Adoption in Family & Relationships & Nonfiction eBooks

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 ...

**“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 book.” —The New York Times Book Review**“A wrenching, riveting book.” —Chicago TribuneThe astonishing untold history of the million and a half women who surrendered children for ... Read more

$9.99 USD

**“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 book.” —The New York Times Book Review**“A wrenching, riveting book.” —Chicago TribuneThe astonishing untold history of the million and a half women who surrendered children for
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Daughters of the Bamboo Grove

From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated Twins

by Barbara Demick ...

NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE • The heartrending story of twin sisters torn apart by China’s one-child policy and the rise of international adoption—from the author of the National Book Award finalist Nothing to Envy“Remarkable . . . Barbara Demick movingly traces this history of overseas Chinese adoptions and their ripple effects on both sides of the Pacific.”—The Wall Street Journal ... Read more

$13.99 USD

NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE • The heartrending story of twin sisters torn apart by China’s one-child policy and the rise of international adoption—from the author of the National Book Award finalist Nothing to Envy“Remarkable . . . Barbara Demick movingly traces this history of overseas Chinese adoptions and their ripple effects on both sides of the Pacific.”—The Wall Street Journal
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Raising Kids with Big, Baffling Behaviors

Brain-Body-Sensory Strategies That Really Work

by Robyn Gobbel ...

"All behavior makes sense"'"It most certainly does not!", is probably your first reaction.Parenting and neuroscience expert Robyn Gobbel is here to reveal how all behavior, no matter how baffling, can be explained and remedied. You just need to look past the behavior and understand what's going on inside.Robyn decodes the latest brain science into easy-to-understand principles and metaphors to ... Read more

$16.39 USD

"All behavior makes sense"'"It most certainly does not!", is probably your first reaction.Parenting and neuroscience expert Robyn Gobbel is here to reveal how all behavior, no matter how baffling, can be explained and remedied. You just need to look past the behavior and understand what's going on inside.Robyn decodes the latest brain science into easy-to-understand principles and metaphors to
... Read more
American Baby

A Mother, a Child, and the Secret History of Adoption

by Gabrielle Glaser ...

**A New York Times Notable BookThe shocking truth about postwar adoption in America, told through the bittersweet story of one teenager, the son she was forced to relinquish, and their search to find each other.“[T]his book about the past might foreshadow a coming shift in the future… ‘I don’t think any legislators in those states who are anti-abortion are actually thinking, “Oh, great, these ... Read more

$13.99 USD

**A New York Times Notable BookThe shocking truth about postwar adoption in America, told through the bittersweet story of one teenager, the son she was forced to relinquish, and their search to find each other.“[T]his book about the past might foreshadow a coming shift in the future… ‘I don’t think any legislators in those states who are anti-abortion are actually thinking, “Oh, great, these
... Read more
First-Time Fostering

A Practical Guide for Supporting Kids in Foster Care

by Laura the Foster Parent Partner ...

The must-read resource for foster parents, resource parents, care providers, foster carers, guardians, and social service professionals!Real Help for Real Moments in Foster CareWhen you don't know what to do, this book is here to help. Parenting a child in foster care comes with unique challenges that most parenting books don't cover. Between trauma responses, court dates, system constraints, and ... Read more

$8.69 USD

The must-read resource for foster parents, resource parents, care providers, foster carers, guardians, and social service professionals!Real Help for Real Moments in Foster CareWhen you don't know what to do, this book is here to help. Parenting a child in foster care comes with unique challenges that most parenting books don't cover. Between trauma responses, court dates, system constraints, and
... Read more
Bitterroot

A Salish Memoir of Transracial Adoption

by Susan Devan Harness ...

Series series American Indian Lives
2019 High Plains Book Award (Creative Nonfiction and Indigenous Writer categories)2021 Barbara Sudler Award from History ColoradoIn Bitterroot Susan Devan Harness traces her journey to understand the complexities and struggles of being an American Indian child adopted by a white couple and living in the rural American West. When Harness was fifteen years old, she questioned her adoptive father ... Read more

$17.99 USD

2019 High Plains Book Award (Creative Nonfiction and Indigenous Writer categories)2021 Barbara Sudler Award from History ColoradoIn Bitterroot Susan Devan Harness traces her journey to understand the complexities and struggles of being an American Indian child adopted by a white couple and living in the rural American West. When Harness was fifteen years old, she questioned her adoptive father
... Read more
The Lost Coin

A Memoir of Adoption and Destiny

by Stephen Rowley ...

In The Lost Coin, Stephen Rowley shares his lifelong journey—searching for his birth parents, seeking his true identity, and discovering his soul’s calling. We join him when, as a boy growing up in Iowa, he visits Chicago for the first time and is shocked by blatant racial segregation and sprawling urban poverty. We see Stephen as a young athlete sustaining a life-changing injury, then becoming ... Read more

$9.99 USD

In The Lost Coin, Stephen Rowley shares his lifelong journey—searching for his birth parents, seeking his true identity, and discovering his soul’s calling. We join him when, as a boy growing up in Iowa, he visits Chicago for the first time and is shocked by blatant racial segregation and sprawling urban poverty. We see Stephen as a young athlete sustaining a life-changing injury, then becoming
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Finding Chika

A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family

by Mitch Albom ...

