Adopción y acogimiento

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  • 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 €

  • Scoot Over and Make Some Room
    Heather Avis
    In Scoot Over and Make Some Room, Instagram star and mama to three adopted kids - two with Down Syndrome - Heather Avis shares hilarious and heartbreaking stories that will empower you to make space for the other and discover the extraordinary, welcoming heart of God. ...
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    19,86 €

  • Loving Henry
    Kate Lawson
    Henry’s mother gave him up for adoption and although he’s been the most loved boy in the world, he always wondered why his birth mother gave him away.Elizabeth wanted a son, a little man to dote upon, but she always worried he would leave her one day, like the man she had intended to be his father.Rachel had to give her son up for adoption, just like her mother gave her up when...
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    9,98 €

  • The Angel Years
    John Isaac Jones
    "What a story!" - Amazon reviewerAfter the Johnson family learns the youngest daughter is pregnant and unwed, they devise an elaborate plan to keep it a secret from the outside world.Part of that plan includes a lavish lie which is designed to make the scheme seem more believable.Once the child was born, however, this lie would not only come true, but change the lives of every ...
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    18,43 €

  • Mailboat III
    Danielle Lincoln Hanna
    The story continues from Mailboat I and Mailboat II.The hopes of foster kid Bailey hang on a prayer as her beloved mentor Captain Tommy fights for his life, the most recent victim in a spate of violence that's rocked their idyllic lakeside town. She'd give anything to save him—even if it means making a devil's deal and walking away from him forever.Officer Ryan Bran...
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    13,88 €

  • Beneath the Tapestry
    Natalie Schram
    Beneath the Tapestry devotional walks alongside hopeful adoptive families as they navigate through the journey of adoption. Natalie Schram tells the stories of how God weaved their four adoptions into the masterpieces that they are. If you need hope, healing, support, encouragement, or just want a friend, Beneath the Tapestry is for you. ...
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    35,16 €

  • Beneath the Tapestry
    Natalie Schram
    Beneath the Tapestry devotional walks alongside hopeful adoptive families as they navigate through the journey of adoption. Natalie Schram tells the stories of how God weaved their four adoptions into the masterpieces that they are. If you need hope, healing, support, encouragement, or just want a friend, Beneath the Tapestry is for you. ...
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    19,69 €

  • Everything For Love
    Kate Smith
    A wedding... Two exes... What could go wrong?All promises come at a cost, and Aiden has made many he cannot break. Especially the one made to a man on his deathbed. Take care of our Savannah. Now he must learn to parent a teenage daughter he barely knows... without the benefit of the woman he loves. Once he navigates the two weekends at his best friend’s wedding, he intends to ...
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    13,73 €

  • Everything We Lost
    Kate Smith
    A devastating loss. A faded photo. A fateful meeting.When Savannah, a teenage girl from Oregon, ends up in Dr. Aiden Hamilton’s emergency room, he experiences déjà vu, picturing the woman he once loved and the child he never knew. The meeting stirs memories of his own troubled childhood ... memories of a devastating loss and deep secrets he’s kept hidden even from his closest f...
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    13,79 €

  • Jocie of Serene Valley
    LaRain Vickers
    When her parents are killed by a drunk driver, Jocie is thrown into an unstable world of hardship and horror that no young girl should have to endure. At the mercy of a broken foster care system, she is left without a roof over her head at the vulnerable age of eighteen. Lost and looking for her place in the world, she is abducted by a half-witted man whose momma told him to 'c...
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    16,28 €

  • Todo sobre la adopción
    Solé Alamarja
    Esta guía expone de forma clara y sencilla los procesos jurídicos, técnicos y de tramitación de solicitudes para llevara a cabo la adopción de menores, tanto en España como en otros países. ...
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    11,39 €

  • Real Belonging
    Lynn S. Price
    “In telling her own true story in Real Belonging, Lynn Price masterfully weaves in lessons to benefit all youth and families involved in foster care, and even those that are not. Lynn tells stories showing the twists, triumphs, setbacks, myths and facts of the journey through the system, and in doing so, proves that nothing in a child’s life can compare to the sibling bond. Tho...
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    15,65 €

  • Who Am I Really
    Damon Davis
    “Who Am I Really?” is a question many adoptees ask when they realize they have another family of genetic relation. Damon L. Davis shares his journey through life as an adoptee to becoming an adoptive parent himself. He explores his desire to find his birth family as sparked by the flood of emotions that accompanied the birth of his son, Seth — the first blood relative he had ev...
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    17,64 €

  • Those Three Words
    Christine Bauer
    “You are pregnant.”Those three words uttered together pack a powerful emotional punch. For many women, hearing them elicits tremendous joy and excitement. They are the start of a dream come true. But those same words said together also cause the opposite reaction—one of panic and despair. The first time Chris Bauer heard those words, she was just eighteen years old, a few weeks...
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    12,22 €

