Adoption & Fostering
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Broken: Transforming Child Protective Services–Notes of a Former Caseworker
$16.99 Add to cart“It’s an invaluable insider account of a pressing social issue.” – Publishers Weekly
Joining the ranks of Evicted and The New Jim Crow, a former caseworker’s searing, clear-eyed investigation of the c
- Author: Pryce, Jessica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0063036207
- Language: English
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First-Time Fostering: A Practical Guide for Supporting Kids in Foster Care
$17.99 Read moreThe must-read resource for foster parents, resource parents, care providers, foster carers, guardians, and social service professionals!
Real Help for Real Moments in Foster Care
When you don’t
- Author: Laura the Foster Parent Partner
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 1464270341
- Language: English
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This Little Fire of Mine: How Flickers of Doubt Can Spark a Bolder, Brighter Faith
$19.99 Add to cartAdoptive mom, Army wife, and influencer Kendall Mariah shows readers that if you are willing to embrace the uncomfortable friction that comes with leaning into big questions and hard conversations, yo
- Author: Mariah, Kendall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1400251672
- Language: English
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Children Like Us: A M?tis Woman’s Memoir of Family, Identity and Walking Herself Home
$18.99 Add to cartA M?tis girl is adopted by a Mennonite family in this breathtaking memoir about family lost and found.
By the time Brittany Penner is seven years old, she has loved and lost twenty-one foster siblings- Author: Penner, Brittany
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 9798895654972
- Language: English
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The Greek in Me: My Search For My Birthmother
$13.99 Add to cartIn 1953, a young Greek couple in Chicago adopt a six-week-old baby girl from The Cradle Society, a long-standing, famed adoption agency in Evanston, Illinois. As little Debbie Gallios grows up, she sl… [more below]
- Author: Gallios, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: December 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1665779799
- Language: English
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There: We Found Our Family In A New York City Subway Station
$30.00 Add to cartCertain events in life are so rare they can be freely dismissed as impossibilities. Getting struck by lightning, surviving a plane crash, or winning the lottery. When something shocking happens and do
- Author: Mercurio, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: October 30 2025
- ISBN10: 9798992637380
- Language: English
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Yes, Mum… I Made It!
$24.99 Add to cartAfter the death of his mother, Mikey’s journey through life is fraught with challenges and heartache. Orphaned and constantly striving to make his mother proud, Mikey navigates the turbulent waters of
- Author: Harvey, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: November 16 2024
- ISBN10: 9798986537511
- Language: English
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Raising Kids and Teens with Fasd: Advice and Strategies to Help Your Family to Thrive!
$17.95 Add to cartFetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) affects up to 1 in 20 people, and is particularly prevalent among young people in the adoption and fostering system. As a hidden brain injury, FASD can manifest
- Author: Clark, Barb
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1805013904
- Language: English
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A Short History of Queer Parenting
$15.99 Add to cartA funny, bullshit-free and surprising history
Queer families have always existed Even Sappho, the OG lesbian, had a daughter named Cleis, in honour of vaginas everywhere! For centuries, the women of ‘- Author: Loehr, Kirsty
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1836430809
- Language: English
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Cekpa: A Memoir in Beaded Essays
$20.00 Add to cartFor Leah Altman, growing up as an adoptee outside of her culture meant growing up without her cekpa, the Lakota connection to family and homeland. Now an adult, Leah departs her life in Portland, Oreg
- Author: Altman, Leah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1947845608
- Language: English
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Raising Adopted Children, Revised Edition: Practical Reassuring Advice for Every Adoptive Parent
$19.99 Add to cartIn this completely revised and updated edition of Raising Adopted Children, Lois Melina, editor of Adopted Child newsletter and the mother of two children by adoption, draws on the latest research in
- Author: Melina, Lois Ruskai
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 10 1998
- ISBN10: 0060957174
- Language: English
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Love Without Borders
$21.99 Add to cartFor more than three decades into the early 21st Century, China’s effort to curb population growth through the “one-child policy” created a wave of abandoned Chinese infants, most of them girls. Around
- Author: Wencai, Ni
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: July 22 2025
- ISBN10: 9888904213
- Language: English
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There: We Found Our Family In A New York City Subway Station
$20.00 Add to cartCertain events in life are so rare they can be freely dismissed as impossibilities. Getting struck by lightning, surviving a plane crash, or winning the lottery. When something shocking happens and do
- Author: Mercurio, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 9798992637328
- Language: English
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Pretend They Are Dead: A Father’s Search for the Truth
$35.00 Add to cartWhen Steven’s dad, Allen, disappeared, he left behind more than his children-he left a legacy of loss and family secrets. Though working just miles away, Allen gave up his kids for adoption. He was so
- Author: Eichenblatt, Steven Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 358
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 1960865315
- Language: English
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Cut: The True Story of an Abandoned, Abused Little Girl Who Was Desperate to Be Part of a Family
$9.99 Add to cartMillion-copy bestselling author Cathy Glass tells the story of Dawn, a sweet and seemingly well-balanced girl whose outward appearance masks a traumatic childhood of suffering at the hands of the very
- Author: Glass, Cathy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 05 2009
- ISBN10: 0007280998
- Language: English
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Living Into the Truth: A Daughter’s Journey of Discovery
$15.55 Add to cart“Living Into the Truth: A Daughter’s Journey of Discovery” is a memoir by Annette Marquis that explores the author’s quest to uncover her family’s hidden past and, in doing so, discover her own identi
- Author: Marquis, Annette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 238
- Publish Date: November 01 2024
- ISBN10: 9798991280204
- Language: English
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Life After Adoption: My Unhindered Journey
$19.99 Add to cartThe 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. Pl
- Author: Ricks, Carolyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: March 20 2024
- ISBN10: 9798869176301
- Language: English
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Who Is a Worthy Mother?: An Intimate History of Adoption
$24.95 Add to cartNearly every person in the United States is affected by adoption. Adoption practices are woven into the fabric of American society and reflect how our nation values human beings, particularly mothers…. [more below]
- Author: Wellington, Rebecca
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0806193700
- Language: English
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Woman of Interest: A Memoir
$28.99 Read moreMOST ANTICIPATED READ and MUST READ OF 2024: The Millions, LitHub, Esquire, BookRiot, Bustle, Vulture, Boston Globe, Brit & Co, Southern Living
“Woman of Interest is a memoir wrapped in a mystery–an i
- Author: O’Neill, Tracy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 0063309866
- Language: English
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Cut: The True Story of an Abandoned, Abused Little Girl Who Was Desperate to Be Part of a Family
$18.99 Add to cartAn evocative and charming novel full of secrets and mystery, from the million-copy bestselling author of The Lost Bookshop
In a quiet village in Ireland, a mysterious local myth is about to change eve
- Author: Woods, Evie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 0008707464
- Language: English
