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In Their Own Voices
Adoption Parenting
Beyond Good Intentions
Twenty Life Choices Adoptees Need to Make
Inside Transracial Adoption
Adoption Nation
The Post-Adoption Blues
In Their Own Voices:
Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories
     by Rita J. Simon and Rhonda M. Roorda
Description:
How did being adopted transracially affect their lives through childhood and into adulthood? How did their family experiences influence their racial and social identities, their choice of friends and marital partners, and their lifestyles?
Adoption Parenting
   Edited By Jean MacLeod & Sheena Macrae, PhD
Description:
Over 100 contributors from across the globe have come together to weave a stunning tapestry of advice specifically for adoptive parents. This book looks at the core issues all members of the adoption triad face, and how they affect parenting techniques that just might not be the right fit adopted children.
Beyond Good Intentions
     By Cheri Register
Description:
Register examines ten pitfalls that well-meaning parents can slip into: wiping away our children's past; hovering over troubled children; holding the lid on sorrow and anger; parenting on the defensive; believing race doesn't matter; and more.
Twenty Life Transforming Choices Adoptees Need to Make
     By Sherrie Eldridge
Description:
From the hihgly acclaimed author of Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew, this book is a collection of over seventy stories about life's challenges as an adoptee--challenges which are often kept hidden from others.
Inside Transracial Adoption
     By Gail Steinberg and Beth Hall
Description:
Using a careful blend of academic research, social reality, and personal experience, Inside Transracial Adoption provides creative, confident, pro-active, and provocative guidance for prospective parents who are considering transracial adoption for the first time.
Adoption Nation
     By Adam Pertman
Description:
Adoption is accelerating our transofrmation into a more multicultural and multiethnic society, even as it helps redefine our understanding of family. Filled with information and a wealth of dramatic, real-life stories, this book is essential reading for adoptive families and those considering adotion.
The Post-Adoption Blues
   By Karen J. Foli, Ph.D. & John R. Thompson, M.D.
Description:
The path to parenting through adoption is rich with rewards and fulfillment. But it's not without bumps. This compassionate, and uplifting book is the first to offer solutions for the normal  but unspoken feelings of stress that adoptive families encounter as they cope with new challenges and expectations.

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Beneath the Mask: Understanding Adopted Teens
     By Debbie Riley, M.S.
Description:

Dear Mom and Dad, care to know what’s going on in your adopted teen’s head? Think identifying some strategies to deal with all those feelings might restore some peace at home? A new book by C.A.S.E. Executive Director, Debbie Riley, addresses the unique issues faced by adopted teens and their families.

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Pushing Up the Sky - A Mother's Journey
   By Terra Trevor
Description:
In 1987, Terra Trevor and her husband Gary adopted a ten-year-old daughter from South Korea. Her new daughter experienced difficulty adjusting to becoming the oldest child in a mixed blood American Indian-Caucasian family. Her birth daughter, usurped from oldest to middle child, had a difficult transition too. Then her son, also adopted from Korea, was diagnosed with a brain tumor, an event that changed all of their lives forever.