Adopción y acogimiento

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  • You Can’t Bungee Jump With a Pair of Pantyhose!
    Terssa Markworth
    'Why do you need more children?' their families asked. 'We don’t,' they answered,'but maybe these children need a family.'Terssa and Doug Markworth have twenty-one kids. Some share their DNA, but mostare adopted foster children. All are equally cherished. The challenges of family lifewere multiplied, sometimes to the point of despairing as to whether they as parentswere making ...
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    11,63 €

  • Interiors
    Susan LeGrow
    Interior design firm owner Rebecca Armstrong thrives on her work. It helps her set aside her feelings about the tragic loss of her adoptive parents a decade earlier and a manipulative lover who deserted her in her time of need. When Rebecca lands a dream contract for her firm, her past will challenge her new business relationship and her growing friendship with an older couple ...
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    16,63 €

  • Mum's The Word!
    Lorna Little
    What happens when you receive a piece of information that changes your life? Mum's the Word is not just one way to react, but also a 40,000-word memoir that takes you through how the author handled such news. Suspense builds as a story of family secrets, unknown adoption, and an amazing search to find answers, the real truth, unfolds. This journey reveals the complexities of lo...
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    14,89 €

  • You Can Adopt Without Debt
    Julie Gumm
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    14,01 €

  • Pride's Children
    Evan T. Konnor
    'Kids are great. They're a gift and we have to take care of them.' Taylor Jensen lived in the closet most of his adult life. He married and had two children as he established himself as a family and civil rights lawyer. When his wife dies of cancer, Taylor decides the deception should end. Taylor takes on several cases dealing with gay rights and same-sex parenting - hoping to ...
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    15,63 €

  • Broken Child Mended Man
    Starks Adam
    Broken Child Mended Man is a raw, but compelling memoir touching on childhood neglect, years in foster care, and overcoming the odds to become a success story. Highlighting the ups and downs as a ward of the state during his formative years, Adam manages to reveal human resilience in its most authentic form. Through a life of trial and error, the author displays bountiful coura...
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    12,82 €

  • Cathedrals In The Sky
    Andrew Rajan
    The turbulent saga of Ash, a troublesome, twelve-year-old, trans-racially adopted British-Asian boy, sent to live on a Kent farm by a mother too ill to cope, during the long, hot summer of 1976. There, he discovers a buried WWII Spitfire engine and determines to rebuild it with his Grandfather. But where’s the rest of the aeroplane?1941: Trinidadian fighter pilot Rudy finds him...
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    19,40 €

  • Replantear la Adopcion
    Por Sharon Fox
    Sharon Fox ha estado activa en el ministerio de recuperación de la pena durante casi 20 años. Utilizando el modelo de Dios por el duelo de su hijo, Jesus, como la base para entender el dolor, ella prensa un marco de esperanza y alegría a los que han experimentado perdidas de cualquier tipo. 3 ...
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    13,59 €

  • Couldn’t, Wouldn’t, Didn’t
    Wilamina Falkenhagan
    What if you never have a baby?Will you live a perfectly fulfilled life or will you regret it?This book explores the lives of ten everyday women ranging in age, profession, relationship status and upbringing that either by choice or circumstance have one thing in common, they have not given birth. Some struggled with their decision, some fought their biological stirrings, and ot...
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    18,89 €

  • Reframing Adoption
    Sharon Fox
    This book is dedicated to reframing the role of a birthmother and is designed to provide support, understanding, and information to grieving birthmothers who have given their child up for adoption so that they may move from an emotional loss to a renewed spirit of hope, joy, peace, and contentment. For a mother to gift her child to another family through adoption is a brave act...
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    15,40 €

  • From Cradle to Grave
    Inc. Louisiana Orphan Train Society
    What do three nuns, two mayors, a Baptist preacher, and the founder of a car dealership all have in common? They all rode an orphan train from New York City to Louisiana as small children! What is an orphan train? Who determined its passenger list and their ultimate destination? What criteria were used to decide who would get the adventure of a lifetime? Who were these you...
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    38,22 €

  • Denied! Failing Cordelia
    Simon Cambridge
    The Cankered Rose and Esther's Revenge begins the author's dramatic journey of adopting his teenage daughter with severe attachment issues in Seattle. The heartbreak of then seeing Cordelia "stolen" by the efforts of his former wife and the child-welfare legal complex in Los Angeles, alongside that of the trauma of being denied during efforts to reunify with her are eac...
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    36,88 €

  • Denied! Failing Cordelia
    Simon Cambridge
    The Cankered Rose and Esther's Revenge begins the author's dramatic journey of adopting his teenage daughter with severe attachment issues in Seattle. The heartbreak of then seeing Cordelia "stolen" by the efforts of his former wife and the child-welfare legal complex in Los Angeles, alongside that of the trauma of being denied during efforts to reunify with her are eac...
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    27,26 €

  • Daughters by Design
    Paula Jarot
    Paula's mind raced: Adoption is not happening! I'm too old. I'm comfortable-an empty nester! I'm busy teaching. A nine-year-old? Why me? Desiring to do God's will, Paula searched in John Piper's 'A Hunger for God' and wept when she read Isaiah 58:6-8 on giving shelter and food to the needy. Five weeks later, God led her to mother not just one, but two Cambodian orphans. ...
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    10,52 €

