Adoption category: 683 books

Those Three Words is a personal memoir of love, loss and survival. It's a book for somebody who has lost a loved one, and held onto that special love hoping that it would someday return. It's the author's personal story, however it's a story that many readers will instantly relate to. Instead...

L' écrivaine Pauline Gill prête sa plume à Normay Saint-Pierre pour faire le récit de son bouleversant destin. Adoptée à la naissance, l'animatrice philanthrope a longtemps recherché sa mère biologique. Cette quête des origines, elle l'a poursuivie de front avec une carrière mouvementée...

As seen on "20/20"! In this poignant and heartwarming narrative, renowned genealogist Pamela Slaton tells the most striking stories from her incredibly successful career of reconnecting adoptees with long-lost birth parents After a traumatic reunion with her own birth mother, Pamela...

Drawn from personal experience, these stories offer vivid and beautifully rendered snapshots of the adoptive parenting experience. Featuring: Marcelle Clements, Laura Shaine Cunningham, Christina Frank, Jesse Green, Melissa Fay Greene, Doug Hood, Pamela Kruger, Jenifer Levin, Antoinette Martin, Jacquelyn...

As a child, because of his mother's drinking and depression, John Dunn was taken from his mother, his two older sisters Cathy and Linda, and his older brother Ron. John lived in foster care for 16 years, most of which were with his brother Ron Dunn who has been a bike courier for over 25 years!...

A highly accessible resource for students and professionals as well as parents, Building the Bonds of Attachment presents a composite case study of one child’s developmental course following years of abuse and neglect. Weaving theory and research into a powerful narrative, Hughes offers effective...

This book that I titled In A Stranger Home layed doormat inside of me for many years. Now I am able to face the hurt and pain I am able to write about it. I wrote this book hoping to help another foster child out there. In A Stranger Home, you can find love, happiness, connection and strength and...

Successful Guide for Connecting Foster and Adoptive Families, Learn how to connect with your foster and adoptive teen by applying 15 helpful tips given by former foster and adoptive teens. By James Poindexter III, CC. Teenagers can be a mystery to say the least. Teens that have been through the foster...

Con leggerezza e soavità, questo romanzo suggerisce un metodo per dare risposte ad alcune domande, immense quanto impossibili da evadere, sul perché l'esperienza dell'essere figlio e dell'essere genitore sia talvolta così intricata e dolorosa. L'originalità di questo racconto consiste innanzitutto...

“Da me a me” è la storia di un incontro tra Giacomo, un notaio sessantenne, e Giulia, una bella e ricca diciassettenne, anoressica, appena uscita da un tentativo di suicidio. Giulia viene affidata a Giacomo sino al compimento della maggiore età. I mesi che trascorreranno insieme, nella villa sull'Argentario, porteranno ricordi, confessioni, eccessi, bugie e indicibili desideri.

The truth is that most of us never get a chance to make our mark of greatness on the worldwhich doesnt negate our basic human desire to find meaning in our story. We all want our lives to matter and for the world to be marked in some small way by our journey. And then there are the questions: how do...

How can we help heal children who have been abused or neglected? Healing Child Trauma Through Restorative Parenting details how children can be helped to recover with the use of Restorative Parenting, an innovative model informed by psychological and neurological understanding of trauma and...

Domestic or international? Baby or older child? A child with special needs? The number of decisions you will need to make when deciding to adopt can at times seem overwhelming. The Everything® Parent’s Guide to Raising Your Adopted Child offers all the information any potential or newly adoptive...