  • Always Good Enough
    Peggy Jenkins
    This book is based on my true life story and how the past plays a role in characteristics that we exhibit. Especially when I found out that I was born out of Rape. My parents had instilled in me the importance of putting God first in my life. I discovered on this journey the depth of some of those personality characteristics and how they played a role in shaping my future. I al...
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    22,82 €

  • Cracking Through The Egg Shell
    Angela J. Hogle
    If you would have told me twenty years ago that I would marry a famer, I would have said you have got to be crazy. I was a city girl through and through. In this book, I will take a unique comparison of the trials of life with life on a farm. I will share with you a trial God brought me through and the wonderful lesson God taught this city girl with our life on the farm. ...
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    8,06 €

  • Missing Mothers
    Martha Bordwell
    Six year old Martha’s world is ripped apart when her mother dies during childbirth.  As she grows up, she never stops missing her mother, the mother she strains to remember.Buoyed by marriage to her college sweetheart, she hopefully anticipates pregnancy, childbirth and motherhood.  Instead, infertility threatens to rip another hole in her world. She and her husband enter the u...
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    13,81 €

  • Secrets of an Old-School Mama
    Dr. Jeannine Hogg
    Having a baby at any age can be challenging, but having a baby after age thirty-five may bring another set of concerns. Some people think that if you are thirty-five and over, parenting may be more of a wish than a reality. The advice Dr. Jeanine Hogg gives in this book, Secrets of an Old School Mama, encourages women in that age group that parenting is possible whether birthin...
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    20,63 €

  • I Didn’t Know I Was Black Until You Told Me
    Thomas Kirst
    An inspirational book detailing the profound changes in the life of a black child being left at a hospital after birth. Thirteen months into his life being adopted by a white couple that migrated from Europe before World War 2, who would later adopt over twenty children with different nationalities.The author writes of his emotional struggles from being abandoned and not knowin...
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    9,31 €

  • Parenting Children of Trauma
    Marcy Pusey
    Do you ever feel confused about what went wrong in your foster or adoption story? Are you fearful about the future of your marriage and your children? Do you ever feel overwhelmed and desperate for help?You are not alone.Many foster and adoptive parents are trying to raise children with complex emotional trauma, desperate for answers to heal their families. Caught off guard, th...
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    10,09 €

  • 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 Britain...
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    9,43 €

  • Three Years in Ethiopia
    Cornelia E. Davis / Cornelia EDavis
    Sent by the World Health Organization to assist the Ethiopian government in preventing meningitis outbreaks in 1990, Dr. Cornelia Davis eagerly accepted this posting. She headed to Addis Ababa, unaware of an obscure war that had gone on for two decades. The doctor had an ulterior motive — she wanted to adopt an infant girl. While providing expert assistance to control epidemics...
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    18,54 €

  • Dreaming of a Daughter
    Amy C. Patterson
    Separated literally a world apart, this mother and daughter were each brokenhearted from different forms of abandonment by their biological mothers. Similarly, each have (or had) to face life-threatening diseases as well. Joined through a series of miracles to become adoptive mother and daughter, they were each made emotionally whole again. The two now live happily together in ...
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    17,71 €

  • Upside Down
    Shannon Guerra
    Adoptive and foster families working through attachment issues often feel alone. But it doesn’t have to be that way - communities around them can intentionally be part of the solution instead of unintentionally being part of the problem. Without that support, adoptive and foster families live in isolation.Shannon Guerra learned this first-hand after she and her husband adopted ...
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    15,25 €

  • Adoption and Financial Assistance
    Rita Laws / Tim O'Hanlon / Tim O’Hanlon
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    121,45 €

  • Stay A Little Longer
    Kait Nolan
    Athena Reynolds is a goddess in the kitchen, and she’s got her Michelin-starred restaurant Olympus to back it up. Darling of the Chicago restaurant scene, she’s flying high—until a betrayal leads to her sudden fall from grace. Furious and reeling, she heads home to the solace of family in Tennessee.Logan Maxwell has his hands full keeping his organic farm thriving and in the bl...
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    11,56 €

  • SMOKE RINGS RISING
    Jennifer L Hunt
    JENNY, 16, WISHED SHE HADN’T FOUND IT. Bobbi’s monthly list of bills, scrawled on an Aid to Families with Dependent Children stipend envelope, was tucked beneath an ashtray holding a half-smoked joint and smashed cigarette butts. “Mary Jane…rent…PG&E…groceries.” As always, Jenny’s mom’s weed connection topped the list while food sat at the bottom.Residing in rural Concow, Calif...
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    13,19 €