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Short Story Anthology

by Sam Korsmoe ...

This is the Inaugural Anthology of the Saigon Writers Club.Eight people who live in Ho Chi Minh City (four Vietnamese, two Americans, a Brit, and a Korean) signed up for a creative writing class with the very specific goal of completing their own short story. Over eight weeks and 10 sessions, they covered all the mechanics of fiction writing such as character development, setting, narrative, ... Read more

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This is the Inaugural Anthology of the Saigon Writers Club.Eight people who live in Ho Chi Minh City (four Vietnamese, two Americans, a Brit, and a Korean) signed up for a creative writing class with the very specific goal of completing their own short story. Over eight weeks and 10 sessions, they covered all the mechanics of fiction writing such as character development, setting, narrative,
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Vietnam: Asia's Rising Star

by Brook Taylor, Sam Korsmoe ...

The drivers behind the world's most exciting growth story.For more than 25 years, Vietnam has been one of the most dynamic countries in the world in terms of GDP growth, trade, investment, and other business metrics. The key question is whether or not the country can continue this growth for another 25 years. If it can, Vietnam will become a high-income country like South Korea and Taiwan, the ... Read more

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The drivers behind the world's most exciting growth story.For more than 25 years, Vietnam has been one of the most dynamic countries in the world in terms of GDP growth, trade, investment, and other business metrics. The key question is whether or not the country can continue this growth for another 25 years. If it can, Vietnam will become a high-income country like South Korea and Taiwan, the
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Saigon Stories

An Oral History of Five Vietnamese Families

by Sam Korsmoe ...

Saigon Stories was a book that was a long time in development. I had been living in Vietnam for several years, could speak Vietnamese, and the bug about writing a book about Vietnam had been seeping into my psyche. Eventually, it became too hard to ignore so I had to do something about it. My biggest dilemma was that I wanted to write a book about Vietnam, but the things that I knew and could ... Read more

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Saigon Stories was a book that was a long time in development. I had been living in Vietnam for several years, could speak Vietnamese, and the bug about writing a book about Vietnam had been seeping into my psyche. Eventually, it became too hard to ignore so I had to do something about it. My biggest dilemma was that I wanted to write a book about Vietnam, but the things that I knew and could
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A World Gone Mad for Marathons

(as well as 5Ks, 10Ks, Ultras, trails, tris, cycling.....)

by Sam Korsmoe ...

A World Gone Mad for Marathons is a book about the incredible growth of organized marathons around the world as well as the growth of many other sporting events (i.e. ultras, trail races, triathlons, IRONMANs, duathlons, cycling races, 10Ks, and 5Ks). This growth is occurring irrespective of gender, age, body shape or size, ethnicity, culture, or country. For numerous reasons, millions of people ... Read more

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A World Gone Mad for Marathons is a book about the incredible growth of organized marathons around the world as well as the growth of many other sporting events (i.e. ultras, trail races, triathlons, IRONMANs, duathlons, cycling races, 10Ks, and 5Ks). This growth is occurring irrespective of gender, age, body shape or size, ethnicity, culture, or country. For numerous reasons, millions of people
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Diverse [dɪˈvɜrs, daɪ-, ˈdaɪ vɜrs] AdjectiveShowing a great deal of variety; From the Latin root diversus meaning variousThe etymology of the word diverse accurately defines the settings, themes, voices, and formats of the fiction in this third anthology of the Saigon Writers Club. From human trafficking to crime redemption to the costs of war, friendship, family, and the pursuit of dreams, these ... Read more

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Diverse [dɪˈvɜrs, daɪ-, ˈdaɪ vɜrs] AdjectiveShowing a great deal of variety; From the Latin root diversus meaning variousThe etymology of the word diverse accurately defines the settings, themes, voices, and formats of the fiction in this third anthology of the Saigon Writers Club. From human trafficking to crime redemption to the costs of war, friendship, family, and the pursuit of dreams, these
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I Survived #8: I Survived the Japanese Tsunami, 2011

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Series Book 8 - I Survived
The disaster felt around the world . . . Visiting his dad's hometown in Japan four months after his father's death would be hard enough for Ben. But one morning the pain turns to fear: first, a massive earthquake rocks the quiet coastal village, nearly toppling his uncle's house. Then the ocean waters rise and Ben and his family are swept away-and pulled apart-by a terrible tsunami. Now Ben is ... Read more

