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All You Can Ever Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 258 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.85 — 26,895 ratings — published 2018
The Connected Child: Bring Hope and Healing to Your Adoptive Family (Paperback)
by (shelved 245 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.44 — 6,217 ratings — published 2007
Before We Were Yours (Hardcover)
by (shelved 223 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.40 — 755,441 ratings — published 2017
Orphan Train (Paperback)
by (shelved 191 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.20 — 470,789 ratings — published 2013
The Primal Wound: Understanding The Adopted Child (Paperback)
by (shelved 183 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,882 ratings — published 1993
Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew (Paperback)
by (shelved 175 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,655 ratings — published 1999
Far from the Tree (Hardcover)
by (shelved 171 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.24 — 50,399 ratings — published 2017
Little Fires Everywhere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 170 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,348,074 ratings — published 2017
The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade (Hardcover)
by (shelved 160 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.24 — 11,757 ratings — published 2006
Adopted for Life: The Priority of Adoption for Christian Families & Churches (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.31 — 3,237 ratings — published 2009
Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born (Paperback)
by (shelved 129 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.23 — 2,307 ratings — published 1996
Secret Daughter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 121 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.00 — 78,470 ratings — published 2010
A Mother for Choco (Paperstar)
by (shelved 121 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,072 ratings — published 1992
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 115 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.04 — 374,698 ratings — published 2014
Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today's Parents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.15 — 738 ratings — published 2002
Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
by (shelved 100 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,150,352 ratings — published 1908
Greenglass House (Greenglass House, #1)
by (shelved 97 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.99 — 30,255 ratings — published 2014
Counting by 7s (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.13 — 89,180 ratings — published 2013
The Language of Flowers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.10 — 236,345 ratings — published 2011
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 91 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.29 — 133,267 ratings — published 2017
In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.95 — 288 ratings — published 2000
Instant Mom (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 83 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,811 ratings — published 2013
Digging to America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.60 — 23,903 ratings — published 2006
The Leavers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.89 — 51,635 ratings — published 2017
A Long Way Home (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.12 — 69,415 ratings — published 2013
Toddler Adoption: The Weaver's Craft (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.82 — 502 ratings — published 1997
"You Should Be Grateful": Stories of Race, Identity, and Transracial Adoption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.56 — 1,345 ratings — published 2023
American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.34 — 4,178 ratings — published 2021
Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.25 — 211 ratings — published 2006
No Biking in the House Without a Helmet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,536 ratings — published 2011
Being Adopted: The Lifelong Search for Self (Anchor Book)
by (shelved 73 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.95 — 323 ratings — published 1992
My New Mom & Me (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 68 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.25 — 713 ratings — published 2016
We Belong Together (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.11 — 566 ratings — published 2007
Three Little Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.20 — 17,848 ratings — published 2008
Parenting the Hurt Child : Helping Adoptive Families Heal and Grow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.12 — 635 ratings — published 2002
The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking, and the New Gospel of Adoption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,167 ratings — published 2013
The Lost Daughters of China: Abandoned Girls, Their Journey to America, and the Search for a Missing Past (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,471 ratings — published 2000
There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Children (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,418 ratings — published 2006
Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus (Life of a Cactus #1)
by (shelved 63 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.28 — 39,222 ratings — published 2017
Raising Adopted Children: Practical Reassuring Advice for Every Adoptive Parent (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.74 — 355 ratings — published 1986
The Bean Trees (Greer Family, #1)
by (shelved 61 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.02 — 180,480 ratings — published 1988
Lucky Girl: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.79 — 1,297 ratings — published 2009
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.02 — 48,191 ratings — published 2011
Over the Moon: An Adoption Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.18 — 354 ratings — published 1997
Wolfie the Bunny (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.16 — 4,784 ratings — published 2015
Where We Belong (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.90 — 102,736 ratings — published 2004
Secret Thoughts of an Adoptive Mother (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.87 — 335 ratings — published 1997
Family Family (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.96 — 25,899 ratings — published 2024
Look Again (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.90 — 52,502 ratings — published 2009
“For my sake,” he said firmly, addressing the air in front of him as though it were a tribunal, “I dinna want ye to bear another child. I wouldna risk your loss, Sassenach,” he said, his voice suddenly husky. “Not for a dozen bairns. I’ve daughters and sons, nieces and nephews, grandchildren—weans enough.”
He looked at me directly then, and spoke softly.
“But I’ve no life but you, Claire.”
He swallowed audibly, and went on, eyes fixed on mine.
“I did think, though . . . if ye do want another child . . . perhaps I could still give ye one.”
― The Fiery Cross
He looked at me directly then, and spoke softly.
“But I’ve no life but you, Claire.”
He swallowed audibly, and went on, eyes fixed on mine.
“I did think, though . . . if ye do want another child . . . perhaps I could still give ye one.”
― The Fiery Cross
“Orphanages are the only places that ever left me feeling empty and full at the same time.”
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