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Reading - Searches & Reunions
Reading - Infertility
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Reading - Birth Parents
Reading - Adoption
Many of the books, videos and other resources listed below are available from our library for families who are using or have used the services of Adoption By Choice.
Book Store
For a description of each title, please feel free to download our Booklist.
Books for Adults
- Adopting A Toddler: What Size Shoes Does She Wear - Denise Harris Hoppenhauer - $26.00
- Adopting After Infertility - Patricia Johnston - $20.00
- Adoption is a Family Affair: What Relatives and Friends Must Know - Patricia Irwin Johnston - $20.00
- Adoption Parenting: Creating a Toolbox, Building Connections - Jean McLeod and Sheena Macrae, Editors - $42.00
- Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today's Parents - Deborah Gray - $30.00
- Bringing Your Child Home: An Adoption Journal - Adoptive Families Association of BC - $25.00
- Dear Birthmother - Kathleen Silber and Phylis Speedlin - $21.00
- Family of Adoption - Joyce Maquire Pavao - $21.00
- Fatherhood for Gay Men: An Emotional and Practical Guide to Becoming a Gay Dad - Kevin McGarry - $28.00
- Flight of the Stork: What Children Think (and When) about Sex and Family Building - Anne C. Bernstein - $20.00
- How to Open an Adoption - Patricia Martinez Dorner - $15.00
- Inside Transracial Adoption - Gail Steinberg and Beth Hall - $35.00
- Launching a Baby's Adoption: Practical Strategies for Parents and Professionals - Patricia Irwin Johnston - $29.00
- Parenting Your Adopted Older Child: How to Overcome the Unique Challenges and Raise a Happy and Healthy Child - Brenda McCreight, Ph.D. - $22.00
- The Open Adoption Experience - Lois Ruskai Melina and Sharon Kaplan Roszia - $23.00
- Toddler Adoption: The Weaver's Craft - Mary Hopkins Best, Ed.D. - $20.00
- Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew - Sherrie Eldridge - $21.00
- Understanding Infertility: Insights for Family and Friends - Patricia Irwin Johnston - $7.00
Books for Children
- Families are Different - Nina Pellegrini - $24.00
- Filling in the Blanks: A Guided Look at Growing Up Adopted - Susan Gabel - $22.00
- Happy Adoption Day - John McCutcheon - $10.00
- Kids Need to Be Safe: A Book for Children in Foster Care - Julie Nelson - $14.00
- One Wonderful You - Francie Portnoy - $16.00
- Sam's Sister - Juliet C. Bond - $24.00
- Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born - Jamie Lee Curtis - $12.00
- The Day We Met You - Phoebe Koehler - $8.50
- The Mulberry Bird - Anne Braff Brodzinsky - $23.00
- Things Little Kids Need to Know - Susan Uhlig - $23.00
- Two Birthdays for Beth - Gay Lynn Cronin - $17.00
- We See the Moon - Carrie A. Kitze - $24.00
- What is Adoption: Helping Non-Adopted Children Understand Adoption - Sofie Stergianis and Rita McDowall - $15.00
- W.I.S.E. Up Powerbook - Marilyn Schoettle, MA - $20.00
For a description of each title, please feel free to download our Booklist.
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Videos
- A Candid Talk About Loss in Adoption - Adoptapes
- Birthparents Speak About Adoption - Adoptapes
- Building and Maintaing the Adoptive Relationship
- Mister Rogers Neighborhood - Family Communication Inc.
- Reading Rainbow: Through Moon and Stars and Night Skies - EPN/WNED-TV
- Ready Rainbow: Barney - EPN/WNED-TV
- So You're Going to Adopt? Coming To Terms With Grief and Loss In Adoption - Audio Tapes
- The Baby Tapes: First Day Home - Stork Maternity Video Corporation
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Audio Cassettes
- Adoption is Not Second-Best - Lois Melina
- Answering Your Child's Questions About Adoption - Lois Melina
- Good Manners in Open Adoption - Lois Melina
- Introduction to Adoption for Family & Friends - Lois Melina
- Rituals in Adoption Lois Melina
- The Adopted Child in Middle Childhood - Lois Melina
- The Joys and Challenges of Raising Adopted Children - Lois Melina
- The Open Adoption Experience (2 tapes) - Lois Melina, Sharon Roszia
- While You Wait to Adopt - Lois Melina
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Reading - Searches & Reunions
- Adoption Reunions - McColm, Michelle (1993) Toronto: Second Story Press
- Being Adopted - The Lifelong Search for Self - Brodzinsky, D. (1998) Doubleday Press
- Birth Bond: Reunions Between Parents & Adoptees - J. Gediman & L. Brown (1991) Far Hills, New Jersey; New Horizon Press
- Birthright: The Guide to Search & Reunion for Adoptees - Strauss, J.A.S. (1994) New York: Penguin Books.
- Courageous Blessing: Adoptive Parents and the Search - Demuth, C. (1993) Galland TX: Aries Center.