  • The Day We Brought a Baby Home
    Jessie F. S. Solis
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    12,85 €

  • Hetty
    Martha Sears West
    HETTY: First in Six-part Series[Mom’s Choice Winner for Excellence in Family-Friendly Content]Gentle, imaginative Hetty feels at home with her kindly parents but struggles to find her place in a new school. She takes refuge in her secret forest hideaway. When an accident forces her to rely on others, will Hetty find what it takes to grow up and fit in? And is a mysterious stran...
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    17,68 €

  • You Came to Stay
    Dawna Dooley
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    24,61 €

  • Forever Mom
    Mary Ostyn
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    20,95 €

  • Who Can Catch the Moon? Heartfelt, Humorous and Compelling Stories of Resiliency in Society’s Most Vulnerable Children
    Lcsw Bcd Lisa A. Mazzeo
    Lisa A. Mazzeo, LCSW, BCD is a veteran social worker who brings to life for readers her 30 years of working with children and youth in the foster care system. She takes readers on a journey inside of the system and shows us the children and families that the system touches. The outcomes of youth that leave foster care without a family are abysmal - many end up homeless, in jail...
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    13,06 €

  • I Love You from the Edges
    Karen Best Wright
    What Readers are Saying 'An amazing captivating story. It gives grandparents raising kids the comfort of knowing, you are not alone.' -Bill Trammell, a single grandfather from Wisconsin, raising his adopted grandson. 'Karen is honest and vulnerable and takes even the worst of what happened and makes something beautiful out of it. A compelling story, from someone who’s been th...
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    17,70 €

  • I Love You from the Edges
    Karen Best Wright
    What Readers are Saying 'An amazing captivating story. It gives grandparents raising kids the comfort of knowing, you are not alone.' -Bill Trammell, a single grandfather from Wisconsin, raising his adopted grandson. 'Karen is honest and vulnerable and takes even the worst of what happened and makes something beautiful out of it. A compelling story, from someone who’s been th...
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    27,32 €

  • A Soft Place to Land
    Michelle Alden
    Raising a family and building a strong legacy for their children is no easy task, but Rachel and TJ are committed to doing just that. In A SOFT PLACE TO LAND the Keyton's strive to keep their family running smoothly through pain and heartache, love and laughter, hope and joy. What happens, though, when life doesn't go as planned? Following Rachel and TJ's love story in SOUTHERN...
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    18,79 €

  • Dead or in Prison
    George Duvall
    Crime . . . Poverty . . Racism. George rose above it all. His journey through Foster Care was at times difficult, at times touching and at times very funny. His story will inspire anyone working with young people. Especially those in Foster and Adoptive Care, from Foster Parents to Youth, Social Workers and Foster Care Agencies. While his story begin with crime, poverty and rac...
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    16,35 €

  • The Ugly One in the Middle
    Alex Stan Campbell
    The Ugly One in the Middle is about Stan Campbell’s wicked, and often witty story of the search for two people, his birth mom, and the angelic, sensual woman of his dreams. Kind of romantic, right? But, wait...there is humor, mystery and intrigue. Just before Stan’s sixteenth birthday, his Aunt Patsy accidentally let it slip that his mom and pop did not conceive him. No surpris...
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    14,34 €

  • Family Matters
    Lahrichi / Shotte
    Foster caring is as challenging as it is rewarding. There is a school of thought that if one is interested in fostering, then one can become a foster carer. Considering the many problems that surface on a day-to-day basis in a given fostering environment, it takes much more that interest in fostering to make fostering work. ’Family Matters’ frankly discusses what fostering e...
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    17,87 €

  • Adoption Is for Special People
    Marilyn Anne Hammer
    This book was inspired by a fellow teacher, Kate, and her husband, John, as they went through this process to adopt their son, Ethan. During our lunchtime, we discussed when and how to tell a child that they are adopted, and this book seemed to be a gentle and natural way of telling the story of one family on their special quest. The book also shows how one little life can co...
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    16,00 €

  • Daughters
    Helen Hudson
    This is a book written by a birth mother about a daughter who is put up for adoption by her own parents without a thought for her own feelings. A family unit of a mother, father and two sisters wait to be re-united. It is a story spanning forty years of difficult relationships with a less than happy ending. 3 ...
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    21,09 €

  • From Here to Maternity
    Kylie Marie Doust
    A personal account of infertility, IVF & adoption. 'After three years and a total of nine embryo transfers, Glenn and I are hanging up our saddles ... For many, three years might seem an insufficient effort, but I am tired. My body is tired, my mind is tired and most of all my heart is tired. I still believe that IVF is a modern, medical miracle ... But I no longer believe it ...
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    31,60 €

  • From Here to Maternity
    Kylie Marie Doust
    A personal account of infertility, IVF & adoption. 'After three years and a total of nine embryo transfers, Glenn and I are hanging up our saddles ... For many, three years might seem an insufficient effort, but I am tired. My body is tired, my mind is tired and most of all my heart is tired. I still believe that IVF is a modern, medical miracle ... But I no longer believe it...
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    15,58 €

  • 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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    12,70 €


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