Adoption & Fostering
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Broken: Transforming Child Protective Services–Notes of a Former Caseworker
$28.99 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 19, 2024
- ISBN10: 0063036193
- Language: English
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North Wind Man
$22.95 Add to cartNorth Wind Man is a co-authored biography in which Clarence Cachagee courageously shares his challenging and inspiring path to becoming a helper and leader in his community – a multi-generational heal
- Author: Cachagee, Clarence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: January 31, 2023
- ISBN10: 1990827039
- Language: English
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Parenting: Getting It Right
$27.99 Add to cartAm I getting parenting right? Most parents, at any and every stage, find themselves asking this question.
Whether you’re sleep deprived with a colicky newborn or navigating the emotional roller coaster
- Author: Stanley, Andy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 17, 2023
- ISBN10: 0310366275
- Language: English
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All This I Saw, and Part of It I Was: A Memoir
$24.95 Add to cartJohn Suthers’ memoir offers the reader his personal story with an insightful account of a public service career that balances what is right and what is necessary.
Born out of wedlock and adopted as an … [more below]
- Author: Suthers, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 390
- Publish Date: June 20, 2023
- ISBN10: 1955272972
- Language: English
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All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir
$16.95 Add to cartA NATIONAL BESTSELLER
This 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 d- Author: Chung, Nicole
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 15, 2019
- ISBN10: 1948226375
- Language: English
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The Loneliest Whale in the World
$17.00 Add to cartThe very cool “My Chili Recipe: An Ars Poetica” includes an actual chili recipe as well as advice that’s excellent for chili and poetry: stir occasionally. A good poem requires a kind of mixing or chu
- Author: Hunley, Tom C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 4, 2024
- ISBN10: 1947896725
- Language: English
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Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood
$30.00 Add to cart“Dares to imagine a different world where Americans treat adoption like the justice issue it is.” ―Washington Post
“Impressively reported…[Sisson] uses her deep well of knowledge to make the c- Author: Sisson, Gretchen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1250286778
- Language: English
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You Should Be Grateful: Stories of Race, Identity, and Transracial Adoption
$25.95 Read moreAn adoption expert and transracial adoptee herself examines the unique perspectives and challenges these adoptees have as they navigate multiple cultures
“Your parents are so amazing for adopting you!- Author: Tucker, Angela
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 0807006513
- Language: English
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Brave Love: A Nurse’s Story of Courage and Compassion in a Kenyan Hospice
$23.98 Add to cartEmbark on an extraordinary journey within the pages of “Brave Love.” Guided by the prayer, “What does it look like to love in this situation?” Juli Boit’s memoir emerges as an unyielding testament to
- Author: Boit, Juli
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: November 06, 2023
- ISBN10: 9798891850064
- Language: English
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Raising Kids with Big, Baffling Behaviors: Brain-Body-Sensory Strategies That Really Work
$19.95 Add to cart“All behavior makes sense”
Parenting and neuroscience expert Robyn Gobbel is here to reveal how all behavior, no matter how baffling, c
‘”It most certainly does not!”, is probably your first reaction.- Author: Gobbel, Robyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 21, 2023
- ISBN10: 1839974281
- Language: English
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I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir
$24.95 Add to cartNational Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
“Susan Kiyo Ito is like a surgeon operating on herself. She is delicate, precise, and at times cutting with her words. But it is all in service of her own- Series: Machete
- Author: Ito, Susan Kiyo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: November 04, 2023
- ISBN10: 0814258832
- Language: English
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Essential FASD Supports: Understanding and Supporting People with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
$27.95 Add to cartPeople with FASDs Can Be Successful-with Support!
The question is, how do we support them? Despite being one of the most common developmental disabilities in the world, there is little understanding (a
- Author: Sheets, Nate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: May 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1977245080
- Language: English
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The Primal Wound
$15.00 Add to cartThe Primal Wound is a seminal work which revolutionizes the way we think about adoption. It describes and clarifies the effects of separating babies from their birth mothers as a primal loss which aff
- Author: Verrier, Nancy N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 14, 2003
- ISBN10: 0963648004
- Language: English
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The Connected Child: Bring Hope and Healing to Your Adoptive Family
$22.00 Add to cart“An extremely useful parenting handbook… truly outstanding … strongly recommended.”
–Library Journal (starred review)“A tremendous resource for parents and professionals alike.”
–Thomas Atwood,- Author: Purvis, Karyn B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 15, 2007
- ISBN10: 0071475001
- Language: English
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The Connected Parent: Real-Life Strategies for Building Trust and Attachment
$15.99 Add to cartThere Is Hope for Every Child, Every Parent, and Every Family
Parenting under the best of circumstances can be difficult. And raising children who have come to your home from “hard places,” who have- Author: Qualls, Lisa C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0736978925
- Language: English
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Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family
$18.99 Add to cart“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 a
- Author: Albom, Mitch
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 18 2021
- ISBN10: 0062952404
- Language: English
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Coming home to Self: The Adopted Child Grows Up
$20.00 Add to cartComing Home to Self is a book about becoming aware. It is written for all members of the adoption triad: adoptees, birth parents, and adoptive parents as well as those who are in relationship with the
- Author: Verrier, Nancy N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 506
- Publish Date: March 17, 2003
- ISBN10: 0963648012
- Language: English
