Including More Than 450 Adoptee-Recommended Titles!

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  • How Winter Began

    How Winter Began

    by Joy Castro

    Iréne gives the wealthy businessmen what they want, diving headfirst into the filthy river, thinking only of providing for her baby daughter, Marisa, as the men salivate over her soaked body emerging onto the bank. A young boy tries to befriend the reticent younger sister…

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  • Unstoppable

    Unstoppable

    by Tim Green

    If anyone understands the phrase “tough luck,” it’s Harrison. As a foster kid in a cruel home, he knows his dream of one day playing in the NFL is a longshot. Then Harrison is brought into a new home with kind, loving parents—his new dad…

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  • Cries of the Soul: The True Story of a Korean Adoptee’s Fight to Survive

    Cries of the Soul: The True Story of a Korean Adoptee’s Fight to Survive

    by Khara Niné

    In 1970, shortly after the death of her mother, and without the consent or even the knowledge of her father, a barely one year old girl is put up for foreign adoption in South Korea. She ends up in an adoptive family where she spends…

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  • The “Unknown” Culture Club: Korean Adoptees, Then and Now

    The “Unknown” Culture Club: Korean Adoptees, Then and Now

    Edited by Janine Myung Ja, Jenette Moon Ja, and Katherine Kim

    This collection serves as a tribute to transracially adopted people sent all over the world. If you were adopted, you are not alone. This book validates the experiences of anyone who has been ridiculed or outright abused, but have found the will to survive, thrive…

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  • You Belong to Us

    You Belong to Us

    by Molly McCaffrey

    On April 5, 1970, Molly McCaffrey was born in a Catholic hospital and given up for adoption when she was six weeks old. Nearly thirty years later, she met her birth mother who had spent the time since McCaffrey’s birth working at that same hospital,…

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  • The Mothers

    The Mothers

    by Rod Jones

    In 1917, while the world is at war, Alma and her children are living in a sleep-out at the back of Mrs Lovett’s house in working-class Footscray. When Alma falls pregnant, her daughter Molly is born in secret. As Molly grows up, there is a…

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  • Reunions in Spring: Meditations for a Holiday Table–Adoption Search & Families

    Reunions in Spring: Meditations for a Holiday Table–Adoption Search & Families

    by Suzanne Gilbert

    Reunions in Spring: Meditations for a Holiday Table–Adoption Search & Families is based on civilization’s oldest adoption memoir: the book of Exodus. It enjoys a lively retelling every spring through the literary genre of the “haggadah” used exclusively to retell the stories of Moses, his…

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  • Tapioca Fire

    Tapioca Fire

    by Suzanne Gilbert

    Tapioca Fire opens when Susan tries to solve the mystery of a missing parent only to uncover a greater crime. Susan Piper was adopted years ago in Thailand. A once-in-a-lifetime career opportunity brings her to Japan for the opening of a new museum. It also gives…

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  • To Save the Children of Korea: The Cold War Origins of International Adoption

    To Save the Children of Korea: The Cold War Origins of International Adoption

    by Arissa H. Oh

    To Save the Children of Korea is the first book about the origins and history of international adoption. Although it has become a commonplace practice in the United States, we know very little about how or why it began, or how or why it developed…

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  • New Books — Week Ending 05/23/15

    We’ve added 4 titles to Adoptee Reading Resource this week! YOUNG ADULT See No Color by Shannon Gibney (adoptee author)  FORTHCOMING 2015! NONFICTION Cricket: Secret Child of a Sixties Supermodel by Susan Fedorko (adoptee author) My Father’s Daughter: A Story of Family and Belonging by Hannah Pool…

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  • Vietnamese.Adopted: A Collection of Voices

    Vietnamese.Adopted: A Collection of Voices

    by Indigo Willing, Anh Đào Kolbe, Dominic Golding, Tim Holtan, Cara Wolfgang, Kev Minh Allen, Adam Chau, Landa Sharp, Michael Nhat

    Vietnamese.Adopted: A Collection of Voices is a group of writings each in their own form and style, un-censored in content or subject matter, allowing each person to speak on what being a Vietnamese Adoptee, Adopted Vietnamese, or Vietnamese War Orphan is to them, as well…

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  • See No Color

    See No Color

    by Shannon Gibney

    Despite some teasing, being a biracial girl adopted by a white family didn’t used to bother Alex much. She was a stellar baseball player, just like her father—her baseball coach and a former pro athlete. All Alex wanted was to play ball forever. But after…

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  • My Fathers’ Daughter: A Story of Family and Belonging

    My Fathers’ Daughter: A Story of Family and Belonging

    by Hannah Pool

    What do you wear to meet your father for the first time? In 2004, Hannah Pool knew more about next season’s lipstick colors than she did about Africa: a beauty editor for The Guardian newspaper, she juggled lattes and cocktails, handbags and hangouts through her…

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  • Cricket: Secret Child of a Sixties Supermodel

    Cricket: Secret Child of a Sixties Supermodel

    by Susan Fedorko

    Susie always knew she was adopted out at the early age of eleven months. She discovers at the age of forty who her biological family is. Susie discovers her birth mother is the first Native American supermodel “Cathee Dahmen.” This is her story. Adoptee Author: Susan…

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  • New Books Added — Week Ending 05/16/15

    We’ve added 10 titles to Adoptee Reading Resource this week! CHILDREN’S Forever Fingerprints: An Amazing Discovery for Adopted Children by Sherrie Eldridge (adoptee author) NONFICTION 20 Life-Transforming Choices Adoptees Need to Make by Sherrie Eldridge (adoptee author)  REVISED 2015 EDITION 20 Things Adoptive Parents Need to Succeed by…

