7 Best memoir books like Taken: A True Story of the Pain and Scandal of Forced Adoption (Stolen Lives) by Michelle Pearson

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Taken: A True Story of the Pain and Scandal of Forced Adoption (Stolen Lives)

By: Michelle Pearson

4.18

Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1972, Michelle Pearson gave up her son for adoption. As ‘one of those girls’, she was expecte…

If you liked the memoir plot in Taken: A True Story of the Pain and Scandal of Forced Adoption (Stolen Lives) by Michelle Pearson , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. The Child at My Door

By: Sam Vickery

4.20

Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition

There’s a child at my door. I’ve never seen him before. He says he’s my grandson, but that’s imposs… read more

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2. A Sister's Promise

By: Caroline Finnerty

4.51

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

Sisters Laura and Penny were once close, bonded together after the early death of their mother. Lau… read more

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3. A Child's Goodbye

By: Ali Mercer

4.21

Format: 410 pages, Kindle Edition

All I remember is the screeching of brakes and the sound of tyres swerving on tarmac. The last thin… read more

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  • audiobook
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4. Married to the Man Who Washed Himself Away: A memoir: The true story of how obsession tore a family apart

By: Joan Leech

4.27

Format: 164 pages, Kindle Edition

This extraordinary true story will move you to tears and inspire you to never give up. Set in No… read more

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5. Nowhere to Hide: Trapped, abused and sold for sex

By: Hannah Morgan

4.60

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

A shocking true story that reveals how one woman was tormented to the very depths of despair by her… read more

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  • nonfiction
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6. Can I Come HOME Now?: A True Story of Childhood Trauma

By: Barbara Godin

4.36

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

True Story of Childhood Trauma Can I Come Home Now? In this moving and painful memoir of grow… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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7. Please Protect Us

By: Toni Maguire

4.53

Format: 370 pages, Kindle Edition

From No.1 bestselling author Toni Maguire comes a new true story of shame, silence, abuse and survi… read more

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8. Little Girl Lost

By: Casey Watson

4.59

Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition

The new fostering memoir from the Sunday Times bestselling author Casey Watson Six-year-old Amel… read more

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  • nonfiction
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9. Billy's Story

By: Louise Allen

4.64

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

Foster care expert Louise has trouble on her hands from the first moment that 5-year-old Billy Blac… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. Too Young to Parent: One baby, one scared young mum, one social worker with an impossible decision

By: Carey Patterson

4.36

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Carey Patterson, newly qualified Social Worker, is asked to see a young woman and her baby in a loc… read more

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11. After the Wedding: A true story of hope, love, ... and fear.

By: Eileen Gibb

3.91

Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition

A young couple meet and fall in love. There are warning signs of trouble ahead, but doesn’t love co… read more

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12. Don't Smile: A Gripping True Story of Surviving Domestic Abuse and Coercive Control

By: Charlotte Robertson

4.14

Format: 249 pages, Kindle Edition

A riveting memoir that describes one woman's journey through shocking levels of domestic abuse and … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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13. Broken : The Most Shocking Childhood Story Ever Told

By: Shy Keenan

4.56

Format: 311 pages, Kindle Edition

“I was born and broken in Birkenhead, abused from infancy by a network of every kind of pervert fro… read more

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  • memoir
  • audiobook
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14. Taken: A True Story of the Pain and Scandal of Forced Adoption (Stolen Lives)

By: Michelle Pearson

4.18

Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1972, Michelle Pearson gave up her son for adoption. As ‘one of those girls’, she was expecte… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Pearson's Taken: A True Story of the Pain and Scandal of Forced Adoption (Stolen Lives) book and Michelle Pearson's Taken: A True Story of the Pain and Scandal of Forced Adoption (Stolen Lives)

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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15. After All...

By: Maria Trautman

4.20

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

She grew up thinking she deserved neglect. Can a young girl escape a loveless home to seize elusive… read more

Similar categories in Maria Trautman's After All... book and Michelle Pearson's Taken: A True Story of the Pain and Scandal of Forced Adoption (Stolen Lives)

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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16. Why don't you just leave him?: A Domestic violence true story.

