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“I suppose I did it because I wanted something to show for the thirty years—longer than I had lived in my homeland—that I had been here in America. Something that was properly appreciated, even if someone else got all the credit.” Liu Qingwu doesn’t set out to commit a crime. He only wants to sell a painting—something more substantial than the Impressionist knockoffs he flogs to tourists outside New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. But the lucrative commission he receives from a Chelsea art dealer is more complicated than he initially realizes. Liu has been hired to create not an homage to Andrew Cantrell’s modernist masterpiece, Elegy, but a forgery that will sell for millions. The painting will change the lives of everyone associated with it—Liu, a Chinese immigrant still reeling from his wife’s recent departure; Caroline, a gallery owner intent on saving her aunt’s legacy; Molly, her perceptive assistant; and Harold, a Taiwanese businessman with an ethical dilemma on his hands. Weaving together their stories with that of Cantrell and the inspiration for his masterpiece, Wendy Lee’s intricate, multilayered novel explores the unique fascination of great art and the lengths to which some are driven to create it—and to possess it.

A novel that captures the struggle of the immigrant experience explores one Chinese-American family's hidden history and unspoken hurts, and the universal themes of identity, family and finding a place to call home. Includes reading-group guide. Original.

Poetry. Women's Studies. PSYCHOGYNECOLOGY is a mythic manifestation of feminine energy cured into a spell. An inconceivable moment jarred from the maw of a bird's warble, a worn banister in a house left to rot. These poems tussle & chew with the repression housed and implanted historically and culturally, through centuries and narratives, in the female body. Like storage units, these poems elicit a feeling of forgotten objects, of power to regain. A counsel of women driven to a last pack in a rural Indiana gas station. The relation of the man with the woman, the woman with the man. The invisibly dark matter tabooed out of tradition. Somehow ancient & precisely of this moment, Wendy Lee Spacek's poems minutely & intricately eschew the distinct beauty, sorrow, & tragedy of the customs and relations between genders--between humans and what they have made. "The booming bewitchery and wildly open-hearted generosity of the poems in Wendy Lee Spacek's debut collection PSYCHOGYNECOLOGY are matched only by its ferocious willingness to see the self and other clearly, dismantling all appearances and swinging for the depths--female and male, children and parents, poet and reader. In a time when poetry can seem indulgent on the one hand and deliberately meaningless on the other, these highly pressurized and electric lyrics are a shockingly affirmative breath of fresh air. PSYCHOGYNECOLOGY is without a doubt one of the most compelling books of poems I've read in a long time--a reminder that poetry still has important work it can do, both in and of language. Cathartic and unflinching, unbridled and bold, these poems conjure what's broken and repair it for all of us, lighting our way to something better."--Matt Hart "Spacek's is a lyrical gift--her attentiveness to the the natural world as it intersects with the speaker's trauma is sung. Each poem carries ominousness--what is the fate of the child, the girls, the women when they've been so dimly named? Spacek explores questions like this through memory, visions, dreams, and myth to articulate a vast, confounding pain. We're pulled through beheaded rabbits, a child's abuse, a friend's abortion, through Dargeresque dream-scenes. The observations are clear and strange. Coupled with disjunctive, lyrically- charged narratives, they bespeak the complexity of femaleness, and molestation--both physical and emotional. The shape Spacek's fury takes toward the objectification, degradation, and violation of the female body is arctic ice in these important poems that give new voice to an ancient, historical pain."--Alessandra Lynch

Could you use a miracle in your life? This book shows you exactly how to get it! Inside you'll find: ? Simple, practical exercises to get you started now ? Amazing true miracle stories to illustrate and inspire ? The four basic essentials you need to create miracles ? Powerful meditations to access your own miracle powerThis life-changing how-to book is sure to become a cherished favorite, one you'll want to share with friends and famly.

French days, French voices by Wendy Lee is a wonderful story which is enriched with beautiful illustrations and poetry. It is about the experience of living in someone else's country. To be 'une étrangère', but not a holiday maker, nor part of an 'Expat' community. An observation of daily life. About the Author: When Wendy Lee moved to the French Mediterranean coast, le Midi, she was asked by a health service colleague 'how difficult can it be to lead a simple life?' Twenty five years later she, her partner and second edition Cocker Spaniel called Lola, are still leading, some might say, a simple life. Although in her head English, but now speaking quite good French, she is never heard saying 'Mustn't grumble' or 'getting there.' Wendy Lee likes to think that this experience has changed the way she understands home. Her family live in England and she sees them often. This is her first non-fiction book.

“Lee’s novel explores what it means to be a part of something, whether it's a family or a culture...truly memorable.”—Booklist (starred review) When Hua Wu arrives in New York City, her life seems destined to resemble that of countless immigrants before her. She spends her hectic days in a restaurant in Chinatown, and her lonesome nights in a noisy, crowded tenement, yearning for those she left behind. But one day in a park in the West Village, Hua meets Jane Templeton and her daughter, Lily, a two-year-old adopted from China. Eager to expose Lily to the language and culture of her birth country, Jane hires Hua to be her nanny. Hua soon finds herself in a world far removed from the cramped streets of Chinatown or her grandmother’s home in Fuzhou. Jane, a museum curator of Asian art, and her husband, a theater critic, are cultured and successful. They pull Hua into their circle of family and friends until she is deeply attached to Lily and their way of life. But when cracks show in the family’s perfect façade, what will Hua do to protect the little girl who reminds her so much of her own past? A beautiful and revelatory novel, Happy Family is the promising debut of a perceptive and graceful writer.

Life is about choices. The right ones leave you uplifted, creative, and peaceful, while the wrong ones leave you overwhelmed, stressed, and discouraged. In Serenity Theft, author and health coach Wendy Lee Jaques offers practical, easy-to-follow lifestyle practices that will help you feel and look better than ever! After enduring a major personal health crisis, Wendy Lee realized the only thing stopping her from reaching her full potential was herself. Her inspiring journey motivated her to share her wisdom and insight so others could be empowered to take charge of their health and bring about real and lasting transformation in their lives. With chapters such as "Drink Up," "Rest and Relax," and "Eat Empowered," this remarkable book provides a wealth of information to help you gain control of the stress in your life. You will learn proven strategies and methods used by the author herself to help neutralize the harmful impact stress has on your mind, body, and spirit. In the vein of Stress Less by Don Colbert, MD, and The Anxiety Cure by Dr. Archibald D. Hart, this extraordinary resource will help you restore the calm in your life, one simple change at a time.

Margaret Carr and Wendy Lee have often been asked for a follow-on practical companion to their seminal 2012 book Learning Stories; a complimentary book that provides practical advice for teachers who are embarking on a ‘narrative assessments-for-learning’ journey. After much anticipation that book is here at last! Packed with a wide range of full-colour examples of real life learning stories from all over the world this practical guide is influenced by their ongoing work with teachers across many countries and the thoughtful comments and questions that teachers have asked during conversations at conferences, lectures and professional development programmes. They have turned these conversations with teachers and students into key ideas, and a practical framework on how to initiate and create good learning stories and why they are valuable. They show you how to write stories that capture the magic and excitement of each young child′s journey through the early years and how to develop a deep professional understanding of the learning that takes place during this special and influential time in their lives.

"Wendy Lee Hermance's prose and poetry are made of touching and surprising childhood memories - of shriveled apples, old pillows, fallen tree limbs, imaginary radio stations and things so difficult to put into words that we can only glimpse them between the lines of this highly compelling work." Richard Zimler, international best-selling author of The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon.