Catálogo de libros: Adopción y acogimiento

477 Catálogo de libros: Adopción y acogimiento

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  • Grit & Magic
    Melanie Herz Promecene
    Is it possible to stay hopeful – and to keep a sense of humor – while your deepest desire is threatened? When you’re falsely accused? When people you trust advise you to hide your heritage?Melanie Herz Promecene, who faced each of those challenges while trying to adopt a child, is walking proof that the answer is yes.In this staggeringly honest, often hilarious, always hopeful ...
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    16,97 €

  • Redefining Family
    A. K. Snyder
    In an unconventional blend of poetry and prose, a birthmother shares her experience of an open adoption. The fear and uncertainty in planning. The heartbreak of losing her child. And the work of healing and building a life after placement. This memoir hits every emotion on the way to the happy and hopeful ending. I am not ready, not able, to raise you.Ten years too early, I nee...
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    12,49 €

  • adoption
    Brenda Scott
    Learn the answers to everything you’ve ever wondered about adoption in this unique blend of memoir and facts, by an adoptive mom.In this comprehensive book, Brenda Scott shares her personal experience with the various types of adoption as well as information about how you can become an adoptive parent. Maybe you’ve wondered if you are qualified to adopt, how much it costs or ho...
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    13,85 €

  • On Riding a Bike Blindfolded
    Lia Goens
    On Riding a Bike Blindfolded is based on the thoughts and experiences written by a heroin addict named Scott. His words and illustrations were found and read by his mother, Lori, after he died from an overdose.Due to his addiction, Scott left home and was not welcomed back until he stopped using drugs, something he could not manage to do. He lived from place to place, including...
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    14,66 €

  • Un-Adoptable?
    Janelle Molony
    The adoption agency made a mistake. A mother welcomed in a child who brought fear and destruction into the home. She wrestles with God, doctors, and social workers over what to do next. Quick-thinking, leaps of faith, and some dark humor challenges readers to ask themselves: Do I have what it takes to raise a child with a harrowing past… or an uncertain future?Un-Adoptable? rev...
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    12,74 €

  • Dumpster Doll
    Michelle Mays / Michelle Moone
    Michelle Mays was born into an abusive family in the Midwest. As she and her siblings cling to survival, the balance of family ties is weighed against alcoholism, drug abuse, abandonment, and despair. Hope dawns in the form of foster care, only to be deferred by multiple placements and a system not equipped to support the children it’s meant to protect.Through powerful vignette...
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    23,62 €

  • Dumpster Doll
    Michelle Mays / Michelle Moone
    Michelle Mays was born into an abusive family in the Midwest. As she and her siblings cling to survival, the balance of family ties is weighed against alcoholism, drug abuse, abandonment, and despair. Hope dawns in the form of foster care, only to be deferred by multiple placements and a system not equipped to support the children it’s meant to protect.Through powerful vignette...
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    18,77 €

  • The Spirit of Adoption
    Joel C. Langley / Joel CLangley
    When we think of someone adopted, we think of someone who has been abandoned, unwanted, or suffered great loss and then someone comes along who chooses to love them, bring them into their own life, and help them walk through the hurt, anger, and other issues of their lives. I have watched over the years as families have taken in broken and hurt people and loved them to health. ...
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    10,93 €

  • Forever In My Heart
    Charlene Carr
    Tracey Sampson has finally met the man she's ready to start her life with. He's perfect.But is she?Struggling with the unknown and desperate for answers, Tracey embarks on a journey to reveal the secrets of a past she vowed she’d never explore.Heartfelt and honest.Courageous and compelling.Forever In My Heart, book 4 in the A New Start stand-alone series, is a deep and ...
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    9,80 €

  • Bring It On Home
    Kait Nolan
    'That girl who got knocked up in high school.”Maggie Reynolds went all the way to Los Angeles to escape that label, but she hears the whispers every time she comes home to Eden's Ridge, Tennessee. She's been burning the candle at both ends for the last twelve years, trying to make something of her herself, trying to give people something else to say about her.Porter Ing...
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    11,53 €

