You Don't Look Adopted
By: Anne Heffron
4.27
Format: 261 pages, Paperback
Can writing your story save your life? I should have come with a manual. My parents thought they we…
Want to Read $ 9.99"Most of my life I have felt both real and not real."-Anne Heffron, You Don't Look Adopted
"The problem is that part of my brain likes the ache of longing more than it likes the safety of your company."-Anne Heffron, You Don't Look Adopted
"Adopted people aren’t much different from non-adopted people. They just live with more questions. They are the human experience intensified."-Anne Heffron, You Don't Look Adopted
"Even if I don’t like you much, I have to keep trying to convince you to love me because the force controlling the wheel in my brain is telling me this is an urgent matter."-Anne Heffron, You Don't Look Adopted
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1. The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade
By: Ann Fessler
4.24
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
A powerful and groundbreaking revelation of the secret history of the 1.5 million women who surrend… read more
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- memoir
- adoption
"Secrets keep families sick. You never keep secrets in families because even if the child doesn't know what the secret is, they will always know there is a secret."-Ann Fessler, The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade
"We were not criminals. We're mothers. The difference was I was not an authenticated mother. I was an illegal mother. I was a denied mother. And I had to come home and live my life after being robbed …"-Ann Fessler, The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade
2. Before I Met You
By: Lisa Jewell
2.00
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
After her grandmother Arlette's death, Betty is finally ready to begin her life. She had forfeited … read more
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3. 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
4. All You Can Ever Know
By: Nicole Chung
3.77
Format: 300 pages,
All You Can Ever Know (Catapult, Fall 2018) spans Nicole Chung's transracial adoption, her upbringi… read more
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5. The Yes Brain: How to Cultivate Courage, Curiosity, and Resilience in Your Child
By: Daniel J. Siegel , Tina Payne Bryson , None
4.19
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
From the authors of The Whole-Brain Child and No-Drama Discipline, an indispensable guide to unlock… read more
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6. Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity, #1)
By: Elizabeth Wein
4.26
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Oct. 11th, 1943 - A British spy plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France. Its pilot and passenger are … read more
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7. The Other Einstein
By: Marie Benedict
3.68
Format: 420 pages, Hardcover
A vivid and mesmerizing novel about the extraordinary woman who married and worked with one of the … read more
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8. Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love
By: Sue Johnson
4.50
Format: 158 pages, Hardcover
Heralded by the New York Timesand Timeas the couples therapy with the highest rate of success, Emot… read more
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9. 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
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10. Signs: The Secret Language of the Universe
By: Laura Lynne Jackson
4.16
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A renowned psychic medium teaches us how to recognize and interpret the… read more
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"We are all leaves on different branches of the same tree."-Laura Lynne Jackson, Signs: The Secret Language of the Universe
"Sometimes, the sign is the whisper in our heart, the deep and undeniable pull, the inherent knowing that the answer is already there.... If we are open to this, it will truly enrich our lives. Becaus…"-Laura Lynne Jackson, Signs: The Secret Language of the Universe
"Souls have deep connections and unique contracts that span centuries, exist back and forth in time, and bind us in ways we can't really understand.... These connections are ancient and everlasting, a…"-Laura Lynne Jackson, Signs: The Secret Language of the Universe
11. Everything Sad Is Untrue
By: Daniel Nayeri
4.32
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Da… read more
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"Every story is the sound of a storyteller begging to stay alive."-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue
"I won't tell you about her yet, because sometimes love has to be kept secret. If other people find out, they will attack it."-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue
"Sometimes you just want somebody to look at a thing with you and say, "Yes. That is a thing you're looking at. You haven't lied to yourself."-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue
"Maybe there isn’t just one person designated for everybody. Maybe there’s a lot more to it---maybe you choose and you practice, and that’s what makes the love true."-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue
12. Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning
By: Liz Cheney
4.60
Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition
A gripping first-hand account from inside the halls of Congress as Donald Trump and his enablers be… read more
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13. A Living Remedy: A Memoir
By: Nicole Chung
4.01
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A searing memoir of family, class and grief—a daughter’s search to understand the lives her adoptiv… read more
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- adoption
"How do you learn to cherish yourself, your life, when grief has made it unrecognizable? I am starting to feel that we do so not by trying to fill a void that can never be filled but by living as best…"-Nicole Chung, A Living Remedy: A Memoir
14. Raising Good Humans: A Mindful Guide to Breaking the Cycle of Reactive Parenting and Raising Kind, Confident Kids
By: Hunter Clarke-Fields
3.95
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
“A wise and fresh approach to mindful parenting.” —Tara Brach, author of Radical Acceptance A k… read more
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"The only way out of our difficult feelings is through."-Hunter Clarke-Fields, Raising Good Humans: A Mindful Guide to Breaking the Cycle of Reactive Parenting and Raising Kind, Confident Kids
15. Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics
By: Dolly Parton
4.03
Format: 380 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestseller Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics is a landmark celebration of … read more
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"My coat of many colors that my mama made for me, Made only from rags, but I wore it so proudly. Now I know we had no money, but I was rich as I could be. In my coat of many colors my mama made for me…"-Dolly Parton, Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics
16. 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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- adoption
17. If You Would Have Told Me
By: John Stamos
3.81
Format: 333 pages, Hardcover
If you would have told a young John Stamos flipping burgers at his dad’s fast-food joint that one d… read more
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18. The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer
By: Janelle Monáe
3.76
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
In The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer, singer-songwriter, actor, fashion ico… read more
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"Dreams aren't memories. They are memories' voices."-Janelle Monáe, The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer
"Some days Artis had to remind himself that his dad actually existed, that his mother was not a phantom. Remembering the dead was hard work."-Janelle Monáe, The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer
"Hearing her name, she gathered herself within the span of normalcy, just barely escaping the extra beat that would have made it weird. "Hey," she said. "I'm good, good."-Janelle Monáe, The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer
"Grandpapa and even Artis's friends believed that New Dawn was the most dangerous thing in their world. But Artis knew that wasn't true. Hope was. Having too much, having too little. Trying to work ou…"-Janelle Monáe, The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer
19. 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
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- adoption
"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
20. Probably Ruby
By: Lisa Bird-Wilson
3.49
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An Indigenous woman adopted by white parents goes in search of her identity in this unforgettable d… read more
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21. "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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- adoption
22. 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
23. 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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24. You Don't Look Adopted
By: Anne Heffron
4.27
Format: 261 pages, Paperback
Can writing your story save your life? I should have come with a manual. My parents thought they we… read more
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- adoption
"Most of my life I have felt both real and not real."-Anne Heffron, You Don't Look Adopted
"The problem is that part of my brain likes the ache of longing more than it likes the safety of your company."-Anne Heffron, You Don't Look Adopted
"Adopted people aren’t much different from non-adopted people. They just live with more questions. They are the human experience intensified."-Anne Heffron, You Don't Look Adopted
"Even if I don’t like you much, I have to keep trying to convince you to love me because the force controlling the wheel in my brain is telling me this is an urgent matter."-Anne Heffron, You Don't Look Adopted
