Adopción y acogimiento

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  • The Family Fairies
    Rosemary Lucas
    This magical rhyming storybook follows a special couple on their journey for a forever family through adoption.The phrase “Family Fairies” imaginatively refers to social workers and foster carers and the book helps adopted children to understand the role these people play in making dreams come true by bringing families together in this way.It covers the how, not the why, and ge...
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    20,58 €

  • The Family Fairies
    Rosemary Lucas
    This magical rhyming storybook follows a special couple on their journey for a forever family through adoption.The phrase “Family Fairies” imaginatively refers to social workers and foster carers and the book helps adopted children to understand the role these people play in making dreams come true by bringing families together in this way.It covers the how, not the why, and ge...
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    15,59 €

  • Looking for My Sister
    Jack Weitzel
    This book reminds us of how resilient the human spirit is. Its main characters live, love, and achieve in the ebb and flow of their lives, encountering slights and setbacks, but questing, overcoming, and thriving, to be suddenly stunned-flattened!-by true tragedy. This story explores what happens to people like you and me when we are frightened and vulnerable, staring into the ...
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    19,25 €

  • My Story
    Sandra Falstreau
    Prayer is powerful! In the pages of this book, you can discover some of the things I faced as a foster child when I was part of the system. The apples story in chapter 1 really concludes three or four years later in chapter 4. Did you know I am an answer to prayer? You might be too! ...
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    9,05 €

  • The Child Who Listens
    Kristi Wilkinson
    A day of skiing in the Colorado Rockies changed Kristi Wilkinson's life forever. Little did she know that her journey to Transylvania Romania would change the life of a child forever, too. In the 1990s, Kristi traveled as a medical volunteer across the globe to China, Kazakhstan, and Brazil, but she was drawn to the orphans in Romania. After a decision to live there and wor...
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    13,61 €

  • SMALL VOICES SILENCED
    Sherrie Clark
    Sherrie and her husband Darryl couldn’t be happier when they learn they’ll be adopting the two little girls they had been fostering. Then unexpectedly, everything changes.      The Clarks race against time to save their foster children, who are “positioned” to become sacrificial lambs. They’re surprised to discover how the system silences the voices of the foster children. But ...
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    23,19 €

  • You Can Two!
    Jennifer Bonicelli / Meghan Hertzfeldt
    Don’t just survive twin parenting-thrive every step of the way with practical preparation strategies and advice from You Can Two.It’s no secret that raising two babies at once has its challenges, but with the right preparation you can conquer fears for good. You Can Two delivers essential information and practical prep strategies to get expecting parents ready for the joys of t...
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    16,37 €

  • THE EYE OF ADOPTION
    JODY DYER
    The Eye of Adoption: A Turbulent True Story of Heartache, Humor, & Hope"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. Dye...
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    16,00 €

  • The Place You're Supposed To Laugh
    Jenn Stroud Rossmann
    It’s 2002 in Silicon Valley. 9/11’s still fresh, the dot-com bubble has burst, and holy calamity is raining down on 14-year-old Chad Loudermilk. His father is about to lose his job, his mother isn’t the same since Chad’s grandma died, and as one of the few black kids at tony Palo Alto High School, Chad’s starting to wonder about his birth parents. Next door lives dot-com mogul ...
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    11,18 €

  • Daughter of my Heart
    Jeanne Ramsey
    The daily lives of Rosemary and her brothers are defined by their stepfather’s sexual abuse and the sadistic power he wields over the children and their mother. The authorities finally rescue the children, but then Rosemary languishes for three years in Florida’s state foster care system, separated from her brothers and without real help for the psychological anguish that affli...
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    10,70 €

  • we
    Ben Barnz
    we: an adoption and a memoir centers on the story of Barnz adopting a child and the legal battle with the birthfather that began the day after the child’s birth – and two days before 9/11. The book interweaves this narrative with Barnz’s path to parenthood – beginning with his closeted youth in 1980’s New York, a time when it was statistically more likely he would die from AIDS...
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    19,81 €

  • Surrendered Hearts
    Lori Schumaker
    A lifetime of knowing. Decades of praying. Years of paperwork, research, and planning. Lots of tears. And the growing of faith in the waiting.One look into a pair of sparkling brown eyes, and Lori and Bryan Schumaker fell head-over-heels in love with a beautiful young girl in Bulgaria. Certain this was the child God intended for them, they stepped confidently into the adoption ...
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    10,96 €

  • we
    Ben Barnz
    we: an adoption and a memoir centers on the story of Barnz adopting a child and the legal battle with the birthfather that began the day after the child’s birth – and two days before 9/11. The book interweaves this narrative with Barnz’s path to parenthood – beginning with his closeted youth in 1980’s New York, a time when it was statistically more likely he would die from AIDS...
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    29,99 €

  • For the Love of Audrey Lyn
    Eugenia S. Hunt / Eugenia SHunt
    At the age of six, living in New York, she was the third of six children born to a woman who had allowed drugs and alcohol to rule her life. The child was placed for adoption by the Department of Children and Families.She was brought to Florida at the age of nine, with only a few memories of her life before foster care. Two and a half years later, the adoption failed and the l...
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    16,55 €

  • Mom, Who Are You?
    TERRI BUTCHEE
    Thank you Mom and Dad for raising me, and you did more to make me who I am today than anyone. Never underestimate the power of friendship, being around others, and a small act of kindness. You never know what a person is going through, and how you can help turn a life around.Trust God day by day with the concerns of your heart, and discover the power that prayer will release in...
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    10,85 €

