Adoption category: 683 books
by Lauren Lynne
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
In My Adopted Life, author Lauren Lynne tells her adoption story from her perspective. She shares lessons, questions, and letters written by her and her birth family. Through these letters, Lauren learned answers to the questions that had been with her a long time: how her birth parents met, what...
Adoption
The Truth Comes Out
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
Margaret wrote this book in hopes of explaining to the general public the real gamut of emotions and trials that adoptees face. She shares her personal struggle to help and encourage other adoptees and to educate others not to expect “the expected.” Loss, grief, and anger are part of the journey...
by Paul Hampsch
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
A Family of Choice
by Paul Hampsch
A Family of Choice is a love story about how the author and his adopted children found each other. Hampsch takes readers by the hand and walks them through his experiences with the international adoption process which were both terrifying...
by Mary L. MOVSISIAN Foess
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
A primal scream erupted in the Charity Ward of Providence Hospital, Washington., D.C., in September of 1945. Crying out for Mother, Baby Movsisian felt her loving grip only moments after birth, and then sensed a struggle as those same, gentle hands would NOT let go. A white-uniformed nurse...
The Baby Thief
The Untold Story of Georgia Tann, the Baby Seller Who Corrupted Adoption
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
The shocking story of Geogia Tann, a notorious dealer in black-market babies between 1920 and 1950 whose actions ultimately popularized--and corrupted--adoption as we know it today.
For almost three decades, renowned baby-seller Georgia Tann ran a children's home in Memphis, Tennessee--selling...
The Lost Daughters of China
Adopted Girls, Their Journey to America, and the Search fora Missing Past
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2008
In 1997 journalist Karin Evans walked into an orphanage in southern China and met her new daughter, a beautiful one-year-old baby girl. In this fateful moment Evans became part of a profound, increasingly common human drama that links abandoned Chinese girls with foreigners who have traveled many...
The Girls Who Went Away
The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2007
In this deeply moving and myth-shattering work, Ann Fessler brings out into the open for the first time the astonishing untold history of the million and a half women who surrendered children for adoption due to enormous family and social pressure in the decades before Roe v. Wade. An adoptee who...
The Mothers
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Poignant, raw, and insightful, Jennifer Gilmore’s third novel is an unforgettable story of love, family, and motherhood. With a “voice [that is] at turns wise and barbed with sharp humor” (Vanity Fair), Gilmore lays bare the story of one couple’s ardent desire for a child and their emotional...
The Last Invisible Continent
Essays on Adoption and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
These twelve essays span nearly twenty years of research and activism that chronicle one man's search for his family. Together, they explore the concept of personal identity from the perspective of someone who was erased completely by adoption in The State of New York.
"The Last Invisible...
Denied a Mummy
The heartbreaking story of three little children searching for someone to love them.
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
When Maggie's latest placement arrives on her doorstep, it is clear that Sean, Dougie and their big sister Mary have been through unspeakable traumas in their short?lives.
Violent and malnourished,?the siblings have been left to fend for themselves by their drug-addicted parents. Maggie must...
by David H. Burton
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
Together for ten years, David and his partner made the decision to become dads. Figuring out they wanted to adopt was easy, the waiting and complications along the way were not. Follow their journey as this same-sex couple tried to start their family and prevent three brothers from being separated.
A heart-warming tale of two dads and their Three Little Wonders.
One Perfect Day
A Mother and Son's Story of Adoption and Reunion
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
“A roller coaster of emotions . . . One perfect read for anyone intrigued by the pain and joy of a parent-child reunion, no matter what the circumstances” (Roxanne St. Claire, New York Times–bestselling author of Barefoot Dreams).
When Diane Burke, a mother of two grown sons, received...
by Brian Bailie
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2012
The problem with discovering your roots is that the more digging you do, the dirtier you can get.Adopted into middle-class urban respectability, but with origins deep in the heart of a dramatic rural landscape, BRONCLE is a personal journey of discovery intrinsically linked to the bloody past of Ireland;...
by Kate Rosemary
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2011
"In this refreshingly honest book, the prospective parent is given not only the realistic view of what could happen, but also real-life examples and a challenge to prepare for when that day eventually happens in one's own home. When I was doing foster care I could have really used Rosemary's...