Don't Let Go more books like this

by Marliss Melton

Solomon Mc Guire knows all about loss. He'd married the perfect woman and created the perfect family but 5 years ago he came home from a gruelling mission to find his wife had taken his beloved son, Silas, and disappeared. Since then, he's spent all his money and time searching for his son but when Silas is miraculously found and brought to him, ...

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Kaleidoscope more books like this

by Danielle Steel

When John Chapman is asked to find the three orphaned children of a Frenchwoman and an American actor, he discovers that the sisters have been living disparate lives, and that only one is aware of her origins. From Appalachia to Paris to New York to Boston, Chapman tracks the fated trio in places high and low, hoping to give them the gift of their ...

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The Unbreakable Child: A Story about Forgiving the Unforgivable more books like this

by Kim Michele Richardson

Grim yet ultimately inspiring, this harrowing biography catalogues years of institutional abuse that took place in the Saint Thomas - Saint Vincent Orphan Asylum, a Catholic orphanage in Anchorage, Kentucky. After many years of neglect by their drug-addicted mother, Kim and her three older sisters were abandoned to the uncharitable care of the ...

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Alone in the World: Orphans and Orphanages in America more books like this

by Catherine Reef

An award-winning nonfiction author uncovers the true history of orphanages, revealing what it was like to live in such institutions, why children were sent to live there in the first place, what happened to them after they left, and more. Illustrated with archival photographs and prints.

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Orphans more books like this

by Eilleen Simpson, Eileen Simpson

Simpson combines her own recollections of growing up orphaned with a series of perceptive essays on the nature of orphanhood itself to create a moving literary achievement filled with hope, insight, and a sure instinct for life.

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Kinship by Design: A History of Adoption in the Modern United States more books like this

by Ellen Herman

What constitutes a family? Tracing the dramatic evolution of Americans' answer to this question over the past century, "Kinship by Design" provides the fullest account to date of modern adoption's history.Beginning in the early 1900s, when children were still transferred between households by a variety of unregulated private arrangements, Ellen ...

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Annie: An Old-Fashioned Story more books like this

by Thomas Meehan

Unexpected sources help a spunky orphan in the search for her parents who have been missing since 1922.

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Long Way from the Creek more books like this

by Howard Blank

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Little Strangers: Portrayals of Adoption and Foster Care in America, 1850-1929 more books like this

by Claudia Nelson

When Massachusetts passed America's first comprehensive adoption law in 1851, the usual motive for taking in an unrelated child was presumed to be the need for cheap labour. But by 1929 the first year that every state had an adoption law the adoptee's main function was seen as emotional. "Little Strangers" examines the representations of adoption ...

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By Train They Came more books like this

by Charlotte Endorf, Sarah M Endorf

Who rode the Orphan Trains? Children, still in diapers, searching for a home. In this final volume of By Train They Came: Fragile Excess Baggage, young adult readers and history buffs alike can experience the touching and often surprising stories of those who, between 1854 and 1929, rode the Orphan Trains. This beautiful, full-color collector's ...

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Gamines : how to adopt from Latin America more books like this

by Jean Nelson-Erichsen, Heino R. Erichsen

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Ambush in the Wilderness more books like this

by Kris Hemphill

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The suitcases : three orphaned sisters in the Great Depression in the south more books like this

by Anne Hall Whitt

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