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23) Gouda friends
Author
Series
Publisher
Montlake
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Two high school BFFs reunite and endeavor to fix each other's lives"--
24) Bay of sorrows
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
On the Texas Gulf coast, where the oil rigs stand idle and the shrimp fishing has dwindled to almost nothing, a Vietnamese fisherman is found dead in his shack. The local sheriff rules suicide, but deputy sheriff Tom Poole, a Vietnam War veteran, thinks the fisherman's death deserves at least an investigation. The sheriff refuses so Poole sets out on his own to discover murder and gold.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"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, illuminating events central to twentieth-century history through...
Author
Publisher
Sarabande Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
"In an essay written for his ESL class, a young student describes his flight from Vietnam at the age of twelve, in a fishing boat with three friends. They were beaten by Thai pirates, fell faint with hunger and pain, until they were "pushed to the kind shore by a finger of God." The phrase evokes an overriding metaphor for this first novel by Kate Gadbow, in which a community of Vietnamese and Hmong refugees struggles to maintain balance between the...
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