10 must-read memoir books like Keep the Doors Open: Lessons Learned from a Year of Foster Parenting by Kristin Berry

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Keep the Doors Open: Lessons Learned from a Year of Foster Parenting

By: Kristin Berry

4.41

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Will You Open Your Heart and Home to Children in Need? As a teenager, Kristin Berry had heard all …

If you liked the memoir plot in Keep the Doors Open: Lessons Learned from a Year of Foster Parenting by Kristin Berry , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. Three More Words

By: Ashley Rhodes-Courter

3.71

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In the sequel to the New York Times bestselling memoir Three Little Words, Ashley Rhodes-Courter ex… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Rhodes-Courter's Three More Words book and Kristin Berry's Keep the Doors Open: Lessons Learned from a Year of Foster Parenting

  • memoir
  • fostering
  • adoption
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Triggers: Exchanging Parents' Angry Reactions for Gentle Biblical Responses by Amber Lia, Wendy Speake

2. Triggers: Exchanging Parents' Angry Reactions for Gentle Biblical Responses

By: Amber Lia , Wendy Speake

3.91

Format: 337 pages,

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Similar categories in Amber Lia's Triggers: Exchanging Parents' Angry Reactions for Gentle Biblical Responses book and Kristin Berry's Keep the Doors Open: Lessons Learned from a Year of Foster Parenting

  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • audiobook
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3. Garbage Bag Suitcase: A Memoir

By: Shenandoah Chefalo

3.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

Garbage Bag Suitcase is the true story of Shenandoah Chefalo's wholly dysfunctional journey through… read more

Similar categories in Shenandoah Chefalo's Garbage Bag Suitcase: A Memoir book and Kristin Berry's Keep the Doors Open: Lessons Learned from a Year of Foster Parenting

  • memoir
  • fostering
  • social work
  • adoption
  • nonfiction

4. Another Place at the Table

By: Kathy Harrison

4.23

Format: 400 pages,

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Similar categories in Kathy Harrison's Another Place at the Table book and Kristin Berry's Keep the Doors Open: Lessons Learned from a Year of Foster Parenting

5. Three Little Words: A Memoir

By: Ashley Rhodes-Courter

3.82

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"Sunshine, you're my baby and I'm your only mother. You must mind the one taking care of you, but s… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Rhodes-Courter's Three Little Words: A Memoir book and Kristin Berry's Keep the Doors Open: Lessons Learned from a Year of Foster Parenting

6. The Connected Child: Bring Hope and Healing to Your Adoptive Family

By: None

2.00

Format: 28 pages, Paperback

The adoption of a child is always a joyous moment in the life of a family. Some adoptions, though, … read more

Similar categories in None's The Connected Child: Bring Hope and Healing to Your Adoptive Family book and Kristin Berry's Keep the Doors Open: Lessons Learned from a Year of Foster Parenting

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7. The Primal Wound: Understanding The Adopted Child

By: Nancy Verrier

4.05

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

The Primal Wound is a seminal work which revolutionizes the way we think about adoption. It describ… read more

Similar categories in Nancy Verrier's The Primal Wound: Understanding The Adopted Child book and Kristin Berry's Keep the Doors Open: Lessons Learned from a Year of Foster Parenting

  • parenting
  • fostering
  • social work
  • adoption
  • nonfiction

8. To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care

By: Cris Beam

2.83

Format: 288 pages, ebook

"Beam presents both a sharp critique of foster-care policies and a searching exploration of the mea… read more

Similar categories in Cris Beam's To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care book and Kristin Berry's Keep the Doors Open: Lessons Learned from a Year of Foster Parenting

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9. The Vanderbeekers on the Road (The Vanderbeekers, #6)

By: Karina Yan Glaser

4.29

Format: 333 pages, Hardcover

A surprise road trip turns rocky when the younger siblings try to keep their family from ever facin… read more

Similar categories in Karina Yan Glaser's The Vanderbeekers on the Road (The Vanderbeekers, #6) book and Kristin Berry's Keep the Doors Open: Lessons Learned from a Year of Foster Parenting

  • audiobook
"There was a brief pause. Then Laney pointed a finger at Oliver and exclaimed, 'You want to keep them! 'No!' said Mama and Papa. 'I'm just saying,' Oliver said, looking at the two cats, who were stret…"

-Karina Yan Glaser, The Vanderbeekers on the Road (The Vanderbeekers, #6)

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10. Troubled

By: Rob Henderson

4.26

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In this raw coming-of-age memoir, in the vein of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, The Oth… read more

Similar categories in Rob Henderson's Troubled book and Kristin Berry's Keep the Doors Open: Lessons Learned from a Year of Foster Parenting

  • memoir
  • fostering
  • adoption
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Successful people tell the world they got lucky, then tell their loved ones about the importance of hard work and sacrifice. Critics of successful people tell the world those successful people got lu…"

