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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."

"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"--

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.

Mai returns to Vietnam, the land of her mother's birth, to discover both a new country and something about herself.

A woman struggles to discern the meaning of life when she is taken as a POW in Vietnam where she learns to train rats. Disguised as a master's thesis, this novel pushes not only the boundaries of genre but those of humanity and faith as well.

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.

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.

In Saigon during the waning days of the Vietnam War, a small-time journalist named John Converse thinks he'll find action - and profit - by getting involved in a big-time drug deal. But back in the States, things go horribly wrong for him. Dog Soldiers perfectly captures the underground mood of America in the 1970s, when amateur drug dealers and hippies encountered profiteering cops and professional killers - and the price of survival was dangerously...

Fifty-year-old Ruth Anne Bond finds her happy marriage, rich life, and firm Catholic faith turned upside down when a secret that she has kept from the family for nearly thirty years is revealed by contact from her illegitimate son.

Tenth-graders Ethan and Ti-Anna go to Hong Kong seeking her father, an exiled Chinese democracy activist who has disappeared, and follow his trail to Vietnam and back, also uncovering illegal activity along the way. Includes author's note and the history behind the novel written by the girl who inspired it.