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Fear made him hide. Hope brought him back.
A lot has changed in the world in the many decades since Peter escaped from the Nazis and settled into his new life in America. But meeting Peter, you'd never know it. The same furniture, the same black and white TV, the same rotary phone. Hidden away in the same tiny apartment in the same broken-down NY neighborhood, Peter is just fine with the nothingness of his life.
And then the dreams begin. His boyhood...
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This book is about the romance and tragedies that come along with an age-gap relationship, a relationship in which the gap is larger than seven years.
A Vietnam War veteran and a half-Korean/half-Black adoptee meet in Indiana and, ironically, they take a liking to each other.
They are not just ships passing each other in the sea of life; they actually hook-up despite doubts that the relationship will work. The feelings between them are intense, making...
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“The Red Thread” is the true story of an expat woman's struggle to complete her family while living in India.
After shunning infertility treatment and adopting her first child, Sarah knows that family is created from love not DNA, so she sets out to replicate the fairy-tale experience of her daughter's adoption from Cambodia. But things are not as straightforward this time.
After choosing a baby to adopt, Sarah comes up against the risks of...
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A seductive literary love story set in contemporary Shanghai, The Red Thread intertwines the lives of two pairs of lovers across the centuries. Shen, a young, American-educated appraiser in a Shanghai auction house, is captivated by Ruth, a self-possessed Australian artist who happens into one of his auctions. As they fall in love, Shen finds that their lives are strangely mirrored by those of the characters in a rare Chinese manuscript that is nearly...
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Bernard Faure is Associate Professor of Religion at Stanford University. He is the author of The Rhetoric of Immediacy, Chan Insights and Oversights, and Visions of Power (all from Princeton University Press).
Is there a Buddhist discourse on sex? In this innovative study, Bernard Faure reveals Buddhism's paradoxical attitudes toward sexuality. His remarkably broad range covers the entire geography of this religion, and its long evolution from the...
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This book is written for those who struggle to be at peace with who they are. This was my story. For so long I doubted myself; I compared myself to others and in any given situation, I felt like I was either too much or not enough.
Jesus says that He came to give us life in abundance, and these words intrigued me. Could it be that I was missing something? What were the keys to living a full life as promised by God?
Through the process of adopting...
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The Red Thread is the definitive work on Larry Gottheim, a key figure in the history of American experimental film.
Gottheim's account of the evolution of his work over the decades provide an extraordinary window onto the development of the art form in America in the late 20th century. His own account of his lifelong exploration of the boundaries of cinematic perception is here combined with the reflections of other major film artists and critics...
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After a suicide attempt left him hospitalized for seven months, Jesse Holbrooke is returning home to live with his parents. Despite the treatment he received, his depression hangs like a cloud over his head, casting his life in a perpetual darkness he can't seem to escape. But just when the obstacles become insurmountable, a glimmer of light appears.
Life hasn't been easy for Adam Foster, a barista with a bad stutter, but he keeps his chin up and...
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The Red Threads of Fortune is one of a pair of unique, standalone introductions to Neon Yang's Tensorate Series, which Kate Elliott calls "effortlessly fascinating." For more of the story you can read its twin novella The Black Tides of Heaven, available simultaneously.
Fallen prophet, master of the elements, and daughter of the supreme Protector, Sanao Mokoya has abandoned the life that once bound her. Once her visions shaped the lives of citizens...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 Are you overwhelmed by too many ideas. Most people have far more ideas than they can handle. To cope, they turn to the Red Thread.
#2 Your idea is an answer to a question that doesn't already have an answer or a better one. It is your new way to slay a monster that needs fighting. Other people could use it, too, to slay the same monster.
#3 The TEDx test is this:...
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Two sisters, in disagreement over love, try to overcome a thorny relationships. When they think that their wounds are beginning to heal, destiny returns, relentlessly, to charge what it's due.Raquel, unable to forgive, becomes a bitter, monotonous and controlling woman. Alaya, isolated from her family, takes an obsessive refuge in her job. Erick, the man that split them, a journalist addicted to adrenaline, always after sensationalist and dangerous...
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In Love Your Heart, Diana von Welanetz Wentworth guides readers through a succinct course in caring for their physical hearts by nourishing those of their spirit. A heart-attack survivor, television chef, keynote speaker, and the author and coauthor of nine books including the Chicken Soup for the Soul Cookbook, and Chicken Soup to Inspire the Body and Soul, Diana draws from a wealth of life experiences in designing her uplifting heart-care program....
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"When Communist Party leaders adopted the one-child policy in 1980, they hoped curbing birth-rates would help lift China’s poorest and increase the country’s global stature. But at what cost? Now, as China closes the book on the policy after more than three decades, it faces a population grown too old and too male, with a vastly diminished supply of young workers. Mei Fong has spent years documenting the policy’s repercussions on every sector...
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Betrayal, revenge and a family scandal that bore a 150-year-old mystery. When Cooper McQueen wakes up from a night with a beautiful stranger, it's to discover he's been robbed. The only item stolen--a million-dollar bottle of bourbon. The thief, a mysterious woman named Paris, claims the bottle is rightfully hers. After all, the label itself says it's property of the Maddox family who owned and operated Red Thread Bourbon distillery since the last...
15) Anyuta
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In the cheapest room of a big block of furnished apartments Stepan Klotchkov, a medical student in his third year, was walking to and fro, zealously conning his anatomy. In the window, covered by patterns of frost, sat Anyuta, a thin little brunette of five-and-twenty, very pale with mild grey eyes. Sitting with bent back she was busy embroidering with red thread the collar of a man's shirt. She was working against time...
16) Red hands
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Amber's way of living changes drastically when memories of a past life as a medieval mercenary suddenly unfold. However, it doesn't stop at memories alone...
Her rugged alter ego with his life of freedom and fighting comes back in full force and turns everything upside down. Switching from her current insecure self to the wild and uninhibited Tamás, Amber is tossed back and forth between past and present. The mercenary is not only in her mind,...
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Lady Hahn is a seamstress, and her seven friends are the tools she uses to sew-Mrs. Ruler, Newlywed Scissors, Young Bride Needle, Young Bride Red Thread, Old Lady Thimble, Young Lady Flatiron, and Little Miss Iron. When Lady Hahn's friends start boasting about how important they are, Lady Hahn turns her back on them. But it's not long before she realizes how much she needs her friends as every one of them contributes in an important, special way.
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"Joyously wild stuff. Highly recommended." -The New York Times
One of the 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time, according to Time Magazine
A Finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards for Best Novella
The Black Tides of Heaven is one of a pair of unique, standalone introductions to Neon Yang's Tensorate Series, which Kate Elliott calls "effortlessly fascinating." For more of the story you can read its twin novella The Red Threads of...
19) Fictional Lives
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In this 1980 collection Hugh Fleetwood links four tales by a red thread of theme. Author Tina Courtland, having retired to the Italian countryside, is lured back to London to write the life of the only man she has ever admired. Andrew Stairs, who has spent his life refusing to set foot on foreign soil, is tempted by romance to try the risky unknown of 'abroad.' Walter Drake, a novelist cursed by a sense of the failure of his life's work, resolves...
20) Iron Cross
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Iron Cross is an anthology formed by the novels Blood Runes and The Agartha Star, which have an internal red thread connecting them. Members of an international virtual community called Iron Cross use their exo and esoteric knowledge to solve intricate mysteries.
Blood Runes:
A Viking castaway dragged to Yucatan.
Treasure in the ruins of a Maya temple. Nazis searching the mythical city of Thule beyond the Arctic Circle. Iron Cross members trying...