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The Baby Thief

The Untold Story of Georgia Tann, the Baby Seller Who Corrupted Adoption

de Barbara Bisantz Raymond ...

For almost three decades, renowned baby-seller Georgia Tann ran a children's home in Memphis, Tennessee -- selling her charges to wealthy clients nationwide, Joan Crawford among them. Part social history, part detective story, part expose, The Baby Thief is a riveting investigative narrative that explores themes that continue to reverberate today. ... Leer más

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For almost three decades, renowned baby-seller Georgia Tann ran a children's home in Memphis, Tennessee -- selling her charges to wealthy clients nationwide, Joan Crawford among them. Part social history, part detective story, part expose, The Baby Thief is a riveting investigative narrative that explores themes that continue to reverberate today.
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Raising Kids with Big, Baffling Behaviors

Brain-Body-Sensory Strategies That Really Work

de 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 ... Leer más

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"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
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No One to Miss Me

Can Cathy help troubled Lily sort her life out and piece together the truth

de Cathy Glass ...

ONE REMARKABLE WOMAN.OVER 30 YEARS OF FOSTERING.CARER TO MORE THAN 150 CHILDREN.Can Cathy help troubled Lily sort her life out and piece together the truth?Late on boxing day, Cathy hears a strange noise outside her house, only to find Lily, a child she fostered ten years ago, shivering on her front step.But she is no longer the vulnerable girl Cathy once knew. Withdrawn and on edge,... ... Leer más

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ONE REMARKABLE WOMAN.OVER 30 YEARS OF FOSTERING.CARER TO MORE THAN 150 CHILDREN.Can Cathy help troubled Lily sort her life out and piece together the truth?Late on boxing day, Cathy hears a strange noise outside her house, only to find Lily, a child she fostered ten years ago, shivering on her front step.But she is no longer the vulnerable girl Cathy once knew. Withdrawn and on edge,...
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Another Forgotten Child

de Cathy Glass ...

A new memoir from Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author Cathy Glass, now with an exclusive preview of Cathy’s inspiring new title, Please Don’t Take My Baby, coming out on April 25th.Eight-year-old Aimee was on the child protection register at birth. Her five older siblings were taken into care many years ago. So no one can understand why she was left at home to suffer for so long. It ... Leer más

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A new memoir from Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author Cathy Glass, now with an exclusive preview of Cathy’s inspiring new title, Please Don’t Take My Baby, coming out on April 25th.Eight-year-old Aimee was on the child protection register at birth. Her five older siblings were taken into care many years ago. So no one can understand why she was left at home to suffer for so long. It
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Please Don't Hurt Me

Kayla’s true story of horror and abuse – is it too late to keep her safe?

de Maggie Hartley ...

Series Libro 31 - A Maggie Hartley Foster Carer Story
A powerful, moving true story from Sunday Times bestseller, Maggie Hartley, Britain's most-loved foster carer. Perfect for fans of Cathy Glass.Fourteen-year-old Kayla goes to live with Maggie after her mum is sectioned due to an ongoing battle with her mental health. Despite everything she had to cope with at home, Kayla is doing well at school, has lots of friends and has started seeing her first ... Leer más

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A powerful, moving true story from Sunday Times bestseller, Maggie Hartley, Britain's most-loved foster carer. Perfect for fans of Cathy Glass.Fourteen-year-old Kayla goes to live with Maggie after her mum is sectioned due to an ongoing battle with her mental health. Despite everything she had to cope with at home, Kayla is doing well at school, has lots of friends and has started seeing her first
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Helping Foster Children In School

A Guide for Foster Parents, Social Workers and Teachers

de 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 ... Leer más

$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
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To Save the Children of Korea

The Cold War Origins of International Adoption

de 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 ... Leer más

$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
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What White Parents Should Know about Transracial Adoption--The Workbook

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

de 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 ... Leer más

$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
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The Unofficial Guide to Therapeutic Parenting - The Teen Years

de 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 ... Leer más

$19.69 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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I Wasn’t Always Leeanne: An Adoption Story

de L. A. Swain ...

An adoptee's decades-long journey to uncover her secret family history—and her own storyWhen she was nine, Leeanne Swain found out she was adopted at birth. The news was earth-shattering. She was left feeling alone and isolated from her adopted family, with no family history to claim as her own.Leeanne's one wish was to discover her own story and meet her birth mother. It wasn't easy. She fought ... Leer más

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An adoptee's decades-long journey to uncover her secret family history—and her own storyWhen she was nine, Leeanne Swain found out she was adopted at birth. The news was earth-shattering. She was left feeling alone and isolated from her adopted family, with no family history to claim as her own.Leeanne's one wish was to discover her own story and meet her birth mother. It wasn't easy. She fought
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Identical Strangers

A Memoir of Twins Separated and Reunited

de Elyse Schein, Paula Bernstein ...

