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...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2002

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRE

Summary: An inner-city detective is investigating the murder of an elderly candy shop owner and finds odd clues along the way, while at the same time trying to find out who he has become.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY HOM

Orange, Tommy

Summary: Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion Prison Castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity. Oakland, 2018. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield is barely holding her family together after the shooting that nearly took the life of her nephew Orvil. Now adrift, Opal searches for a way to heal her wounded family.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD FIC ORA

Florence, Melanie

Summary: "This picture book explores the intergenerational impact of Canada's residential school system that separated Indigenous children from their families. The story recognizes the pain of those whose culture and language were taken from them, how that pain is passed down and shared through generations, and how healing can also be shared. Stolen Words captures the beautiful, healing relationship...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Second Story Press 2017

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FLO

Ahmed, Akbar S.

Summary: Tensions over Islam were escalating in Europe even before 9/11. Since then, repeated episodes of terrorism together with the refugee crisis have dramatically increased the divide between the majority population and Muslim communities, pushing the debate well beyond concerns over language and female dress. Meanwhile, the parallel rise of right-wing, nationalist political parties throughout the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Brookings Institution Press 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.6 AHM

Summary: In a unique collaboration with photographer and educator Wendy Ewald, eighteen immigrant teenagers create an alphabet defining their experiences in pictures and words. Wendy helped the teenagers pose for and design the photographs, interviewing them along the way about their own journeys and perspectives. America Border Culture Dreamer presents Wendy and the students' poignant and powerful...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 305.23 EWA

Summary: The story of several generations of a family, from the arrival of immigrant Sam Krichinsky in the suburb of Baltimore called Avalon, down through his children and grandchildren. The family goes from poverty to prosperity and the world changes around them, but their love and humor hold the family together.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2000

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AVA

Aly, Götz

Summary: "A provocative and insightful analysis that sheds new light on one of the most puzzling and historically unsettling conundrums Why the Germans? Why the Jews? Countless historians have grappled with these questions, but few have come up with answers as original and insightful as those of maverick German historian Gotz Aly. Tracing the prehistory of the Holocaust from the 1800s to the Nazis'...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt & Co 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.0049 ALY

Cobb, Daniel M.

Summary: Join the Smithsonian Institution to discover the rich history of native Americans.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.004 NAT

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD NAT

Hsu, Hua

Summary: "From the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu, a gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for self, and the solace that can be found through art. In the eyes of 18-year-old Hua Hsu, the problem with Ken-with his passion for Dave Matthews, Abercrombie & Fitch, and his fraternity-is that he is exactly like everyone else. Ken, whose Japanese American family has been in the United States for...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2022

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B HSU HSU

Gurnah, Abdulrazak

Summary: Salim has always known that his father does not want him. Living with his parents and his adored Uncle Amir in a house full of secrets, he is a bookish child, a dreamer haunted by night terrors. It is the 1970s and Zanzibar is changing. Tourists arrive, the island's white sands obscuring the memory of recent conflict--the longed-for independence from British colonialism swiftly followed by...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GUR

Charles, Mark

Summary: "You cannot discover lands already inhabited. In this prophetic blend of history, theology, and cultural commentary, Mark Charles and Soong-Chan Rah reveal the damaging effects of the "Doctrine of Discovery," which institutionalized American triumphalismand white supremacy. This book calls our nation and churches to a truth-telling that will expose past injustices and open the door to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: IVP, an imprint of InterVarsity Press 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 261.7 CHA

Summary: Presents the theory that the American dream, all but abandoned in the United States, has been adopted successfully in other countries, including Italy, France, Finland, Slovenia, Germany, Portugal, Norway, Tunisia, and Iceland, looking at such areas as worker benefits, public expenditure for the common good, and state-funded higher education.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2016

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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WHE

Diamond, Jared M.

Summary: Draws on decades of field work in the Pacific islands and other world regions to illuminate the degree to which modern society reflects traditional cultures from earlier and ancient time periods.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2013

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 305.89 DIA

Kilar, Jeremy W.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2002

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4 DTP

Summary: A mystery man, a murder, and a wad of missing cash in his wryly offbeat breakthrough, Wayne Wang updates the ingredients of classic film noir for the streets of contemporary San Francisco's Chinatown. When their business partner disappears with the money they had planned to use for a cab license, driver Jo and his nephew Steve scour the city's back alleys, waterfronts, and Chinese restaurants...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY CHA

Cao, 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,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAO

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Cao 2014

Lien, Tracey

Summary: A young Vietnamese-Australian woman returns home to her family in the wake of her brother's murder and becomes determined to discover what happened in this exploration of the bonds of friendship, family, and community.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC LIE

Obama, Michelle

Summary: "Mrs. Obama offers readers a series of fresh stories and insightful reflections on change, challenge, and power, including her belief that when we light up for others, we can illuminate the richness and potential of the world around us, discovering deeper truths and new pathways for progress. Drawing from her experiences as a mother, daughter, spouse, friend, and First Lady, she shares the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OBA

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OBA

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OBA

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OBAMA, MICHELLE OBA

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B OBAMA OBA

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio Obama

Summary: Chronicles over three centuries of Jewish life in America; with interviews and archival footage.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2008

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV JEW

Buruma, Ian.

Summary: "A family history of surpassing beauty and power: Ian Buruma's account of his grandparents' enduring love through the terror and separation of two world wars. During the almost six years England was at war with Nazi Germany, Winifred and Bernard Schlesinger, Ian Buruma's grandparents, and the film director John Schlesinger's parents, were, like so many others, thoroughly sundered from each...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 BUR

Duane, Anna Mae

Summary: "Educated for Freedom" explores the story of two fugitive schoolboys who grew up to change a nation"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 DUA

Faderman, Lillian.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 1998

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.89 FAD

Flood, Reneé S.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 1995

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LOST BIRD FLO