  • Searching for Mom
    Sara Easterly
    Searching for Mom is a “disarmingly honest” mother-daughter story. Sara Easterly spent a lifetime looking for the perfect mother. As an adoptee she had difficulties attaching to her mother, struggled with her faith, lived the effects of intergenerational wounding, and felt an inherent sense of being unwanted that drove her to perfectionism, suicidal ideations, and fantasy mothe...
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    12,27 €

  • Long-Awaited Child
    Kellie Harriden
    Long-Awaited Child is the true story of Kellie Harriden, an Australian woman who travelled across continents to beat the odds in order to fulfil her quest to be a mother.As Kellie and her partner, Ian, excitedly prepared to start a family, they battled one obstacle after another, determined to become the proud parents of their long-awaited child.After the heartbreak of being un...
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    16,24 €

  • YOU BELONG HERE
    Willie Moore Jr.
    Have you ever wondered what the perfect adoption story looked like?Adopted by two ex-sharecroppers Willie Moore Jr. shares seven stories of his adoption experience that will make you laugh, cry and erase any negative stigma about adoption. This remarkable adoption story inspires adoptees and foster children to love and respect their new families and adjust with a winning attitu...
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    11,35 €

  • Foster Care and Me
    Judith A.M. Denton
    Please let me introduce you to Judith AM Denton. Placed in Foster Care at the age of 9, growing up through the system, Judith experienced exclusions from School and College, a run in with the Law, and then as a Care Leaver, she experienced a period of poor Mental Health.But thankfully her story doesn’t end there…. 3 ...
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    14,36 €

  • Fortunate Son
    Brooks Eason
    Julie Francis was a beautiful, wealthy socialite from Tulsa with a golden future. But during the fall semester of her freshman year of college, she learned she was pregnant. She was only 17.Paul and Margaret Eason were a middle-class couple from Tupelo, Mississippi, who couldn't have children of their own. They had previously adopted a daughter, but they desperately wanted ...
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    33,74 €

  • Fortunate Son
    Brooks Eason
    Julie Francis was a beautiful, wealthy socialite from Tulsa with a golden future. But during the fall semester of her freshman year of college, she learned she was pregnant. She was only 17.Paul and Margaret Eason were a middle-class couple from Tupelo, Mississippi, who couldn't have children of their own. They had previously adopted a daughter, but they desperately wanted ...
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    15,93 €

  • Unfinished Business
    Theresa W. Bennett-Wilkes
    Unfinished Business: A Celebration of Black Life, Love, and Institutional Memory explores the lives and interactions of a blended African-American family confronted with the re-emergence of a biological parent driven by previously suppressed needs which have unexpectedly come full circle. The parent has an agenda which ultimately destroys relationships and wreaks havoc in her l...
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    34,59 €

  • The Strength of Eggshells
    Kirsty Powell
    She’s six feet tall and handles a motorbike like a professional. But Kate has insecurities that match her height and she ignores the past by pushing her fingers firmly into her ears. Who is her mother and why did she abandon her? What became of her grandmother who travelled up the Whanganui River on a paddle steamer to an ill-fated valley, beyond the Bridge to Nowhere? And who ...
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    13,56 €

  • My Unspeakable Loss
    Alicia Kay Lanier
    In 1965, Alicia Kay Lanier finishes her University journalism studies in Texas and embarks on an exciting career as a daily newspaper reporter in another state. She has been raised in a Christian home and she is still a virgin. Alicia quickly finds her new job and friends to be as thrilling as she had expected. But, a few months later, Alicia discovers she is pregnant. The fact...
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    16,80 €

  • Too Brown to Keep
    JUDY Fambrough-Billingsley
    Judy Fambrough-Billingsley bares her soul and describes the transformation experienced in her quest to find both birth parents after being abandoned to live in a kinderheim until adopted. From a childhood in Germany shortly after the war to adulthood in America, Too Brown to Keep: A Search for Love, Forgiveness, and Healing recount the author’s inspirational odyssey, as she unc...
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    7,75 €

