Adoption category: 683 books

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Déracinés

Les enfants perdus d'Hato Mayor

by Isabelle Hachey
Language: French
Release Date: September 10, 2015

Dans les années 1980, plus de 200 enfants d'Hato Mayor, en République dominicaine, ont été séparés de leurs familles pour être confiés à des couples du Québec. Au coeur de cette petite ville perdue des Caraïbes, une "machine à adoptions" redoutablement efficace avait été mise...
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Walk to Beautiful

The Power of Love and a Homeless Kid Who Found the Way

by Mr. Jimmy Wayne
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014

* NEW YORK TIME BEST SELLER* Imagine yourself a thirteen-year-old hundreds of miles away from home, in a strange city, and your mom leaves you at a bus station parking lot and drives off into the night with her lover. That’s the real life story of country music star Jimmy Wayne. It’s...
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The Girl Who Wanted to Belong Free Sampler

The True Story of a Devastated Little Girl and the Foster Carer who Healed her Broken Heart

by Angela Hart
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2018

The Girl Who Wanted to Belong can either be read as a full-length eBook or in three serialized eBook-only parts. This is part one of three. Author Angela Hart is an experienced foster carer; The Girl Who Wanted to Belong is the moving story of her experience fostering one little girl with a...
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by Michael Nicholson
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2013

News correspondent Michael Nicholson went to Sarajevo to report on the horrors of the Bosnian War, but ended up smuggling one little girl away from the carnage. Natasha’s Story is the heart-wrenching account of how the TV reporter risked everything to bring a nine-year-old orphan home with...
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by KelLee Parr
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016

This is the true story of lost love between a mother and daughter. In 1925, a rural Kansas teenage girl found herself in the "family way" and unmarried. She was sent to The Willows Maternity Sanitarium, a home for unwed mothers, and gave up her baby to be raised by strangers. She was devastated...
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Prison Baby

A Memoir

by Deborah Jiang-Stein
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014

A deeply personal and inspiring memoir recounting one woman’s struggles—beginning with her birth in prison—to find self-acceptance   Prison Baby is a revised and substantially expanded version of Deborah Jiang Stein’s self-published memoir, Even Tough Girls Wear Tutus. Even at twelve years...
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The Lucky Few

Finding God's Best in the Most Unlikely Places

by Heather Avis
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017

When life looks radically different than the plan we have for ourselves, it's the lucky few that recognize God's plan is best. That's what adoptive mom Heather Avis learned, and that's the invitation of this book. As the mother of three adopted children - two with Down syndrome - Heather Avis...
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by Sun Yung Shin
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016

Sun Yung Shin has a writerly practice that centers on using intellectual and formal tools to consider fundamental ideas—personal history within the political economy, parentage and parenthood, identity, binaries, what it means to be an outsider and what it means to be at home The toggling...
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by Iris Hubbard
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2018

Based on a true story, this is a charming, heartfelt account of one young woman's experiences as an adoptee. 
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Elle était la fille d'Isis

Livre romanesque

by Claudette Duchesne (Czara)
Language: French
Release Date: April 23, 2016

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by Francesca Romana Pistoia
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 26, 2017

Durante un viaggio come clown sociale in Romania, nell'ottobre del 2006, con i miei compagni visitammo un istituto ospitante orfani minori. I piccoli erano più di cento e il personale di servizio in totale annoverava non più di sei addetti. In particolare, mi colpì un bimbo tra i tanti; benché...
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by Tass Grivakes
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014

This richly layered novel is about secrets, conflicts, discovery, friendship, nostalgia, history and culture woven around family and complex legal issues involving business acquisitions, insider trading, tax evasion and fraudulent transactions. Come and experience Montréal in the 1960s as law students...
Cover of Mummy’s Little Helper: The heartrending true story of a young girl secretly caring for her severely disabled mother
by Casey Watson
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013

The fifth book from bestselling author and specialist foster carer Casey Watson. A recent census shows that there are at least 175,000 child carers in the UK, 13,000 of whom care for more than 50 hours a week. Many remain invisible to a system that would otherwise help them. Abigail is one of those...
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Wish You Happy Forever

What China's Orphans Taught Me About Moving Mountains

by Jenny Bowen
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014

Wish You Happy Forever chronicles Half the Sky founder Jenny Bowen's personal and professional journey to transform Chinese orphanages—and the lives of the neglected girls who live in them—from a state of quiet despair to one of vibrant promise. After reading an article about the thousands...
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