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  • Long Story Short: Year of the Water Goat

    by Jan Risher ...
    Long Story Short: Year of the Water Goat is a must read for anyone who has or is considering adopted internationally, especially from China. Columnist Jan Risher believes one of the most important aspects of international adoption is the embracing of a new culture and country for the adopting family as well.According to the Chinese zodiac, 2003 was the year of the water goat. It was a big year for ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Looking to the Stars from Old Algiers

    And Other Long Stories Short

    by Jan Risher ...
    Jan Risher took the long way to get from Mississippi to Louisiana with stops in between in Slovakia, Mexico, China, Burkina Faso, and more than forty other countries. Since moving to Lafayette in 2001, she has been a Sunday columnist for The Daily Advertiser and has written a column every single week since March 2002.Looking to the Stars from Old Algiers and Other Long Stories Short is the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    On Taking My Adopted Daughter Back to Her Hometown in China

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    In 1994 an American writer named Emily Prager met her new daughter LuLu. All she knew about her was that the baby had been born in Wuhu, a city in southern China, and left near a police station in her first three days of life. Her birth mother had left a note with Lulu's western and lunar birth dates. In 1999 Emily and her daughter–now a happy, fearless four-year-old--returned to China to find out ... Read more

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  • Laos Travel Guide - Sightseeing, Hotel, Restaurant & Shopping Highlights (Illustrated)

    by Gary Jennings ...
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  • Healing Child Trauma Through Restorative Parenting

    A Model for Supporting Children and Young People

    How can we help heal children who have been abused or neglected?Healing Child Trauma Through Restorative Parenting details how children can be helped to recover with the use of Restorative Parenting, an innovative model informed by psychological and neurological understanding of trauma and its effects. It explains the critical role that people, relationships and the environment play in a child's ... Read more

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  • Almost Pregnant

    by Hannah Amos ...
    You get married, go on honeymoon, get the white picket fence, fall pregnant, have babies and live happily ever after right? Well, apparently not. This is the TRUE STORY of a couple's very real battle with childlessness and their endless efforts to make their dream of having a baby come true. With brutal honesty and witty humor the reader is taken on a roller coaster ride of pain, laughter, ... Read more

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  • The Secrets in My Eyes

    Adopted as an infant, Harry Hamilton spent the first six years of his life believing himself to be the true son of a proud and loving family, with a lineage of which any young boy would be proud. But in his seventh year, Harry’s world was shattered by the mindless words of a grandfather. The ensuing revelation that he was adopted began his life-long journey of selfdiscovery, desperately looking ... Read more

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  • China to Chitral

    Mountains are the beginning and end of all scenery

    by H.W. Tilman ...
    Series Book 11 - H.W. Tilman: The Collected Edition
    In China to Chitral H.W. 'Bill' Tilman completes one of his great post-war journeys. He travels from Central China, crossing Sinkiang, the Gobi and Takla Makan Deserts, before escaping to a crumbling British Empire with a crossing of the Karakoram to the new nation of Pakistan.In 1951 there still persisted a legend that a vast mountain, higher than Everest, was to be found in the region, a good ... Read more

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  • Inside Kinship Care

    Understanding Family Dynamics and Providing Effective Support

    Kinship care – the care of children by grandparents, other relatives or friends – is a major part of foster care, yet there are distinct issues that arise in care involving family rather than 'stranger' foster carers.This book takes an in-depth look at what goes on 'inside' kinship care. It explores the dynamics and relationships between family members that are involved in kinship care, including ... Read more

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  • Kinship Care

    Increasing Child Well-Being Through Practice, Policy, and Research

    Kinship care is one of the most prevalent forms of placement used for maltreated children and youths. This book is the first to provide a systematic and theory-informed approach to preparing caregivers for the vital role they play in the lives of abused and neglected children. It presents a relationship-building framework that can be used to better achieve the three major child welfare goals: (1) ... Read more

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  • Ultimate Handbook Guide to Gaizhou : (China) Travel Guide

    by Logan Andrew ...
    This publication, published by SamEnrico, covers Ultimate Handbook Guide to Gaizhou : (China) Travel Guide ... Read more

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  • The Lonely Little Horse

    A Chinese Adoption Story

    by Mick Verga ...
    The Lonely Little Horse is based on the real life adoption of the authors daughter Amanda and is written in an animal fable genre, some true names and facts and some good old fashioned storytelling! ... Read more

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