Books like Adopted by Barbara Hannay

A gripping tale of a Mexican American teenage girl facing the challenges of adulthood and grief, set against the backdrop of her Mexican American family in New York.

A mysterious woman in a hospital with newborns and a killer in a diamond mine.

The ancient practice of adoption has changed significantly through history. In colonial America, parents adopted out their unwanted childrenothose who were irude, stubborn, and unrulyioto other families. Today, Americans go abroad looking for children to adopt, and have adopted more than a quarter million internationally.Adoption: A Reference Handbook, Second Edition not only traces the development of expert thinking about adoption, it also looks at both sides of the latest controversial issues. Should adoptions be open or closed? Should the government regulate adoptions more closelyoor less? This updated second edition offers an international perspective with a new chapter on how countries outside the United States provide adoption services. This work is an indispensable resource for those thinking about adoption or researching its history.

When a baby arrives at Bar H Ranch, Rachel, the single, red‑haired manager, must adjust from aunt to mother while a brooding newcomer, Cole Parrish, unknowingly pulls at her heart.

Erin brings her son to the Outback to meet her estranged husband, Luke, hoping to rekindle their marriage and rebuild a family.

When late‑witted Nell Ruthven discovers her late‑adopted son is now a tiny grandson in need of care, she and cattleman Jacob Tucker—his grandfather—must navigate an unexpected family bond and a chance at love.

A heartwarming tale of love, magic, and death from Canadian author Martine Leavitt.

A young woman falls deeply in love with a distant Australian furniture designer.

Adoption, a subject long cloaked in silence, is coming out of the closet. A veritable avalanche of books, magazine articles, and television programs debate the end of the "closed" system, which cut adoptees off from their heritage, and the beginning of an open system. While legal and ethical controversies continue to swirl around adoption, here is the first book to provide solid psychological grounding for the importance of openness in adoption from the perspective of an adopted person. Betty Jean Lifton, herself an adoptee whose Lost and Found has become a bible to other adoptees and to those who would understand the adoption experience, explores further the inner world of the adopted person. She breaks new ground as she traces the adopted child's lifelong struggle to form an authentic sense of self. And she shows how both the symbolic and the literal search for roots becomes a crucial part of the journey toward wholeness. Filled with moving life stories of adopted men and women, the book examines how separation from the birth mother and secrecy in the adoption system have affected adoptees' sense of identity as well as their attachment to their adoptive parents. Lifton introduces the concept of "cumulative adoption trauma" to help explain many troubling questions: Why do adopted people feel alienated? Why do they feel unreal, invisible to themselves and others? Why do they feel unborn? Journey of the Adopted Self makes it poignantly clear that only by restoring connection to the past can adoptees move with dignity and hope into the future.

A teenage boy confronts the reality of his father's past and the complex relationship with his grandfather as he begins to forgive him for a murder he committed.