My Name is Faye
My Name is Faye

Author: Larissa G

Publisher:

Published: 2020-03-21

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13:

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'My Name is Faye' is a picture book which illustrates a poem told by Faye, an eight-year-old girl with autism. This poem is also available in a form of a rap-like and upbeat song, put to the author's original music. The author, Larissa G, a musician and a songwriter, is also this book's illustrator. Well aware that she is different from others, in this poem, Faye describes her unique and literal view of the world. Faye is mystical, yet realistic, since her character is influenced by Larissa's own childhood growing up on the Autism Spectrum, making both Faye and her creator uniquely qualified storytellers on the topic of autism. In this book, Larissa G introduces autism to children in a fun and multi-sensorial way: by allowing them to read the book while listening to Faye singing the song, and then, by engaging them with the coloring pages of the book's characters, along with learning child-friendly facts about autism. Hoping that her readers will grow to like Faye, the author aims to help children develop tolerance and acceptance of autism. To further this goal, Larissa shares her own life story of overcoming autism's challenges. This book includes coloring pages. The song 'My Name is Faye' is available to download on all major music platforms.

Faye, Faraway
Faye, Faraway

Author: Helen Fisher

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2021-01-26

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1982142693

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Heartfelt and irresistible—“a lovely, deeply moving story of loss and love and memory made real” (Diana Gabaldon, #1 New York Times bestselling author)—this enchanting debut follows a woman who travels back in time to be reunited with the mother she lost when she was a child. Every night, as Faye puts her daughters to bed, she thinks of her own mother, Jeanie, who died when Faye was eight. The pain of that loss has never left her, and that’s why she wants her own girls to know how very much they are loved by her—and always will be, whatever happens. Then one day, Faye gets her heart’s desire when she’s whisked back into the past and is reunited not just with her mother but with her own younger self. Jeanie doesn’t recognize grown-up Faye as her daughter, even though there is something eerily familiar about her. But the two women become close friends and share all kinds of secrets—except for the deepest secret of all, the secret of who Faye really is. Faye worries that telling the truth may prevent her from being able to return to the present day, to her dear husband and beloved daughters. Eventually she’ll have to choose between those she loved in the past and those she loves in the here and now, and that knowledge presents her with an impossible choice. If only she didn’t have to make it....

My First Book of Chinese Words
My First Book of Chinese Words

Author: Faye-Lynn Wu

Publisher: Tuttle Publishing

Published: 2013-02-12

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 1462911838

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My First Book of Chinese Words introduces young children to basic words and concepts in the Chinese language through colorful rhymes and beautiful imagery. It is a book that parents and young children will enjoy reading together. The Chinese words in the book are all common, everyday items, and the rhymes are informative and fun for children. The goal of My First Book of Chinese Words is to familiarize children with the basic sounds and written characters of Chinese, to introduce core concepts of Chinese culture and to illustrate the ways in which Chinese sounds differ from English ones. Teachers and parents will welcome the cultural notes at the back of the book and appreciate how the book is organized using a familiar ABC structure. Each word is presented in Chinese characters (both Simplified and Traditional) as well as Romanized Pinyin for easy pronunciation. With the help of this book, we hope more children (and adults) will soon join the more than one billion people worldwide who speak Chinese!

Rethinking Possible
Rethinking Possible

Author: Rebecca Faye Smith Galli

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2017-06-13

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 1631522213

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Becky Galli was born into a family that valued the power of having a plan. With a pastor father and a stay-at-home mother, her 1960s southern upbringing was bucolic—even enviable. But when her brother, only seventeen, died in a waterskiing accident, the slow unraveling of her perfect family began. Though grief overwhelmed the family, twenty-year-old Galli forged onward with her life plans—marriage, career, and raising a family of her own—one she hoped would be as idyllic as the family she once knew. But life had less than ideal plans in store. There was her son’s degenerative, undiagnosed disease and subsequent death; followed by her daughter’s autism diagnosis; her separation; and then, nine days after the divorce was final, the onset of the transverse myelitis that would leave Galli paralyzed from the waist down. Despite such unspeakable tragedy, Galli maintained her belief in family, in faith, in loving unconditionally, and in learning to not only accept, but also embrace a life that had veered down a path far different from the one she had envisioned. At once heartbreaking and inspiring, Rethinking Possible is a story about the power of love over loss and the choices we all make that shape our lives —especially when forced to confront the unimaginable.

When a Man Loves a Weapon
When a Man Loves a Weapon

Author: Toni McGee Causey

Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks

Published: 2009-08-04

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13: 1429933860

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Living single in her trailer was great for a time. But now Bobbie Faye's officially engaged to, and has purchased a home with, the hottest FBI agent on the beat: Trevor Cormier. Even though she still has no idea what he really does on the job, Bobbie Faye has never been happier...until Trevor gets called away on an urgent assignment and leaves her in the care of body-guard slash babysitter Riley. As it turns out, Bobbie Faye could use a little extra security. The man she helped put in behind bars, the murderous Sean MacGreggor, has escaped from prison...and is dead-set on revenge. With still no word from Trevor—who was only supposed to be gone for three days—Bobbie Faye finds herself reluctantly turning to her detective ex-boyfriend Cam for help. He's willing to do whatever it takes to protect Bobbie Faye...so long as Trevor stays out of the picture. For good.

