Adoption category: 683 books
by Rosie Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
Nine-year-old Archie and his five-year-old sister, Bobbi, are taken into emergency police protective custody after an incident of domestic violence at their family home. Rosie collects the children from their out-of-hours foster carer on New Year’s Day and instantly recognises Archie from a domestic...
by Saroo Brierley
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
**First it was a media sensation. Then it became the #1 international bestseller A Long Way Home. Now it’s Lion, the major motion picture starring Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman, and Rooney Mara—nominated for six Academy Awards!
This is the miraculous and triumphant story of Saroo Brierley, a...
Love in the Driest Season
A Family Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2004
Foreign correspondent Neely Tucker and his wife, Vita, arrived in Zimbabwe in 1997. After witnessing firsthand the devastating consequences of AIDS on the population, especially the children, the couple started volunteering at an orphanage that was desperately underfunded and short-staffed. One afternoon,...
All About You
An Adopted Child's Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
At fifteen, Liz learns a long-held secret about her life.
She was adopted.
This discovery leads Liz on a 30-year journey to find the mother who gave her away. Like a master detective, she deciphers decades-old agency documents to decode the truths within. Fraught with dead ends and disappointments,...
Is It My Fault, Mummy?
A little girl locked in a prison of guilt. A loving foster carer determined to free her
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2018
Foster carer Maggie Hartley is used to receiving placements at short notice, but the arrival of seven-year-old Paris sees her handling one of her most heart-breaking cases yet.
Paris arrives at Maggie's house with the police, after the traumatised little girl is found wandering the streets...
The Girl No One Wanted
The heartbreaking true story of a child with no home to call her own
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
Eleven-year-old Leanne is out of control. Since being taken into care at the age of three, she has had over forty placements, each carer less able to cope with her anger and destruction than the last.
Late one night, foster carer Maggie Hartley receives a terrified call from Leanne's current...
Sold To Be A Wife
Only a determined foster carer can stop a terrified girl from becoming a child bride
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
The powerfully moving new novel from Sunday Times bestselling author, Maggie Hartley.
Fourteen-year-old Shazia has been taken into care after a conversation at school leads her teacher to suspect that the teenager's family are planning to send her to Pakistan for an arranged marriage.
To...
The Girl With Two Lives
A Shocking Childhood. A Foster Carer Who Understood. A Young Girl's Life Forever Changed
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Twelve year old Danielle has been excluded from a special school and her former foster family can no longer cope. She arrives as an emergency placement at the home of foster carer Angela, who soon suspects that there is more to the young girl's disruptive behaviour than meets the eye. Can Angela's...
Battered, Broken, Healed
A mother separated from her daughter. Only a painful truth can bring them back together
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
A new challenge faces foster carer Maggie Hartley: this time it's not a child that's at risk, it's her mother. Can Maggie help Hailey to escape her abusive husband, and reunite her with her baby daughter? A heartbreaking true story perfect for fans of Cathy Glass, Casey Watson, Angela Hart and Rosie...
by Cathy Glass
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
Finding Stevie is a dark and poignant true story that highlights the dangers lurking online. When Stevie’s social worker tells Cathy, an experienced foster carer, that Stevie, 14, is gender fluid she isn’t sure what that term means and looks it up. Stevie, together with his younger brother and...
Become Your #1 Fan
How to Silence Your Inner Critic and Live the Life of Your Dreams
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2015
Isn't it time you lived your best life?
Did you know that everyone has an inner critic-that niggling voice inside your head that puts you down and tells you that you aren't good enough?
Are you settling for a mediocre life, job, relationship?
Have you tried unsuccessfully...
Damage Control
A Memoir of Outlandish Privilege, Loss and Redemption
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
A powerful blazingly honest memoir told with humor and panache about a mother and son finding each other again after years of estrangement. A coming-of-age story of outrageous excess, glamour, entitlement and grand delusion, lived above the fray and over the top. A gay man’s journey through the...
Hou je van me?
het ontroerende, waargebeurde verhaal van een beschadigd klein meisje
Language: Dutch
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Cathy is een ervaren pleegouder, maar niemand had haar kunnen voorbereiden op de komst van Jodie, een achtjarig meisje met zoveel gedragsproblemen dat ze in vier maanden tijd bij vijf verschillende gezinnen wordt geplaatst.Cathy besluit Jodie in huis te nemen en is vastbesloten om haar gedrag te begrijpen....
by alex trostanetskiy
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Are you looking for a journey that will take you through Top 100 Dream Celebrity Guys, along with funny comments and a word puzzle? Then this book is for you. Whether you are looking at this book for curiosity, choices, options, or just for fun; this book fits any criteria. Creating Top 100 Dream...