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The family recipe : a novel / by Huynh, Carolyn,author.;
"From the author of the "sharp, smart, and gloriously extra" (Nancy Jooyoun Kim, New York Times bestselling author) Good Morning America Book Club Pick The Fortunes of Jaded Women, a stunning family dramedy about estranged siblings competing to inherit their father's Vietnamese sandwich franchise and unravel family mysteries. Duc Tran, the eccentric founder of the Vietnamese sandwich chain Duc's Sandwiches, has decided to retire. No one has heard from his wife, Evelyn, in two decades. She abandoned the family without a trace, and clearly doesn't want anything to do with Duc, the business, or their kids. But the money has to go to someone. With the help of the shady family lawyer, Duc informs his five estranged adult children that to receive their inheritance, his four daughters must revitalize run-down shops in old-school Little Saigon locations across America: Houston, San Jose, New Orleans, and Philadelphia-within a year. But if the first-born (and only) son, Jude, gets married first, everything will go to him. Each daughter is stuck in a new city, battling gentrification, declining ethnic enclaves, and messy love lives, while struggling to modernize their father's American dream. Jude wonders if he wants to marry for love or for money-or neither. As Duc's children scramble to win their inheritance, they begin to learn the real intention behind the inheritance scheme-and the secret their mother kept tucked away in the fireplace, all along. The Family Recipe is about rediscovering one's roots, different types of fatherly love, legacy, and finding a place in a divided country where the only commonality among your neighbors is the universal love of sandwiches"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Families; Family secrets; Family-owned business enterprises; Father and child; Inheritance and succession; Secrecy; Siblings; Vietnamese Americans;
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Dust child : a novel / by Nguyẽ̂n, Phan Qué̂ Mai,1973-author.;
"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"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Abandoned children; Amerasians; Children of military personnel; Families; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Vietnamese Americans;
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The Angry birds movie [videorecording (BLURAY)]. by Sudeikis, Jason; Gad, Josh; Mcbride, Danny; Rudolph, Maya; Hader, Bill; Dinklage, Peter; Penn, Sean;
Director, Clay Kaytis, Fergal Reilly.Jason Sudeikis, Josh Gad, Danny Mcbride, Maya Rudolph, Bill Hader, Peter Dinklage, Sean Penn.On an island populated (almost) entirely by happy, flightless birds, Red, a bird with a temper problem, speedy Chuck, and the volatile Bomb have always been outsiders. But when the island is visited by mysterious green piggies, it's up to these unlikely outcasts to figure out what the pigs are up to.CHVRS rating: G.Blu-ray.
Subjects: Children's.; Children's films.; Animated.; Adventure.;
© 2016., Columbia,
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Lunar New Year love story [graphic novel] / by Yang, Gene Luen,author.; Pham, LeUyen,illustrator.;
Val is ready to give up on love. It's led to nothing but secrets and heartbreak, and she's pretty sure she's cursed--no one in her family, for generations, has ever had any luck with love. But then a chance encounter with a pair of cute lion dancers sparks something in Val. Is it real love? Could this be her chance to break the family curse? Or is she destined to live with a broken heart forever?014-018.Grades 9-12.
Subjects: Graphic novels.; Paranormal comics.; Romance comics.; Chinese New Year; Asian American teenagers; Vietnamese American families; Dating (Social customs); Dating; Fate and fatalism; Spirits;
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Last days in Vietnam [videorecording] / by Bailey, Mark,screenwriter.; Kennedy, Rory,film director,film producer.; McAlester, Keven,screenwriter.; Moxie Firecracker Films, Inc.,production company.; Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.),film distributor.;
Edited by Don Kelszy ; music by Gary Lionelli ; cinematography by Joan Churchill.Originally produced as a documentary released in 2014; broadcast as an episode of the PBS television program American Experience on April 28, 2015.In the final weeks of the Vietnam War, American servicemen and others begin the difficult mission of evacuating as many friends, family members and South Vietnamese collaborators as possible before Saigon falls to the North Vietnamese.E.DVD, widescreen; 5.1 surround.
