Including More Than 450 Adoptee-Recommended Titles!

Books About Search and/or Reunion

  • Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

    Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

    by Jeanette Winterson

    A memoir about a life’s work to find happiness. It is the story of how a painful past that Jeanette thought she’d written over and repainted rose to haunt her, sending her on a journey into madness and out again, in search of her biological mother.…

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  • Worthy To Be Found

    Worthy To Be Found

    by Deanna Doss Shrodes

    Worthy To Be Found chronicles the joys and obstacles of a Christian adoptee relinquished at birth in the 1960s American South. Deanna was called by God from a young age. Driven to serve, and gifted in music and preaching, she excelled in her calling. Coming from…

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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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  • You Don’t Know How Lucky You Are: An Adoptee’s Journey Through The American Adoption Experience

    You Don’t Know How Lucky You Are: An Adoptee’s Journey Through The American Adoption Experience

    by Rudy Owens

    Nearly 50 years after he was relinquished for adoption, Rudy Owens learned how fortunate life can be. In 2014 in San Diego, Owens met his biological half-sister for the first time. That meeting inspired Owens to tell his adoption story set against the larger adoption…

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  • You Don’t Look Adopted

    You Don’t Look Adopted

    by Anne Heffron

    Adoption can be wonderful and tricky. There is love of the parents, love of the child, but there can also be problems. The adopted child often wonders Who am I? Who was I? Why was I given up? When you don’t have a sense of…

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