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  • The Tears of a Woman The Tears of a Woman
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    The Tears of a Woman

    Jenni knows there is more to life than what you weigh.She has come to accept and care for her body without the expectation of weight loss. She eats, moves and lives to feel her most energetic and alive. Yet when she fails to conceive, Jenni begins to...
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  • Normal Schmormal
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    Normal Schmormal

    The heartwarming and hilarious part-memoir, part-guide from comedian and father-of-six Ashley Blaker, on parenting, adoption and raising children with special needs. ‘A funny, irreverent and loving book’ Daily Express‘We had such a variety of experts...
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  • Unsafe
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    Unsafe

    Damian longs for home, but one man stands in his way … Damian is just seven when he is taken in by foster carer Cathy Glass. His mother, Rachel, loves her three young children dearly, but she is vulnerable, naive and unable to cope on her own.Cathy sets...
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  • This Child of Mine
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    This Child of Mine

    ‘Beautiful, emotional and hopeful, but have tissues to hand.’ Liz FenwickWhen Stephanie is told she’s pregnant and that she is sick on the same day, she faces an impossible choice… After trying for a baby for so long, finding out I was pregnant was...
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  • Her Mother's Lies
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    Her Mother's Lies

    ‘I was hooked from page one. Be prepared to laugh and cry throughout this book!’ Reader review, ‘A fabulous family drama…it kept me turning the pages from beginning to end’ – Kerry Fisher the bestselling author of The Silent WifeYou can run from a lie,...
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  • Mummy, Please Don't Leave
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    Mummy, Please Don't Leave

    A heartbreaking true story of a broken family and the foster carer who wants to keep them together… The Watsons are no strangers to sibling placements but when Casey takes the call from her supervising social worker one frosty January morning, she can...
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  • Too Scared To Tell
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    Too Scared To Tell

    The true story of a 6-year-old boy with a dreadful secret. Oskar’s school teacher raises the alarm. Oskar’s mother is abroad and he has been left in the care of ‘friends’, but has been arriving in school hungry, unkempt, and with bruises on his arms,...
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    Mama Rock's rules

    Rose Rock—child advocate, educator, and mother of ten-plus children, including comedian Chris Rock—shares her heartfelt and no-nonsense advice on parentingUber-mom Rose Rock raised ten children and seventeen foster children. She did it by never shying...
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  • Mummy Told Me Not to Tell
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    Mummy Told Me Not to Tell

    When Reece arrives at Cathy's door aged 7 years old, he has already passed through the hands of four different carers in four weeks. As the details of his short life emerge, it becomes clear that to help him, Cathy will face her biggest challenge yet.The...
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  • I Want My Daddy
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    I Want My Daddy

    A 5-year-old boy, Ethan, is brought to Casey in the middle of the night after the sudden death of his young mother after a drug overdose. Estranged from her parents, Ethan’s mum had been abused by her ex-partner, and began taking drugs to cope. Ethan is...
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  • Helpless
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    Helpless

    The 32nd fostering memoir from international bestseller Cathy Glass Struggling to cope with three young children, Janie turns to experienced foster carer Cathy Glass. Helping the family each morning, Cathy soon uncovers how dangerous their situation has...
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  • We Must Be Brave
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    We Must Be Brave

    We can’t choose who we love. We can choose who we fight for. ‘A powerful story that proves how love itself requires courage’ Delia Owens, author of Where the Crawdads Sing ‘Storytelling at its best’ Sarah Winman ‘The perfect book club read’ AJ...
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  • Finding Stevie
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    Finding Stevie

    Finding Stevie is a dark and poignant true story that highlights the dangers lurking online. When Stevie’s social worker tells Cathy, an experienced foster carer, that Stevie, 14, is gender fluid she isn’t sure what that term means and looks it up...
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  • Daddy's Little Princess
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    Daddy's Little Princess

    Internationally bestselling author and foster carer Cathy Glass tells the story of one of the first children that she fostered. Little Beth, aged 7, had been brought up by her father after her mother left when she was a toddler. But when he’s suddenly...
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  • Can I Let You Go?
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    Can I Let You Go?

    Can I Let You Go? is the true story of Faye, a wonderful young woman who may never be able to parent her unborn child. Faye is 24, pregnant, and has learning difficulties as a result of her mother’s alcoholism. Faye is gentle, childlike and vulnerable,...
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  • Saving Danny
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    Saving Danny

    The fifteenth fostering memoir by Cathy Glass. Danny was petrified and clung to me in desperation as I carried him to my car. Trapped in his own dark world, he couldn't understand why his parents no longer loved or wanted him, and were sending him away...
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  • Please Don't Take My Baby
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    Please Don't Take My Baby

    ‘I’m going to love my baby and give her lots of attention,’ Jade said. ‘I’ll show my mum she’s wrong.’Jade, 17, is pregnant, homeless and alone when she’s brought to live with Cathy. Jade is desperate to keep her baby, but little more than a child...
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  • Another Forgotten Child
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    Another Forgotten Child

    A new memoir from Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author Cathy Glass.Eight-year-old Aimee was on the child protection register at birth. Her five older siblings were taken into care many years ago. So no one can understand why she was left at...
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    Looking for Lost Bird Looking for Lost Bird
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    Looking for Lost Bird