Subjects: Documentary television programs.; Historical television programs.; Vietnam War, 1961-1975;
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The sympathizer / by Nguyen, Viet Thanh,1971-author.;
Includes bibliographical references.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.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Spy stories.; Communists; Soldiers; Vietnam War, 1961-1975;
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Slender man [videorecording (BLURAY)]. by King, Joey; Telles, Julia Goldani; Sinclair, Jaz; Basso, Annalise;
Joey King, Julia Goldani Telles, Jaz Sinclair, Annalise Basso.Director, Sylvain White.Blu-ray.CHVRS rating: 14A.In a small town in Massachusetts, a group of friends, fascinated by the Internet lore of the Slender Man, attempt to prove that he doesn't actually exist, until one of them mysteriously goes missing.
Subjects: Horror.; Horror.;
© 2018., Columbia Pictures,
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Em / by Thúy, Kim,author.; Fischman, Sheila,translator.; translation of:Thúy, Kim.Em.English.;
"Emma-Jade and Louis are born into the havoc of the Vietnam War. Orphaned, saved and cared for by adults coping with the chaos of Saigon in free-fall, they become children of the Vietnamese diaspora. Em is not a romance in any usual sense of the word, but it is a word whose homonym--aimer, to love--resonates on every page, a book powered by love in the larger sense. A portrait of Vietnamese identity emerges that is wholly remarkable, honed in wartime violence that borders on genocide, and then by the ingenuity, sheer grit and intelligence of Vietnamese-Americans, Vietnamese-Canadians and other Vietnamese former refugees who go on to build some of the most powerful small business empires in the world. Em is a poetic story steeped in history, about those most impacted by the violence and their later accomplishments. In many ways, Em is perhaps Kim Thúy's most personal book, the one in which she trusts her readers enough to share with them not only the pervasive love she feels but also the rage and the horror at what she and so many other children of the Vietnam War had to live through. Written in Kim Thúy's trademark style, near to prose poetry, Em reveals her fascination with connection. Through the linked destinies of characters connected by birth and destiny, the novel zigzags between the rubber plantations of Indochina; daily life in Saigon during the war as people find ways to survive and help each other; Operation Babylift, which evacuated thousands of biracial orphans from Saigon in April 1975 at the end of the Vietnam War; and today's global nail polish and nail salon industry, largely driven by former Vietnamese refugees--and everything in between. Here are human lives shaped both by unspeakable trauma and also the beautiful sacrifices of those who made sure at least some of these children survived"--
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Experimental fiction.; Immigrants; Vietnam War, 1961-1975;
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The crossbow of destiny / by Hoàng, Brandon.;
"When Vietnamese American Freddie Lo finds herself in Vietnam for the first time since she was little, she's not quite sure how to feel. The memories of her extended family are more like distant echoes; she has a tough time speaking Vietnamese; and she can't help but feel like she just isn't Vietnamese enough. Still, this is her chance to reconnect with her family, especially her Ong ngoai--or grandfather--who is receiving a big award. That's when Ong ngoai reveals his secret: He knows the location of an ancient legendary crossbow, one with the power to decimate armies--and he's hidden it away from those who intend to use its magic for evil. But when Ong ngoai is kidnapped, it's up to Freddie, her cousin Lien, and a mysterious boy named Duy to get to the crossbow before it ends up in the wrong hands"--
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Crossbows; Families; Grandparents; Magic; Good and evil;
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Resident evil. [videorecording] / by Anderson, Paul,1965-film producer,film director.; Bolt, Jeremy,film producer.; Glen, Iain,1961-actor.; Hadida, Samuel,film producer.; Jovovich, Milla,actor.; Kulzer, Robert(Motion picture producer),film producer.; Larter, Ali,1976-actor.; Roberts, Shawn,1984-actor.; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),film distributor.;
Milla Jovovich, Iain Glen, Ali Larter, Shawn Roberts, Eoin MacKen, Fraser James, Ruby Rose, William Levy.Picking up immediately after the events in Resident Evil: Retribution, Alice is the only survivor of what was meant to be humanity's final stand against the undead. Now, she must return to where the nightmare began, The Hive in Raccoon City, where the Umbrella Corporation is gathering its forces for a final strike against the only remaining survivors of the apocalypse.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R; for sequences of violence throughout.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Action and adventure films.; Dystopian films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Biological warfare; Zombies;
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Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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