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      By Lam, Vincent
       c2012., General, Doubleday Canada Call No: Fic Lam    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Percival Chen is the headmaster of the most respected English school in Saigon. When his only son gets in trouble, Percival is forced to send him away. Percival finds solace in Jacqueline, and Laing Jai, a son born on the eve of the Tet offensive. Soon he must confront the tragedy of all he has refused to see. He is also a bon vivant, a compulsive gambler and an incorrigible womanizer. He is well accustomed to bribing a forever-changing list of government officials in order to maintain the elite status of the Chen Academy.
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      By Lam, Vincent
       c2012., General, Doubleday Canada Edition: eBook ed.    Summary Note: Percival Chen is the headmaster of the most respected English school in Saigon. When his only son gets in trouble, Percival is forced to send him away. Percival finds solace in Jacqueline, and Laing Jai, a son born on the eve of the Tet offensive. Soon he must confront the tragedy of all he has refused to see. He is also a bon vivant, a compulsive gambler and an incorrigible womanizer. He is well accustomed to bribing a forever-changing list of government officials in order to maintain the elite status of the Chen Academy.
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      By Lam, Vincent
       2011., General, Penguin Group (Canada) Call No: Bio D733l    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Series Title: Extraordinary Canadians.Summary Note: Once voted the Greatest Canadian of all time and known as the Father of Medicare, Tommy Douglas was a prairie politician who believed in democratic socialism, the crucial role of civil rights, and the great potential of cooperation for the common good. In the process he made democratic socialism a part of mainstream Canadian political life. Giller Prize winning author Vincent Lam, an emergency physician who works on the frontlines of the health care system, brings a novelist§s eye to the life of one of Canada's greats.