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Author
Language
English
Description
Against the intrigue and violence of Vietnam during the French war with the Vietminh, Alden Pyle, an idealistic young American, is sent to promote democracy, as his friend, Fowler, a cynical foreign correspondent, looks on. Fowler's mistress, a beautiful native girl, creates a catalyst for jealousy and competition between the men and a cultural clash resulting in bloodshed and deep misgivings.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When Jade Nguyen arrives in Vietnam for a visit with her estranged father, she has one goal: survive five weeks pretending to be a happy family in the French colonial house Ba is restoring. She's always lied to fit in, so if she's straight enough, Vietnamese enough, American enough, she can get out with the college money he promised. But the house has other plans. Night after night, Jade wakes up paralyzed. The walls exude a thrumming sound, while...
Author
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
When Brandon Condley, on a routine mission to recover the remains of unknown American soldiers in Vietnam, finds a body whose dog tags don't match, he discovers a link that may enable him to search for two treasonous Americans known as "Salt and Pepper."
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2011.
Language
English
Description
Searching for answers about her dissident father's disappearance, a Vietnamese-American art curator returns to her ancestral country, where she meets a venerable pho stall soup maker and a dynamic young tour guide whose historical and cultural insights irrevocably shape her life.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine/Presidio
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A darkly comic novel set against the backdrop of the Vietnam War captures the experiences of American GIs who must win the heart of a reluctant country despite their lack of knowledge of the language, customs, people, and their mission itself.
Author
Series
Vietnam volume 3
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rudi is a newly drafted United States Marine in Vietnam, and he likes being part of a squad--but the way some of his fellow soldiers behave toward their officers, the Vietnamese, and the war itself, is starting to trouble him.
9) Finding Papa
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
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.
10) Without remorse
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
John Kelly, former Navy SEAL and Vietnam veteran, is still getting over the accidental death of his wife six months before, when he befriends a young woman with a decidedly checkered past. When that past reaches out for her in a particularly horrifying fashion, he vows revenge and, assembling all of his old skills, sets out to track down the men responsible, before it can happen again. At the same time, the Pentagon is readying an operation to rescue...
11) Journey home
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
Mai returns to Vietnam, the land of her mother's birth, to discover both a new country and something about herself.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
c1992.
Language
English
Description
Shunned and mistreated because of her mixed heritage and determined to avoid an arranged marriage, seventeen-year-old Loi runs away to Ho Chi Minh City with the hope that she and the boy she loves will be able to go to the United States to find her American father
Author
Series
Andrews Lori volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
When Dr. Alexandra Blake, a forensic specialist at the Armed Forces Institute, is assigned the task of returning several skulls brought home by American soldiers from Vietnam, she discovers that the case could be tied to another with a link to Vietnam.
14) Ten mice for Tet
Author
Publisher
Chronicle
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
A village of mice prepares for Tet, or Vietnamese New Year, as different numbers of mice give gifts, cook food, and celebrate in other traditional ways. Includes an afterword with facts about the holiday.
15) Listen, slowly
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Assisting her grandmother's investigation of her grandfather's fate during the Vietnam War, Mai struggles to adapt to an unfamiliar culture while redefining her sense of family.
17) Butterfly yellow
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A Vietnam War refugee in Texas partners with a city boy with rodeo dreams to track down the younger brother she was separated from six years before when he was evacuated by American troops during the waning days of the Vietnam War.
18) Absolution
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
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 cabal of well-dressed do-gooder American wives. Armed with...
19) Fly free!
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
When Mai feeds the caged birds at a Buddhist temple in Vietnam, her simple act of kindness starts a chain of thoughtful acts that ultimately comes back to her. Includes author's note explaining the Buddhist concepts of karma and samsara, or the wheel of life.
Author
Series
Vietnam volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Enlisting as a group when one of them is drafted into the Vietnam War, best friends Morris, Rudi, Ivan, and Beck pledge their loyalty to one another before reporting to different branches of service.
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