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  • The Girl With Two Lives

    A Shocking Childhood. A Foster Carer Who Understood. A Young Girl's Life Forever Changed

    by Angela Hart ...
    Series Book 4 - Angela Hart
    The Girl With Two Lives is the fourth book from well loved foster carer and Sunday Times bestselling author Angela Hart, in which she tells the story of one of her toughest placements yet.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 ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • To the End of June

    The Intimate Life of American Foster Care

    by Cris Beam ...
    A New York Times Notable Book that “casts a searing eye on the labyrinth that is the American foster care system” (NPR’s On Point).Who are the children of foster care? What, as a country, do we owe them? Cris Beam, a foster mother herself, spent five years immersed in the world of foster care looking into these questions and tracing firsthand stories. The result is To the End of June, an ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Life After Adoption

    My Unhindered Journey

    by Carolyn Ricks ...
    The co-pastor of a thriving ministry in Newport News, Virginia, Carolyn Ricks, takes you behind the pulpit, beyond the million-dollar smile and charismatic personality, into the depths of her life. Placed in the foster care system at 18 months and later adopted by two God-fearing parents, Carolyn grew up surrounded by love and with a firm foundation built on faith; as a teen, she found herself ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Helping Foster Children In School

    A Guide for Foster Parents, Social Workers and Teachers

    by John DeGarmo ...
    Helping Foster Children In School explores the challenges that foster children face in schools and offers positive and practical guidance tailored to help the parents, teachers and social workers supporting them.Children in care often perform poorly at school both in terms of their behavior and their academic performance, with many failing to complete their education. They will have often ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Hole in My Heart

    In the days before Roe v. Wade, an ambitious young journalist from the Midwest is abandoned by her Michigan beau. Instead of wallowing in self-pity, she dusts herself off and lands a dream job on the city desk of a Rochester, New York newspaper. Burned once, she's eager for love, but as the only Girl in the newsroom, she needs to find allies and make friends.When a new leading man appears, she ... Read more

    $9.98 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Until I Find You

    Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala

    by Rachel Nolan ...
    The poignant saga of Guatemala’s adoption industry: an international marketplace for children, built on a foundation of inequality, war, and Indigenous dispossession.In 2009 Dolores Preat went to a small Maya town in Guatemala to find her birth mother. At the address retrieved from her adoption file, she was told that her supposed mother, one Rosario Colop Chim, never gave up a child for adoption ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • I Must Have Wandered: An Adopted Air Force Daughter Recalls

    Travel across the years in this inspiring and lyrical collage memoir. In post-WWII South Carolina, chance and choice connected a childless Air Force couple with an abandoned baby girl. Seventy years on, she framed a deeply personal narrative in vignettes, poetic prose, and original correspondence, reflecting on maternal severance, the injustice of sealed birth records, and the ills of secrecy. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • When Nowhere Is Home

    An Adoption Story

    At least 30,000 Guatemalan children were adopted by American parents before the corrupt business of selling children was discontinued in 2007. Little is known of their history or traumatic early years.This is the story of a well-meaning adoptive mother and a nine-year-old girl orphaned by the war. Together they embark on a journey that takes them to unexpected places. When the girl reveals her ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Business of Naming Things

    Riveting . . . vibrant and unsparing.” -Publishers Weekly (starred and boxed review)Superb. . . . Startlingly original.” -Library Journal (starred review)Once I started reading these stories, I couldn’t stop. They absorbed me thoroughly, with their taut narratives and evocative language-the language of a poet.” -JAY PARINI, author of Jesus: The Human Face of God and The Last Station</p... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Becoming Patrick: A Memoir

    When Pat McMahon risks the love of the mother who raised him by seeking out the mother who gave him away, he transforms from a mild-mannered engineer into a frenetic detective. After he overcomes the challenges of existential angst, bureaucratic roadblocks, and unemployment, the phone call to his first mother releases a torrent of long-buried feelings. During a sometimes turbulent long-distance ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Facilitating Meaningful Contact in Adoption and Fostering

    A Trauma-Informed Approach to Planning, Assessing and Good Practice

    Most children who are fostered or adopted have some level of contact with their birth family -- whether face-to-face or by letter -- yet most of the time the psychological impact of contact on the child isn't considered.This book explores what attachment, neuroscience and trauma tell us about how contact affects children, and shows how poorly executed contact can be unhelpful or even harmful to ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • In Reunion

    Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Communication of Family

    “Do you know your real parents?” is a question many adoptees are asked. In In Reunion, Sara Docan-Morgan probes the basic notions of family, adoption, and parenthood by exploring initial meetings and ongoing relationships that transnational Korean adoptees have had with their birth parents and other birth family members. Drawing from qualitative interviews with adult Korean adoptees in the United ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Shooting Out the Lights

