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Vietnam Fiction & Memoir

  • "If You Lived Here," by Dana Sachs
  • "Bringing Our Angel Home," by Tracy Sanford Pillow
  • "Finding Katherine: A Spiritual Journey to Vietnam and Motherhood,"
    by Ellen Fitzenrider
  • "Beyond the Blue," by Leslie Gould
  • "The House on Dream Street," by Dana Sachs
  • "Earth and Water: Encounters in Viet Nam," by Edith Shillue
  • "When Heaven and Earth Changed Places," by Le Ly Hayslip
  • "Child of War, Woman of Peace," by Le Ly Hayslip
  • "Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Journey through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam," by Andrew Pham
  • "After Sorrow Comes Joy," by Cherie Clark
  • "Stealing Buddha's Dinner: A Memior," by Bich Nguyen
  • "Paradise of the Blind," by Duong Thu Huong
  • "The Sacred Willow: Four Generations in the Life of a Vietnamese Family," by Duong Van Mai Elliott
  • "The Tapestries," by Kien Nguyen
  • "The Unwanted," by Kien Nguyen


    Vietnam Art & Photography
  • "Passage to Vietnam: Through the Eyes of Seventy Photographers," by Smolan and Erwitt, Eds.


    Vietnamese Cookbooks

  • "Into the Vietnamese Kitchen," by Andrea Nguyen
  • "The Best of Nicole Routhier," by Nicole Routhier
  • "Authentic Vietnamese Cooking: Food from a Family Table," by Corinne Trang
  • "The Best of Vietnamese & Thai Cooking: Favorite Recipes from Lemon Grass Restaurant and Cafes," by Mai Pham
  • "Hot Sour Salty Sweet: A Culinary Journey Through Southeast Asia," by Jeffrey Alford
  • "Authentic Recipes from Vietnam," by Trieu Thi Choi


    Vietnam Books for Kids and Younger Readers
  • "When You Were Born in Vietnam," by Therese Bartlett
  • "Water Buffalo Days: Growing up in Vietnam," by Quang Nhoung Huynh
  • "Escape from Saigon: How a Vietnam War Orphan Became an American Boy," by Andrea Warren
  • "Dear Sam and Dani: An Adoption Journal," by Cindy Roberts
  • "Oxford Picture Dictionary English/Vietnamese," by Shapiro and
    Adelson-Goldstein
  • "Children of the Dragon," by Sherry Garland
  • "The Golden Carp and Other Tales from Vietnam," by Lynette Dyer Vuong and Manabu Saito
  • "Look What We've Brought You From Vietnam," by Phyllis Shalant
  • "Vietnamese in America," by Lori Coleman
  • "Sing n Learn Vietnamese," by Hop Thi Nguyen and Selina Yoon
  • "How Tiger Got His Stripes,' by Rob Cleveland
  • "Toad is the Uncle of Heaven, "by Jeanne M Lee
  • "Hoang Anh: A Vietnamese-American Boy," by Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith
  • "Tam's Slipper," by Janet Palazzo-Craig
  • "Grandfather's Dream," by Holly Keller
  • "Children of Vietnam," by Maribeth Lorbiecki
  • "Ten Mice for Tet," by Pegi Deitz Shea and Cynthia Weill
  • "Angel Child, Dragon Child," by Michele Maria Surat
  • "Going Home, Coming Home," by Truong Tran
  • "Huy and Vinh's Day," by Jim Holmes and Tom Morgan
  • "Vero and Philippe," by Caroline Hatton
  • "When Heaven Fell," by Carolyn Marsden
  • "The Lotus Seed," by Sherry Garland
  • "The Farmer, the Buffalo, and the Tiger: A Folktale from Vietnam,"
    by Cheryl Hamada
  • "The Crystal Heart: A Vietnamese Legend," by Aaron Shepard and Joseph Daniel Fiedler
  • "Why Ducks Sleep on One Leg," by Sherry Garland, Jean Tseng, Mou-Sen, and Mou-Sien Tseng


    Vietnam Movies
  • "Daughter from Da Nang" 2002
  • "Heaven and Earth" 1993
  • "Cyclo" 1995
  • "Scent of Green Papaya" 1993
  • "Buffalo Boy" 2004
  • "The Children of An Lac" 1989
  • "Journey from the Fall" 2007
  • "Three Seasons" 1999
  • "Globe Trekker: Vietnam" 2004
  • "Families in Vietnam" [children's series]


    Magazines
  • Audrey Magazine


    Adoption for Parents
  • "Are Those Kids Yours?: American Families with Children Adopted from Other Countries," by Cheri Register
  • "Adoption Parenting: Creating a Toolbox, Building Connections," by MacLeod and Macrae, Eds.
  • "Adoption is a Family Affair," by Patricia Irwin Johnston
  • "Cross-Cultural Adoption: How to Answer Questions from Family, Friends, and Community," by Coughlin and Abramozitz
  • "Attaching in Adoption," by Deborah Gray
  • "Toddler Adoption: The Weaver's Craft," by Mary Hopkins-Best
  • "Our Own: Adopting and Parenting the Older Child," by Trish Maskew
  • "Beyond Good Intentions: A Mother Reflects On Raising Internationally Adopted Children," by Cheri Register



    Adoption For Kids
  • "A New Barker In the House," by Tomie de Paola
  • "My Family is Forever," by Nancy Carlson
  • "Rosie's Family: an Adoption Story," by Lori Rosove
  • "Danielle, Where Are You?" by Cindi Roberts
  • "You're Not My Real Mother" by Molly Friedrich
  • "A Mother for Choco" by Keiko Kasza
  • "Motherbridge of Love," by Josee Masse (Ill.)
  • "I Don't Have Your Eyes," by Carrie A Kitze
  • "Families Are Forever," by Craig Shemin
  • "We See the Moon," by Carrie A Kitze
  • "Forever Fingerprints," by Sherrie Eldridge

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