-Rob Henderson, Troubled

"People don't need motivation; they need self-discipline. Motivation is just a feeling. Self-discipline is: 'I'm going to do this regardless of how I feel.' Seldom do people relish doing something har…"

-Rob Henderson, Troubled

"Mom's friends were worried that their son isn't talking as much as other six-year-olds. They, like many parents, were concerned with how "smart" their kid is. "Should we be reading to him more?" they…"

-Rob Henderson, Troubled

"You should keep your expectations in line with reality. If you view the military as a job, you will be miserable. It's not a job, it's a lot more than that. As long as you wear that uniform, it is yo…"

-Rob Henderson, Troubled

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11. Safe All Along: Trading Our Fears and Anxieties for God's Unshakable Peace

By: Katie Davis Majors

4.44

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Leave behind your anxious thoughts and embrace a steady confidence that you are never beyond the re… read more

Similar categories in Katie Davis Majors's Safe All Along: Trading Our Fears and Anxieties for God's Unshakable Peace book and Kristin Berry's Keep the Doors Open: Lessons Learned from a Year of Foster Parenting

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. Practicing the Way: Be with Jesus, Become Like Him, Do As He Did

By: John Mark Comer

4.63

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The author of the international bestseller The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry calls us to rediscover… read more

Similar categories in John Mark Comer's Practicing the Way: Be with Jesus, Become Like Him, Do As He Did book and Kristin Berry's Keep the Doors Open: Lessons Learned from a Year of Foster Parenting

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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13. Holy Hygge: Creating a Place for People to Gather and the Gospel to Grow

By: Jamie Erickson

4.13

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Women were made to give life—and they can do that right in their own homes.  Hygge [HYOO-guh] ha… read more

Similar categories in Jamie Erickson's Holy Hygge: Creating a Place for People to Gather and the Gospel to Grow book and Kristin Berry's Keep the Doors Open: Lessons Learned from a Year of Foster Parenting

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I’m caring enough about me to enjoy the simple pleasures I’ve planned for during this dark season so I can approach my days with a sense of abundance rather than scarcity."

-Jamie Erickson, Holy Hygge: Creating a Place for People to Gather and the Gospel to Grow

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14. Twice a Daughter: A Search for Identity, Family, and Belonging

By: Julie Ryan McGue

4.25

Format: 282 pages, Paperback

Julie is adopted. She is also a twin. Because their adoption was closed, she and her sister lack bo… read more

Similar categories in Julie Ryan McGue's Twice a Daughter: A Search for Identity, Family, and Belonging book and Kristin Berry's Keep the Doors Open: Lessons Learned from a Year of Foster Parenting

  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • adoption
Cover of Fostered: One Woman’s Powerful Story of Finding Faith and Family through Foster Care by Tori Hope Petersen

15. Fostered: One Woman’s Powerful Story of Finding Faith and Family through Foster Care

By: Tori Hope Petersen

4.43

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

If you’re wondering if God can truly move in the life of someone with all the odds stacked against … read more

Similar categories in Tori Hope Petersen's Fostered: One Woman’s Powerful Story of Finding Faith and Family through Foster Care book and Kristin Berry's Keep the Doors Open: Lessons Learned from a Year of Foster Parenting

  • nonfiction
  • fostering
  • memoir
  • adoption
"The foster care system should not be used solely to house children but should be used to help them heal."

-Tori Hope Petersen, Fostered: One Woman’s Powerful Story of Finding Faith and Family through Foster Care

"Too many people throw money and goods at vulnerable youth when they need time, basic skills, and long-term relationships."

-Tori Hope Petersen, Fostered: One Woman’s Powerful Story of Finding Faith and Family through Foster Care

"Being a safe person is something I've strived for. When all is said and done, I don't care to be remembered as a powerhouse. I hope to be remembered as a safe house."

-Tori Hope Petersen, Fostered: One Woman’s Powerful Story of Finding Faith and Family through Foster Care

"When we place children to fill beds, we are creating a system of temporary housing rather than a long-term solution of finding children their forever, safe, and loving families."