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The disaster felt around the world . . . Visiting his dad's hometown in Japan four months after his father's death would be hard enough for Ben. But one morning the pain turns to fear: first, a massive earthquake rocks the quiet coastal village, nearly toppling his uncle's house. Then the ocean waters rise and Ben and his family are swept away-and pulled apart-by a terrible tsunami. Now Ben is
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Across the Mekong River

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In a California courtroom, seventeen-year-old Nou Lee's mind reels with what she is about to do. What she must do to survive. She reflects on the splintered path that led to this moment, beginning twelve years ago in 1978, when her Hmong family escaped from Laos after the Communist takeover. The story follows the Lees from a squalid refugee camp in Thailand to a new life in Minnesota and ... Read more

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In a California courtroom, seventeen-year-old Nou Lee's mind reels with what she is about to do. What she must do to survive. She reflects on the splintered path that led to this moment, beginning twelve years ago in 1978, when her Hmong family escaped from Laos after the Communist takeover. The story follows the Lees from a squalid refugee camp in Thailand to a new life in Minnesota and
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Of Monkey Bridges and Bánh Mì Sandwiches

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A Wall Street Journal BestsellerAn Amazon Bestseller for MemoirPublisher's Weekly BookLife Prize for Memoir"In dark times like these, the ability to find what binds us is vital. In Monkey Bridges and Bánh Mì Sandwiches, Oanh Ngo Usadi brings empathy and vivid storytelling to her young life as a Vietnamese girl fleeing the country with her family after the Vietnam War. At once an od... ... Read more

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A Wall Street Journal BestsellerAn Amazon Bestseller for MemoirPublisher's Weekly BookLife Prize for Memoir"In dark times like these, the ability to find what binds us is vital. In Monkey Bridges and Bánh Mì Sandwiches, Oanh Ngo Usadi brings empathy and vivid storytelling to her young life as a Vietnamese girl fleeing the country with her family after the Vietnam War. At once an od...
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Angels Passing

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Father Michael, in his final assignment, has been asked by his Order to help facilitate recovery of an Asian country blighted by war. On the long odyssey into the interior, his driver and translator Trang tells him a story set in a once-famed traveller’s refuge known as the Inn of Tender Embraces. What starts as a simple tale of ill-fated lovers becomes, for Father Michael, a familiar beacon that ... Read more

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Father Michael, in his final assignment, has been asked by his Order to help facilitate recovery of an Asian country blighted by war. On the long odyssey into the interior, his driver and translator Trang tells him a story set in a once-famed traveller’s refuge known as the Inn of Tender Embraces. What starts as a simple tale of ill-fated lovers becomes, for Father Michael, a familiar beacon that
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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection

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Series Book 33 - Year's Best Science Fiction
In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self evident? The world of science fiction has long been a porthole into the realities of tomorrow, blurring the line between life and art. Now, in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection, the very best SF authors explore ideas of a new world. ... Read more

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In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self evident? The world of science fiction has long been a porthole into the realities of tomorrow, blurring the line between life and art. Now, in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection, the very best SF authors explore ideas of a new world.
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CatStronauts: Race to Mars

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The bestselling CatStronauts series continues in the second book with an all-paws-on-deck situation to be the first on Mars!Fresh off of their heroic mission to save the world, the CatStronauts—Major Meowser, Pom Pom, Blanket and Waffles—are taking a well deserved victory lap. Parades and fancy awards dinners are the new norm!But around the world, other cat space programs are watching—in ... Read more

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The bestselling CatStronauts series continues in the second book with an all-paws-on-deck situation to be the first on Mars!Fresh off of their heroic mission to save the world, the CatStronauts—Major Meowser, Pom Pom, Blanket and Waffles—are taking a well deserved victory lap. Parades and fancy awards dinners are the new norm!But around the world, other cat space programs are watching—in
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The Latehomecomer

A Hmong Family Memoir

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One Hmong family’s harrowing escape from war in Laos to the uncertainty of a new home as refugees in Minnesota.Yang’s award-winning memoir of her family’s harrowing escape from war in Laos is a love letter to her grandmother, a troubling portrait of the consequences of US intervention in Southeast Asia, and a glimpse into the little-seen exodus of the Hmong people, first to refugee camps in ... Read more

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One Hmong family’s harrowing escape from war in Laos to the uncertainty of a new home as refugees in Minnesota.Yang’s award-winning memoir of her family’s harrowing escape from war in Laos is a love letter to her grandmother, a troubling portrait of the consequences of US intervention in Southeast Asia, and a glimpse into the little-seen exodus of the Hmong people, first to refugee camps in
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