Adopción y acogimiento

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  • Searching for the Castle
    Barbara Leigh Ohrstrom
    Like cowboys turning in the saddle to look at where they came from, Searching for the Castle documents the backtrail of author Barbara Leigh Ohrstrom’s adoption. It begins with her urgency as an eighteen-year-old woman initiating her search for her birth parents. Her recollection includes court petitions, letters, Division of Social Service documents, and other original documen...
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    20,36 €

  • After the Ark
    Jackie Teis / Sean P. Teis
    Eli and Ella the Little Elephants are sure to be useful resource for foster parents, children’s homes, orphanages, case workers, grandparents, extended family, teachers, pastors, mentors, and anyone else that desires to help and encourage orphans or foster children. Eli and Ella, though fictional characters, share real life experiences from a foster care or children’s home that...
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    15,66 €

  • Forever Family
    Tina LBuchanan
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    14,00 €

  • Foster Care
    Janet Solander
    In Foster Care: How to Fix This Corrupted System, author Janet Solander presents stories of how Child Protective Services (CPS), Department of Family Services (DFS), and the foster system have failed the very children they are mandated to protect and hold safe. Solander shares heartbreaking incidents taken from the daily news as well as her own firsthand experiences as a foster...
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    25,40 €

  • Foster Care
    Janet Solander
    In Foster Care: How to Fix This Corrupted System, author Janet Solander presents stories of how Child Protective Services (CPS), Department of Family Services (DFS), and the foster system have failed the very children they are mandated to protect and hold safe. Solander shares heartbreaking incidents taken from the daily news as well as her own firsthand experiences as a foster...
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    14,00 €

  • The Names of My Mothers
    Dianne Sanders Riordan
    'The Names of My Mothers' is the touching story of the tender and all-too-brief relationship forged late in life between Dianne Riordan (nee Susanne Sanders) and her birth mother. In 1942 Elizabeth Bynam Sanders was a young woman who left home under false pretenses and travelled to Our Lady of Victory, a home for unwed mothers in upstate New York. Shortly after surrendering he...
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    23,71 €

  • Woven Together
    Funding Hope
    Thinking of adopting? Are you an adoptive family and need encouragement? Do you know an adoptive family in your church and want to minister to them more? Within the pages of Woven Together there is deep insight, warmth, and valuable truth for Christians on the adoption journey. Woven Together is a compilation project by Funding Hope whereby 18 authors share and unpack GodÕs gra...
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    18,83 €

  • See You Tomorrow . . . Reclaiming the Beacon of Hope
    Gary Matloff
    A true story about resilience, and the journey of a lifetime for a pair of brothers and their new father against the sometimes all too uncompromising realities of international adoption. ...
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    10,30 €

  • A Secret Star
    Krystyne Aleksander
    A haunting memoir of a tiny girl’s journey through a life of hell.After suffering the death of both of her biological parents due to their drugaddiction, Natalie Winters was placed in a Texas Foster home where she wasemotionally, physically, and sexually abused. In A Secret Star, Natalie shares the horror stories and dark moments of despair that filled her world. Even as the ev...
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    21,37 €

  • Akin to the Truth
    Paige A Strickland
    In 1961 Paige was put up for adoption, a more taboo and secretive topic than it is today.  Paige's adoptive family chose not to focus on the adoption, but instead function as a regular family with natural children.  However, being adopted made her feel vulnerable and unreal. She longed to know more about her true self. In the memoir, Akin to the Truth: A Memoir of Adoption and...
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    13,80 €

  • In the Strangers House
    Serenity
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    14,85 €

  • In the Strangers House
    Serenity
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    26,60 €

  • Lost Daughter
    Nola Wunderle
    We were all full of expectation as we waited patiently at Melbourne's international airport. I hadn't slept properly for weeks. All of us had been waiting for this moment for months. Our fourth child was soon to arrive ...This is the story of 18-year-old Kartya Wunderle, one of 64 babies flown out of Taiwan in the early 80s. Babies stolen from their mothers or sold by their fam...
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    20,52 €

  • Lost Daughter
    Nola Wunderle
    We were all full of expectation as we waited patiently at Melbourne’s international airport. I hadn’t slept properly for weeks. All of us had been waiting for this moment for months. Our fourth child was soon to arrive ...This is the story of 18-year-old Kartya Wunderle, one of 64 babies flown out of Taiwan in the early 80s. Babies stolen from their mothers or sold by their fam...
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    15,72 €

  • The Legacies of Trees
    Christine Moran
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    12,85 €

  • An Unlikely Trust
    James G. Balestrieri / James GBalestrieri / Jeff Krukar / Katie Gutierrez
    Based on dozens of intensive interviews with parents, clinical psychologists, teachers, therapists, and more, An Unlikely Trust is the fictional story of Alina, a young girl adopted from Russia. After a lengthy adoption process, Alina's parents are confounded by their daughter's behavior upon arriving in America. They were aware that she did not speak English and expect...
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    17,18 €