  • RUNAWAY
    C.A. Simonson / C.ASimonson
    She couldn't help but feel unwanted, unloved. Nina abused her, called her ugly and lazy. Benny said she was damaged goods; no man would love a cripple with those scars. Nina tried to give her away and Benny almost took her. Escaping the clutches of another man, there was only one thing left to do... The people around think she's a runaway and put her in a group home. Fo...
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    16,04 €

  • Until the Stars Fall from the Sky
    Mary Crawford
    The existence of love at first sight is doubtful  — until it happens to you.As a lifeguard and law student, Jeff Whitaker grasps life head-on after putting his dreams on hold due to a family crisis. But his legendary focus changes when a woman rescues a little boy while Jeff is lifeguarding.This most interesting, captivating, complex woman tempts him beyond belief. And she come...
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    14,64 €

  • Expectations
    Bertauski Tony / Tony Bertauski
    I write fiction. I make up stories. This is not one of them. This story is true. Some minor details have been altered and names changed, but the story itself is true. At some point, you won’t believe it. Hell, I don’t believe some of it and I was there. It’s a story about crises. It’s about resolution, about life prevailing. It’s about adoption. This is not a step-by-step guide...
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    7,70 €

  • Are All Those Kids Yours?
    Jonquil Graham
    “Marry if you must,” warned Jonquil’s mother. “But for God’s sake don’t have kids. You’ll rue the day they become teenagers.”When the Grahams were ‘given’ a child on their honeymoon, they decided to foster, and then, in rapid succession, to adopt nine children of their own, including two sets of twins from Russia and Romania respectively. After all, they had the perfect setting...
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    19,08 €

  • Secrets and Silences
    Dorothy B Williams
    Aimée’s sense of identity is shattered by a stranger at the door – another mother. The revelation undermines the close family relationships that confine Aimée. She seeks solitude to re-invent herself, but is soon challenged by unexpected responsibilities. Ill-equipped for these she has to grow up fast. Silences are broken and dramas erupt that dissipate her naïve expectations a...
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    11,42 €

  • Dancing with a Porcupine
    Jennie Lynn Owens
    Parenting is hard. So what do you do when you’re parenting a child who has experienced trauma or has extra challenges? You often feel alone and inadequate. You want so much to help your child, but you are at the end of your own rope. You feel guilty that sometimes you want to just quit.What can you do — how can you make it through the day — how can you help your child while als...
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    15,81 €

  • I’ll Always Carry You
    Linda L Franklin
    Nothing can break the bond between a mother and her child. When young Linda finds herself pregnant and abandoned, she retreats to an unwed mothers’ home to give birth. “You’ll never see him again. You’ll forget,” they promised her as they took him away for adoption.Time passes, Linda marries, has two more sons and becomes a psychological therapist. But when her youngest asks a ...
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    19,61 €

  • Ripple Effect
    Jenny Ferns
     “Ripple Effect: Because Of The War” is a historical novel set in England in the WWII era. This would appeal to women who struggle with issues of raising a family, adoption, loneliness with absent partners in the military, and the repercussions of PTSD. The novel shows the effect of the war on a family.The ripple effect of WWII, good, bad and ugly, spread far and deep in Britai...
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    20,81 €

  • Resilience
    Shane Bautista
    ‘I started to cry and yell as I felt anxious and scared. I was only two years old when Craig came crashing out of his bedroom, holding a pillow. As Craig held the pillow over my face, I remember kicking and pulling at his arms, but he was too strong. I couldn’t breathe. I could feel my panic increase, my heart beating faster. I thought I was going to die…’From the age of two, S...
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    11,43 €

  • America's Youngest Hostages
    Ian Keldoulis
    In the turbulent 1960s, a renegade Capuchin friar set out to end the foster-care-to-prison pipeline. His actions inspired a community, sparked a movement and built an enduring grassroots organization. For over fifty years, the Downey Side adoption agency has been rescuing our neediest children from the nation’s blighted foster care system.This David versus Goliath story continu...
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    13,46 €


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