Her family lost to the Nazi terror, Helene Gelson survives the Holocaust and determines to locate the son she abandoned in order to save his life and to wreck revenge on those who once betrayed her

Return from Darkness

Vida, Nina

Literature & Fiction

GRAND CENTRAL PUB.

Her family lost to the Nazi terror, Helene Gelson survives the Holocaust and determines to locate the son she abandoned in order to save his life and to wreck revenge on those who once betrayed her

"HEAD-SPINNING, HILARIOUS AND HAUNTING."--GlamourAnh, a brash, resourceful Vietnamese refugee with a tortured past, has survived the end of her homeland, and now hangs on by a thread working in a shady casino in Southern California. She's the only thing standing between her ungrateful family and starvation. By dint of her wits and her guts, she picks up real money selling her phenomenal luck to a drugged-out gambling lawyer.Then, with the help of a legal secretary named Jana, she creates an unlicensed law practice that actually begins to help the Vietnamese immigrants of Little Saigon. But their booming business angers a notorious Vietnamese gang who want to keep the power and the money in their own pockets. Yet Anh isn't afraid of anyone. Alone or with Jana, she's willing to start her own private war, where she takes all weapons, no prisoners, and breathes life into the future from the ashes of the dead."EXUBERANT...Performs the miraculous by making us laugh even as we cry, and takes us a considerable step deeper into the experience of this most unusual group of new Americans."--The New York Times Book Review"FAST-PACED."--New York Newsday

Goodbye, Saigon

Contemporary

Fawcett

"HEAD-SPINNING, HILARIOUS AND HAUNTING."--GlamourAnh, a brash, resourceful Vietnamese refugee with a tortured past, has survived the end of her homeland, and now hangs on by a thread working in a shady casino in Southern California. She's the only thing standing between her ungrateful family and starvation. By dint of her wits and her guts, she picks up real money selling her phenomenal luck to a drugged-out gambling lawyer.Then, with the help of a legal secretary named Jana, she creates an unlicensed law practice that actually begins to help the Vietnamese immigrants of Little Saigon. But their booming business angers a notorious Vietnamese gang who want to keep the power and the money in their own pockets. Yet Anh isn't afraid of anyone. Alone or with Jana, she's willing to start her own private war, where she takes all weapons, no prisoners, and breathes life into the future from the ashes of the dead."EXUBERANT...Performs the miraculous by making us laugh even as we cry, and takes us a considerable step deeper into the experience of this most unusual group of new Americans."--The New York Times Book Review"FAST-PACED."--New York NewsdayFrom the Paperback edition.

Random House Value Publishing

Between Sisters

Lela begins her life a second time within a new adoptive family. Through their kindness she is able to hide from the horror that once embraced her. But when a strange man arrives with a neglected child who needs her love, Lela must again confront her past and forge a new future for herself and for a family that has managed to arise out of ashes.

"HEAD-SPINNING, HILARIOUS AND HAUNTING." --Glamour Anh, a brash, resourceful Vietnamese refugee with a tortured past, has survived the end of her homeland, and now hangs on by a thread working in a shady casino in Southern California. She's the only thing standing between her ungrateful family and starvation. By dint of her wits and her guts, she picks up real money selling her phenomenal luck to a drugged-out gambling lawyer. Then, with the help of a legal secretary named Jana, she creates an unlicensed law practice that actually begins to help the Vietnamese immigrants of Little Saigon. But their booming business angers a notorious Vietnamese gang who want to keep the power and the money in their own pockets. Yet Anh isn't afraid of anyone. Alone or with Jana, she's willing to start her own private war, where she takes all weapons, no prisoners, and breathes life into the future from the ashes of the dead. "EXUBERANT...Performs the miraculous by making us laugh even as we cry, and takes us a considerable step deeper into the experience of this most unusual group of new Americans." --The New York Times Book Review "FAST-PACED." --New York Newsday From the Paperback edition.

Goodbye, Saigon: A Novel

United States

Crown

Lela begins her life a second time within a new adoptive family. Through their kindness she is able to hide from the horror that once embraced her. But when a strange man arrives with a neglected child who needs her love, Lela must again confront her past and forge a new future for herself and for a family that has managed to arise out of ashes.

A disturbing phone confession that she has just accidentally killed her husband from her sister Alice draws Ellie deep into a web of secrets and lies that will reveal horrifying, long-buried truths about her family. By the author of Between Sisters. 15,000 first printing.

The End of Marriage: A Novel

Simon&Schuster

From the author of last year's critically acclaimed Goodbye, Saigon comes a bold a deeply affecting novel about a woman changing, surviving, and fighting for a family she never knew she had. "This is a book to be treasured . . . both for its immediate pleasures and for helping us remember where we've been."--New York Times Book Review. Simultaneous hardcover release from Crown Publishers. 2 cassettes.

Dove Entertainment Inc

"Nina Vida is able to bring to life very intense characters and situations with remarkable clarity."-Elmore Leonard It's 1843, San Antonio, the Republic of Texas. Mexican-born Aurelia Ruiz finds that she may have the power to heal-as well as to curse. She definitely has the power to attract men. Willie Barnett, a young Texas ranger, becomes infatuated with her. Her father sells her to him but insists on a wedding. To the other rangers such a marriage is anathema. When Barnett is killed by Native Americans, pregnant Aurelia finds shelter in a Comanche camp. Joseph Kimmel, a teacher in Independence, Missouri, and son of a Polish Jew, receives word of the death of his brother in San Antonio and sets off for Texas. On the way, his horse is stolen by a runaway slave. Rescued by Henry Castro, who is importing immigrants to populate his planned city, Joseph agrees to marry an Alsatian girl to save her from the Comanches, and they go forth to start their own ranch. Then Joseph meets and is enthralled by Aurelia. When the Texas rangers hear of the Kimmel ranch, where runaway slaves and a Mexican woman live as equals with the owner and his wife, they lynch the black men and kidnap the women and children. To his wife's consternation, Joseph cannot forget Aurelia.

The Texicans

Soho Press

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Return from Darkness

Return from Darkness

Goodbye, Saigon

Goodbye, Saigon

Between Sisters

Goodbye, Saigon: A Novel

Between Sisters

The End of Marriage: A Novel

Between Sisters

The Texicans