Berry, Mike
Summary: "In their twenty-year marriage, Mike and Kristin Berry have had the joy of adopting eight children and fostering twenty-three. In Securely Attached, they offer practical insights, supported by therapeutic and medical facts, so all parents can better carefor the children in their home who have experienced past trauma"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Moody Publishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.92 BERAustin, Nefertiti
Summary: "When Nefertiti Austin, a single African-American woman, decided to adopt two black children through the foster system, she was unprepared for the fact that there is no place for black women in the 'mommy wars.' Austin set off on her path with no place to seek guidance from others who looked like her or shared her experience. She soon realized that she would not only have to navigate skepticism...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 AUSTIN, NEFERTITI AUSGreene, Melissa Fay.
Summary: Dispatches from the new front lines of parenthood from two-time National Book Award finalist Melissa Fay Greene.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 362.734 GREGuida-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 GUIChung, Nicole
Summary: "From the bestselling author of ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW comes a searing memoir of class, inequality, and grief-a daughter's search to understand the lives her adoptive parents led, the life she forged as an adult, and the lives she's lost. In this country, unless you attain extraordinary wealth, you will likely be unable to help your loved ones in all the ways you'd hoped. You will learn to live...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHUNG, NICOLE CHUKrajnik, Elizabeth
Summary: "About 2 percent of children in the United States are adopted. Some of these children may be adopted from another country. Other children are adopted out of foster care or after a parent voluntarily gives them up. Sometimes, a stepparent may adopt the children of their spouse. This book carefully approaches the different types of adoption and some of the challenges that families through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 362.734 KRACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Staff Picks, Call number: J Families KrajnikCrook, 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 Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 362.734 GRETraster, Tina.
Summary: When the New York Post published Tina Traster's essay about her difficulty bonding with her daughter, Julia, whom she and her husband had adopted from a Siberian orphanage, the seasoned journalist was shocked and overwhelmed by the response, both empathetic and angry. In this frank and honest memoir, Traster tells her full foreign-adoption story, from dealing with the bleak landscape and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Independent Pub Group 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TRASTER, TINA TRAAntonetta, Susanne
Summary: Relates how the author and her husband adopted a six-month-old boy from South Korea and the lessons they had to learn as parents, including how to incorporate aspects of another culture and how to discuss birth parents with their son.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W W Norton & Co Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ANTONETTA, SUSANNE ANTHarrison, Valerie I.
Summary: "This book orients parents and communities of black children, including white adoptive parents, to the particular challenges and inequalities race brings to childhood. The authors present research, insight, and their own experience to guide parents to challenges related to education, health, safety, self-esteem, and community building"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Temple University Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.145 HARReid, 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 REIRosswood, Eric
Summary: Journey to Same-Sex Parenthood provides a unique combination of inspirational firsthand accounts combined with the critical information, tips and advice needed to help couples successfully navigate the complex road to parenthood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Horizon Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.8 ROSLierow, Diane
Summary: "The story that captivated a nation: how a horribly neglected little girl was rescued by her loving adoptive parents. In July 2005, a six-year-old girl named Danielle was removed from her Florida home after authorities found her living in bug-ridden squalor, subjected to horrific neglect and so damaged by her own mother that recovery seemed hopeless. But hope was waiting for Dani and help. In...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LEIROW,DIANE LIENorbury, 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 NORPurvis, 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 PurviSentilles, Sarah
Summary: "May you always feel at home. After their decision not to have a biological child, Sarah Sentilles and her husband, Eric, decided to adopt via the foster care system. Knowing that the goal is reunification with the birth family, Sarah opens their home toa flurry of social workers who question, evaluate, and ultimately prepare them to welcome a child into their family--even if it most likely...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 362.7340 SENCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SENTILLES, SARAH SENRoyster, Francesca T.
Summary: A professor of English literature presents a memoir of family, identity, and acceptance that examines the messiness and complexity of adoption and parenthood from a black, queer, and feminist perspective.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROYSTER, FRANCESCA T. ROYStreeter, Leslie Gray
Summary: "Leslie Gray Streeter is not cut out for widowhood. She's not ready for hushed rooms and pitying looks. She is not ready to stand graveside, dabbing her eyes in a classy black hat. If she had her way she'd wear her favorite curve-hugging leopard print dress to Scott's funeral; he loved her in that dress! But, here she is, having lost her soulmate to a sudden heart attack, totally unsure of how...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STREETER, LESLIE GRAY STRMcGue, Julie Ryan
Summary: "Julie is adopted. She is also a twin. Because their adoption was closed, she and her sister lack both a health history and their adoption papers--which becomes an issue for Julie when, at forty-eight years old, she finds herself facing several serious health issues. To launch the probe into her closed adoption, Julie first needs the support of her sister. The twins talk things over, and make a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: She Writes Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MCGUE, JULIE RYAN MCGMalcolm Belc, Krys
Summary: "Essentially this book is a heavily visual memoir-in-essays that explores how the experience of gestational parenthood-conceiving, birthing, and breastfeeding my son Samson-eventually clarified my gender identity and allowed me to project a different more masculine self. Ruminating on how the experiences contained under the umbrella of "motherhood" don't fully describe my experience amplifies...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2021