-Tori Hope Petersen, Fostered: One Woman’s Powerful Story of Finding Faith and Family through Foster Care

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16. Stranger Care

By: Sarah Sentilles

4.27

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

After their decision not to have a biological child, Sarah Sentilles and her husband, Eric, decide … read more

Similar categories in Sarah Sentilles's Stranger Care book and Kristin Berry's Keep the Doors Open: Lessons Learned from a Year of Foster Parenting

  • parenting
  • memoir
  • fostering
  • adoption
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Do you have kids?" strangers asked almost every day. "No," I said, not wanting to explain, because, really, it's an unimaginative question, full of their beliefs about what family means, about who co…"

-Sarah Sentilles, Stranger Care

"People who learned Eric and I wanted to adopt a child often told us stories of adoptions gone wrong. The adopted child incapable of attachment. Who became a drug addict, a runaway, who drained bank a…"

-Sarah Sentilles, Stranger Care

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17. Now I Am Known

By: MUTABAZI

4.80

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

At age ten, Peter Mutabazi ran away from home in rural Uganda to escape his abusive father. For fiv… read more

Similar categories in MUTABAZI's Now I Am Known book and Kristin Berry's Keep the Doors Open: Lessons Learned from a Year of Foster Parenting

  • nonfiction
  • fostering
  • memoir
  • adoption
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18. The Connected Parent: Real-Life Strategies for Building Trust and Attachment

By: Karyn Purvis

4.55

Format: 187 pages, Kindle Edition

You Can Effectively Parent an Adopted or Foster Child Parenting under the best of circumstances is … read more

Similar categories in Karyn Purvis's The Connected Parent: Real-Life Strategies for Building Trust and Attachment book and Kristin Berry's Keep the Doors Open: Lessons Learned from a Year of Foster Parenting

  • parenting
  • fostering
  • adoption
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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19. Foster the Family: Encouragement, Hope, and Practical Help for the Christian Foster Parent

By: Jamie C. Finn

4.73

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

There are great rewards that come along with being a foster parent, yet there are also great challe… read more

Similar categories in Jamie C. Finn's Foster the Family: Encouragement, Hope, and Practical Help for the Christian Foster Parent book and Kristin Berry's Keep the Doors Open: Lessons Learned from a Year of Foster Parenting

  • parenting
  • fostering
  • adoption
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Confessions of an Adoptive Parent: Hope and Help from the Trenches of Foster Care and Adoption by Mike Berry

20. Confessions of an Adoptive Parent: Hope and Help from the Trenches of Foster Care and Adoption

By: Mike Berry

3.62

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Know That You Are Not Alone on This Journey Adopting or fostering a child brings its own unique … read more

Similar categories in Mike Berry's Confessions of an Adoptive Parent: Hope and Help from the Trenches of Foster Care and Adoption book and Kristin Berry's Keep the Doors Open: Lessons Learned from a Year of Foster Parenting

  • parenting
  • fostering
  • social work
  • adoption
  • nonfiction
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21. A Soft Place to Land: A 5 Year Journey Through Foster Care

By: R.J. Klein

4.55

Format: 77 pages, Kindle Edition

A Soft Place to Land tells the story of foster care from the inside out. You will be immersed in th… read more

Similar categories in R.J. Klein's A Soft Place to Land: A 5 Year Journey Through Foster Care book and Kristin Berry's Keep the Doors Open: Lessons Learned from a Year of Foster Parenting

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22. Keep the Doors Open: Lessons Learned from a Year of Foster Parenting

By: Kristin Berry

4.41

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Will You Open Your Heart and Home to Children in Need? As a teenager, Kristin Berry had heard all … read more

Similar categories in Kristin Berry's Keep the Doors Open: Lessons Learned from a Year of Foster Parenting book and Kristin Berry's Keep the Doors Open: Lessons Learned from a Year of Foster Parenting

  • parenting
  • memoir
  • fostering
  • social work
  • adoption
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Honestly Adoption: Answers to 101 Questions About Adoption and Foster Care by Mike Berry

23. Honestly Adoption: Answers to 101 Questions About Adoption and Foster Care

By: Mike Berry

4.21

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Discover What Adoption and Foster Care  Really Look Like   If you are considering adoption or foste… read more

Similar categories in Mike Berry's Honestly Adoption: Answers to 101 Questions About Adoption and Foster Care book and Kristin Berry's Keep the Doors Open: Lessons Learned from a Year of Foster Parenting

  • nonfiction
  • fostering
  • parenting
  • adoption
Cover of Strong Like Water: Finding the Freedom, Safety, and Compassion to Move through Hard Things—and Experience True Flourishing by Aundi Kolber

24. Strong Like Water: Finding the Freedom, Safety, and Compassion to Move through Hard Things—and Experience True Flourishing

By: Aundi Kolber

4.50

Format: 261 pages, Paperback

There's a cost to being a certain kind of strong. When it comes to difficult circumstances, we'v… read more

Similar categories in Aundi Kolber's Strong Like Water: Finding the Freedom, Safety, and Compassion to Move through Hard Things—and Experience True Flourishing book and Kristin Berry's Keep the Doors Open: Lessons Learned from a Year of Foster Parenting

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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25. Reframing Foster Care

By: Jason Johnson

4.46

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

Foster parents face a unique set of circumstances and experience a wide array of emotions that few … read more

Similar categories in Jason Johnson's Reframing Foster Care book and Kristin Berry's Keep the Doors Open: Lessons Learned from a Year of Foster Parenting

