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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...
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In Search of a Family: A Story of an International Adoption takes the reader inside a personal journey through the unknowns of an international adoption. This true story takes place in the ex-Soviet bloc country of Ukraine. As they travel through this young, independent republic, Kevin and Ginger Carlisle encounter numerous obstacles that could derail their hopes of achieving their dream of creating a new family. Braving Ukrainian election tensions...
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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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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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The story of a woman who stepped into the shoes of another mother taken too soon, who learned along the way that she'd need to find her own stride in the journey her new family would walk together--a story of how love and loss are not opposites but cohabitants in family life, and how family is the richest inheritance of all.
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[2022]
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"Isabella and Ha, identical twin girls born in Vietnam, were raised on opposite sides of the world, each having no idea that the other existed. Erika Hayasaki's deeply reported, intimate story of their journey back to each other upends common conceptions of adoption, family, and identity"--
550) 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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Little Jimmy Brown never knew the warm embrace of a mother's arms while he grew up. When he was just a babe, his momma passed on to the great beyond, leaving him all alone in this harsh world. The poor boy was shipped off to an orphanage, where he spent the next nine years surrounded by cold walls and stern caretakers instead of a loving family. At the orphanage, Jimmy found solace in caring for the animals and tending the garden. Though the work...
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After 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, and malnourished, their son had suffered profound trauma in his earliest years that no amount of love or affection could remedy. His deep emotional wounds manifested as challenging behaviors that strained family relationships and thwarted well-intentioned...
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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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In this trauma filled childhood memoir, Terry takes you back in time to the years he spent in an orphanage-where conflicts between boys were solved in the basement with boxing gloves.
This is a true story that had to be told: It is the clear, unique voice of a survivor of the kind of childhood that is usually the undoing of less hardy souls. With novelist flair and impressive detail, Terry chronicles his first eight years in a rarely visited slice...
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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...
556) Wishing Water
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Will her desire for love have disastrous consequences?
Lissa Turner has everything a girl could wish for. She's beautiful, intelligent and has a wonderful family in the beautiful Lake District. Despite her good fortune though, Lissa is not happy. Her real mother abandoned her as a baby and her feelings of confusion and vulnerability have persisted.
As soon as she is old enough she takes up a job in Carreckwater, a lively village in the heart of...
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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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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...
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...
560) Saving Her Pack
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JD MOORE AWARD WINNING AUTHOR
You're a young, aspiring pilot eager to put your skills to the test until an incident on your first flight nearly claims the lives of you and your closest friends. You quickly appreciate that life is precious and resolve to make a difference by flying humanitarian missions. You rapidly learn, however, that not everyone on these expeditions shares your sense of charity. Someone is exploiting the missions for unethical...
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