This moving tale of self-discovery takes place during the Oka uprising in the summer of 1990. Adopted as an infant, Carrie has always felt somehow out of place. Recurring dreams haunt her, warning her that someone close to her is in...
Adopted children
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Author:White, TaraSummary: -
Author:Gilbert, EvanSummary:While home for Christmas with Ted and Edna, his foster parents, college student Austin Greenfield is surprised to meet Seth Barton, the son Edna gave up for adoption at birth. With his adoptive parents now dead, Seth desperately wants...
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Author:Rhodes-Courter, AshleySummary:Ashley reveals the nuances of life after foster care: college, marriage, and having kids--from fostering children and the heartbreak of watching them return to destructive environments, to the miraculous joy of blending biological and...
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Ashley Rhodes-Courter spent nine years of her life in fourteen different foster homes. In this inspiring, unforgettable memoir, Ashley finds the courage to succeed and in doing so discovers the power of her own voice.
- Author:Gudenkauf, HeatherSummary:
Once the golden child of tiny Linden Falls, Iowa, Allison Glenn watches her reputation crumble as she is sent to prison for five years--convicted of a terrible crime. But what really happened that fateful night? Allison's younger...
- Author:See, LisaSummary:
2018 Audie Award Finalist The thrilling new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa See explores the lives of a Chinese mother and her daughter who has been abandoned and adopted by an American couple. Li-yan and her family...
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Author:Rauhala, AnnSummary:“What a lucky girl!” Everybody who has adopted a daughter from China has heard that one. And every parent has said, or thought, in reply: “No, we’re the lucky ones.” This anthology sets out to explain why people who have adopted...
- Author:Jen, GishSummary:
Chinese-American Carnegie Wong and his WASPy wife Blondie have two adopted children of Asian descent, Lilly and Wendy. The girls are a handful, but they are nothing compared to Carnegie's mother. Mama Wong's dislike for...
- Author:Wiggs, SusanSummary:
Five years after rescuing an orphaned infant from the Great Chicago Fire and raising the child as her own daughter, Lucy Hathaway encounters the embittered Randoph Higgins, Chicago's most prominent banker, who turns out to be the father...
- Author:Dorries, NadineSummary:
The final gripping instalment of the bestselling Four Streets trilogy which began with THE FOUR STREETS and continued in HIDE HER NAME. On Christmas morning 1963 fifteen-year-old Kitty Doherty gives birth in a hostile Irish convent....
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Author:Eliot, GeorgeSummary:In rural nineteenth-century England, a weaver, lonely and embittered at the unjust treatment he has received from people he considered to be his friends, finds his only solace in money until he inadvertently becomes the guardian of an...
- Author:Eliot, GeorgeSummary:
This classic novel takes place in Lantern Yard, a slum street in an unnamed city in Northern England, during the early 19th century. There, Silas Marner, a weaver and a member of a small Calvinist congregation, is falsely accused of...
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Author:Chamberlain, PennySummary:"Twelve-year-old Pepper and her misfit brother, Everett, are spending their summer on Shack Island with Grandma. Pepper has mysterious dreams that foretell the future, so she decides to practice her ESP skills to see if she can get...
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Author:Bavati, RobynSummary:Simone has been raised as a dancer, but she hates performing. Hannah loves nothing more than dance, but her parents see it as just a hobby. When the two girls meet for the first time at age fifteen, they choreograph a plan to switch...
- Author:Cardinal, ColleenSummary:
"During the 60s Scoop, over 20,000 Indigenous children in Canada were removed from their biological families, lands and culture and trafficked across provinces, borders and overseas to be raised in non-Indigenous households....
- Author:Hof, Marjolijn, Prins, Johanna H., Prins, Johanna W.Summary:
A Society of School Librarians International (SSLI) Honor Book. Fay was adopted when he was a baby. He knows only that his birth mother escaped the war in Bosnia and that he arrived in his new home with nothing more than a squeaky toy...
- Author:Boisvert, Alain PierreSummary:
« — Peux-tu me décrire, mon hibou, ce que tu avais dessiné dans ta classe? poursuit Ricky, encore un peu secoué par le tintouin amplifié de notre crocodile. — Une grande plage avec des jeux et la mer et le soleil et des oiseaux et des...
- Author:Savignac, LinaSummary:
Sur la grève de Paspébiac, une petite maison jaune défie la mer et les saisons. Dans la péninsule gaspésienne, riche en poissons, les hommes deviennent pêcheurs de père en fils et Nérée Leblanc n’échappe pas à cette tradition. Comme...
- Author:Tremblay, AnneSummary:
La colère du lac nous met sur les traces d'une jeune femme de Chicoutimi, Joséphine, à qui l'on confie la tâche de prendre soin d'un marin irlandais de passage. Entre deux attentions destinées à faciliter la rémission du malade,...
- Author:Fortin, AnnickSummary:
Témoignage émouvant d’une maman Par un froid matin de janvier 1989, j’entre-ouvre mes paupières lourdes à la suite de l’anesthésie générale. Je croise le regard triste de ma mère assise à mon chevet. Je comprends que l’intervention ne s...
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