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Sách tiếng Việt · Vietnamese books

Kệ sách này mới bắt đầu — 5 cuốn tiếng Việt hoặc song ngữ, và đang tìm thêm. This run is just beginning: 5 Vietnamese or bilingual titles so far, with more being sought with help from the community.

Language American Sign Language is a language here, not an accommodation.
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窓ぎわのトットちゃん Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window

Tetsuko Kuroyanagi · The middle years · about eight and up

The true story of a small girl who did not fit an ordinary school, and the headmaster who built one that fit her — a train-car classroom where a child was met as she actually was.

Why it belongs The free edge as a school: read the grain of the child before deciding what she can hold. The card leads in Japanese because whose language leads is itself the statement.

  • Attention and wonder
  • Difference honored
  • The table and the gathering

In Japanese, English, Vietnamese, Spanish audiobook

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Inside Out & Back Again

Thanhhà Lại · The middle years · about nine to thirteen

In free verse, a Vietnamese girl loses her home to war and remakes herself, word by word, in a bewildering Alabama.

Why it belongs Le Guin's carrier bag as refugee story, and Kaufman's growth through suffering: a life gathered back together after it is spilled.

  • The thread of years
  • Difference honored

In English, Vietnamese

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Peace Is Every Step Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

Thich Nhat Hanh · True Frequency · eighteen to thirty

The most welcoming door into mindfulness ever written: peace is not a destination but a practice available in every breath, at every stoplight, in every sink of dishes.

Why it belongs For the companion whose own nervous system has forgotten how to be in a room with another person — and for the young adult who needs the same, without being told so.

  • Attention and wonder
  • Belovedness and the secure base

In English, Vietnamese audiobook

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No Mud, No Lotus No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering

Thich Nhat Hanh · True Frequency · for grown-ups

The lotus grows only in mud. Suffering is not something to escape but something to transform — a short, direct book for the ones drowning in it.

Why it belongs For the parent and the companion in the hardest season: the suffering in the room is the soil, not the verdict.

  • Belovedness and the secure base
  • The thread of years

In English, Vietnamese audiobook

Borrow · Libby · borrow — opens Seattle Public's Libby; switch to your own library inside the appSeattle Public Library · Seattle Public LibraryKing County Library · King County LibraryFind a library · WorldCatBARD · available through BARD for eligible readersBookshare · available through BookshareWA Talking Book & Braille · ask the Washington Talking Book & Braille LibraryBuy · Bookshop.org · buy — supports the sourcing map

Buying may earn a small commission; all of it funds the sourcing of home-language editions.

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Phép lạ của sự tỉnh thức The Miracle of Mindfulness

Thich Nhat Hanh · True Frequency · for grown-ups

Written as a letter to a fellow monk: wash the dishes to wash the dishes, not to get them done. The simplest possible instruction in being present.

Why it belongs The Slow Table's founding posture in sixty pages — presence as a practice anyone can begin tonight, in their own kitchen.

  • Attention and wonder

In Vietnamese, English audiobook

Borrow · Libby · borrow — opens Seattle Public's Libby; switch to your own library inside the appSeattle Public Library · Seattle Public LibraryKing County Library · King County LibraryFind a library · WorldCatBARD · available through BARD for eligible readersBookshare · available through BookshareWA Talking Book & Braille · ask the Washington Talking Book & Braille LibraryBuy · Bookshop.org · buy — supports the sourcing map

Buying may earn a small commission; all of it funds the sourcing of home-language editions.

Bạn có thể hỏi Bàn Tham khảo bằng tiếng Việt — một người thật sẽ trả lời. Viết một câu là đủ.

You can ask the Reference Desk in Vietnamese — a real person writes back. One sentence is enough.

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