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The love child / by Hore, Rachel,author.;
"London, 1917. When nineteen-year-old Alice Copeman becomes pregnant, she is forced by her father and stepmother to give up the baby. She simply cannot be allowed to bring shame upon her family. But all Alice can think about is the small, kitten-like child she gave away, and she mourns the father, a young soldier, so beloved, who will never have the chance to know his daughter. Edith and Philip Burns, a childless couple, yearn for a child of their own. When they secretly adopt a baby girl, Irene, their life together must surely be complete. Irene grows up knowing that she is different from other children, but no one will tell her the full truth. Putting hopes of marriage and children behind her, Alice embarks upon a pioneering medical career, striving to make her way in a male-dominated world. Meanwhile, Irene struggles to define her own life, eventually leaving her Suffolk home to find work in London. As two extraordinary stories intertwine across two decades, will secrets long-buried at last come to light?"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Historical fiction.; Adoptees; Mothers and daughters; Teenage mothers; Unmarried mothers; Women physicians;
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Susanna's dream / by Perry, Marta.;
Susanna is already reeling from her mother's death and the realization that her business partner may quit when Lydia and Chloe reveal themselves to Susanna as her long-lost sisters.
Subjects: Christian fiction.; Interpersonal relations; Storekeepers; Adoptees; Sisters; Amish;
© 2014., Berkley Trade,
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Little Bird [videorecording] / by Adams, Claire,1898-1978,television producer.; Brunel, Tanya,television producer.; Chabot, Philippe(Producer),television producer.; Contois, Darla,actor.; Dennis, Darrell,screenwriter.; Dunn, Jessica(Producer),television producer.; Edelstein, Lisa,1967-actor.; Hopkins, Zoe,television director,screenwriter.; Jade, Ellyn,actor.; Lozinski, Lori,television producer.; Masters, Shannon,screenwriter.; Moscovitch, Hannah,screenwriter.; Rutter, Ellen,1959-television producer.; Tailfeathers, Elle-Máijá,television director.; McIntyre Media,distributor.;
Darla Contois, Ellyn Jade, Lisa Edelstein.Little Bird is a six-part dramatic series about an Indigenous woman on a journey to find her birth family and uncover the hidden truth of her past. Bezhig Little Bird was adopted into a Jewish family at the age of five, being stripped of her identity and becoming Esther Rosenblum. Now in her 20s, Bezhig longs for the family she lost and to fill in the missing pieces. Her quest lands her in the Canadian prairies where she discovers that she was one of the generation of children forcibly apprehended by the Canadian government through a policy, later coined the 60s Scoop.PG.DVD.
Subjects: Fiction television programs.; Television programs.; Television mini-series.; Historical television programs.; Adoptees; Families; Identity (Psychology); Indigenous children; Indigenous peoples; Sixties Scoop, Canada, 1951-ca. 1980;
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The lost and found girl / by Yates, Maisey,author.;
Ruby McKee, the unofficial town mascot after being found abandoned as a baby, embarks on a quest for answers about her discovery with the help of her adoptive sisters and learns this small town she calls home is hiding the biggest, and darkest, of secrets.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Adopted children; Adoptees; City and town life; Family secrets; Secrecy; Sex crimes; Sisters; Women;
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A living remedy : a memoir / by Chung, Nicole,author.;
"From the bestselling author of ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW comes a searing memoir of class, inequality, and grief--a daughter's search to understand the lives her adoptive parents led, the life she forged as an adult, and the lives she's lost. In this country, unless you attain extraordinary wealth, you will likely be unable to help your loved ones in all the ways you'd hoped. You will learn to live with the specific, hollow guilt of those who leave hardship behind, yet are unable to bring anyone else with them. When Nicole Chung graduated from high school, she couldn't hightail it out of her overwhelmingly white Oregon hometown fast enough. As a scholarship student at a private university on the East Coast, no longer the only Korean she knew, she found a sense of community she had always craved as an Asian American adoptee--and a path to the life she'd long wanted. But the middle class world she begins to raise a family in--where there are big homes, college funds, nice vacations--looks very different from the middle class world she thought she grew up in, where paychecks have to stretch to the end of the week, health insurance is often lacking, and there are no safety nets. When her father dies at only sixty-seven, killed by diabetes and kidney disease, Nicole feels deep grief as well as rage, knowing that years of financial instability and lack of access to healthcare contributed to his premature death. And then the unthinkable happens--less than a year later, her beloved mother is diagnosed with cancer, and the physical distance between them becomes insurmountable as COVID descends upon the world. Exploring the enduring strength of family bonds in the face of hardship and tragedy, A Living Remedy examines what it takes to reconcile the distance between one life, one home, and another--and sheds needed light on some of the most persistent and tragic inequalities in American society"--
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Chung, Nicole.; Adoptees; Adoptive parents; Equality; Grief; Income distribution; Interracial adoption;
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Body double [sound recording (CD)] / by Gerritsen, Tess; Heche, Anne;
Read by Anne Heche.