Looking for Gatsby
Looking for Gatsby

Author: Faye Dunaway

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 1997-12

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13: 0671675265

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From the award-winning actress herself, Faye Dunaway explores her life and loves in this classic autobiography from Simon & Schuster. In an "intelligent, take-no-prisoners memoir" (Entertainment Weekly), Academy Award-winning actress Faye Dunaway writes candidly of her life, including her many affairs, her two marriages, her professional success, and her poignant failures of photos.

The Paragon Hotel
The Paragon Hotel

Author: Lyndsay Faye

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2019-01-08

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 0735210764

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A gun moll with a knack for disappearing flees from Prohibition-era Harlem to Portland's Paragon Hotel. The year is 1921, and "Nobody" Alice James has just arrived in Oregon with a bullet wound, a lifetime's experience battling the New York Mafia, and fifty thousand dollars in illicit cash. She befriends Max, a black Pullman porter who reminds her achingly of home and who saves Alice by leading her to the Paragon Hotel. But her unlikely sanctuary turns out to be an all-black hotel in a Jim Crow city, and its lodgers seem unduly terrified of a white woman on the premises. As she meets the churlish Dr. Pendleton, the stately Mavereen, and the club chanteuse Blossom Fontaine, she understands their dread. The Ku Klux Klan has arrived in Portland in fearful numbers--burning crosses, electing officials, infiltrating newspapers, and brutalizing blacks. And only Alice and her new Paragon "family" are searching for a missing mulatto child who has mysteriously vanished into the woods. To untangle the web of lies and misdeeds around her, Alice will have to answer for her own past, too. A richly imagined novel starring two indomitable heroines, The Paragon Hotel at once plumbs the darkest parts of America's past and the most redemptive facets of humanity. From international-bestselling, multi-award-nominated writer Lyndsay Faye, it's a masterwork of historical suspense.

Jane Steele
Jane Steele

Author: Lyndsay Faye

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2016-03-22

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 0698155955

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The reimagining of Jane Eyre as a gutsy, heroic serial killer that The New York Times Book Review calls “wonderfully entertaining” and USA Today describes as “sheer mayhem meets Victorian propriety”—nominated for the 2017 Edgar Award for Best Novel. “Reader, I murdered him.” A sensitive orphan, Jane Steele suffers first at the hands of her spiteful aunt and predatory cousin, then at a grim school where she fights for her very life until escaping to London, leaving the corpses of her tormentors behind her. After years of hiding from the law while penning macabre “last confessions” of the recently hanged, Jane thrills at discovering an advertisement. Her aunt has died and her childhood home has a new master: Mr. Charles Thornfield, who seeks a governess. Burning to know whether she is in fact the rightful heir, Jane takes the position incognito and learns that Highgate House is full of marvelously strange new residents—the fascinating but caustic Mr. Thornfield, an army doctor returned from the Sikh Wars, and the gracious Sikh butler Mr. Sardar Singh, whose history with Mr. Thornfield appears far deeper and darker than they pretend. As Jane catches ominous glimpses of the pair’s violent history and falls in love with the gruffly tragic Mr. Thornfield, she faces a terrible dilemma: Can she possess him—body, soul, and secrets—without revealing her own murderous past? “A thrill ride of a novel. A must read for lovers of Jane Eyre, dark humor, and mystery.”—PopSugar.com

The Gods of Gotham
The Gods of Gotham

Author: Lyndsay Faye

Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons

Published: 2013-03-05

Total Pages: 482

ISBN-13: 0425261255

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New York City, 1845. Timothy Wilde, a 27-year-old Irish immigrant, joins the newly formed NYPD and investigates an infanticide and the body of a 12-year-old Irish boy whose spleen has been removed.

Author: Waldref Brant

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2010-03

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1449065899

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The heroine of this gripping tale is a member of the largely forgotten class, whose small voices go mostly unheeded when they protest their fate. She is the child of an abuser, born into desperate conditions; she lives in a nightmare until finally as a teen she escapes under the cover of darkness, but the abuse she suffered has written an indelible message on her psyche and it colors her life. She becomes a news anchor, that's why so many people think they know Faye Lawrence ... but none do! Keeping secrets is not a choice for her it's a compulsion, it stems from the crushing abuse she suffered during the first fourteen years of her life. Her self loathing is a remnant of that abuse as well; it drives her incessantly to achieve respectability, and normalcy. She loves Kenneth Murphy with an insatiable yearning; he's her first lover ever! He returns her love, but there's a catch ... he already has a love. Can she win him? She struggles to find her ultimate destiny, and it's all complicated by her childhood tormentor when he comes looking for revenge! Will she ever escape his blood lust?