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…
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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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- history
- memoir
- adoption
- nonfiction
- womens
- audiobook
"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. 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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- biography
- memoir
- adoption
- nonfiction
- audiobook
3. 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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- nonfiction
- parenting
- adoption
4. Finding Family: My Search for Roots and the Secrets in My DNA
By: None
3.26
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Finding Family: My Search for Roots and the Secrets in My DNA is Richard Hill's true and intensely … read more
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5. 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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- history
- adoption
- nonfiction
- social justice
- adult
- audiobook
6. A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery
By: Lawrence Ingrassia
4.41
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Weaving his own moving family story with a sweeping history of cancer research, Lawrence Ingrassia … read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- audiobook
7. 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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- parenting
- biography
- history
- memoir
- adoption
- nonfiction
- social justice
- womens
- adult
- audiobook
8. American Girls
By: Jessica Roy
4.01
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant, deeply reported narrative about religious extremism, radicalization, and the bonds of … read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- audiobook
9. The Family Roe: An American Story
By: Joshua Prager
4.13
Format: 672 pages, Hardcover
Despite her famous pseudonym, “Jane Roe,” no one knows the truth about Norma McCorvey (1947–2017), … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
10. The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America
By: Monica Potts
3.88
Format: 258 pages, Hardcover
An acclaimed journalist tries to understand how she escaped her small-town in Arkansas while her br… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
"When I was little, I thought that when people were drunk they were drunk forever. Later, I learned that this is not true. Even later, I learned that sometimes it is."-Monica Potts, The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America
11. 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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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- memoir
- adoption
12. Motherhood So White: A Memoir of Race, Gender, and Parenting in America
By: Nefertiti Austin
3.87
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In America, Mother = White That's what Nefertiti, a single African American woman, discovered wh… read more
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- parenting
- biography
- memoir
- adoption
- nonfiction
- social justice
- adult
- audiobook
"Becoming a mother forced me to have hope."-Nefertiti Austin, Motherhood So White: A Memoir of Race, Gender, and Parenting in America
13. Rock Needs River: A Memoir About a Very Open Adoption
By: Vanessa McGrady
3.49
Format: 185 pages, Kindle Edition
From a story first told in the popular New York Times parenting blog comes a funny, touching memoir… read more
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- parenting
- biography
- memoir
- adoption
- nonfiction
- audiobook
14. Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood
By: Gretchen Sisson
4.38
Format: 311 pages, Hardcover
A powerful decade-long study of adoption in the age of Roe, revealing the grief of the American mot… read more
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- history
- parenting
- adoption
- nonfiction
- social justice
- adult
- audiobook
15. "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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- parenting
- biography
- memoir
- adoption
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
16. What White Parents Should Know about Transracial Adoption: An Adoptee's Perspective on Its History, Nuances, and Practices
By: Melissa Guida-Richards
4.24
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
The White Fragility for transracial adoption--practical tools for nurturing identity, unlearning wh… read more
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- nonfiction
- adult
- parenting
- adoption
"Currently not enough is being done to make sure adoptive parents receive continued education and counseling in transracial adoption to help support them as their child ages. There is some focus on in…"-Melissa Guida-Richards, What White Parents Should Know about Transracial Adoption: An Adoptee's Perspective on Its History, Nuances, and Practices
17. 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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- memoir
- adoption
18. 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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- history
- memoir
- adoption
- nonfiction
- audiobook
19. The Adoptive Parents' Handbook: A Guide to Healing Trauma and Thriving with Your Foster or Adopted Child
By: Barbara Cummins Tantrum
4.62
Format: 317 pages, Kindle Edition
The essential guide to parenting adopted and foster kids--learn to create felt safety, heal attachm… read more
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- nonfiction
- parenting
- adoption
20. The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice
By: Scott Ellsworth
4.20
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
And then they were gone. More than one thousand homes and businesses. Restaurants and movie theat… read more
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- history
- social justice
- audiobook
21. 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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- memoir
- 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
