Chung, 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 CHUNG, NICOLE CHUSummary: After the loss of their unborn baby, Kate and John Coleman decide to adopt a child as a way to bring some joy and normalcy into their lives. The couple is drawn to Esther, a 9-year-old orphan and they welcome her into their home. As soon as Esther moves in, a series of events begins to unfold, leading Kate to believe that there's something wrong with Esther - this seemingly angelic little girl...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY HORROR ORPClark, Mindy Starns.
Summary: "A deathbed confession, a dusty carved box containing two locks of hair and a century-old letter regarding property in Switzerland, and a burning desire to learn about her biological family lead nurse-midwife Lexie Jaeger from her home in Oregon to the heart of Pennsylvania Amish country. There she meets Marta Bayer, a mysterious lay-midwife who made hold the key to Lexie's past, but she's not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2011
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CLAClark, Mindy Starns.
Summary: A desire to learn about her biological family leads nurse-midwife Lexie Jaeger to the heart of Pennsylvania Amish country. There she meets a mysterious lay-midwife who needs her help after an Amish client and her baby die.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvest House Publishers 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLAPurvis, 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 PurviCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: JPT 649 PURHunt, Angela Elwell
Summary: "From bestselling author Angela Hunt, the heart-wrenching story of a young mother who unknowingly gave away her own child after serving as a surrogate for a childless couple. Amanda Hocking is a typical young wife and mother struggling to make ends meet.She decides to help a childless family by becoming their gestational surrogate, hoping to achieve some financial stability of her own. After a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Howard Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUNBrooks, 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 BROHughes, Daniel A.
Contents: Preface -- Introduction -- The abuse and neglect of Katie -- Ruth Daley (foster home #1) -- Karen Miller (foster home #2) -- Susan Cummings (foster home #3) -- Allison Kaplan, Ph.D -- Choosing a new approach -- Jackie Keller (foster home #4) -- Life with Jackie -- The quilt -- Fighting with Jackie -- Thanksgiving dinner -- Jackie and Ruth -- Winter in Maine -- Maine District Court -- The coming...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jason Aronson 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.445 HUGClark, Mindy Starns.
Summary: A desire to learn about her biological family leads nurse-midwife Lexie Jaeger to the heart of Pennsylvania Amish country. There she meets a mysterious lay-midwife who needs her help after an Amish client and her baby die.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvest House Publishers 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: After the loss of their unborn baby, Kate and John Coleman decide to adopt a child as a way to bring some joy and normalcy into their lives. The couple is drawn to Esther, a 9-year-old orphan and they welcome her into their home. As soon as Esther moves in, a series of events begins to unfold, leading Kate to believe that there's something wrong with Esther--this seemingly angelic little girl...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ORPTraster, 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 TRAHunt, Angela Elwell
Summary: "From bestselling author Angela Hunt, the heart-wrenching story of a young mother who unknowingly gave away her own child after serving as a surrogate for a childless couple. Amanda Hocking is a typical young wife and mother struggling to make ends meet. She decides to help a childless family by becoming their gestational surrogate, hoping to achieve some financial stability of her own. After a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HUNGuida-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 GUIGreene, 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