Adoption & Fostering
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Nearly Native: A Nantucket Story of Adoption, Love and Luck
$21.95 Add to cart- Author: Fernald, Susan L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: June 30 2026
- ISBN10: 9798234102522
- Language: English
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What They Stole: A Familicide Rooted in Intercountry Adoption
$27.50 Read moreIn 1955, following the devastation of the Korean War, Bertha and Harry Holt made headlines for adopting eight Korean children. Driven by evangelical convictions and emboldened by a special act of Cong… [more below]
- Author: Towers, Paige
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 364
- Publish Date: May 26 2026
- ISBN10: 1685970672
- Language: English
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Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated Twins
$22.00 Add to cartNEW 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 … [more below]
- Author: Demick, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 26 2026
- ISBN10: 0593132769
- Language: English
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20 Things Adoptive Parents Need to Succeed: Discover the Secrets to Understanding the Unique Needs of Your Adopted Child-Andbecoming the Best Parent Y
$19.00 Add to cartDo I have what it takes to be a successful adoptive parent?
Does my child consider me a successful parent?
Will I ever hear my rebellious teen say, “I love you”?
What tools do I need to succeed?
In her gr… [more below]- Author: Eldridge, Sherrie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 27 2009
- ISBN10: 0385341628
- Language: English
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Crowded Tables and Bonus Tracks: A Memoir
$35.99 Add to cart“One life I’ve lived was liminal – I was not what I had been, but I had yet to become what I will be.”
In her memoir Crowded Tables and Bonus Tracks, Ashley McLain moves from an adopted child in 1970s
- Author: McLain, Ashley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 1945783567
- Language: English
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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 Add to cartThe 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 Read moreMillion-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
