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Philomena meets Lion in this captivating memoir-the story of an orphan abandoned on Christmas Eve by her young, unwed mother and the journey undertaken to find her.
Between 1945 and 1973, about 350,000 unmarried Canadian mothers were coerced or forced into giving their babies up for adoption. Many babies, like Nadean Stone, were illegally given away, like a puppy at the pound, for a nominal donation to the church.
No Stone Unturned follows debut...
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Philomena meets Lion in this captivating memoir, the story of an orphan abandoned on Christmas Eve by her young, unwed mother and the journey undertaken to find her.
Between 1945 and 1973, about 350,000 unmarried Canadian mothers were coerced or forced into giving their babies up for adoption. Many babies, like Nadean Stone, were illegally given away, like a puppy at the pound, for a nominal donation to the church.
“No Stone Unturned”, follows...
543) The Ape Star
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In this award-winning chapter book about prejudice and justice, an orphan girl is adopted by a gorilla who lives in a junkyard. Their growing friendship defies all odds. Now an animated movie.
Jonna lives in an orphanage whose manager is strict and obsessed with cleanliness. Like all the other children, Jonna has only one dream: to be adopted by a well-dressed mother who smells of perfume. But one day, a beat-up old car pulls up. The door opens...
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When Tarah Schwartz miscarried for the first time at almost 5 months, it was devastating. Determined to try again, more miscarriages would follow, threatening her stability and her relationships, and changing her profoundly. In this memoir, Tarah puts words to excruciating loss as she recounts her unexpected and deeply inspiring journey to motherhood.
As a long-time news reporter, she spent years working in front of a television camera, telling stories...
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Dispatches from the new front lines of parenthood
When the two-time National Book Award finalist Melissa Fay Greene confided to friends that she and her husband planned to adopt a four-year-old boy from Bulgaria to add to their four children at home, the news threatened to place her, she writes, "among the greats: the Kennedys, the McCaughey septuplets, the von Trapp family singers, and perhaps even Mrs. Feodor Vassilyev, who, according to the Guinness...
547) Where I'd like to be
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A group of foster children build a home of their own.
A ghost saved twelve-year-old Maddie's life when she was an infant, her Granny Lane claims, so Maddie must always remember that she is special. But it's hard to feel special when you've spent your life shuffled from one foster home to another. And now that she's at the East Tennessee Children's Home, Maddie feels even less special. She longs for a place to call home. She even has a "book of houses"...
548) Fixing the Fates
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The secrets, lies, and layers of deception about Diane Dewey's origins were meant for her protection-but eventually, they imploded. Living with her family in suburban Philadelphia, Diane had grown up knowing she was born in Stuttgart and adopted at age one from an orphanage. She'd been told her biological parents were dead. Then, in 2002, when she was forty-seven years old, Diane got a letter from Switzerland: her biological father, Otto, wanted to...
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Michaela Foster Marsh and her brother Frankie grew up as "twins" in Glasgow, Scotland in the sixties. Born only weeks apart, Michaela was white and Frankie was black, and they were an unusual sight in their dual pram. Despite the doting of his parents and the unceasing love of his sister, Frankie's life was rarely easy, and it ended far too soon when a fire took him when he was only twenty-six. But for a devastated Michaela, Frankie's effect on her...
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Not all love stories are steeped in romance.
Searching for identity is the undercurrent to this story, which emphatically deals with intergenerational bonding, hope and coping mechanisms, while underscoring the power of faith in one's life.
Readers will delve into the complexities of:
Grief
Betrayal
Cancer
Suicide
The challenges of blended families
The dilemma of the orphan-hearted
Finding "miracles in the madness"
An incredible happenstance of...
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La jeune Nirmala, encore si jeune, va devenir mère et sa vie bascule.
Insouciante et joyeuse, la jeune Nirmala vit dans un petit village de l'Inde. Un jour, sa vie bascule et change à tout jamais. Dans cette contrée lointaine, les coutumes ancestrales sont parfois cruelles, et ce qui est un bonheur devient un malheur pour cette jeune femme encore enfant. Seuls son courage et l'amour immense qu'elle renferme transformeront sa vie, celle de l'enfant...
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Angie K Elliston, an adoptive mom of 13 shares her struggle raising traumatized children is an honest heart-felt story that explores how they navigated through the obstacles and trials of raising 13 children, society's expectations, and their eventual rise from the ashes of destruction to start a new life. It is an unfettered and detailed account of one family's adoption experience in America. Phoenix Bound is an invaluable resource for understanding...
553) Fortunate Son
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Julie Francis was a beautiful, wealthy socialite from Tulsa with a golden future. But during the fall semester of her freshman year of college, she learned she was pregnant. She was only 17.
Paul and Margaret Eason were a middle-class couple from Tupelo, Mississippi, who couldn't have children of their own. They had previously adopted a daughter, but they desperately wanted a son to complete their family.
Their worlds converged at a home for unwed...
554) Summer's School
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The world promotes the lie that the wounded have little to offer. Individuals with Disabilities, children in the US foster care system, or individuals (or families) navigating loss are often, sidelined by a culture that finds little room for these individuals or their contributions.
Summer Joy has experienced loss, abuse, and the marginalization that is far too often associated with carrying a label of disability. Yet, she proclaims that God is a...
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You Are Not Alone. From the moment you cradled your first baby doll, you imagined yourself a mom. Now here you are, a member of the club no one wants to join-the ten percent of women who struggle to fulfill their motherhood dreams because of infertility.
Meghann Bowman knows what it's like to be part of that club. Along with best-selling author Crystal Bowman, Meghann has compiled 30 hope-filled stories of women who received the same diagnosis...
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Ten Little Eggs celebrates springtime and the bond between a parent and child. With sweet and silly read-aloud rhymes and adorable illustrations, this book reminds readers that families come in all shapes and sizes, but what holds them together is love.
Perfect for Easter or any time of the year, children will enjoy turning the pages of this playful picture book to discover what unusual critters are inside each of the ten little eggs.
FIVE little...
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Kate is a thirty-something-year-old adventurer and single mother who sells her stateside business to go to Kathmandu, Nepal with her young son, Jack. Her intention is to adopt an orphaned toddler named Devi, a little girl she knows only from a photograph. The expedition ends up completely redirecting Kate's moral compass and forcing her to find peace within chaos. Stand in the Traffic is the story of Kate's year long journey through culture shock,...
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Kokoon on a Hill increases awareness of the severe shortage of foster families that are needed for the many children waiting for stability. In this crisis, foster care has been forced to place children in detention centers and state offices because people are not willing to work within our broken system. Kokoon on a Hill provides experienced insight on life as a foster family and how foster children did not break the system and deserve to be taken...
559) Runaway
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She couldn't help, but feel unwanted, unloved. Nina abused her, called her ugly and lazy. Benny said she was damaged goods, no man would love a cripple with those scars. Nina tried to give her away and Benny almost took her. Escaping the clutches of another man, there was only one thing left to do...
The people around think she's a runaway and put her in a group home. Foster care seemed scary, but anything was better than living with Nina. The girl...
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After she discovers a shocking family secret, Carina takes a journey toward self-acceptance. A young American growing up in the Middle East, Carina Rourke enjoys a blissful innocence until, at age fifteen, she is captivated by an obsessive desire to look inside her mother's forbidden jewelry box. There, Carina discovers a shocking family secret. On the heels of her discovery, she and her family pursue her father's dream of a road trip through the...
