adopted children

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.

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

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.

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.

"[The author] shares the . . . story of her mother's mysterious kidnapping as a toddler in a small English coastal village--and how that event reverberated through her own family and her art for decades"--Amazon.

Eight-year-old Jennifer Jordan-Wong describes her adoption by a family after four years of living as a foster child with many different families.

Ashley Rhodes-Courter provides an account of her life, focusing on the nine years she spent in Florida's foster care system after being removed from her mother at the age of three, and explaining how her life changed after she was adopted.