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  • Two Peas In A Separated Pod: A True Story of Adoption

    Two Peas In A Separated Pod: A True Story of Adoption

    by Jeannie Lachman and Carole Sanguedolce

    Take a journey with two women on the road to discoveries and realizations. Jeannie and Carole write about their lives growing up. Each is unaware of the other. Jeannie is raised in the Bronx, New York. She grows up knowing that she is adopted and…

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  • The Search for Anna Fisher

    The Search for Anna Fisher

    by Florence Fisher

    The document lay in the bottom of the bureau drawer. Written in longhand was a name: Anna Fisher. “Who is Anna Fisher?” seven-year-old Florence asked her mother. The woman yanked the paper out of her hands and told her never again to mention that name.…

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  • Identical Strangers: A Memoir of Twins Separated and Reunited

    Identical Strangers: A Memoir of Twins Separated and Reunited

    by Elyse Schein and Paula Bernstein

    Elyse Schein had always known she was adopted, but it wasn’t until her mid-thirties while living in Paris that she searched for her biological mother. What she found instead was shocking: She had an identical twin sister. What’s more, after being separated as infants, she…

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  • Reunited: An Investigative Genealogist Unlocks Some of Life’s Greatest Family Mysteries

    Reunited: An Investigative Genealogist Unlocks Some of Life’s Greatest Family Mysteries

    by Pamela Slaton (with Samantha Marshall)

    In this poignant and heartwarming narrative, renowned genealogist Pamela Slaton tells the most striking stories from her incredibly successful career of reconnecting adoptees with long-lost birth parents. After a traumatic reunion with her own birth mother, Pamela Slaton realized two things: That she wanted to…

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  • Questions Adoptees Are Asking

    Questions Adoptees Are Asking

    by Sherrie Eldridge

    People who have been adopted grow up with many similar questions, thoughts, challenges, and choices, such as, “Does my birth mother ever think about me?” and “What is my real worth? Was I a mistake?” More than 70 adoptees discuss these and other adoption issues…

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  • 20 Life-Transforming Choices Adoptees Need to Make

    20 Life-Transforming Choices Adoptees Need to Make

    by Sherrie Eldridge

    As an adoptee, do you have mixed feelings about your adoption? If you do, you are not alone – adoptees often experience complex feelings of grief, anger, and questions about their identity. Sherrie Eldridge is an adoptee and adoption expert, and in this book she…

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  • Forever Fingerprints: An Amazing Discovery for Adopted Children

    Forever Fingerprints: An Amazing Discovery for Adopted Children

    by Sherrie Eldridge

    Heart-warming and playful, Forever Fingerprints shows how adoptive parents can use a common occurrence–a relative’s pregnancy–as a springboard for discussions about birth parents. Lucie is excited to feel a baby moving in her Aunt Grace’s tummy but it makes her think about her adoption story in…

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  • 20 Things Adoptive Parents Need to Succeed

    20 Things Adoptive Parents Need to Succeed

    by Sherrie Eldridge

    This book is pure encouragement for adoptive parents! Most adoptive parents don’t know that their child has a different “heart language” than theirs. They need a translator, which Sherrie Eldridge becomes in her new book. In her groundbreaking first book, Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their…

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  • Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew

    Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew

    by Sherrie Eldridge

    The voices of adopted children are poignant, questioning. And they tell a familiar story of loss, fear, and hope. This extraordinary book, written by a woman who was adopted herself, gives voice to children’s unspoken concerns, and shows adoptive parents how to free their kids…

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  • Requitements

    Requitements

    by Rosemary Starace

    Poems and an essay. Adoptee Author: Rosemary Starace Publication Year: 2015 (revised edition; originally published 2010) Critical Reviews Adoptee Reviews:  Other Reviews:  All Bookshop and Amazon links on this site are affiliate links. We earn a small commission to help keep Adoptee Reading running whenever items are…

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  • Outer Search Inner Journey

    Outer Search Inner Journey

    by Peter Dodds

    In this riveting memoir a woman in post World War II Germany relinquishes her infant son Peter to an orphanage where he’s adopted by American parents and brought to the United States. Separated from family of origin and ancestral homeland, Peter grows up alienated in…

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  • Ten Thousand Sorrows

    Ten Thousand Sorrows

    by Elizabeth Kim

    “I don’t know how old I was when I watched my mother’s murder, nor do I know how old I am today.” The illegitimate daughter of a peasant and an American GI, Elizabeth Kim spent her early years as a social outcast in her village…

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  • A Law of Blood-ties: The “Right” to Access Genetic Ancestry

    A Law of Blood-ties: The “Right” to Access Genetic Ancestry

    by Alice Diver

    This text collates and examines the jurisprudence that currently exists in respect of blood-tied genetic connection, arguing that the right to identity often rests upon the ability to identify biological ancestors, which in turn requires an absence of adult-centric veto norms. It looks firstly to…

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  • Santa Fe Blogger: Life After Adoption Recovery

    Santa Fe Blogger: Life After Adoption Recovery

    by Elaine Pinkerton

    Santa Fe Blogger traces an adoptee’s journey to wholeness and authenticity. One blog post at a time, author and blogger Elaine Pinkerton comes to grips with the lack of a family tree and the need to “adopt” who one really is. In 48 blog posts,…

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  • The Goodbye Baby: A Diary about Adoption

    The Goodbye Baby: A Diary about Adoption

    by Elaine Pinkerton

    Anyone who was adopted or who has adopted a child will find The Goodbye Baby a comforting and inspiring read. It takes one on a journey through the thorny issues of adoption, a search for healing, and an inspiring finale. Adoptee Author: Elaine Pinkerton Publication Year: 2012…

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