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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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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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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...
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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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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...
566) 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...
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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...
568) What Lies Within
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"What Lies Within," a riches to rags to reality memoir of the author's early life, evokes memories of a kinder, gentler time in America--the fifties. It takes us into the turbulent sixties when family secrets unravel the author's idyllic youth while the fabric of American life concurrently shreds. The book's themes of love, loss, hope, and resilience resonate with readers from preteen up, but it especially touches Baby Boomers.
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In 2005, Maurice Mierau and his wife, Betsy, travelled to Ukraine to adopt two small boys, age three and five. After weeks of delays while navigating a tangled bureaucracy, they returned to Canada as a proud new family of four. Now what? Does fatherhood begin the moment that the adoption papers are signed? Is family something that is created in an instant? And what happens when everything seems to be on the verge of falling apart? In Detachment, Maurice...
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An angel gets its wings...
Belle has taken all the Christmas decorations down. This year they won't be celebrating.
As foster parents, Belle and Jim have given many children the chance of a happier start in life. They've loved them as if they were their own. They shouldn't have favourites but little Lauren has touched their hearts. And now her mother is well enough to take her back and Belle can't bear the loss.
Hence, Christmas is cancelled.
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571) Finding Home
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For every girl or boy who owns a horse, or wished they did, Finding Home brings all the drama and beauty of America's wild horses to the middle grade reader. A coming-of-age story and a tale about friendship, trust and understanding, both horse and owner have powerful lessons to learn. Together, young Jesse Nolan from Colorado and her wild mustang, Curly Girl, rounded up in Wyoming, discover what it means to rely on oneself, as well as those, who...
572) The Family Way
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Tulia May lives in rural Nova Scotia with her mother, who works in the laundry of the nearby Ideal Maternity Home. It's a place where unwed mothers can discreetly give birth, a place where adoptions by rich Americans can be quickly arranged. Tulia doesn't think about the workings of the home much; mostly she hates being roped in to helping scrub the endless diapers. Her friend Finny Paul has suspicions that the home is holding sinister secrets-the...
573) A Sea of Stars
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Two girls with two very different lives come together in this beautiful and moving story of friendship and family, by a major new voice in girls' fiction.
Meet Maya. She has a cosy, comfy life with her slightly hippy mum and dad by the sea in Cornwall. But as an only child, Maya feels smothered by her parents' love and longs to be a given more freedom and independence; but what Maya wants more than anything is a sister.
Meet Cat. She's never known...
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Motherhood is hard enough, but add in ADHD, a pandemic, and a truckload of uncertainty, and you're gonna need a serious sense of humor! Grab a coffee and take a break with this uplifting book about stuck-at-home mothering.
This humorous autobiography follows a mom from the day the first schools in the U.S. shut down for COVID-19 until the kids finally hopped back on the bus over a year later. You will laugh along with sourdough failures, middle-of-the-night...
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When a family secret comes to light, lives are changed forever in this honest, beautiful, and sometimes painful memoir. When Mark, adopted at birth, set out to FIND his genetic family as an adult, he found something he never expected-three full-blood siblings, including a persistent sister who would alter the course of his life. He finds himself faced with the emotional task of coming to know his entire birth family, along with the unintended impact...
576) An American Family
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What makes a family?
Love makes a family.
An American Family is the story of Jon and Michael Galluccio, two gay men who become foster parents to Adam, a premature baby, born with the AIDS virus and addicted to crack, heroin, marijuana, and alcohol. While nursing Adam through the many medical emergencies of his first year and surviving the daily dramas that all new parents go through, they realize that this child, their son, could be taken back from...
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One bright summer afternoon on weekend errands with his mother, 10-year-old Ronald's faint suspicions that he is, adopted are confirmed by his mother's careful, well-practiced announcement of the truth. As a child whose appearance is close enough to that of his extended African-American adoptive family, he has always felt a part of them, but now things make a little more sense, and a 40-year odyssey of seeking his genetic truth is, triggered. The...
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Une belle histoire à lire dès 9 ans !
À la fête foraine, Léo, un enfant adopté après avoir été abandonné à la naissance, dépense son dernier billet sur un coup de tête pour consulter une voyante.
Celle-ci lui annonce qu'il retrouvera sa mère en suivant les traces d'un ours polaire. Troublé par cette révélation, dans le plus grand secret, Léo va tenter l'aventure, accompagné par son amie Laura.
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