James, Arleta M.
Summary: Many adoptees join their new families after having endured multiple traumatic experiences, which interrupts their development. Bringing together the latest research in brain science with the field of attachment, this book considers how the two can be linked to help children in healing both the brain and the heart. Laying out the many factors that can affect a child's mental health, it shows...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2019
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Summary: "Sarah has always struggled to fit in. Born in South Korea and adopted at birth by a white couple, she grows up in a rural community with few Asian neighbors. People whisper in the supermarket. Classmates bully her. She has trouble containing her anger in these moments--but through it all, she has her art. She's always been a compulsive drawer, and when she discovers anime, her hobby becomes an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2023
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Summary: "A hybrid memoir-in-essays with photographs that confronts the realities of growing up as an adoptee born before Roe v. Wade, searching for birth records, examining the Domecon baby experiments, and interrogating the idea of traumatic memory itself"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio GalbraithGodward, Mary
Summary: "The second-largest country in South America, Argentina has been through great changes in recent years. Its journey from dictatorship to democracy has left many scars, but these are largely eclipsed by the pride and resilience of the Argentinian people, who have developed a style, a language, and a joie de vivre that are all their own. Embracing much more than gaucho, tango, and soccer,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kuperard 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 918.2 ARGDurán, Cristina
Summary: "A narrative, in graphic novel format, following Cristina Durán and Miguel Ángel Giner Bou as they rebuild and reinvent themselves after their daughter Laia is born with cerebral palsy. Their story continues through the arduous process of adopting their second daughter, Selam, from Ethiopia"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Mundi 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 920 DURGuida-Richards, Melissa
Summary: "A guide for white parents of transracially or transnationally adopted children"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.734 GUICarangelo, Lori.
Contents: Search basics : forty search tips for starters -- Missing and runaway children -- Family tree, genealogy, debtor, child support, heir, classmate, old love, war buddy, missing adults or anyone -- With or without a name : family members separated due to adoption, divorce -- Internet searches -- Searching the USA -- International searching.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. for Clearfield Co. 2011
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.1 CarangeloChung, Nicole
Summary: "What does it mean to lose your roots--within your culture, within your family--and what happens when you find them? Nicole Chung was born severely premature, placed for adoption by her Korean parents, and raised by a white family in a sheltered Oregon town. From childhood, she heard the story of her adoption as a comforting, prepackaged myth. She believed that her biological parents had made...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHUCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHUNG, NICOLE CHUCarangelo, Lori
Summary: "It's more comprehensive than any book of its kind." --Keith Rose, former Director, LDS Family History Center "A wealth of hard to find data... I know of no other resource that comes close to the scope of this book." --Gordon Brooks, Librarian III, Los Angeles Public Library "A great job with a massive amount of information. I know our patrons will be delighted to access it." --Margaret...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Access Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 929.1 CAR1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.1 CAR
Soma, Taki
Summary: Taki Soma’s life has taken unexpected turns on top of twists over the years, a journey that starts in Japan in the early 1980s and spins through traumatic family loss, a childhood murder, drugs, comics, medical mysteries, true love, fertility, pets, and zombies. All of that and more is depicted here in a series of brilliant, deceptively simple short comics chronicling one young artist’s blazing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery Hill Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SOMA, TAKI SOMO'Neill, Ed
Summary: Three non-traditional families face everyday challenges.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2012
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MODSummary: Examines the efforts of the Children's Aid Society in New York, organized by minister Charles Loring Brace, which from 1853 to 1929 sent over 100,000 unwanted and orphaned children from the city to homes in rural America.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ORPEnriquez, Mariana
Summary: El mundo de Mariana Enriquez no tiene por qué ser el nuestro, y, sin embargo, lo termina siendo. Bastan pocas frases para pisarlo, respirarlo y no olvidarlo gracias a una viveza emocional insólita. Con la cotidianidad hecha pesadilla, el lector se despierta abatido, perturbado por historias e imágenes que jamás conseguirá sacarse de la cabeza. Las autodenominadas "mujeres ardientes," que...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 FIC ENRPurvis, Karyn B. (Karyn Brand)
Summary: Offers parents practical advice on how to welcome an adopted child into their family, with tips for coping with common problems, building affection and trust, dealing with learning or behavioral disorders, and disciplining an adoptive child without harming the parent-child relationship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 649.145 PurviHayasaki, Erika
Summary: "Isabella and Ha, identical twin girls born in Vietnam, were raised on opposite sides of the world, each having no idea that the other existed. Erika Hayasaki's deeply reported, intimate story of their journey back to each other upends common conceptions of adoption, family, and identity"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 HAYLee, Julayne
Summary: A provocative and furious book about race, culture, identity and what it means to be an inter-country adoptee in America. Julayne Lee was born in South Korea to a mother she never knew. When she was an infant, she was adopted by a white Christian family in Minnesota, where she was sent to grow up. Not My White Savior is a memoir in poems, exploring what it is to be a transracial and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vireo Book/Rare Bird Books 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 811 LEENorbury, Katharine
Summary: "Katharine Norbury was abandoned as a baby in a Liverpool convent. Raised by loving adoptive parents, she grew into a wanderer, drawn by the landscape of the British countryside. One summer, following the miscarriage of a much-longed-for child, Katharine sets out - accompanied by her nine-year-old daughter, Evie - with the idea of following a river from the sea to its source. The luminously...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NORBURY, KATHARINE NORAgosín, Marjorie.
Summary: A collection of poems by Marjorie Agosin that give voice to the victims of the corrupt dictatorships that existed in Latin America during the late twentieth century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: White Pine Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 AGOCarangelo, Lori
Summary: The 2015 edition of The Ultimate Search book displays Lori Carangelo's mastery for finding adopted children, missing relatives, runaway children, and others that cultivated over an adult lifetime.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Publishing Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 929.1 CARCrook, Marion
Summary: Adoptive parents can be bewildered or apprehensive and find themselves struggling in ways they hadn't anticipated. Marion Crook gently takes adoptive parents through the process of adoption from childhood to adulthood, helping to demystify the experience with compassion and reassurance. Meticulously researched but refreshingly free of academic jargon, this book will enlighten and empower...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arsenal Pulp Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649 CROGreene, Melissa Fay.
Summary: Dispatches from the new front lines of parenthood from two-time National Book Award finalist Melissa Fay Greene.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 362.734 GREBrooks, John
Summary: "An award-winning, candid, and compelling story of an adoptive father's search for the truth about his teenage daughter's suicide: "Rarely have the subjects of suicide, adoption, adolescence, and parenting been explored so openly and honestly" (John Bateson, Former Executive Director, Contra Costa Crisis Center, and author of The Final Leap: Suicide on the Golden Gate Bridge). Early one Tuesday...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 BROReid, Theresa.
Summary: An account of international adoption and family describes a couple's experiences as they journey to the former Soviet Union and wade through a vast bureaucracy as they find their two new daughters, Natalie and Lana.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.734 REIWheeler, Jacob
Summary: Tells the story of Ellie, abandoned at age seven and adopted by a Michigan family, who returns to Guatemala to be reuinted with her birth family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2011