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Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
Vietnamese
Description
On the bustling streets of Saigon, three very different people all seeking connection are about to collide. A beautiful flight attendant looking for love, a zookeeper hiding within his animal kingdom to nurse a broken heart, and the young flower-selling runaway who brings them together.
Author
Publisher
Running Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Gomez is known for her easy mix of cooking traditions from the American South and her homeland of Kerala in Southern India. Here she embraces dishes from around the globe, with recipes that focus on cross-cultural flavors, rainbows of vegetables, gem-toned desserts, and spice-forward twists.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The true story of the fierce band of women who battled Washington, and Hanoi, to bring their husbands home from the jungles of Vietnam. On February 12, 1973, one hundred and sixteen men who, just six years earlier, had been high flying Navy and Air Force pilots, shuffled, limped, or were carried off a huge military transport plane at Clark Air Base in the Philippines. These American servicemen had endured years of brutal torture, kept shackled and...
85) Furie
Publisher
Well Go USA Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Vietnamese
Description
When a little girl is kidnapped by a trafficking ring, they soon find they messed with the wrong child. Her mother, a notorious former gang leader, is close on their trail and will go to any lengths to bring her daughter home.
86) Furie
Publisher
Well Go USA Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Vietnamese
Description
An ex-gangster lying low in the countryside after becoming a mother can't escape her violent past when her daughter is kidnapped.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penton Overseas, Inc
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
TravelTalk presents a simplified language survival system for travelers. Includes audio in both English & target language to help ensure that travelers will arrive and survive ...and enjoy communicating with native speakers.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
With insight, humor, formal invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two Faces Viet Thanh Nguyen rewinds the film of his own life. He expands the genre of personal memoir by acknowledging larger stories of refugeehood, colonization, and ideas about Vietnam and America, writing with his trademark sardonic wit and incisive analysis, as well as a deep emotional openness about his life as a father and a son. At the age of four, Nguyen and his family are forced...
Author
Series
Trot and Cap'n Bill adventure volume 1
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Trot, a Vietnamese American surfer girl, and Cap'n Bill, her cranky one-eyed cat, catch too big a wave and wipe out, sucked down into a magical underwater kingdom where an ancient deep-sea battle rages. The beautiful Sea Siren mermaids are under attack from the Serpent King and his slithery minions--and Trot and her feline become dangerously entangled in this war of tails and fins. This beautiful graphic novel was inspired by The Sea Fairies, L. Frank...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The founder of the literary journal "Fairy Tale Review" collects stories inspired by classic fairy tales and written by such authors as Joyce Carol Oates, John Updike, Francine Prose, Kevin Brockmeier, and Shelley Jackson.
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Thien's first memory isn't a sight or a sound. It's the sweetness of watermelon and the saltiness of fish. It's the taste of the foods he ate while adrift at sea as his family fled Vietnam. After the Pham family arrives at a refugee camp in Thailand, they struggle to survive. Things don't get much easier once they resettle in California. And through each chapter of their lives, food takes on a new meaning. Strawberries come to signify struggle as...
Author
Series
Trot and Cap'n Bill adventure volume 2
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
School's out and Trot and Cap'n Bill are looking forward to a carefree summer of surfing. But trouble surfaces when Grandpa hooks a message in a bottle while fishing. Clia, the Sea Siren princess, and Anko, King of the Sea Serpents, need their help: Merla, their Sea Siren friend, has been kidnapped! Trot, her cat, and her grandfather join the rescue effort which takes them to an old abandoned amusement park island resort, where plans are afoot for...
Publisher
Norton
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
"This jewel of an anthology features courageous mothers, clever young girls, and warrior women, heroines that save lives and bring peace to their communities not through brute strength, although endurance is a frequent feat, but through creativity, intelligence, eloquence, wisdom, kindness, perseverance, and loyalty. Ragan's concise yet discerning commentary follows each tale, making this affirming and long-overdue collection as edifying as it is...
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"When Air Force pilot Captain Carlyle "Smitty" Harris was shot down over Vietnam on April 4, 1965, he had no idea what horrors awaited him in the infamous Hoa Lo prison--nicknamed the "Hanoi Hilton." Harris was the sixth American POW captured in the air war over North Vietnam, and for the next eight years, Smitty and hundreds of other American POWs--including John McCain and George "Bud" Day--suffered torture, solitary confinement, and abuse. Their...
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