By: Stacey Jameson

4.36

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

This honest and open autobiography is the true story of a young woman trapped in a relationship tha… read more

Similar categories in Stacey Jameson's Why don't you just leave him?: A Domestic violence true story. book and Michelle Pearson's Taken: A True Story of the Pain and Scandal of Forced Adoption (Stolen Lives)

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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17. My So Called Mum: Child abuse, Love & My Great Britain

By: Joseph Kane

4.32

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

Writing this memoir has to be one of the hardest things I have ever achieved. Out of respect for th… read more

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18. Our Georgia: The devastating murder of my daughter by a killer who should have been stopped

By: Lynnette Williams

4.50

Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition

Georgia Williams’ murder at the hands of college pal Jamie Reynolds was a crime that shocked the c… read more

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  • nonfiction
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19. Nobody Loves Me: Bobby’s true story of neglect, secrets and abuse

By: Maggie Hartley

4.72

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

'Wow! I did not want this book to end. This story was unlike any other' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Amazon reader review'… read more

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  • nonfiction
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20. Where's My Mummy?: Louisa's heart-breaking true story of family, loss and hope

By: Maggie Hartley

4.71

Format: 229 pages, Kindle Edition

'Mum and Dad. Gone?' asked Louisa. 'Yes,' I nodded. 'They're gone.' After a horrific car crash, thi… read more

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  • nonfiction
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21. Max and Mia's Story

By: Louise Allen

4.53

Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition

From the bestselling author of the Thrown Away Children series comes another heartbreaking story of… read more

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22. BEHIND CLOSED DOORS: A Daughter's Story

By: Daniella Dechristopher

4.01

Format: 260 pages, Kindle Edition

This story is about an Italian Catholic family that came to America on vacation and never returned … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Unspoken: The Silent Truth Behind My Lifelong Trauma as a Forced Adoptee (Stolen Lives) by Liz Harvie

23. Unspoken: The Silent Truth Behind My Lifelong Trauma as a Forced Adoptee (Stolen Lives)

By: Liz Harvie

4.37

Format: 227 pages, Kindle Edition

“I was two when the woman I called Mummy told me, ‘You came out of another mummy’s tummy.’ I grew u… read more

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24. No Home for Chelsea: a girl too difficult to foster

By: Lynne Pardoe

4.46

Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition

Chelsea isn’t like most people. For as long as she can remember she’s been in care, and for all sor… read more

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25. HIM: A True Story Of Love & Fear

By: Danielle Davis

4.30

Format: 143 pages, Kindle Edition

We never know what is going on behind closed doors, if that happy smile we see every day from the w… read more

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26. Painfully Beautiful

By: Rebecca Waltz

4.50

Format: 179 pages, Kindle Edition

The saying ‘It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all’; is never more rel… read more

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27. Unimaginable Loss: A true story of murder, heartbreaking injustice, and surviving the unthinkable

By: Joseph Thuney

4.46

Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition

Within two and a half years, I would live through the molestation of my only grandchild by her pate… read more

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28. When A Mumma Isn't a Mumma

By: Jayne Doe

4.33

Format: 145 pages, Kindle Edition

Manipulation, Grief, Mental health, Domestic violence, Suicide, Custody battles.Real life isn't a f… read more

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29. Please Adopt Me

By: Lynne Pardoe

4.40

Format: 232 pages, Kindle Edition

Sometimes working with other people's problems can bring you face to face with your own. Social Wor… read more

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30. Nobody's Child: The True Story or Growing up in a Yorkshire Children's Home

By: G.J. Urquhart

4.59

Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition

Not yet four years old, Gloria was forcibly separated from her baby brother Kevin and entered into … read more

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31. MY NAME IS NUTMEG SHE SCREAMED fried the pet goldfish on the radiator: gonna whoop me good (Three smart, strong little girls Book 3)

By: Jacqueline Kelley

4.53

Format: 154 pages, Kindle Edition

I enjoyed this book immensely! It is so refreshing to see a damaged young girl slowly grow into a c… read more

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Nowhere to Hide: Trapped, abused and sold for sex

Hannah Morgan

4.60

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Can I Come HOME Now?: A True Story of Childhood Trauma

Barbara Godin

4.36

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Little Girl Lost

Casey Watson

4.59

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Billy's Story

Louise Allen

4.64

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Running From The Mirror

Howard Shulman

4.45

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Wildflower: A Tale of Transcendence

Teresa Van Woy

4.56

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LEVI'S EYES: A Son's Deadly Secret and a Father's Cruel Betrayal

Aphrodite Jones

4.32

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Esther Wiebe

4.30

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