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  • Coming Apart Together: Fragments from an Adoption

    by Emily Hipchen ...
    This memoir tells the story of two teenagers of different classes and ethnic backgrounds who meet by chance, fall in love, find their parents will not allow them to marry, and go off to college only to discover that they are going to have a child. She is spirited away to a home for unwed mothers, gives birth, signs the relinquishment papers, goes home. In four years, when they are old enough to ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Routledge Critical Adoption Studies Reader

    Edited by Emily Hipchen ...
    The Routledge Critical Adoption Studies Reader presents a central source of scholarly approaches arranged around fundamental questions about how adoption, as a complex practice of family-making, is represented in art, philosophy, the law, history, literature, political science, and other humanities. Divided into three major parts, this volume traces the history of adoption and its analogues, ... Read more

    $76.94 CAD

  • Inhabiting La Patria

    Identity, Agency, and Antojo in the Work of Julia Alvarez

    Edited by Rebecca L. Harrison, Emily Hipchen ...
    Series series SUNY series in Multiethnic Literatures
    Examines the work of prolific Dominican American writer Julia Alvarez.This is the first collection of critical essays on the works of Dominican American author Julia Alvarez. A prolific writer of nearly two dozen books of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and children's literature, Alvarez has garnered numerous international accolades, including the impressive F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Outstanding ... Read more

    $40.69 CAD

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  • The Girl Who Just Wanted To Be Loved

    A Damaged Little Girl and a Foster Carer Who Wouldn’t Give Up

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    Series series Tales of Life as a Foster Carer
    How do you begin to help a psychologically traumatised child?A Sunday Times bestseller, The Girl Who Just Wanted To Be Loved is an inspirational, heart-wrenching true story from foster mum Angela Hart.Eight-year-old Keeley looks like the sweetest little girl you could wish to meet, but demons from the past make her behaviour far from angelic. She takes foster carer Angela on a rocky and very ... Read more

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  • Adopting a Child With a Trauma and Attachment Disruption History

    A Practical Guide

    by Theresa Ann Fraser ...
    “If you have the love in your heart and the courage to adopt a child from a traumatized background, then you must have this book.” -- Robert Rich, PhD, anxietyanddepression-help.comThis booklet is a fact-filled resource for adoptive parents who have a child with trauma and attachment disruption experiences. Fraser provides tips and strategies that can be considered before placement as well as days ... Read more

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  • They Cage the Animals at Night

    The True Story of an Abandoned Child's Struggle for Emotional Survival

    by Jennings Michael Burch ...
    The heartbreaking, iconic true story of an abandoned little boy’s horrific journey through the American foster care system.On a misty evening in Brooklyn, Jennings Michael Burch’s mother, too sick to care for him, left her eight-year-old son at an orphanage with the words, “I’ll be right back.” She wasn’t.Shuttled through a bleak series of foster homes, orphanages, and institutions, Jennings never ... Read more

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  • If You Think You Are My Daughter

    by Jeanne Biedrzyck, Karen Sweet, Lewis M. Elia ...
    Jeanne is sixteen years old and is forced to give up her baby girl for adoption. She never gets to see or hold her but she never forgets. And so begins a journey, a search for a lost child which will last thirty years. Join these two women on a spiritual journey as they learn the meaning of family and love which ends at Jeanne's new home overlooking the Ashokan Reservoir in upstate New York. Or is ... Read more

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    Simple Strategies to Help Build Connections with Your Child

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  • Finding Our Families

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  • Psychology of Orphans

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    Psychology of Orphans is written by Dr. Lyudmila Shipitsyna Rector of the Institute of Special Education and Psychology Saint-Petersburg, Russia. She has a Doctorate in Science and Biology and works as an honored professor in this specialty in the Russian Federation. Considered an expert and pioneer in this field in Russia, she has authored over 400 publications. Today these books have formed the ... Read more

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