“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...
Intercountry adoption
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Author:Rauhala, AnnSummary: -
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:Gowda, Shilpi SomayaSummary:Secret Daughter, a first novel by Shilpi Somaya Gowda, explores powerfully and poignantly the emotional terrain of motherhood, loss, identity, and love through the experiences of two families—one Indian, one American—and the child that...
- 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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Author:Larochelle, Marie-HélèneSummary:"The story of a successful young couple from Toronto whose comfortable life is gradually destroyed by a mysterious set of twins they adopt from Russia."--
- Author:Ball, David W.Summary:
The heart-wrenching story of Allison Turk, her nine-year-old stepson, Tyler, and five other American families who have travelled to China to adopt children.
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Author:Ryan, DarleneSummary:For much of her adult life, Darlene believed she wouldn't make a good mother: "Besides, I couldn't admit to anyone that I didn't know how to do mother things. So I married someone who didn't want to have children either." Everything...
- Author:Buttrose, Larry, Brierley, SarooSummary:
At only five years old, Saroo Brierley got lost on a train in India. Eventually adopted by a couple in Australia, he always wondered about his origins. The advent of Google Earth finally gave him the opportunity to look for his former...
