the choices forced upon those who fight wars, those who flee them, and those who survive them. The rare novel that eloquently describes the burden of loss, Last of the Annamese evokes a haunting portrait of the lives of those trapped in Saigon in April 1975 as the city, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Naval Institute Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GLEBohjalian, Chris
Summary: "A twisting story of love and deceit: an American man vanishes from a rural road in Vietnam and his girlfriend, an ER doctor trained in deductive reasoning, follows a path that leads her home to the very hospital where they first met. Alexis and Austen met on a Saturday night. Not in a bar, but instead in the emergency room where Alexis sutured a bullet wound in Austen's arm. Six months later,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOHNguyen, Viet Thanh
Summary: It is April 1975 and Saigon is in chaos. At his villa, a general of the South Vietnamese army is drinking whiskey and, with the help of his trusted captain, drawing up a list of those who will be given passage aboard the last flights out of the country. The general and his compatriots start a new life in Los Angeles, unaware that one among their number, the captain, is secretly observing and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC NGUShors, John
Summary: When Iris' father, a Vietnam vet, makes a dying wish that she take over the operation of a shelter for street children in Ho Chi Minh City, she agrees--and takes with her her long-time friend Noah, an Iraq War veteran.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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Summary: Follows a Viet Cong agent as he spies on a South Vietnamese army general and his compatriots as they start a new life in 1975 Los Angeles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Nguyen 2015Nguyen, 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 NGUMcDermott, Alice
Summary: Tricia is a shy newlywed, married to a rising attorney on loan to navy intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a beauty and a bully. In Saigon in 1963, the two women form a wary alliance as they balance the era's mandate to be "helpmeets" to their ambitious husbands with their own, inchoate impulse to "do good" for the people of Vietnam. Sixty years later,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: "A young conservationist overcomes the odds to return a sun bear to its natural habitat"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 NGUKeenan, Sheila
Summary: Three fictional stories, told in graphic novel format, about soldiers in World War I, World War II, and the Vietnam War who were aided by combat dogs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2013
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Summary: "An evocative historical novel set in 1930's Indochine, about the American wife of a Michelin heir who journeys to the French colony in the name of family fortune, and the glamorous, tumultuous world she finds herself in-and the truth she may be running from. On a humid afternoon in 1933, American Jessie Lesage steps off a boat from Paris and onto the shores of Vietnam. Accompanying her French...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TANPham, Andrew X.
Summary: In the Vietnamese fishing village of Phan Thiet in 1942, Tuyet meets and falls in love with Japanese major Yamazaki Takeshi, a wounded veteran with a good heart, but when he risks his life for the Resistance, she and her family are drawn into the conflict, with devastating consequences.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC PHAMcDermott, Alice
Summary: In Saigon in 1963, two young American wives form a wary alliance. Tricia is a starry-eyed newlywed, married to a rising oil engineer “on loan” to US Navy Intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a talented hostess and determined altruist, on a mission to relieve the “wretchedness” she sees all around her. When Tricia miscarries, Charlene sweeps her into a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLENguyen, 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