  • Through the Branches
    Katherine Rosenow / Scott Rosenow
    Through the Branches is a companion volume to the authors’ previous book, Swaying in the Treetops. In this book, readers are invited to peek into the home of this somewhat unusual family, as the authors provide a glimpse of everyday life. What’s it like to shop for and to cook for a family of more than twenty people, every day? How does one juggle the routines and requirements ...
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    15,35 €

  • I Call You Mine
    Kim de Blecourt
    I Call You Mine was recognized as a 2019 Golden Scroll Awards winner in the Bible Study category.I Call You Mine is a six-week study focused on revealing the incredible spiritual insights available to those who embrace God's heart of adoption. Just as Jesus used stories to engage and teach, the Scripture passages and personal stories in this study uncover greater truths abo...
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    13,33 €

  • COMING HOME
    Lisa D'Ippolito Sloan / Lisa D’Ippolito Sloan
    COMING HOME, A Child’s First Story About Adoption, guides a young child through the loving experience of being adopted.  The tender, warm affection of a cat, illuminated in the beautiful watercolor illustrations, helps to tell the story of becoming a family.  Included, is a keepsake scrapbook for your child’s memories.  Let COMING HOME create the loving place for your child’s a...
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    29,00 €

  • We Believed
    Jeffrey S. Moore
    How do you follow the promises of God when they feel like a puzzle without the picture?Wonder what it’s like to adopt four children all at once? Or follow a promise from God for ten years before it manifests in your life? Join the Moore family as WE BELIEVED explores God’s radical calling of adoption in their lives. Enter into a world where God is faithful and His promises are ...
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    13,76 €

  • COMING HOME
    Lisa D'Ippolito Sloan / Lisa D’Ippolito Sloan
    COMING HOME, A Child’s First Story About Adoption, guides a young child through the loving experience of being adopted.  The tender, warm affection of a cat, illuminated in the beautiful watercolor illustrations, helps to tell the story of becoming a family.  Included, is a keepsake scrapbook for your child’s memories.  Let COMING HOME create the loving place for your child’s a...
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    17,56 €

  • Suspension
    Paige Riehl
    Suspension is that rare book of poetry, as much a narrative as a collection of individually successful lyrics. We follow here the extraordinary events of a life and the visions of the one/the many living it. We end, as in life, so far from where we began that a true sense of progress is made in the reading of this poetry, and yet we’ve lingered, meditated, listened, because thi...
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    13,02 €

  • Ihaka and His Forever Family
    Rae Tauranga
    This is a story of young Ihaka and his journey to find his family through adoption. The story beautifully acknowledges the birth mother but focuses entirely on Ihakas experience of being connected with his forever family. 3 ...
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    16,89 €

  • The Happy Life Story (2nd Edition)
    Sharon Emecz / Steve Emecz
    This fully updated edition of The Happy Life Story tells the history of an inspiring children’s home project near Nairobi, Kenya.  It is told through the eyes of Sharon Emecz, who after twenty years on the corporate treadmill in London, took a career break and spent a month in Africa including volunteering at Happy Life. The Children’s Home was founded in 2002 to “Provide the a...
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    22,70 €

  • Eyes Wide Open
    Charonne Ganiere / OneHope27
    'If you are exploring the possibility of getting involved with foster care, or are already involved in this profoundly difficult yet rewarding place, then this book is a must read for you. You’ll find the insight, encouragement, and hope you need no matter where you are on your journey.'- Jason Johnson, author of 'ReFraming Foster Care' and 'Everyone Can Do Something'This story...
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    17,72 €

  • The Lost Son
    L L Carter
    The Lost Son is a book of bone chilling events that happen throughout the authors life time. Follow the anticipation as you read page by page. This book will have you at the edge of your seat. You will be amazed on what you read about, all the different twisting events. One always says, “I should of wrote a book about my life”. That is what I did, so pick it up and enjoy the ri...
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    11,49 €

  • WOW!! The trials, tribulations and great rewards of being a Mom and Foster Mom
    Patricia R. Campofredano
    My husband Mike and I have five children, fourteen grandchildren and eleven great-grandchildren. While raising our own children we decided to bring other children, in need of love and a home, into our family and in my heart I felt this was what God put me on this earth for. God put us all here for a purpose and this was mine. You will find the trials, tribulations and wonderful...
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    8,31 €

  • Faces of Foster Care
    Lisa Aguirre
    Faces of Foster Care has heartfelt and frank messages from people around the country who have been involved in some way with foster care. Told like mini memoirs, their inspiring and sometimes heartbreaking stories bring us into their lives and show us unique perspectives of foster care in the United States. 3 ...
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    24,66 €

  • Faces of Foster Care
    Lisa Aguirre
    Faces of Foster Care has heartfelt and frank messages from people around the country who have been involved in some way with foster care. Told like mini memoirs, their inspiring and sometimes heartbreaking stories bring us into their lives and show us unique perspectives of foster care in the United States. 3 ...
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    11,19 €

  • My Last BFN
    Rosemary de Vos
    For anyone who has been on the roller coaster of infertility, then this book is for you.The heartache, the grief and the anger of not being able to give birth to a beautiful baby stays with you and can infect every area of your life.But it doesn't have to...My Last BFN takes you on the author's personal journey of the grieving process after giving up on her dream of hav...
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    10,29 €

  • He Made Me Brave
    Pam Ogden
    This is not a fairy tale—but it does have suspense, humor, a quest, and a happy ending. When Jason and Pam Ogden decided to adopt a baby, they had no idea that their adoption process would stretch over a period of two years, and that their baby would be a toddler by the time they were able to bring him home. Taken straight from Pam’s personal travel journal, He Made Me Brave ch...
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    19,41 €