Adoption category: 683 books
by Mary L. MOVSISIAN Foess
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2013
A primal scream erupted in the Charity Ward of Providence Hospital, Washington, D.C., on September 23, 1945. Crying out for Mother, Baby Movsisian felt her loving grip moments after birth, then sensed a struggle as those same, gentle hands would not let go. A white-uniformed nurse intervened. Baby's...
Born and Raised
An American Story of Adoption
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2010
Jerry Cline exists at the whim of an 1869 Comanche raiding party on his birthfathers family ranch in Central Texas. Jerry could also be a poster-boy for successful adoptions. He was adopted at age 3 months in 1939 by a hard-living couple from East Texas, via the Indian Territory of Oklahoma before...
by Claudia Chapman
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Claudia Chapman has some big questions.
Questions like: were all my friends this obnoxious before they had kids? Will the social worker notice if I only vacuum the middle of the rooms? Does God really hate me, or does it just feel that way? And, most importantly, will anybody find out that...
Okayest Mom
When God's Plan of Adoption Doubled My Family
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
NATALIE GWYN uses humor to brilliantly capture how God led and helped this mother of two to adopt four children from Ethiopia and successfully bond her blended family.
A happy, working wife, already birth mother of two healthy young children -- a boy and a girl -- doubled the size of her family...
by M.A. Krantz
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
Imagine growing up your whole life knowing you were adopted. Thirty plus years later, finally finding your birth mother and learning she may have never given you up. The lies, back stabbing and betrayal that occurs, is unbelievable. This is my story.
Not Exactly As Planned
A Memoir of Adoption, Secrets and Abiding Love
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2014
Not Exactly As Planned is a captivating, deeply moving account of adoption and the unexpected challenges of raising a child with fetal alcohol syndrome. Linda Rosenbaum’s life takes a major turn when her son, adopted at birth, is diagnosed with irreversible brain damage. With love, hope and all...
Finding Zoe
A Deaf Woman's Story of Identity, Love, and Adoption
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
At just a few months old, Zoe was gradually losing her hearing. Her adoptive parents loved her-yet agonized-feeling they couldn’t handle raising a Deaf child. Would Zoe go back into the welfare system and spend her childhood hoping to find parents willing to adopt her? Or, would she be the long-sought...
Journey for Julie
Witnessing God’S Glory Through Toddler Adoption in China
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Journey for Julie is unique in that the reader is able to follow along with the author as she travels through China to adopt her daughter. The reader is invited to witness the miracle of adoption and discover how God uses trials and setbacks to bring spiritual growth, even half way around the world....
In Their Own Voices
Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2000
Nearly forty years after researchers first sought to determine the effects, if any, on children adopted by families whose racial or ethnic background differed from their own, the debate over transracial adoption continues. In this collection of interviews conducted with black and biracial young adults...
by Michael Eskin
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
If parenthood were a function of biology, adoptive parents, for instance, ought not to be considered parents — which is absurd. Thus, it follows that biology cannot be an essential component of parenthood. Concomitantly, if parenthood were merely a function of law, all those who have parented...
Sentenced to Life without Biological Parents
Continuing the Fight of Former Senator Nancy Schaefer
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
If you love your children, then you should be aware that adoption agencies love and want your children for money. They have programs in place to make parents fail parent agency agreements and then adopt their children out to the highest bidder. Jennifer Stevens, Sarah Zachmann, Laura Sheldon of Catholic...
by John Gallaher
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Rather than formally crafted poetry, In a Landscape has been referred to as "non-fiction poetry," a “diary-poem,” a “daybook,” and an “essay-poem." The collection is made up of questions Gallaher asks and answers himself, the poet in conversation with himself and with the...
Breeding in Captivity
One Woman's Unusual Path to Motherhood
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Breeding in Captivity takes us on Stacy Bolt’s journey to have a child at "advanced maternal age," first with the help of a Really Expensive fertility specialist, and then ultimately through a local adoption agency. But this isn’t your typical serious memoir about struggling with infertility;...
Labours of Love
Canadians Talk About Adoption
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2008
Adoption is not for the faint of heart. Labours of Love chronicles the journeys of Canadians who have overcome heartbreaking obstacles to become parents. Their stories are as diverse as our country, and span the borders of our world. While each account is unique in its own way, the stories are connected by the overwhelmingly commonality of the power of human connection.