Adoption & Fostering
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A Boy, an Orphanage, a Cuban Refugee
$18.95 Add to cartI became a man when I was nine. My other option was death.
I just didn’t know it then, but the truth is that I . . . we . . . had to leave.
Why would parents send their children, alone, to a foreign cou
- Author: Dora, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1646638794
- Language: English
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We Have a Child for You: Fostering in rural Nova Scotia
$13.99 Add to cartThey talked it over, took the training course, equipped the spare bedrooms, and thought they were all ready to be foster parents. The reality, in its joys and challenges, was far beyond what Kathleen
- Author: Foster-Alfred, Kathleen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: June 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1990187781
- Language: English
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Love Makes The World Go ‘Round
$15.99 Add to cartThank you for purchasing this important book. Love Makes the World Go ‘Round is an adult children’s book about foster and adoptive children overcoming the odds to reach their potential and paying homa
- Author: Starks, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 42
- Publish Date: July 14 2023
- ISBN10: 9798218239220
- Language: English
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I Must Have Wandered: An Adopted Air Force Daughter Recalls
$11.99 Add to cartTravel 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 l
- Author: Gambutti, Mary Ellen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1643888625
- Language: English
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Where’s My Mummy
$17.99 Read more‘Mum and Dad. Gone?’ asked Louisa.
After a horrific car crash, thirteen-year-old Louisa is left fighting for her life in hospital. She wakes to find that her loving,
‘Yes, ‘ I nodded. ‘They’re gone.’- Author: Hartley, Maggie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 06, 2023
- ISBN10: 1399606573
- Language: English
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They Cage the Animals at Night: The True Story of an Abandoned Child’s Struggle for Emotional Survival
$9.99 Add to cartThe heartbreaking, iconic true story of an abandoned little boy’s horrific journey through the American foster care system
One misty evening, Jennings Michael Burch’s mother, too sick to care for him,- Author: Burch, Jennings Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 11 2017
- ISBN10: 0451489519
- Language: English
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You Are The Prize: Seeing Yourself Beyond the Imperfections of Your Trauma
$19.99 Add to cartYou Are the Prize: Seeing Yourself Beyond the Imperfections of Your Trauma explores the journey and struggles in author Amnoni Myers’ life. She learned to succeed in a world full of intricacies and su
- Author: Myers, Amnoni Laren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1636765025
- Language: English
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From Foster Kid to Millionaire to Song Writer
$13.95 Add to cartWhen I turned eighteen, two big events took place in my life. I was aged out of foster care, on my own, and I had to get a job! I thought of registering for the draft, but the Bright family agreed to
- Author: Dennis, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: March 01 2023
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- Language: English
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Broken, Brave and Bittersweet: Forging Fiercely Through Disability, Parenthood, and Other Misadventures
$30.95 Add to cartAfter adopting her son from a Chinese orphanage, Chris Prange-Morgan and her husband soon realized that the picture-perfect family life they had envisioned was not to be. Abandoned, severely neglected
- Author: Prange-Morgan, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 01 2023
- ISBN10: 9798887970288
- Language: English
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The Missing Puzzle Pieces: Finding My Birth Family
$21.99 Add to cartJoan Zaretsky was adopted as an infant, and grew up in a loving, happy home with adoptive parents who supported her to experience many opportunities. Following her retirement, and her adoptive parents… [more below]
- Author: Zaretsky, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: April 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1039153488
- Language: English
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Voices Unheard: A Reflective Journal for Adult Adoptees
$16.99 Add to cartVoices Unheard: A Reflective Journal for Adult Adoptees, a 52-week writing journal created by adoptee Lisa Coppola, a licensed mental health counselor, offers prompts based on core themes that arise i
- Author: Coppola, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 0578366835
- Language: English
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Wounded Children, Healing Homes: How Traumatized Children Impact Adoptive and Foster Families
$17.99 Add to cartWhy doesn’t our child return our love? What are we failing to understand? What are we failing to do? These questions can fill the minds of adoptive parents caring for wounded, traumatized children. Fa… [more below]
- Author: Schooler, Jayne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 29 2010
- ISBN10: 1615215689
- Language: English
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Junkyard Girl: A Memoir of Ancestry, Family Secrets, and Second Chances
$18.95 Add to cart“An astonishing tale, told by a gifted storyteller. Beautifully written, emotionally engaging and unrestrained in its intimacy…as heartbreaking as it is heartfelt.”-Jay Rabinowitz, ACE, award-winnin
- Author: Montes de Oca, Carlyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 310
- Publish Date: October 12 2022
- ISBN10: 0999781227
- Language: English
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Foster the Family: Encouragement, Hope, and Practical Help for the Christian Foster Parent
$17.99 Add to cartThere are great rewards that come along with being a foster parent, yet there are also great challenges that can leave you feeling depleted, alone, and discouraged. The many burdens of a foster parent… [more below]
- Author: Finn, Jamie C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1540901866
- Language: English
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The Gift of Time: A Birth Mother’s Memoir
$17.95 Add to cart“Do we have any skeletons in our closet?”
That was the question posed to the author’s mother-in-law by a niece after receiving a private message through Facebook from a stranger who said, “I think you
- Author: McLaughlin, Julie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: August 10 2022
- ISBN10: 1685709001
- Language: English
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A Brief Silence
$15.95 Add to cartIn this gripping memoir, Sheila takes us on a journey through her remarkable life. From being taken into foster care at a young age to becoming an adult and trying to find her true self, her story is … [more below]
- Author: Ruby, Sheila
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: May 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1088153879
- Language: English
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The Post-Adoption Blues: Overcoming the Unforseen Challenges of Adoption
$16.95 Add to cartOver 150,000 people adopt children each year, and more than 2 million parents are now raising adopted children and grandchildren. While the path to parenting through adoption is rich with rewards and
- Author: Foli, Karen J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 20 2008
- ISBN10: 1579548660
- Language: English
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My New Family
$14.95 Add to cartGo on an adventure together with two baby tortoises, Lou Lou and Oliver, as they are introduced to their new forever home. The tortoises show feelings of excitement and being scared and have a fun ima
- Author: Kelly, Christina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 30
- Publish Date: March 13 2023
- ISBN10: 9798886445534
- Language: English
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The Unraveling: My Story of Faith, Forgiveness, and a Family Restored
$16.99 Add to cartConnection. Belonging. Love.
We all crave them. And many of us are lucky enough to be born into a setting where they are already in place to support our growth and understanding of the world.
But author
- Author: Logan, Judi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: May 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1958481068
- Language: English
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Where the Trees Dance: A memoir and love song to a birth mother, mom and dad and the love of a life.
$22.95 Add to cart“Where The Trees Dance has a taste of Jack Kerouac’s On The Road, with a nod to the Emerald Isle… both an exploration and a celebration of family and heritage, about bravery and vulnerability, but f
- Author: Geraty, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 238
- Publish Date: June 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1977262414
- Language: English
