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Adoption Ruins and Unearthed Tokens: Baby Scoop Era Adoption Memoir
Written and illustrated by S M Munro
As far back as she could remember, Shirley Munro had always known that she was adopted. What she didn’t know, at first, was how those two words, “you’re adopted,” were layered in mystery, forbidden identity, deceptions, and wishful fairytales — and then covered up with…
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An Accident of Birth: A Story of Adoption and Identity
by T. Alex Blum
When a stranger who turns out to be his niece receives an extra 23andMe test by mistake, it changes Alex Blum’s life forever. At the age of sixty, Alex Blum made a life-altering discovery: he was the eldest of four biological brothers he never knew…
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Finding Mary Smith: A Memoir of Family Secrets, Gray Market Adoption, and the Miracle Reunion with My Mom
by Al Isaacs
What if everything you knew about yourself turned out to be only half the story? Comedian Al Isaacs grew up as an only child with loving parents, a gift for laughter, and a simple truth about his family until an innocent phone call from his…
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Heart Eater: A Memoir of Immigration, Belonging, and How We Find Ourselves in Language
by Sun Yung Shin
Heart Eater traces the author’s childhood and how she went from being a nameless, abandoned nine-month-old baby in Seoul, South Korea to, as an adult, becoming an award-winning Asian American author who writes in multiple genres. The book is made of short essays, or “field notes,”…
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On Human Adoption: and the Manufacture of Identity
by Dr. Barbara Sumner
What is adoption, really? On Human Adoption begins where most adoption narratives end: not with the social idea of rescue, but with what follows. Using New Zealand as a case study, a country whose adoption legislation both mirrors and illuminates the intent of adoption law across…
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Relative Strangers: Inheritance, Identity, and the Meaning of Kinship
Edited by B.K. Jackson
What’s it like when a complete unknown is actually close family? In Relative Strangers: Inheritance, Identity, and the Meaning of Kinship—a provocative anthology curated by B.K. Jackson, with a foreword by Libby Copeland, twenty-eight acclaimed and emerging writers explore the transformative experience of encountering unknown close…
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The Minimalist: A Novel
by Kailee Pedersen
As the last and greatest student of famed minimalist composer Ryder Wakefield, Mia Voss has long been assured a rise to prominence in the insular world of classical music. When Ryder dies unexpectedly, she inherits everything–including the unfinished manuscript of his final composition, the mysterious Death…
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Through The Iron Gate: The Rosemere Records
by Islay Corwin
The Silverton Estate Duology Book 2 For over a century, Silverton University has stewarded the Tudor manor, herb quadrants, and ancient cedar groves bequeathed by Elizabeth Silverton, the Estate’s enigmatic founder. Sarah Caldwell, the current curator, has raised her adopted daughter Stella in the manor’s…
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Through The Yew Hedge: A Tale of Identity Magic
by Islay Corwin
The Silverton Estate Duology Book 1 When thirteen-year-old Stella discovers that her adoption did more than change her name — that it legally erased her origins and sealed away part of her identity — she begins to understand the strange phenomena that have followed her…
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Torn from the Root: A Memoir of a Black Transracial Adoptee
by Rhonda M. Roorda
As a Black child adopted out of the New York foster care system as a toddler and raised by white evangelical parents, Rhonda Roorda had to learn how to walk in two different worlds. She often questioned “whether my skin was too dark” and if…
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Twice Delivered : A Story of Two Families, Two Worlds, and One Redeeming Love
by Isaac Melber
Born in a remote mountain village in Ethiopia, Isaac Melber’s life began with loss. Orphaned at a young age and placed in an orphanage, his future seemed uncertain-until a family from Kentucky crossed an ocean to bring him home. But Isaac’s story is more than…
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Weirdo: Tales of a Geek Adoptee
by Heather Massey
Weirdo: Tales of a Geek Adoptee delivers an inside look at adoption during the Baby Scoop Era, chronicling a shocking part of American history that should never be forgotten. Relinquished for adoption in the late 1960s, Heather Massey grew up knowing few details about her origins,…
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What They Stole: A Familicide Rooted in Intercountry Adoption
by Paige Towers
In 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 Congress, the couple founded the Holt Adoption Program, which would facilitate the migration of…
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