In China there is a belief that people who are destined to be together are connected by an invisible red thread. After losing her infant daughter in a freak accident, Maya Lange opens the Red Thread, an adoption agency that specializes in placing baby girls from China with American families. Maya finds some comfort in her work, until a group of six couples share their personal stories of desire for a child. Their painful and courageous journey...

After an American family adopts eleven-year-old Wen from a Chinese orphanage, she vows to find a family for her best friend, too.

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...

“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...

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...

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...

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 across the land, but no matter what tragedy Mokoya foresaw, she could never reshape the future. Broken by the loss of her young daughter, she now hunts deadly, sky-obscuring naga in the harsh outer reaches of the kingdom with packs of dinosaurs at her side, far from everything...

Early one morning Wei Gu meets an old man from the spirit world who tells the young bachelor about his future bride and their life together.

A sad king and queen find joy and happiness after a mysterious red thread leads them to a baby waiting to be adopted.

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:...