    In this haunting memoir, Yvette Melanson tells of being raised to believe that she was white and Jewish. At age forty-three, she learned that she was a "Lost Bird," a Navajo child taken against her family's wishes, and that her grieving birth mother had...
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    Making Sense of Adoption Making Sense of Adoption
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    Making Sense of Adoption

    "Provides many examples of ways to present difficult information in a sensitive manner--sensitive to the child's needs, to the birthparents' struggles, and to the adoptive parents' perspectives."--Vera I. Fahlberg, M.D.
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  • Shadows of Emotions Shadows of Emotions
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    Shadows of Emotions

    When it comes to Emotions when dealing with the feelings after finding your biological family, it's like a spider web meaning your emotions can go all over the place. How you deal with those emotions will determine how your soul can be set free.
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  • Double Trauma Double Trauma
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    Double Trauma

    Imagine your worst nightmare as a parent...D'Ashon was born three months early, weighed just over one pound and tested positive for several drugs, including cocaine and marijuana, which most likely contributed to his premature birth. Shortly after birth,...
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  • Every Bitter Thing Is Sweet Every Bitter Thing Is Sweet
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    Every Bitter Thing Is Sweet

    Sara Hagerty masterfully draws from her own story of spiritual and physical barrenness to birth in readers a new longing for God. With exquisite storytelling and reflection, Hagerty guides readers to a tender place that God is holding just for them---a...
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    Raising Adopted Children, Revised Edition Raising Adopted Children, Revised Edition
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    Raising Adopted Children, Revised Edition

    In this completely revised and updated edition of "Raising Adopted Children", Lois Melina, editor of "Adopted Children" newsletter and the mother of two children by adoption, draws on the latest research in psychology, sociology, and medicine to guide...
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  • Redefining Family Redefining Family
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    Redefining Family

    In an unconventional blend of poetry and prose, a birthmother shares her experience of an open adoption. The fear and uncertainty in planning. The heartbreak of losing her child. And the work of healing and building a life after placement. This memoir...
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  • Searching for Mom Searching for Mom
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    Searching for Mom

    Searching for Mom is a “disarmingly honest” mother-daughter story. Sara Easterly spent a lifetime looking for the perfect mother. As an adoptee she had difficulties attaching to her mother, struggled with her faith, lived the effects of...
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  • Healing Tree Healing Tree
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    Healing Tree

    A redemptive story of family, forgiveness, and the journey to self-acceptance. "Our adopted angel"-that's what Danielle's adoptive parents called her.  She grew up adored, doted on, unconditionally loved. It wasn't until she was in college...
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  • We Have a Baby for You We Have a Baby for You
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    We Have a Baby for You

    When faced with the prospect of being a one-child family, and yet having a strong desire for more children, this Midwest family embarks on what would become the adventure of their lives. Through the eyes of a mom, this book is written for all of us who...
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  • Family Bound Family Bound
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    Family Bound

    Statistics show that over two million couples will experience some type of infertility issue when they try to become pregnant. However, when you are one of those two million, you feel completely alone and believe that no one can truly understand what...
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  • A Child for Keeps A Child for Keeps
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    A Child for Keeps

    A Child for Keeps? considers the background to the growth in popularity of adoption in Britain in the early twentieth century and analyzes the campaign for adoption legislation. It discusses the wholesale growth of unregulated adoption after the first...
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  • The Adoption Resource Book, 4th Edition The Adoption Resource Book, 4th Edition
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    The Adoption Resource Book, 4th Edition

    This practical, wise, and encouraging book contains all the information a couple or an individual needs to investigate adoption alternatives and arrange for and complete a successful adoption. Beginning with a broad overview of options for both domestic...
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  • The Orphan Carpenter
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    The Orphan Carpenter

    Awards and HonorsReader Views Literary Awards Program Gold Award Independent Press Distinguished Favorite Award Book Excellence Awards Finalist
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    The Adoption
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    The Adoption

    "The Adoption: An Angels Way" is a compelling true story about an unlikely couple's struggle to adopt a Thai baby. This is a story about chance, divine intervention, and some wonderful blessings. This book is the perfect companion for all families...
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    Breath Taking

    "A master class in how to be a person." --Joanna Rakoff, bestselling author of My Salinger Year"Astonishing...one of the most moving memoirs I've read." --Caroline Leavitt, best-selling author of With or Without You and Days of Wonder. In Breath Taking:...
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  • Uprooted
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    Uprooted

    Up-Rooted: Climbing Through Family Chaos details the conflict in T.J. Kyri's life, from marriage to adoption to divorce, despite being a conflict resolution professional. It describes her harrowing mission to adopt her older daughters from Ukraine and...
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  • When the Bough Breaks
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    When the Bough Breaks

    When the Bough Breaks, True Stories of Hope and Encouragement of Mothers Who Have Had to Reinvent Their Relationships with Their Children, seeks to shed light on that moment when Mom has to reach into the well of courage and ask for outside help.
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  • Tick Tock
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    Tick Tock

    **AS SEEN IN THE NEW YORK TIMES, BITCH MAGAZINE, THE LA REVIEW OF BOOKS, LIT HUB, AND MORE** In this groundbreaking collection of essays, poems, and creative nonfiction, more than twenty-nine writers offer witty and incisive insight into the unique...
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  • American Bastard
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    American Bastard

    American Bastard is a lyrical inquiry into the experience of being a bastard in America. This memoir travels across literal continents-and continents of desire as Beatty finds her birthfather, a Canadian hockey player who's won three Stanley Cups-and her...
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