Subjects: Medical examiners (Law); Sisters; Forensic pathologists; Women physicians; Women murderers; Adoptees; Twins; CD Talking books; Psychological fiction; Suspense fiction; Mystery fiction;
© p2004., Random House Audio,
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Into the light / by Oshiro, Mark,author.;
Seventeen-year-old queer adoptee Manny, now homeless, sets out to find his sister Elena, who is still enmeshed in Christ's Dominion, the community that abandoned him, but the journey is fraught with danger, as he is forced to confront the religious trauma from his past.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Young adult fiction.; Novels.; Adoption; Evangelists; Gay men; Identity (Psychology); Mexican Americans; Psychic trauma; Siblings; Adoption; Evangelists; Gay men; Homeless persons; Identity; Mexican Americans; Psychic trauma; Brothers and sisters;
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The blind side [videorecording (DVD)] / by Aaron, Quinton.; Bates, Kathy,1948-; Bullock, Sandra.; Burwell, Carter.; Collins, Lilly.; Dickens, Kim,1965-; Dyer, Catherine.; Hancock, John Lee.; Head, Jae.; Johnson, Broderick.; Kosove, Andrew A.; Lenox, Adriane.; Lewis, Michael.Blind side: evolution of a game.Videorecording.; McGraw, Tim.; McKinnon, Ray.; Netter, Gil.; Stahl, Andy.; Alcon Entertainment (Firm); Warner Home Video (Firm); Zucker/Netter Productions (Firm);
Director of photography, Alar Kivilo ; editor, Mark Livolsi ; music, Carter Burwell.Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw, Quinton Aaron, Jae Head, Lily Collins, Ray McKinnon, Kim Dickens, Adriane Lenox, Kathy Bates, Catherine Dyer, Andy Stahl.Michael Oher is a homeless African-American teenager who is from a broken home. Mike is taken in by the Touhys, a well-to-do white family who help him fulfill his potential. At the same time, Oher's presence in the Touhys' lives leads them to some insightful self-discoveries of their own. Living in his new environment, Mike faces a completely different set of challenges to overcome - as both a football player and student. Mike works hard and, with the help of his coaches and adopted family, becomes an All-American offensive left tackle.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD, region 1, widescreen presentation ; Dolby digital.
Subjects: Lewis, Michael.; Oher, Michael; University of Mississippi; Adoptees; African American football players; African American professional athletes; Feature films.; Football films.; Football; Homeless teenagers; Interracial friendship; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
© c2010., Distributed by Warner Home Video,
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Eyes that weave the world's wonders / by Ho, Joanna.; Kleinrock, Liz.; Ho, Dung.;
A young girl who is a transracial adoptee learns to love her Asian eyes and finds familial connection and meaning through them, even though they look different from her parents'. Her family bond is deep and their connection is filled with love. She wonders about her birth mom, and comes to appreciate both her birth culture and her adopted family's culture, for even though they may seem very different, they are both a part of her, and that is what makes her beautiful. She learns to appreciate the differences in her family and celebrate them.Ages 4-8.
Subjects: Picture books.; Asian Americans; Adopted children; Intercountry adoption; Adoption; Families; Interracial adoption; Racially mixed families; Korean Americans;
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Fierce Voice. by Currie, Susan.;
Iz has everything she's ever wanted: shes found the foster home of her dreams and is attending the prestigious music school she moved heaven and earth to get into. But secrets from her past keep threatening to spill into the present, and Iz is sure that her newfound loved ones will abandon her if they learn of her terrible history. Susan Currie is an elementary teacher in Brampton. As an adoptee, she only learned of her Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) heritage (Cayuga Nation, Turtle Clan) as an adult. Her other books are being supported by Strong Nation. She lives in Brampton, ON.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Coming of Age; YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Own Voices; YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Performing Arts / General;
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