Searching for Mom: A Memoir
By: Sara Easterly
4.12
Format: 316 pages, Paperback
Gold Medal, Illumination Book Awards | National Indie Excellence Awards Winner | Readers' Favorite …
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1. The Lost Child of Philomena Lee: A Mother, Her Son and a 50 Year Search
By: Martin Sixsmith
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
Soon to be a major motion picture starring Judi Dench: the heartbreaking true story of an Irishwoma… read more
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- memoir
- adoption
2. Bastards
By: Mary Anna King
3.86
Format: None pages, Paperback
In the early 1980s, Mary Hall is a little girl growing up in poverty in Camden, New Jersey, with he… read more
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- memoir
- adoption
3. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
By: Isabel Wilkerson
3.69
Format: 121 pages, Hardcover
In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chroni… read more
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4. The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks
By: Shauna Robinson
3.75
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
I, Maggie Banks, solemnly swear to uphold the rules of Cobblestone Books. If only, I, Maggie Ban… read more
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5. Counting the Cost
By: Jill Duggar
4.06
Format: 287 pages, Kindle Edition
For the first time, discover the unedited truth about the Duggars, the traditional Christian family… read more
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- memoir
"He loved spending time with us and told us often that we were his number one hobby."-Jill Duggar, Counting the Cost
"Sometimes you have to be okay with other people not being okay with you. And you have to be okay with you not being okay too."-Jill Duggar, Counting the Cost
"The dangers were not just out there on the street or in the mall, and they weren't just limited to the summer. They were closer to home as I soon discovered."-Jill Duggar, Counting the Cost
"It's like roses and thorns, justice and grace. You can recognize the beauty and happy parts of your story while also recognizing the more difficult parts. The two can coexist. The highs aren't automa…"-Jill Duggar, Counting the Cost
6. Surviving the White Gaze: A Memoir
By: Rebecca Carroll
4.06
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A stirring and powerful memoir from black cultural critic Rebecca Carroll recounting her painful st… read more
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- memoir
- adoption
7. What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
By: Bruce D. Perry
4.44
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Our earliest experiences shape our lives far down the road, and What Happened to You? provides powe… read more
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8. Family Family
By: Laurie Frankel
4.00
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
“Not all stories of adoption are stories of pain and regret. Not even most of them. Why don’t we ev… read more
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- adoption
"When people thought of mothers, they smelled cookies baking and chocolate melting. But actual mothers got shit for giving their kids too much sugar. When people thought of mothers, they thought soft …"-Laurie Frankel, Family Family
9. We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America
By: Roxanna Asgarian
4.32
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The shocking, deeply reported story of a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of six children—and … read more
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- adoption
10. American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption
By: Gabrielle Glaser
4.34
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The truth about postwar adoption in America, told through the bittersweet story of one teenager, th… read more
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- memoir
- adoption
11. All Boys Aren’t Blue
By: George M. Johnson
4.20
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson explor… read more
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- memoir
"History has an interesting way of painting."-George M. Johnson, All Boys Aren’t Blue
"The first person you are ever an activist for is yourself."-George M. Johnson, All Boys Aren’t Blue
"We are not as different as you think, and all our stories deserve to be celebrated and told."-George M. Johnson, All Boys Aren’t Blue
"When people ask me how I got into activism, I often say, “The first person you are ever an activist for is yourself."-George M. Johnson, All Boys Aren’t Blue
12. Witch of Wild Things
By: Raquel Vasquez Gilliland
3.74
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Legend goes that long ago a Flores woman offended the old gods, and their family was cursed as a re… read more
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"La casa de Nadia Flores was built sometime in the 1920s. Everything about it croaks and creaks and I can't help imagining each sound is a story, sliding right out of the floorboards."-Raquel Vasquez Gilliland, Witch of Wild Things
"It gets me thinking about the history of this land, of this whole world, even. How someone got it in their head that ripping down thousand-year-old trees was a-okay. How people who grow gardens are c…"-Raquel Vasquez Gilliland, Witch of Wild Things
13. This Poison Heart (This Poison Heart, #1)
By: Kalynn Bayron
4.12
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Darkness blooms in bestselling author Kalynn Bayron's new contemporary fantasy about a girl with a … read more
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14. The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be: A Speculative Memoir of Transracial Adoption
By: Shannon Gibney
3.87
