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Brookline - Adult
FIC Nguyen, Phan
1 available
FIC Nguyen, Phan
1 available
Brookline Putterham - Adult
FIC Nguyen, Phan
1 available
FIC Nguyen, Phan
1 available
Description
"In 1969, sisters Trang and Quynh, desperate to help their parents pay off debts, leave their rural village to work at a bar in Sai Gon. Once in the big city, the young girls are thrown headfirst into a world they were not expecting. They learn how to speak English, how to dress seductively, and how to drink and flirt (and more) with American GIs in return for money. As the war moves closer to the city, the once-innocent Trang gets swept up in an...
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On Shelf
1 copy on order.
Brookline - New Books
FIC Chan, Vanessa
1 available
FIC Chan, Vanessa
1 available
Brookline Coolidge Corner - New Books
FIC Chan, Vanessa
1 available
FIC Chan, Vanessa
1 available
Brookline Putterham - New Books
FIC Chan, Vanessa
1 available
FIC Chan, Vanessa
1 available
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9 copies, 52 people are on the wait list.
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11 copies, 99 people are on the wait list.
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11 copies, 99 people are on the wait list.
Description
"Malaya, 1945. Cecily Alcantara's family is in terrible danger: her fifteen-year-old son, Abel, has disappeared, and her youngest daughter, Jasmin, is confined in a basement to prevent being pressed into service at the comfort stations. Her eldest daughter Jujube, who works at a tea house frequented by drunk Japanese soldiers, becomes angrier by the day. Cecily knows two things: that this is all her fault; and that her family must never learn the...
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On Shelf
1 copy on order.
Brookline - Adult
FIC Lawhon, Ariel
1 available
FIC Lawhon, Ariel
1 available
Brookline Coolidge Corner - Adult
FIC Lawhon, Ariel
1 available
FIC Lawhon, Ariel
1 available
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4 copies, 48 people are on the wait list.
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8 copies, 80 people are on the wait list.
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8 copies, 80 people are on the wait list.
Description
"A novel based on the real life story of socialite spy Nancy Wake, about the astonishing woman who killed a Nazi with her bare hands and went on to become one of the most decorated women in WWII" --
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eAudiobook
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40 copies, 233 people are on the wait list.
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61 copies, 607 people are on the wait list.
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61 copies, 607 people are on the wait list.
On Shelf
Brookline Coolidge Corner - Large Print
LGTYPE FIC Hannah, Kristin
1 available
LGTYPE FIC Hannah, Kristin
1 available
On Shelf
Brookline - Audiovisual
BkOnCD Hannah, Kristin
1 available
BkOnCD Hannah, Kristin
1 available
Brookline Coolidge Corner - Audiovisual
BkOnCD Hannah, Kristin
1 available
BkOnCD Hannah, Kristin
1 available
Brookline Putterham - Audiovisual
BkOnCD Hannah, Kristin
1 available
BkOnCD Hannah, Kristin
1 available
Description
"An epic love story and family drama set at the dawn of World War II"--Provided by publisher.
"Viann and Isabelle have always been close despite their differences. Younger, bolder sister Isabelle lives in Paris while Viann lives a quiet and content life in the French countryside with her husband Antoine and their daughter. When World War II strikes and Antoine is sent off to fight, Viann and Isabelle's father sends Isabelle to help her older sister...
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eAudiobook
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3 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
Description
"A boldly imagined debut novel about three Vietnamese siblings who seek refuge in the UK, expanding into a luminous meditation on ancestry and love. After the last American troops leave Vietnam, siblings Anh, Thanh, and Minh begin a perilous journey to Hong Kong with the promise that their parents and younger siblings will soon follow. But when tragedy strikes, the three children are left orphaned, and sixteen-year-old Anh becomes the caretaker for...
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On Shelf
Brookline - Adult
FIC Urrea, Luis
4 available
FIC Urrea, Luis
4 available
Brookline Putterham - Adult
FIC Urrea, Luis
1 available
FIC Urrea, Luis
1 available
Description
Abandoning her abusive fiancâe in New York in 1943 to enlist with the Red Cross and head to Europe, Irene Woodward befriends Dorothy Dunford as they join the Allied soldiers streaming into France after D-Day where they are embroiled in danger, from the Battle of the Bulge to the liberation of Buchenwald, and where Irene learns to trust again through their friendship."
"In 1943, Irene Woodward abandons an abusive fiancé in New York to enlist with...
7) Absolution
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On Shelf
1 copy on order.
Brookline - Quick Pick
QUICK PICK FIC McDermott, Alice
1 available
QUICK PICK FIC McDermott, Alice
1 available
Brookline Coolidge Corner - Adult
QUICK PICK FIC McDermott, Alice
1 available
QUICK PICK FIC McDermott, Alice
1 available
Checked Out
8 copies, 62 people are on the wait list.
On Shelf
35 copies available. 1 copy on order.
Brookline - Large Print
LGTYPE FIC McDermott, Alice
1 available
LGTYPE FIC McDermott, Alice
1 available
Description
American women - American wives - have been mostly minor characters in the literature of the Vietnam War, but in Absolution they take center stage. Tricia is a shy newlywed, married to a rising attorney on loan to navy intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a beauty and a bully. In Saigon in 1963, the two women form a wary alliance as they balance the era's mandate to be "helpmeets" to their ambitious husbands...
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Description
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.
"It is April 1975, and Saigon is in chaos. At his villa, a general of the South Vietnamese army is drinking whiskey and, with the help of his trusted captain, drawing up a list of those who will be given passage aboard the last flights out of the country. The general and his compatriots start a new life in Los...
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eBook
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"Since it burst onto the literary scene over twenty-five years ago, The Things They Carried has not stopped changing minds and lives, challenging readers in their perceptions of fact and fiction, war and peace, courage and fear and longing. It is an unparalleled Vietnam testament and a major literary achievement. It depicts the men of Alpha Company, who carried love letters, mine detectors, Bibles, and each other. And if they made it home, they carried...
Description
"Descendants of Vietnam veterans and refugees confront the aftermath of war and, in verse and prose, deliver another kind of war story. Fifty years after the Vietnam War, this anthology by descendants of Vietnam veterans and refugees--American, Vietnamese, Vietnamese Diaspora, Hmong, Australian, and others--confronts war and its aftermath. What emerges is an affecting portrait of the effects of war and family--an intercultural, generational dialogue...
11) The women
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132 copies, 1608 people are on the wait list.
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190 copies, 2603 people are on the wait list.
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190 copies, 2603 people are on the wait list.
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64 copies, 349 people are on the wait list. 5 copies on order.
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7 copies, 20 people are on the wait list. 2 copies on order.
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34 copies, 34 people are on the wait list. 1 copy on order.
Description
"'Women can be heroes, too.' When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances Frankie McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different choice for her life. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she impulsively joins...