"Mitch Albom has done it again with this moving memoir of love and loss. You can’t help but fall for Chika. A page-turner that will no doubt become a classic.” —Mary Karr, author of The Liars’ Club and The Art of MemoirFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Tuesdays With Morrie comes Mitch Albom’s most personal story to date: an intimate and heartwarming memoir about what it means to be ... Read more

$14.99 USD

"Mitch Albom has done it again with this moving memoir of love and loss. You can’t help but fall for Chika. A page-turner that will no doubt become a classic.” —Mary Karr, author of The Liars’ Club and The Art of MemoirFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Tuesdays With Morrie comes Mitch Albom’s most personal story to date: an intimate and heartwarming memoir about what it means to be
... Read more
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

$27.89 USD

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
All You Can Ever Know

A Memoir

by Nicole Chung ...

**A NATIONAL BESTSELLERThis beloved memoir "is an extraordinary, honest, nuanced and compassionate look at adoption, race in America and families in general" (Jasmine Guillory, Code Switch, NPR)**What does it means to lose your roots—within your culture, within your family—and what happens when you find them?Nicole Chung was born severely premature, placed for adoption by her Korean parents, and ... Read more

$11.99 USD

**A NATIONAL BESTSELLERThis beloved memoir "is an extraordinary, honest, nuanced and compassionate look at adoption, race in America and families in general" (Jasmine Guillory, Code Switch, NPR)**What does it means to lose your roots—within your culture, within your family—and what happens when you find them?Nicole Chung was born severely premature, placed for adoption by her Korean parents, and
... Read more
A Long Way Home

A Memoir

by Saroo Brierley ...

**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 young man who used Google Earth to rediscover his childhood life and home in an incredible journey from India to ... Read more

$4.99 USD

**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 young man who used Google Earth to rediscover his childhood life and home in an incredible journey from India to
... Read more
To Save the Children of Korea

The Cold War Origins of International Adoption

by Arissa H. Oh ...

Series series Asian America
To Save the Children of Korea is the first book about the origins and history of international adoption. Although it has become a commonplace practice in the United States, we know very little about how or why it began, or how or why it developed into the practice that we see today.Arissa Oh argues that international adoption began in the aftermath of the Korean War. First established as an ... Read more

$22.99 USD

To Save the Children of Korea is the first book about the origins and history of international adoption. Although it has become a commonplace practice in the United States, we know very little about how or why it began, or how or why it developed into the practice that we see today.Arissa Oh argues that international adoption began in the aftermath of the Korean War. First established as an
... Read more
What White Parents Should Know about Transracial Adoption--The Workbook

Practical Tools, Skills, and Prompts for Affirming Your Adopted Child's Cultural Identity

by Melissa Guida-Richards ...

A companion to What White Parents Should Know about Transracial Adoption, this practical workbook guides readers to better understand transracial adoption and do the work of anti-racist, trauma-informed parenting.A must-read for white parents who have transracially adopted or prospective parents considering transracial adoption, this follow-up to What White Parents Should Know about Transracial ... Read more

$8.99 USD

A companion to What White Parents Should Know about Transracial Adoption, this practical workbook guides readers to better understand transracial adoption and do the work of anti-racist, trauma-informed parenting.A must-read for white parents who have transracially adopted or prospective parents considering transracial adoption, this follow-up to What White Parents Should Know about Transracial
... Read more
The Unofficial Guide to Therapeutic Parenting - The Teen Years

by Sally Donovan ...

An honest insight into the rollercoaster reality of therapeutically parenting teenagers.Raising any teenager is tough, but raising teens who have experienced trauma in their early years is a whole different - and more difficult - ball game. Adoptive parent Sally Donovan is here to answer every question you've ever wanted to ask about therapeutically parenting teenagers, and a whole lot more ... Read more

$19.99 USD

An honest insight into the rollercoaster reality of therapeutically parenting teenagers.Raising any teenager is tough, but raising teens who have experienced trauma in their early years is a whole different - and more difficult - ball game. Adoptive parent Sally Donovan is here to answer every question you've ever wanted to ask about therapeutically parenting teenagers, and a whole lot more
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A Liverpool Secret

The gripping family saga, perfect for fans of Anna Jacobs and Nadine Dorries

by Geraldine O'Neill ...

