International Adoption

When an impoverished school district loses its accreditation and the affluent community of Crystal Ridge has no choice but to open their school doors, the lives of three very different women converge: Camille Gray - the wife of an executive, mother of three, long-standing PTA chairwoman, and champion fund-raiser - faced with a shocking discovery; Jen Covington, the career nurse whose long, painful journey to motherhood finally resulted in adoption; and 22-year-old Anaya Jones - the first woman in her family to graduate college and a brand-new teacher at Crystal Ridge's top elementary school, unprepared for the powder-keg situation....

A Quest for Alex is a heartwarming story based on real-life events following a couple’s journey to create a family through international adoption. It reads like an action-adventure novel, as their quest goes from what they thought would be a straightforward process to a protracted, contested case that winds its way through multiple hearings, all the way to the Supreme Court of Chile.

A mysterious letter from a Peruvian woman arrives just as jet-setting surpermodel Natalia is leaving her Scottsdale, AZ hotel for a few solitary days at her Santa Monica, CA beach condo. As she speeds west, one sentence nags at her, intruding on her consciousness: "I could be mistaken, but I believe I know your mother, your real mother." Why should Natalia care? Now living a storybook life, she has never given high priority to learning the details of her entrance into the world. Without consciously deciding to do so, Natalia detours from her itinerary, heading north toward Flagstaff. As if ...

"Daddy, Come & Get Me: a dad’s adventure through a Guatemalan adoption" tells two stories about one girl. Author Gil Michelini tells how he led his family through the process of adopting a daughter of Guatemala. Using the official Guatemalan adoption documents and assistance of those familiar with the Guatemalan culture, Michelini includes a plausible story of his daughter’s life in Guatemala and how her birthmother came to the decision to relinquish her for adoption. This story is included to illustrate and honor the sacrifice one woman endured for the sake of her daughter. This is not...

The Seven Sisters is the story that began it all. An epic tale of love and loss, it tells the stories of the D’Aplièse sisters, all adopted as babies by the enigmatic billionaire they affectionately call Pa Salt. Read by Tuppence Middleton (Thirty Days in Paris, The Doll Factory). This is...

Two men, each unaware of the other, share a common family secret: They were sold for adoption by their American father shortly after their births in the Philippines. Three alternating stories interweave the experiences of father Andrew Breszky and the two sons who try to connect and piece together the puzzle of their reckless, impulsive father. One lives in New York and the other grows up in the south of France, later traveling all over Asia as a documentary filmmaker. Both will discover that their relationships somehow echo that of the young man whose history eludes them.

The December 1989 execution of Romania's leader Nicolae Ceausescu brought news of his atrocities that caught the world's attention. One such story was of the over 100,000 children living in overcrowded underfunded orphanages due to Ceausescu's mandate that required each family to produce at least five children. Some Americans sought to save some of these children from a life of institutional poverty. This is the story of several families from Oregon who went to Romania to adopt some of those forgotten children. These are stories of bravery, courage, and daring as these ordinary women and ...

Cover Design by Micheline Birger Bittersweet Birthright: An American Citizen Finds Her Birthmother in Germany: An Emotional Journey I wrote this story in 1991 about two years after I met my German birthmother in Germany in 1989. I was 41 at the time when I wrote this. I was 39 when I met her. I never thought it was possible. I believed in the impossible though. I had a lot of deep emotions. I hope that the reader is able to capture that moment in time with me. I personally believe that people have the right to know about their birth circumstances if they so choose. I had no say in the ...

Foster families are unsung heroes, willing to stand on the front lines for children who can’t stand up for themselves. But fostering can also be a lonely journey as friends and family members pull away from the fear of the unknown. We all have a job to do, and it starts by stepping forward and wrapping around those who are sacrificing so much.

Alejandro doesn’t smile when I check in. He just hands me my key like I’m a problem he didn’t ask for. I try to brush it off, but something about his quiet intensity sets me on edge—and not in a bad way. He’s brooding, yet gorgeous, and completely uninterested in making small talk with the upbeat, recently divorced woman crashing his perfectly controlled resort. Enters Rachel, my best friend-slash-human hurricane, who signs us up for every resort activity known to man. Suddenly I’m stuck paddleboarding next to Alejandro, hiking behind him, and making awkward eye contact over ...

Journey with the author on the emotional roller-coaster of preparing to adopt a baby girl through international adoption. Be with them as they fly to China to receive their daughter. You will laugh and cry as you listen to the journal that the author kept of his experiences as they happened.

When MI5 1/2 pushed Richard Hugh (aka Triple-O Five) into early retirement, he was expected to go from saving the world to merely living in it. He's finding that he really isn't prepared to do that. Besides, even in retirement a man can stumble across people who are in need of rescue, and surely in cases like that he should step up and help. If he can.

Breakthrough Treatment Offers New Hope for Recovery ** Revised and Expanded 2nd Edition with 3 new chapters on adolescents ** Gentling represents a new paradigm in the therapeutic approach to children who have experienced physical, emotional, and sexual abuse and have acquired Post Traumatic Stress Disorder as a result. This text redefines PTSD in child abuse survivors by identifying child-specific behavioral signs commonly seen, and offers a means to individualize treatment and measure therapeutic outcomes through understanding each suffering child's unique symptom profile. The practical ...

Ten-year-old Babo has grown up on an abandoned circus camp in a war-torn country. She sleeps in the old lion cage and takes care of the other parentless "leftover kids" telling them fantastical stories about the old circus days and finding ways to make them laugh. They need her. So Babo is not one single bit happy when an American couple wants to adopt her and change her name to Betti. How will her real parents ever find her all the way in America?

Annie has it all—a loving husband, money, and a beautiful home. But all she has ever wanted is to be a mother—something that she just can't seem to make happen. When Annie and Joe learn of a young mother interested in placing her baby for adoption, they jump at the chance to become parents. But is Annie ready to sacrifice everything in order to finally fulfill her dream of motherhood? Two women find themselves on two separate journeys to make the greatest sacrifice for the child they love. But can love truly conquer all? Or will the greatest sacrifice be too much?

En ung prostituerad pojke hittas strypt och stympad i en lägenhet i Glasgow. När rättsmedicinaren Rhona MacLeod kommer till brottsplatsen chockas hon av hur lik offret är henne själv. Skräcken sätter sig i kroppen. Kan han vara sonen som hon adopterade bort sexton år tidigare? Fylld av skuldkänslor beslutar sig Rhona för att på egen hand försöka hitta mördaren och ta reda på vad som egentligen hände hennes son. Men hon har starka krafter emot sig. "Nätfångst" är den första, fristående delen i serien om den tuffa rättsmedicinaren Rhona MacLeod.