  • parenting
  • fostering
  • social work
  • adoption
  • nonfiction
Cover of Love-Centered Parenting: The No-Fail Guide to Launching Your Kids by Crystal Paine

26. Love-Centered Parenting: The No-Fail Guide to Launching Your Kids

By: Crystal Paine

4.48

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Do you worry that you're messing up your kids? Do you get stressed when you think about their futur… read more

Similar categories in Crystal Paine's Love-Centered Parenting: The No-Fail Guide to Launching Your Kids book and Kristin Berry's Keep the Doors Open: Lessons Learned from a Year of Foster Parenting

  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • audiobook
Cover of It Wasn't Roaring, It Was Weeping: Interpreting the Language of Our Fathers Without Repeating Their Stories by Lisa-Jo Baker

27. It Wasn't Roaring, It Was Weeping: Interpreting the Language of Our Fathers Without Repeating Their Stories

By: Lisa-Jo Baker

4.58

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An honest and lyrical coming-of-age memoir of growing up in South Africa at the height of apartheid… read more

Similar categories in Lisa-Jo Baker's It Wasn't Roaring, It Was Weeping: Interpreting the Language of Our Fathers Without Repeating Their Stories book and Kristin Berry's Keep the Doors Open: Lessons Learned from a Year of Foster Parenting

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of A Love-Stretched Life: Stories on Wrangling Hope, Embracing the Unexpected, and Discovering the Meaning of Family by Jillana Goble

28. A Love-Stretched Life: Stories on Wrangling Hope, Embracing the Unexpected, and Discovering the Meaning of Family

By: Jillana Goble

4.64

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

“With forthrightness and a sense of humor, the author crafts a poignant portrait of motherhood, rep… read more

Similar categories in Jillana Goble's A Love-Stretched Life: Stories on Wrangling Hope, Embracing the Unexpected, and Discovering the Meaning of Family book and Kristin Berry's Keep the Doors Open: Lessons Learned from a Year of Foster Parenting

  • nonfiction
  • fostering
  • memoir
  • adoption
Cover of Until Every Child Is Home: Why the Church Can and Must Care for Orphans by Todd Chipman

29. Until Every Child Is Home: Why the Church Can and Must Care for Orphans

By: Todd Chipman

4.25

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

“A wise and experienced guide, Todd Chipman offers practical direction on how local congregations c… read more

Similar categories in Todd Chipman's Until Every Child Is Home: Why the Church Can and Must Care for Orphans book and Kristin Berry's Keep the Doors Open: Lessons Learned from a Year of Foster Parenting

  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • fostering
  • adoption
Cover of No Sugar Coating: The Coffee Talk You Need About Foster Parenting by Jillana Goble

30. No Sugar Coating: The Coffee Talk You Need About Foster Parenting

By: Jillana Goble

4.28

Format: 75 pages, Kindle Edition

No Sugar-Coating is a warm, straight-up guide that reads like a conversation with a knowledgeable f… read more

Similar categories in Jillana Goble's No Sugar Coating: The Coffee Talk You Need About Foster Parenting book and Kristin Berry's Keep the Doors Open: Lessons Learned from a Year of Foster Parenting

  • fostering
  • parenting
Cover of SIMPLY NEGLECT: Redemption beyond poverty and foster care by Lainie Hartley

31. SIMPLY NEGLECT: Redemption beyond poverty and foster care

By: Lainie Hartley

4.70

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Three-year-old Lainie kicks and screams as she tightly grips the leg of her older sister, pleading … read more

Similar categories in Lainie Hartley's SIMPLY NEGLECT: Redemption beyond poverty and foster care book and Kristin Berry's Keep the Doors Open: Lessons Learned from a Year of Foster Parenting

  • fostering

16 must-read audiobook books like Keep the Doors Open: Lessons Learned from a Year of Foster Parenting by Kristin Berry

Transform Your Habits

Three More Words

Ashley Rhodes-Courter

3.71

Transform Your Habits

Triggers: Exchanging Parents' Angry Reactions for Gentle Biblical Responses

Amber Lia , Wendy Speake

3.91

Transform Your Habits

The Vanderbeekers on the Road (The Vanderbeekers, #6)

Karina Yan Glaser

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Troubled

Rob Henderson

4.26

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16 Best audiobook books like Foster the Family: Encouragement, Hope, and Practical Help for the Christian Foster Parent by Jamie C. Finn

Transform Your Habits

Hard Is Not the Same Thing as Bad: The Perspective Shift That Could Completely Change the Way You Mother

Abbie Halberstadt

4.34

Transform Your Habits

Safe All Along: Trading Our Fears and Anxieties for God's Unshakable Peace

Katie Davis Majors

4.44

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The Gospel Comes with a House Key

Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

4.31

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All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir

Beth Moore

4.47

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