  • Alina’s Story
    James Balestrieri / Jeff Krukar
    Based on dozens of intensive interviews with parents, clinical psychologists, teachers, therapists, and more, Alina's Story shows the journey of Alina, a little girl adopted from Russia. After living in an orphanage during her early life, Alina is confused and scared by the outside world. There are so many people, so much noise . . . Her new family loves her, but Alina find...
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    15,29 €

  • The Fifth and Final Name
    Rhonda Noonan
    In a family memoir that reads like a detective novel, Rhonda Noonan recounts her thirty-year quest to find the truth of her own background-and what she uncovered will surprise readers as much as it did her. Rhonda was born and adopted in Oklahoma, a state with closed adoption records. And, although she was cherished by her adoptive family, she-like so many adoptees-felt a burn...
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    13,77 €

  • The Eye of Adoption
    Jody Dyer
    "No one just adopts." From the very first steps of acknowledging adoption as a choice to the final document that seals the deal, Jody Cantrell Dyer paints a raw, warm, heartbreaking and eventually triumphant portrayal that narrates the entire adoption process through compassionate and entertaining prose. Dyer's candor and soul color each page of The Eye of Adoption. She dir...
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    9,33 €

  • Raising Gentle Men
    Jay Sullivan
    Named '2014 Best Book by Small Publisher'-Catholic Press AssociationThere are very few benefits to the being the only man in the convent. There are fewer still being the only big brother to 250 boys in an orphanage. But if you keep busy, you stumble into opportunities to help. And if you’re clueless, you don’t know better than to attempt the improbable. And if you’re clumsy,...
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    15,25 €

  • The Fifth and Final Name
    Rhonda J. Noonan
    In a family memoir that reads like a detective novel, Rhonda Noonan recounts her thirty-year quest to find the truth of her own background-and what she uncovered will surprise readers as much as it did her. Rhonda was born and adopted in Oklahoma, a state with closed adoption records. And, although she was cherished by her adoptive family, she-like so many adoptees-felt a burn...
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    31,70 €

  • Adopted
    Suzanne Buckingham Slade / Suzanne Slade
    The challenging teen years can be even more difficult for adopted teens, many of whom have unanswered questions that may result in fear, anger, and low self-esteem. Adopted: The Ultimate Teen Guide enables young adults to read about the personal experiences of other adopted teens, and gain powerful insights from those who have gone through some of their same frustrations, strug...
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    85,13 €

  • Really, Truly, Katherine Beagan
    Jane Comer
    Everyone has an opinion of fifteen year old Katherine Beagan. To her therapist she’s emotionally disturbed, while her vice principal thinks she is a trouble maker. To her classmates she’s a runt, while her social worker thinks she’s a punk. But when the Portland police call her an arson, her only escape is to pretend to be someone else, and that is when her real trouble begins....
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    21,60 €

  • Cricket
    Susan Fedorko
    A Memoir of AdoptionSusie always knew she was adopted out at the early age of 11 months. She discovers at the age of 40 who her biological family is. Susie discovers her birth mother is the first native american supermodel 'Cathee Dahmen'. This is her story. ...
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    14,18 €

  • 99 Things You Wish You Knew Before Choosing Adoption
    Esq Kasky a. Kasky / Robert A. Kasky
    99 Things You Wish You Knew Before ... Choosing Adoption is your comprehensive guide to help you through your adoption journey. If you have ever been interested in adoption-as a prospective adoptive family, a birth parent, or even as an adoption practitioner-this book is for you! It addresses the mysteries and myths that surround and permeate the adoption process, simplifying ...
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    12,34 €

  • My Baby's Feet (Choice, Death, and the Aftermath)
    Sheila M. Luck
    Choice, Death, and the Aftermath Fearfully and desperately wanting to hide my mistakes and deny the unwanted, but not totally unexpected ramifications of my earlier choices, I chose what seemed to be the easiest answer. I chose death, and then I moved into the aftermath of my choice. I, for a lifetime and beyond, will live in the aftermath of my choice. Although there is recov...
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    13,21 €

  • California Adoption Law and Procedure
    Everett L. Skillman
    California Adoption Law and Procedure explains the law governing contested adoptions. It covers the four types of adoptions (independent, agency, stepparent and intercountry), and briefly discusses those aspects of guardianship and juvenile dependency law which relate to adoptions. This book explores the 'best interests of the child' and the home study process. It also seeks...
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    88,18 €

  • Don’t Shine Into My Speaker!
    Alena Kone N.
    Deni walked through the children’s room, dressed in her kindergarten apron, pretending to be a princess. 'I am a plincess,' she announced toward Bebe, her older sister. 'Why, you don’t even have a crown, so you are no princess!' 'I do have a clown!' (Poor girl, she had no clue what she was talking about, but she didn’t want to give up easily.) 'And where is your kingdom, if you...
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    32,05 €

  • I Love You Mia
    Cindy Kramer
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    12,27 €

  • Raising Shane
    Kate Rosemary
    Raising Shane tells the stories of a child with special needs who grew into adulthood in the adoptive home which was his twenty-first placement during the five years he spent in state custody. It includes vignettes about adoption, foster care, hope, despair, redemption, love, and the determination of a young man who was able to overcome impossible odds because simply refused to...
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    10,05 €


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