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  • Please Don't Take Mummy Away

    The true story of two sisters left cold, frightened, hungry and alone - The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller

    'Mummy! Where did you go? Please come back, Mummy.'THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERPerfect for fans of Cathy Glass, a new powerful true story from bestseller Maggie Hartley, foster carer for over 20 years.When police are called to a local supermarket late one evening, they find an angry shopkeeper and a silent young woman. It's the third time 24-year-old Zoe has been caught st... ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • 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

  • The Silver River

    A memoir of family - lost, made and found - from the Midnight Oil founding member, for readers of Dave Grohl, Tim Rogers and Rick Rubin

    by Jim Moginie ...
    A moving and inspiring memoir of families lost and rediscovered, by a founding member of legendary band Midnight Oil.For fifty years, songwriter, guitarist and keyboard player Jim Moginie was a driving force behind one of Australia's most iconic rock bands, Midnight Oil. As they made their way through the nascent domestic punk scene and the uncharted musical territory of the Western Desert to the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Hidden: Betrayed, Exploited and Forgotten. How One Boy Overcame the Odds.

    by Cathy Glass ...
    From the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of ‘Damaged’ comes the poignant and shocking memoir of Cathy’s recent relationship with Tayo, a young boy she fosters whose good behaviour and polite manners hide a terrible past.Tayo arrives at Cathy’s with only the clothes he stands up in. He has been brought to her by the police, but he is calm, polite, and very well spoken, and not at ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Philomena (Movie Tie-In)

    A Mother, Her Son, and a Fifty-Year Search

    New York Times BestsellerThe heartbreaking true story of an Irishwoman and the secret she kept for 50 yearsWhen she became pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent to a convent to be looked after as a “fallen woman.” Then the nuns took her baby from her and sold him, like thousands of others, to America for adoption. Fifty years later, Philomena decided to find him ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $11.99 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

  • 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

  • Little Girl Lost: The true story of a broken child (HarperTrue Life – A Short Read)

    by Mia Marconi ...
    Series series HarperTrue Life – A Short Read
    The fourth in a series of true short stories from foster carer Mia Marconi.Kira first came to foster carer Mia Marconi’s home on respite care when she was three. She had suffered an unimaginable amount of abuse in her short life. Although she couldn’t tie her shoe laces, she could smash a room to pieces; she fought against everything like a wild cat.At the age of five Kira moved permanently to ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Girls Who Went Away

    The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade

    by Ann Fessler ...
    **The astonishing untold history of the million and a half women who surrendered children for adoption due to enormous family and social pressure in the decades before Roe v. Wade.“It would take a heart of stone not to be moved by the oral histories of these women and by the courage and candor with which they express themselves.” —The Washington Post“A remarkably well-researched and accomplished ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The American Girl

    The Number One bestselling Irish historical fiction novel of heartbreaking secrets in a home for unwed mothers

    'A true storyteller who keeps you turning the pages' CATHY KELLY, Sunday Times bestselling authorSent to Ireland in disgrace, she was forced to give up her baby...'One of the best books I have ever read' Real reader review, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐'W****ill remain in my heart for a very long time' Real reader review, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐**'**Every ... ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • 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

  • Unwanted: Part 3 of 3: The care system failed Lara. Will she fail her own child?

    by Cathy Glass ...
    Lara was seven when her birth mother died from a drug overdose. With no extended family to look after her, she was put into foster care. The care system failed Lara and now she is failing her son.Lara and her one-year-old son, Arthur, are brought to experienced foster carer, Cathy Glass, by their social worker. Lara has fled an abusive relationship and Arthur has suspected non-accidental injuries. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Lucky Few

    Finding God's Best in the Most Unlikely Places

    by Heather Avis ...
    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 has learned that it's truly the lucky few who get to live a life like hers, who actually recognize that God ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Lucky Girl

    In a true story of family ties, journalist Mei-Ling Hopgood, one of the first wave of Asian adoptees to arrive in America, comes face to face with her past when her Chinese birth family suddenly requests a reunion after more than two decades.In 1974, a baby girl from Taiwan arrived in America, the newly adopted child of a loving couple in Michigan. Mei-Ling Hopgood had an all-American upbringing, ... Read more

    $9.99 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

  • Mummy Told Me Not to Tell: The true story of a troubled boy with a dark secret

    by Cathy Glass ...
    When Reece arrives at Cathy's door aged 7 years old, he has already passed through the hands of four different carers in four weeks. As the details of his short life emerge, it becomes clear that to help him, Cathy will face her biggest challenge yet.The latest title from the author of Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller Damaged.Reece is the last of six siblings to be fostered. Having been ... Read more

    $12.99 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

  • Unwanted: Part 2 of 3: The care system failed Lara. Will she fail her own child?

    by Cathy Glass ...
    Lara was seven when her birth mother died from a drug overdose. With no extended family to look after her, she was put into foster care. The care system failed Lara and now she is failing her son.Lara and her one-year-old son, Arthur, are brought to experienced foster carer, Cathy Glass, by their social worker. Lara has fled an abusive relationship and Arthur has suspected non-accidental injuries. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • 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