adopted children

""[Evokes] both Jeanette Winterson and Ian McEwan. an elegiac and uplifting novel about the indissoluble bonds between mothers and daughters, and a reminder of how the imagination can set you free." -- The Guardian On Ruby's thirteenth birthday, a wishshe didn't even know she had suddenly comes true: the couple who raised her aren't her parents at all. Her real mother and father are out there somewhere, and Ruby becomes determined to find them. Venturing into the forest with nothing but a suitcase and the company of her only true friend--the imaginary Shadow Boy--Ruby discovers a group of siblings who live alone in the woods. The children take her in, and while they offer the closest Ruby's ever had to a family, Ruby begins to suspect that they mightneed her even more than she needs them. And it's not always clear what's real and what's not--or who's trying to help her and who might be a threat. Told from shifting timelines, and the alternating perspectives of teenage Ruby; her mother, Anna; and even the Shadow Boy, The Doll Funeral is a dazzling follow-up to Kate Hamer's breakout debut, The Girl in the Red Coat, and a gripping, exquisitely mysterious novel about the connections that remain after a family has been broken apart"--.

"Now that she has her driver's license, sixteen-year-old Ruby sets out in search of her birth mother. What she finds is a ramshackle house of castaway women, referred to as 'sisters,' ruled over by a charismatic bully who monitors their every move and her mother with a ten-year-old daughter desperate to escape"--Provided by publisher.

Uncovers corrupt practices in the history of adoption in the United States with one family's story.

Embittered by a false accusation and disappointed in friendship and love, the weaver Silas Marner retreats into a life alone with his loom and his gold. Fate steals his gold and replaces it with a golden-haired foundling child.

Memoir of Rebecca Carroll on what it was like growing up as an interracial kid in her rural New Hampshire town identifying as mostly black instead of white. Though she loved her adoptive parents greatly, things changed for the worse when she got older and met her birth mother, a young white woman, who she says undermined her blackness and sense of self-esteem. Reflects on the struggle Carroll endured to find her own identity.

Twenty-something Edie has finally gotten brave and started creating the art she has always wanted to make, but that is about the only good thing going on in her life--she shares a dirty Bushwick apartment and works a grueling administration job, and her sexual choices have been sub-par at best. Then she meets Eric, a New Jersey digital archivist, whose wife invites Edie into their home as part of an open marriage with rules. Edie takes the invitation, and hesitantly becomes an ally of Eric's wife and, as the only black woman in her life, to her adopted daughter Akila. However, such arrangements often do not last or end well.

Collects "Last Airlift" and "One Step at a Time," that tell Tuyet's story of when she was an orphan in Vietnam during the war and airlifted with other orphans from Saigon to Canada, and recounts her life with her new family and her struggle with polio.

"The story of how one baby found his family in the New York subway"--Provided by publisher.

Pairs black-and-white photographs with statements that express the many reasons why people choose to adopt a child, and why those children are special to their families.

"The only life 12-year-old Emily has ever known is the cold, unloved existence of being an orphan. But everything changes when the Thorntons, a young couple from London, adopt Emily, whisking her away to a new life at their grand estate. At first, life at Blackthorn Manor is wonderful. But as Emily explores the grounds and rooms, she stumbles upon a mysterious girl named Kat, who appears to be similar in age, and the two become fast friends. That's when things take a turn for the worse. Kat seems to know a curious amount about the estate, and strange things happen whenever she's around . . ."--Publisher.