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Essential Adoption Reading
(17 Books)
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Reunited
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Pamela Slaton
3.97 avg rating — 212 ratings
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Lost & Found: The Adoption Experience
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Betty Jean Lifton
4.15 avg rating — 183 ratings
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Journey of the Adopted Self: A Quest for Wholeness
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Betty Jean Lifton
4.23 avg rating — 308 ratings
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The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade
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Ann Fessler
4.24 avg rating — 11,202 ratings
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Birthmothers: Women Who Have Relinquished Babies for Adoption Tell Their Stories
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Merry Bloch Jones
3.93 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Adoption Healing ...a path to recovery
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Joe Soll
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4.12 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Bitter Fruit: Women's Experiences of Unplanned Pregnancy, Abortion, and Adoption
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Rita Townsend
4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Primal Wound: Understanding The Adopted Child
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Nancy Verrier
4.03 avg rating — 1,803 ratings
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The Adoption Reader: Birth Mothers, Adoptive Mothers, and Adopted Daughters Tell Their Stories
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Susan Wadia-Ells
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3.72 avg rating — 61 ratings
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The Baby Thief: The Untold Story of Georgia Tann, the Baby Seller Who Corrupted Adoption
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Barbara Bisantz Raymond
3.60 avg rating — 3,097 ratings
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Waiting to Forget: A Motherhood Lost and Found
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Margaret Moorman
3.40 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Being Adopted: The Lifelong Search for Self (Anchor Book)
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David M. Brodzinsky
3.95 avg rating — 318 ratings
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In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories
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Rita J. Simon
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Orphans of the Living: Stories of America's Children in Foster Care
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Jennifer Toth
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Detachment: An Adoption Memoir
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Maurice Mierau
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Flip the Script: Adult Adoptee Anthology
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Diane René Christian
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Perpetual Child: Adult Adoptee Anthology: Dismantling the Stereotype
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