As seen in the hit documentary Three Identical Strangers • “[A] poignant memoir of twin sisters who were split up as infants, became part of a secret scientific study, then found each other as adults.”—Reader’s Digest (Editors’ Choice)WINNER OF A BOOKS FOR A BETTER LIFE AWARDElyse Schein had always known she was adopted, but it wasn’t until her mid-thirties while living in Paris that she searched ... Leer más

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As seen in the hit documentary Three Identical Strangers • “[A] poignant memoir of twin sisters who were split up as infants, became part of a secret scientific study, then found each other as adults.”—Reader’s Digest (Editors’ Choice)WINNER OF A BOOKS FOR A BETTER LIFE AWARDElyse Schein had always known she was adopted, but it wasn’t until her mid-thirties while living in Paris that she searched
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Mummy Told Me Not to Tell

The true story of a troubled boy with a dark secret

de Cathy Glass ...

ONE REMARKABLE WOMAN.OVER 30 YEARS OF FOSTERING.THE STORY OF ONE CHILD SHE COULD NEVER FORGET.The true story of a troubled boy with a dark secret…Seven-year-old Reece is the last of six siblings to be taken into foster care. He can't cope with school and is often excluded for his violent and aggressive outbursts. But behind that anger is a kind little boy with secrets – he's just too scared ... ... Leer más

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ONE REMARKABLE WOMAN.OVER 30 YEARS OF FOSTERING.THE STORY OF ONE CHILD SHE COULD NEVER FORGET.The true story of a troubled boy with a dark secret…Seven-year-old Reece is the last of six siblings to be taken into foster care. He can't cope with school and is often excluded for his violent and aggressive outbursts. But behind that anger is a kind little boy with secrets – he's just too scared ...
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I Must Have Wandered: An Adopted Air Force Daughter Recalls

de 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 ... Leer más

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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
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Philomena (Movie Tie-In)

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

de 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 ... Leer más

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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
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Finding Zoe

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

de 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 ... Leer más

$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

de 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 ... Leer más

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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
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Let Me Go: Part 3 of 3

Abused and Afraid, She Has Nothing to Live for

de 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 ... Leer más

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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
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Facilitating Meaningful Contact in Adoption and Fostering

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

de 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 ... Leer más

$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
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Daughters of the Bamboo Grove

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

de 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 ... Leer más

$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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Game, Set, Match

de 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 ... Leer más

$5.99 USD

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
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Crying for Help

The Shocking True Story of a Damaged Girl with a Dark Past

de Casey Watson ...

The second book from Sunday Times bestselling author Casey Watson.Two weeks after saying farewell to her first foster child, Casey is asked to look after Sophia, a troubled 12-year-old with a sad past. Sophia’s actions are disturbing and provocative and, before long, Casey and her family find themselves in a dark and dangerous situation.Two years ago Sophia’s mother had a terrible accident. Sophia ... Leer más

$12.99 USD

The second book from Sunday Times bestselling author Casey Watson.Two weeks after saying farewell to her first foster child, Casey is asked to look after Sophia, a troubled 12-year-old with a sad past. Sophia’s actions are disturbing and provocative and, before long, Casey and her family find themselves in a dark and dangerous situation.Two years ago Sophia’s mother had a terrible accident. Sophia
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Damaged

The Heartbreaking True Story of a Forgotten Child

de Cathy Glass ...

The No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller.At just eight years old, Jodie is violent, aggressive and extremely challenging. Five carers in four months have been unable to cope, but there is one last hope: Cathy Glass…As Jodie begins to trust Cathy and make progress, shocking details about her past come to light. No one had noticed the glaring signs of abuse by those who were supposed to love her most.One ... Leer más

$12.99 USD

The No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller.At just eight years old, Jodie is violent, aggressive and extremely challenging. Five carers in four months have been unable to cope, but there is one last hope: Cathy Glass…As Jodie begins to trust Cathy and make progress, shocking details about her past come to light. No one had noticed the glaring signs of abuse by those who were supposed to love her most.One
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Little Prisoners

A tragic story of siblings trapped in a world of abuse and suffering

de Casey Watson ...

From the Sunday Times bestselling author comes a harrowing and moving memoir about two innocent and frightened ‘unfosterable’ children who do not know what it means to be loved.This is the third book in the series.The shock that strikes Casey and her family when Ashton and Olivia arrive is immeasurable. Two dirty, frightened little waifs stand before them, huge eyes staring around their new ... Leer más

$12.99 USD

From the Sunday Times bestselling author comes a harrowing and moving memoir about two innocent and frightened ‘unfosterable’ children who do not know what it means to be loved.This is the third book in the series.The shock that strikes Casey and her family when Ashton and Olivia arrive is immeasurable. Two dirty, frightened little waifs stand before them, huge eyes staring around their new
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Etched in Sand

A True Story of Five Siblings Who Survived an Unspeakable Childhood on Long Island

de Regina Calcaterra ...

Regina’s Calcaterra memoir, Etched in Sand, is an inspiring and triumphant coming-of-age story of tenacity and hope.Regina Calcaterra is a successful lawyer, New York State official, and activist. Her painful early life, however, was quite different. Regina and her four siblings survived an abusive and painful childhood only to find themselves faced with the challenges of the foster-care system ... Leer más

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Regina’s Calcaterra memoir, Etched in Sand, is an inspiring and triumphant coming-of-age story of tenacity and hope.Regina Calcaterra is a successful lawyer, New York State official, and activist. Her painful early life, however, was quite different. Regina and her four siblings survived an abusive and painful childhood only to find themselves faced with the challenges of the foster-care system
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