Including Nearly 500 Adoptee-Recommended Titles!

Category: 2011

  • What Is a Part of Me?

    What Is a Part of Me?

    by Ola Zuri

    This is the story of a young girl adopted transracially who has some struggles with finding answers to some difficult questions. Follow along with her as she learns some things about her past and finds out where her true strength is. Adoptee Author: Ola Zuri Publication…

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  • Hunting Shadows: An Adoptee’s Journey

    Hunting Shadows: An Adoptee’s Journey

    by Dan Sandifer

    “Today class, we are going to talk a little about genetics” With these words, Hunter begins a journey to reveal what it means to be adopted. As he sets out to discover all the branches of his family tree, he finds obstacles at every turn.…

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  • Overwhelmed by God’s Grace: Uncovering the Truth About Adoption

    Overwhelmed by God’s Grace: Uncovering the Truth About Adoption

    by Margaret Etcher Theriault

    Margaret always knew she was adopted. She was told she was “chosen” and “special” but she always wondered why her roots needed to be such a big secret. When the truth finally came out, the struggle for acceptance and belonging intensified. But then there came healing…

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  • Problem Child

    Problem Child

    by Caradoc King

    Adopted at eighteen months, Caradoc King was brought up in a large and growing family. His adoptive mother, a complex woman, was unable to bond with her newly adopted son and treated him with a harshness bordering on cruelty. At the age of six, he…

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  • Indigo: In Search of the Color That Seduced the World

    Indigo: In Search of the Color That Seduced the World

    by Catherine E. McKinley

    Brimming with rich, electrifying tales of the precious dye and its ancient heritage, Indigo is also the story of a personal quest: Catherine McKinley is the descendant of a clan of Scots who wore indigo tartan; Jewish “rag traders”; a Massachusetts textile factory owner; and…

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  • Before You Were Mine: Discovering Your Adopted Child’s Lifestory

    Before You Were Mine: Discovering Your Adopted Child’s Lifestory

    by Susan TeBos and Carissa Woodwyk

    Written by an adoptive mother and an adoptee daughter, Before You Were Mine offers a unique Christian perspective on creating a Lifebook that commemorates your child’s birth story. Complete with worksheets and advice from adoptive families, you’ll find that remembering and celebrating your child’s history…

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  • Songs of My Families: A Thirty-Seven-Year Odyssey from Korea to America and Back

    Songs of My Families: A Thirty-Seven-Year Odyssey from Korea to America and Back

    by Kelly Fern with Brad Fern

    In 1971, Lee Myonghi, aged five, was taken from her family and placed in a Korean orphanage. Six months later, she was flown to the United States, where she and two other Korean girls were adopted by a Minnesota couple. They renamed her Kelly Jean.…

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  • Becoming Patrick: A Memoir

    Becoming Patrick: A Memoir

    by Patrick McMahon

    When Pat McMahon risks the love of the mother who raised him by seeking out the mother who gave him away, he transforms from a mild-mannered engineer into a frenetic detective. After he overcomes the challenges of existential angst, bureaucratic roadblocks, and unemployment, the phone…

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