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Summary: Thirteen-year-old Kelly tries to befriend Mr. Weems, a disturbed homeless Vietnam War veteran who spends his days in her suburban ...
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Summary: Shunned and mistreated because of her mixed heritage, and determined to avoid an arranged marriage, seventeen-year-old Loi runs away to Ho Chi Minh City ...
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Summary: Shunned and mistreated because of her mixed heritage and determined to avoid an arranged marriage, seventeen-year-old Loi runs away to Ho Chi Minh City ...
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Summary: Hang, a modern Vietnamese woman, is forced to grow up quickly in her turbulent country, squeezed between traditional gender roles and the rampant corruption ...
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Emergency Librarian. May/Jun93, Vol. 20 Issue 5, p28. 4p. 1 Black and White Photograph.
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Presents several recommended books with a transracial adoption theme to help children understand the concept of adoption. `Adoption,' by Gail B. Stewart; `Adoption and ...
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The Mississippi Quarterly. Winter, 1993, Vol. 47 Issue 1, p105, 8 p.
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Shortly before sunrise on September 21, 1967, Jerry Wayne Boutwell, an eighteen-year-old Mississippian who had never been more than one hundred miles from his home in Pearl ...
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The Mississippi Quarterly. Winter, 1993, Vol. 47 Issue 1, p105, 8 p.
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Shortly before sunrise on September 21, 1967, Jerry Wayne Boutwell, an eighteen-year-old Mississippian who had never been more than one hundred miles from his home in Pearl ...
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Summary: John Kelly tries to juggle two assignments helping a friend and rescuing a group of prisoners in a North Vietnamese prisoner-of-war camp.
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American Heritage. Oct, 1995, Vol. 46 Issue 6, p108, 2 p.
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* By the time Saigon fell, Americans were so sadly familiar with the war's televised jungle patrols, booby traps, napalmed earth, and body bags that little ...
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This is a unique new reference book to English-language writers and writing throughout the present century, in all major genres and from all around the ...
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BERGER, Thomas (Louis) American. Cincinnati, Ohio, 20 July 1924. The University of Cincinnati, B.A. 1948; Columbia University, New York, 1950-51. Served in the United States Army, 1943-46. ...
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BUTLER, Robert Olen, Jr. American. Granite City, Illinois, 20 January 1945. Northwestern University, B.S. 1967; University of Iowa, M.A. 1969; postgraduate study at the New School for ...
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Short Stories for Students. 2001, v. 11, p60-77.
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A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain Robert Olen Butler 1992 Robert Olen Butler had already published five novels—most of them concerning ...
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Black Issues Book Review. Jul/Aug2002, Vol. 4 Issue 4, p24-26. 3p. 3 Color Photographs.
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Provides information on the book-to-movie and vice versa trend in the U.S. entertainment industry, as of July 2002. Novels written by writer-producer-director John Ridley; Distinction ...
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Summary: A Vietnamese man working as Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas's cook in 1934 Paris looks back on his early life in his native country ...
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This unique, four-volume set explains to students how mobilization for war and how wars themselves have altered the fabric of everyday life. Written by scholars ...
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As the freshman class arrives at Philadelphia's Temple University, they will learn about campus rules, meet with their academic advisers and, hopefully, read a book: ``...
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Reports on the eagerness of publishers to capitalize on freshmen reading programs in the U.S. as of September 2005. Increase of interest in reading programs; ...
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This literary criticism presents the book "Meditations in Green" by Stephen Wright. It outlines the characters and explores the book's symbolic use of cinema and ...
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War, Literature & the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities. 2009, Vol. 21 Issue 1/2, p384-398. 15p.
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The article presents the author's reflections regarding the use of writing as a therapeutic practice for war veterans. The author's personal experiences in writing the ...
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Oregonian, The (Portland, OR), April 4, 2010 Sunday Features (O!) Sunrise, 2pp
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Fiction review MATTERHORN Karl Marlantes Atlantic Monthly Press $24.95, 600 pages JOHN FOYSTON I t took Karl Marlantes more than 30 years to write ...
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Irish Times (Dublin, Ireland), March 12, 2011 Books, 4pp
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FICTION: The SentimentalistsBy Johanna Skibsrud Heinemann, 216pp. £12.99 WAR LEAVES LASTING wounds on the mind and in the memory, not only on ...
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