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Nine months after bringing their adopted daughter Angelina home, Jack and Melissa McGuane receive a devastating phone call from the adoption agency: the birth father, a teenager and son of a powerful Denver judge, never signed away his parental rights, and he wants Angelina back.
4) Silent Joe
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Rescued from an orphanage by Will Trona, a politician, Joe is swept into the maelstrom of power and intimidation that surrounds his adoptive father, but when Will is murdered and Joe hunts for the killer, he learns of his father's many secrets.
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The story every mother in America needs to read. As featured on NPR and the TODAY Show. All moms have to deal with choosing baby names, potty training, finding your village, and answering your kid's tough questions, but if you are raising a Black child, you have to deal with a lot more than that. Especially if you're a single Black mom... and adopting.
Nefertiti Austin shares her story of starting a family through adoption
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Harvest House Publishers
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English
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Hi, I'm Mike Berry. When my wife, Kristin, and I felt God's call to love and lead kids from difficult places, we accepted the challenge and jumped in. Maybe you've felt the same calling or are already well into your foster or adoptive parenting journey. Wherever you're at, we want to share with you the hope we found. In this book, I'm going to share true hope with you and where I believe it's found. I'm going to relate honest stories and moments from...
7) Lion
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The Weinstein Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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At only five years old, Saroo Brierley got lost on a train in India. Unable to read or write or recall the name of his hometown or even his own last name, he survived alone for weeks on the rough streets of Calcutta before ultimately being transferred to an agency and adopted by a couple in Australia.
8) Deadly deals
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After years of trying to become pregnant without success, Rachel Dawson and her husband Thomas felt their dreams had finally come true the day they brought home their newly adopted twin babies. But soon the birth mother reappears, first demanding more money, then the twins themselves. After spending Thanksgiving with their loved ones on Big Pine Mountain, the ladies of the Sisterhood prepare to assist attorney Lizzie Fox in breaking up an illegal...
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
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English
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Wendy and Rip Porter are a working-class couple fighting to regain custody of Joey, the young son Wendy gave up for adoption when Rip went to prison seven years earlier. But Joey's adoptive parents will stop at nothing to ensure that the small boy stays in the only home he's ever known.
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Family Christian Stores
Pub. Date
[2010]
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English
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Based on Karen Kingsbury's book and produced by the Downes Brothers, the movie Like Dandelion Dust is the drama of a young boy caught between his biological parents and the only parents he's ever known. Now learn the stories behind the making of the movie, featuring behind the scenes footage from the movie, interviews with Karen Kingsbury and Kevin Downes' families, and more
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Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"May you always feel at home. After their decision not to have a biological child, Sarah Sentilles and her husband, Eric, decided to adopt via the foster care system. Knowing that the goal is reunification with the birth family, Sarah opens their home to a flurry of social workers who question, evaluate, and ultimately prepare them to welcome a child into their family--even if it most likely means giving them up. After years of starts and stops, a...
17) Orphan
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2009.
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English
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When a family adopts Esther, a nine-year-old Russian orphan with a tragic background, mysterious and disturbing events start occurring around the family and Esther's new classmates in school.
18) Dead time
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English
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Psychologist Alan Gregory is struggling to deal with both a newly adopted son and a shaky, though generally improving, marriage. But then his ex-wife, Merideth, reappears, seeking help locating the missing surrogate mother of her soon-to-be-born child, and Alan is pulled into a mystery that reaches back years--with ramifications that are disturbingly current.--From publisher description.