    A Memoir

    by Kim Fairley ...
    Kim Fairley was twenty-four when she fell in love with and married a man who was fifty-seven. Something about Vern—his quirkiness, his humor, his devilish smile—made her feel an immediate connection with him. She quickly became pregnant, but instead of the idyllic interlude she’d imagined as she settled into married life and planned for their family, their love was soon tested by the ghosts of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Game, Set, Match

    by Nana Malone ...
    On the court, I’m down forty-love…I am a cautionary tale…The tennis golden boy who trusted the wrong person. And now my image and my body have taking a beating. But I’m wiser now. I won’t make the same mistake again. All I have to do is convince the woman I loved and left behind to trust me again.My career and my heart depend on it.Easier said than done. Good thing I’m up for the challenge. Game ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Expectations: A True Adoption Story

    I write fiction. I make up stories. This is not one of them.This is all true.Some minor details have been altered and names changed, but the story itself is true. At some point, you won't believe it. Hell, I don't believe some of it and I was there. I never planned on writing about it. Until I did. It's a story about crises. It's about resolution, about life prevailing.It's about adoption.This is ... Read more

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  • The Secret Sister

    A compelling suspense novel about family and secrets

    by M. M. DeLuca ...
    How far would you go for family?Anna’s done bad things before. Neglected and unloved as a child, she had to do whatever it took to keep herself and her little sister, Birdie, safe. But the worst thing she’s ever done is let her sister walk out of a diner when they were teenagers. She would never see her sister again.Years later, and Anna is a new person. After a whirlwind romance, she’s married ... Read more

    $3.99 USD $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Kids Books: The Lion and mosquito

    Kids books Series, #1

    by Emma Clover ...
    Series Book 1 - Kids books Series
    Bedtime Stories the seriesThe Lion and MosquitoThis is Shot Story and Photo Book for Bedtime of Children"Away with you, vile insect!" said a Lion angrily to a Gnat that was buzzing around his head. But the Gnat was not in the least disturbed."Do you think," he said spitefully to the Lion, "that I am afraid of you because they call you king?"The next instant he flew at the Lion and stung him ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • You'll Forget This Ever Happened

    Secrets, Shame, and Adoption in the 1960s

    Mississippi, 1967. It’s the Summer of Love, yet unwed mothers’ maternity homes are flourishing, secret closed adoptions are routine, and many young women still have no voice.In You’ll Forget This Ever Happened, Laura Engel takes us back to the Deep South during the turbulent 1960s to explore the oppression of young women who have committed the socially unacceptable crime of becoming pregnant ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Dead or in Prison

    My Journey Through Foster Care

    Crime . . . Poverty . . Racism. George rose above it all. His journey through Foster Care was at times difficult, at times touching and at times very funny. His story will inspire anyone working with young people. Especially those in Foster and Adoptive Care, from Foster Parents to Youth, Social Workers and Foster Care Agencies. While his story begin with crime, poverty and racism, it ends with ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • A Christian Christmas

    by Pat Simmons ...
    Series Book 1 - Andersen Brothers
    Christmas will never be the same for Joy Knight if Christian Andersen has his way.Not to be confused with a secret Santa, Christian and his family are busier than Santa's elves making sure the Lord's blessings are distributed to those less fortunate by Christmas day.Joy is playing the hand that life dealt her, rearing four children in a home that is on the brink of foreclosure. She's not looking ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Terrified

    The Heartbreaking True Story of a Girl Nobody Loved and the Woman Who Saved Her

    by Angela Hart ...
    Series Book 1 - Angela Hart
    A Sunday Times bestseller, Terrified is the first book from well-loved foster carer Angela Hart.It tells the emotionally devastating but ultimately uplifting true story of Vicky, a little girl who arrives on Angela's doorstep unwanted and unloved after suffering years of emotional abuse at the hands of her mother. Desperate never to return home, Vicky is haunted by many demons and waking ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Fixing the Fates

    An Adoptee's Story of Truth and Lies

    by Diane Dewey ...
    The secrets, lies, and layers of deception about Diane Dewey’s origins were meant for her protection—but eventually, they imploded. Living with her family in suburban Philadelphia, Diane had grown up knowing she was born in Stuttgart and adopted at age one from an orphanage. She’d been told her biological parents were dead. Then, in 2002, when she was forty-seven years old, Diane got a letter from ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • If They Knew

    A completely gripping, twisty and unputdownable psychological thriller

    by Sophie Flynn ...
    Grips from the first page. An emotive thriller which I couldn't put down.' Carys Jones, author of We Are All LiarsWhat would you hide to get everything you ever wanted?After years of infertility and heartbreak, Hannah and Charlie are finally going to get their dream family. Two-year-old Isabelle is a week away from being theirs; they just have to get through the final adoption approval process.But ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Motherhood So White

    A Memoir of Race, Gender, and Parenting in America

    The story every mother in America needs to read. As featured on NPR and the TODAY Show. All moms have to deal with choosing baby names, potty training, finding your village, and answering your kid's tough questions, but if you are raising a Black child, you have to deal with a lot more than that. Especially if you're a single Black mom… and adopting.Nefertiti Austin shares her story of starting a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD