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In 1955, an American farming couple saw a film about the thousands of Korean children orphaned by the Korean War. Through a special act of Congress, they were authorized to adopt eight of these children - which marked the advent of international adoption. Since that time, there have been over 170,000 children adopted out of Korea to more than 30 countries. Korean adoptee Glenn Morey and his wife, Julie Morey, spent six years interviewing 100 Korean adoptees from around the world. This stunning Audible Original is comprised of 15 first-person accounts....

Brought to you by Penguin. Aged just five, Saroo Brierley was separated from his family in India when he boarded a train that took him 1500km from his hometown. After weeks surviving alone on the streets of Calcutta, he was eventually adopted by an Australian couple. As an adult, Saroo couldn't...

A totally gripping, heartbreaking and suspenseful read, that readers of Jodi Picoult, Jojo Moyes, and Emma Robinson will love. 💔🏡 She’s the child you love… but someone believes she shouldn’t be yours Katie loves her 6-year-old stepdaughter Maisie with all her heart. The time they...

Twice Blessed is the compelling story of how unconditional love provides resilience to the main characters (also the authors) as they navigate, against the odds, a new family for a young Puerto Rican girl, Stefanie, who lost her mother to AIDS. In the midst of this loss, Claire and Stan Altman...

Meyers haunting debut is both a poignant personal narrative and a work of impressive reporting. Publishers Weekly Meyers story offers a powerful howl of outrage A resonant, relatable, and moving story of one womans efforts to reclaim her past. Kirkus Reviews Recited to her like a fairy tale...

When a child you love suddenly comes to live with you, everything changes overnight. Still Family is a gentle, practical guide for grandparents, aunts, uncles, older siblings and family friends who have stepped in to raise a child, and who now have to find their way through family time, divided...

Clayton Stumper is an enigma. He might be twenty-five years old, but he dresses like your grandad and drinks sherry like your aunt. Abandoned at birth on the steps of the Fellowship of Puzzlemakers, he was raised by the sharpest minds in the British Isles and finds himself amongst the last survivors of a fading institution. When the esteemed crossword compiler, Pippa Allsbrook, passes away, she bestows her final puzzle to him: a promise to reveal the mystery of his parentage and prepare him for his future.

With a bachelor's and master's degree in education and over 30 years of experience, plus training in trauma sensitivity, author and mother of two, Jennifer Alushan, is ready to give parents and caregivers proven techniques to effectively understand and authentically interact with children so the healing process can begin.

Slavná kniha ze zlatého fondu světové literatury. Poprvé vyšla v roce 1972, stala se bestsellerem i předlohou animovaného filmu, seriálu a několika počítačových her. „Sem tam některý panáčkoval na vrcholku mraveniště, s nastraženýma ušima se rozhlížel kolem a větřil. Ale nerušený zpěv kosa na pokraji lesa zvěstoval, že odtamtud nebezpečí nehrozí.“ Nebezpečí však přichází s člověkem a jeho plány postavit domy na území obývaném sandlefordskou králičí kolonií.

A 5-year-old boy, Ethan, is brought to Casey in the middle of the night after the sudden death of his young mother after a drug overdose. Estranged from her parents, Ethan’s mum had been abused by her ex-partner, and began taking drugs to cope. Ethan is obviously lost and bewildered, and...

Ao contrário do que muitos pensam, não é a educação baseada na “dureza”, na falta de apego e com menos zelo que gera, no futuro, um adulto mais forte. A Neurociência já provou que esse tipo de criação tende a formar adultos feridos, carregados de traumas e acostumados a engolir todos os tipos de sentimento.

Are you parenting in a constant state of vigilance? Do you love your child deeply, yet feel terrified, exhausted, or ashamed to admit how unsafe, overwhelmed, or broken you feel?When foster or adoptive parenting moves beyond “challenging” into violence, sexualized behaviors, suicidal...

Hilarious and heartwarming stories that will empower you to make space for the other and discover the extraordinary, welcoming heart of God. Author and Instagram star Heather Avis has made it her mission to introduce the world to the unique gifts and real-life challenges of those who have been...

I was four months old when I was adopted, taken from an orphanage and placed into what was supposed to be a loving family. But love had conditions. Survival had rules. And silence was the price of staying. By sixteen, I had already learned how to disappear—into alcohol, into drugs, into the arms of men who didn’t care if I made it out alive. By eighteen, I was a mother, barely keeping my head above water, raising a child while still a child myself. When I got pregnant again at twenty-one, I knew one thing for sure: I wasn’t going to drag another innocent life into my chaos.

NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE The heartrending story of twin sisters torn apart by China’s one-child policy and the rise of international adoption—from the author of the National Book Award finalist Nothing to Envy “Remarkable . . . Barbara Demick movingly traces this...

When Shantanu left for the United States, the promise of a new life felt quiet, isolating and cold.Then Winter arrived. A puppy adopted selfishly.Shantanu did not realize how much this decision would shape his life.Everyone loves their dogs, naturally. Every dog is a good boy, naturally. But...

A mother is told her newborn has died, and she goes home to grieve. The baby is alive – and has just been sold. In 2021, two young women in the country of Georgia learned they were twin sisters, separated at birth and raised apart. Their mother had been told both of her daughters died in the hospital. They hadn't. They had been taken and sold, and the paperwork was forged so she would never go looking. Weird Darkness podcast host Darren Marlar started with that one case and kept finding it – in a dozen countries, across nearly a hundred years.

"One life I’ve lived was liminal—I was not what I had been, but I had yet to become what I will be.” In her memoir Crowded Tables and Bonus Tracks, Ashley McLain moves from an adopted child in 1970s Dallas to a pioneering environmental consultant who co-founded and sold a thriving company. At 53, she found the courage to search for her biological family, confronting questions of identity, belonging, and what it means to define “enough.

Maggie Hartley is one of the UK's most prolific foster mothers. This inspiring collection includes three heartbreaking, true short stories about the children who have passed through Maggie's care. A FAMILY FOR CHRISTMAS A tragic accident leaves the life of toddler Edward changed forever and his...

*AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER* *ONE OF INDIGO'S TOP 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR* A Métis girl is adopted by a Mennonite family in this breathtaking memoir about family lost and found. By the time Brittany Penner is seven years old, she has loved and lost twenty-one foster siblings who have...