Adoption category: 683 books

Every little girl dreams of growing up and living the perfect life. But what's that little girl to do when she wakes up and realizes that her reality is a painful, more broken place? Desperate to become a mother, Shivonne Costa shares her own extraordinary journey through infertility, foster...

Words from Ms. Torres: “I take my FAS and turn it in to a teaching tool to help others learn what I go through every day of my life.” “If one person listens to what I have to say, then I have done my job. This is what I was born to do. I have won many awards for my work. The awards I’ve won...

Baba’s Love is a story about a family’s journey of adoption. Baba is referred to as father in some parts of Africa. By surrendering to the will of God, they learned of a father’s love. Walking by faith through the emotional process, they laughed and cried together. It is a true story of suffering,...

Nearly half a million children are in foster care. Most placements fail. Will seven-year-old Maresa's? "It starts with a face in a binder. CHILDREN AVAILABLE, reads the cover." So begins Rachel Howard's intimate and heartbreaking novel about a couple hoping to adopt a child from foster care,...

This book is about adoption and healing from traumatic events.

Selon une légende chinoise, un fil rouge invisible lie les personnes destinées à se rencontrer. Depuis les années 1990, grâce à l'adoption internationale, plus de six mille enfants nés en Chine ont été accueillis à bras et à coeur ouverts par des familles québécoises. Mais...

Relationships, sex, pregnancy, and abortion are among the topics discussed with engaging frankness by sixteen women in this collection of oral histories. Our Choices: Women’s Personal Decisions About Abortion presents readers with the opportunity to understand the abortion choice in a way that statistics...

Gwen Miller is a woman who is approaching the independence of middle age as the last of her children completes college. Suddenly, faced with the most difficult decision of her life, she is forced to choose between her own freedom and saving three neglected and abused young children. With their lives...

After she discovers a shocking family secret, Carina takes a journey toward self-acceptance in this “must-read for anyone who is adopted” (Richard Krawczyk). A young American growing up in the Middle East, Carina Rourke enjoys a blissful innocence until, at age fifteen, she is captivated...

Few foster carers or adoptive parents realise the benefits that yoga and related mind/body approaches can unlock for them and their families. In this positive book Andrea Warman uses her vast experience of work in fostering and adoption to identify the areas of life that many families struggle...

As a young professional working in Jerusalem, Ashley Lackovich-Van Gorp struggled to embrace her Orthodox faith with all her heart. She never dreamed her search for an intimate relationship with Christ would lead her to Ethiopia and into the hearts and lives of two little orphan girls—now orphans no longer.

 This tale an adoption purpose story and flows from the great love a mother has for her son.

Perhaps you’re not parenting a tweenie yet, but you’re considering what it might be like to parent your child as he or she moves closer to and through adolescence. What To Expect From Your Adopted Tween is a terrific tool and resource—providing examples that will resonate with you and from which...

Das, was 17 Jahre lang Annes Leben ausgemacht hat, ist ins Wanken geraten. Klaus und Jutta sind nicht mehr Vater und Mutter und die Geschwister sind nicht mehr Bruder und Schwester. Sie selbst ist sich plötzlich fremd geworden, seit sie die Wahrheit über ihre Herkunft kennt. Mutter: Ellen Kruchowski,...