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Part memoir, part speculative fiction, The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be explores the often sur… read more
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- memoir
- adoption
15. A Life Without Water (A Life Without #1)
By: Marci Bolden
3.96
Format: 264 pages, Kindle Edition
Healing can take a lifetime... Carol Denman divorced her husband over twenty years ago and has n… read more
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16. Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love
By: Dani Shapiro
3.89
Format: 252 pages, Hardcover
The author of Hourglass now gives us a new memoir about identity, paternity, and family secrets—a r… read more
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- memoir
"It is the nature of trauma that, when left untreated, it deepens over time."-Dani Shapiro, Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love
"Always lists to be made, as if writing items in neat vertical rows might stave off randomness and chaos."-Dani Shapiro, Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love
"The hidden disaster was secrecy, the pretense and magical thinking, the certainty that no one ever needed to know."-Dani Shapiro, Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love
"Except that secrets, particularly the most deeply held ones, have a way of leaching into everything surrounding them."-Dani Shapiro, Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love
17. "You Should Be Grateful": Stories of Race, Identity, and Transracial Adoption
By: Angela Tucker
4.60
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
An adoption expert and transracial adoptee herself examines the unique perspectives and challenges … read more
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- memoir
- adoption
18. The Gathering Place: An Adoptee's Story
By: Emma Stevens
4.47
Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition
The true story of when Emma learns her birth mother wrote and signed a letter about her to the adop… read more
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19. Who Is a Worthy Mother?: An Intimate History of Adoption
By: Rebecca Christine Wellington
4.76
Format: 217 pages, Kindle Edition
Nearly every person in the United States is affected by adoption. Adoption practices are woven into… read more
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20. Already Enough: A Path to Self-Acceptance
By: Lisa Olivera
4.16
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Identify, understand, and reframe your life story with this “must-read” (Christie Tate, New York Ti… read more
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- adoption
21. I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir
By: Susan Kiyo Ito
4.61
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
“Susan Kiyo Ito is like a surgeon operating on herself. She is delicate, precise, and at times cutt… read more
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- adoption
22. Somewhere Sisters: A Story of Adoption, Identity, and the Meaning of Family
By: Erika Hayasaki
3.91
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Identical twins Isabella and Hà were born in Vietnam and raised on opposite sides of the world, eac… read more
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- memoir
- adoption
23. When We Become Ours: A YA Adoptee Anthology
By: Shannon Gibney
4.29
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Two teens take the stage and find their voice. . . A girl learns about her heritage and begins to f… read more
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24. Famous Adopted People
By: Alice Stephens
3.46
Format: 331 pages, Paperback
"Stephens' darkly comic, sharply irreverent, undeniably wise 'Great Adoption Novel' is an unexpecte… read more
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25. Journey of the Adopted Self: A Quest for Wholeness
By: Betty Jean Lifton
4.21
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
Betty Jean Lifton, whose Lost and Found has become a bible to adoptees and to those who would under… read more
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26. Searching for Mom: A Memoir
By: Sara Easterly
4.12
Format: 316 pages, Paperback
Gold Medal, Illumination Book Awards | National Indie Excellence Awards Winner | Readers' Favorite … read more
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27. Who Am I Really: An Adoptee Memoir
By: Damon Davis
4.52
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
"Who Am I Really?" is a question many adoptees ask when they realize they have another family of ge… read more
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28. Forbidden Roots: A Memoir of Late-Discovery Adoption
By: Fred Nicora
3.47
Format: 233 pages, Kindle Edition
Everyone learns to accept twists and turns as they live out the daily rituals of their lives. But w… read more
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29. Adoption and Suicidality: An Anthology of Stories, Poems, and Resources for Adoptees, Families, Healthcare Professionals, and Allies (Unraveling Adoption Book Series)
By: Beth Syverson
4.84
Format: 117 pages, Kindle Edition
This book is a wake-up call to those impacted by adoption and to those who interact with them. Acco… read more
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30. The Truth So Far...: a detective's journey to reunite with her birth family
By: Ms Jennifer Dyan Ghoston
4.29
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
How do you use a document like the amended birth certificate given to an adoptee as a legal represe… read more
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31. A Fire is Coming
By: Emma Stevens
4.33
Format: 160 pages, Kindle Edition
The true story of when Emma Stevens learned her new next-door neighbor was a psychologist, she inno… read more
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