Liverpool, 1925: Can a chance meeting lead to a fresh start?Lillian Taylor dreams of a world beyond the locked gates of the convent orphanage. For ten years she has survived the hard faith of the Mother Superior, but the arrival of a glamorous visitor changes everything.Claiming to be her aunt, Anna Ainsley offers the little orphan girl a home and opportunities she never could have dreamed of. But ... Read more

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Liverpool, 1925: Can a chance meeting lead to a fresh start?Lillian Taylor dreams of a world beyond the locked gates of the convent orphanage. For ten years she has survived the hard faith of the Mother Superior, but the arrival of a glamorous visitor changes everything.Claiming to be her aunt, Anna Ainsley offers the little orphan girl a home and opportunities she never could have dreamed of. But
... Read more
I Must Have Wandered: An Adopted Air Force Daughter Recalls

by Mary Ellen Gambutti ...

I Must Have Wandered: An Adopted Air Force Daughter RecallsAn infant surrendered in the aftermath of World War II. A closed adoption one year later by a military family already in motion. From this rupture, she builds a hybrid epistolary memoir that moves across the decades, tracing what survives when origins are severed and reinvention is imposed.In lyrical, precise prose, she renders the imprint ... Read more

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I Must Have Wandered: An Adopted Air Force Daughter RecallsAn infant surrendered in the aftermath of World War II. A closed adoption one year later by a military family already in motion. From this rupture, she builds a hybrid epistolary memoir that moves across the decades, tracing what survives when origins are severed and reinvention is imposed.In lyrical, precise prose, she renders the imprint
... Read more
Philomena (Movie Tie-In)

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

by Martin Sixsmith ...

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

$10.99 USD

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
Finding Zoe

A Deaf Woman's Story of Identity, Love, and Adoption

by Brandi Rarus, Gail Harris ...

At just a few months old, Zoe was gradually losing her hearing. Her adoptive parents loved her—yet agonized—feeling they couldn't handle raising a Deaf child. Would Zoe go back into the welfare system and spend her childhood hoping to find parents willing to adopt her? Or, would she be the long-sought answer to a mother's prayers?Brandi Rarus was just 6 when spinal meningitis took away her hearing ... Read more

$9.99 USD

At just a few months old, Zoe was gradually losing her hearing. Her adoptive parents loved her—yet agonized—feeling they couldn't handle raising a Deaf child. Would Zoe go back into the welfare system and spend her childhood hoping to find parents willing to adopt her? Or, would she be the long-sought answer to a mother's prayers?Brandi Rarus was just 6 when spinal meningitis took away her hearing
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When Nowhere Is Home

An Adoption Story

by Charlotte Finn ...

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

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
The Girl Without a Voice: Part 3 of 3

The true story of a terrified child whose silence spoke volumes

by Casey Watson ...

The Girl Without a Voice can either be read as a full-length eBook or in 3 serialised eBook-only parts.This is PART 3 of 3.You can read Part 3 on release of the full-length eBook and paperback.Bestselling author and foster carer Casey Watson tells the shocking and deeply moving true story of a young girl with severe behavioural problems.This is the first of several stories about ‘difficult’ ... Read more

$1.99 USD

The Girl Without a Voice can either be read as a full-length eBook or in 3 serialised eBook-only parts.This is PART 3 of 3.You can read Part 3 on release of the full-length eBook and paperback.Bestselling author and foster carer Casey Watson tells the shocking and deeply moving true story of a young girl with severe behavioural problems.This is the first of several stories about ‘difficult’
... Read more
Let Me Go: Part 3 of 3

Abused and Afraid, She Has Nothing to Live for

by Casey Watson ...

Let Me Go is the powerful new memoir from foster carer and Sunday Times bestselling author Casey Watson.Harley, 13, has been sectioned under the mental health act after attempting suicide. She was spotted climbing the railings on a footbridge that crossed a busy motorway and pulled to safety by a member of the public. After six weeks in hospital, social services are looking for a short-term ... Read more

$3.99 USD

Let Me Go is the powerful new memoir from foster carer and Sunday Times bestselling author Casey Watson.Harley, 13, has been sectioned under the mental health act after attempting suicide. She was spotted climbing the railings on a footbridge that crossed a busy motorway and pulled to safety by a member of the public. After six weeks in hospital, social services are looking for a short-term
... Read more
My Body Belongs to Me: A Parent's Guide

How to Talk with Young Children about Personal Boundaries, Respect, and Consent

by Elizabeth Schroeder ...

Teach kids about the importance of boundaries and consentTeaching your child about responsibility and respect—especially when it comes to their bodies—is a big job, and tackling sensitive topics isn't easy. This book is your guide to starting those critical conversations with kids as young as 3, using language and examples that they can understand. Learning how to set boundaries for themselves and ... Read more

$9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Teach kids about the importance of boundaries and consentTeaching your child about responsibility and respect—especially when it comes to their bodies—is a big job, and tackling sensitive topics isn't easy. This book is your guide to starting those critical conversations with kids as young as 3, using language and examples that they can understand. Learning how to set boundaries for themselves and
... Read more
The Business of Naming Things

by Michael Coffey ...

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

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...
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Facilitating Meaningful Contact in Adoption and Fostering

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

by Louis Sydney, adoptionplus, Elsie Price ...

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

$36.09 USD

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

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