- Giving Away Simone - Waldron, J.L. (1995) Doubleday Press.
- Gone to an Aunt's - Petrie, A. (1998) Toronto: McClelland & Stewart.
- Healing the Shame that Binds - Bradshaw, J. (1988) Deerfield Beach, Fl: Health Communications.
- Itaka - Daughter's Memoir of Being Found - Saffian, S. (1998) New York: Basic Books.
- Journey of the Adopted Self: A Quest for Wholeness - Lifton, B.J. (1975) New York: McGraw Hill.
- My Search for Catherine Anne - Clark, Barrie A. (1989) Toronto: James Lorimer Press
- Our Son A Stranger - Marie Adams
- Out of the Shadows: Birthfathers' Stories - Mason, M. Martin (1995) Edina, Minnesota: O.J. Howard Publishing.
- Painful Lessons, Loving bonds, The Heart of Open Adoption - Marcy Wineman Axness
- Reunion: The Search for My Birthfamily - Allen, Madeleine (1992) Toronto: Stoddart Publishing Co.
- Stories of Adoption - Blau, E. (1993) Portland, Oregon: New Sage Press
- The Adoption Reunion Survival Guide: Preparing Yourself for the Search, Reunion and Beyond - Bailey, Julie Jarrell Bailey & Giddens, Lynn N., M.A.
- The Other Mother - Shaefer, C. (1991) New York: Soho Press
- To Love and Let Go - Arms, Susan. (1983) New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
- Where Are My Birth Parents?: A Guide for Teenage Adoptees - Gravell, Karen & Fischer, Susan
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Reading - Infertility
- Adopting After Infertility - Johnston, Patricia (1992) Indianapolis, Indiana: Perspectives Press
- Adoption: Parenthood Without Pregnancy - Canape, Charlene (1986) New York, New York: Avon Books
- Dear Barbara Dear Lynn - Shulgold, Barbara & Sipiora, Lynne (1992) Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley Publishing
- Infertility: A Guide for the Childless Couple - Menning, Barbara Eck (1988) New York: Prentice Hall Press
- Sweet Grapes: How to Stop Being Infertile & Start Living Again - Carter, Jean W. & Carter, Michael (1989) Indianapolis, Indiana: Perspectives Press
- The Infertility Maze - Schwan, Kassie (1988) Chicago, New York: Contemporary Books
- The Miracle Seekers - Mason, Mary Martin (1987) Indiana: Perspective Press
- Taking Charge of Infertility - Johnston, Patricia Irwin (1984) Indianapolis Indiana: Perspectives Press
- Understanding Infertility - Johnston, Patricia Irwin
- Choosing Assisted Reproduction - Cooper, Susan Lewis & Glazer, Ellen Sarasohn
- Fathers & Babies - Marzollo, Jean & Trivas, Irene
- Having Your Baby by Donor Insemination: A Complete Source Guide - Noble, Elizabeth
- Helping the Stork - Vercollone, Carol Frost, MSW, Moss, Heidi, MSW & Moss, Robert, Ph.D.
- In Pursuit of Fertility - Franklin, Robert R., M.D. & Brockman, Dorothy Kay
- Lethal Secrets - Baran, Annette and Pannor, Reuben
- The Gift of a Child - Snoden, Robert & Elizabeth
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Reading - Children's Books
- A Family for Jamie - New York: Clarkson N. Potter Inc./Publishers, 1991 Suzanne Bloom
- A Forever Family - New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1992 R. Banish & J. Jordan-Wong Abby New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1973 Jeannette Caines
- Adoption is for Always - Illinois: Albert Whitman & Company, 1986 Linda Walvoord Giard
- Beginnings How Families Come to Be - Morton Groe, Illinois: Albert Whitman & Company Virginia Kroll
- Chinese Eyes - Scottdale, Pennsylvania: Herald Press: 1974 Marjorie Ann Waybill
- Did My First Mother Love Me? - Buena Park, California: Morning Glory Press: 1994 Kathryn Ann Miller
- Families are Different - New York: Holiday House: 1991 Nina Pellegrini
- Happy Adoption Day - Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1996 John McCutcheon
- How It Feels to be Adopted - New York: Pennsylvania: Our Child Press: 1992 Jill Krementz
- Is That Your Sister? - Wayne, Pennsylvania: Our Child Press: 1992 Catherine & Sherry Bunin
- Lucy's Feet - Indianapolis: Perspective Press: 1988 Stephanie Stein
- Mario's Big Question - Batavia, Illinois, Lion Publishing Corp: 1987 Carolyn Nystrom
- Our Baby: A Birth and Adoption Story - Indianapolis, Indiana: Perspectives Press: 1985 Janice Koch
- Real for Sure Sister - Fort Wayne, Indiana: Perspectives Press: 1988 Anne Angel
- Red Eggs & Dragon Boats - Berkley, California: Pacific View Press: 1994 Carol Stephachuk
- Steven's Baseball Mitt - Toronto: Annick Press Ltd. Firefly Books: 1992 Kathy Stinson
- Susan & Gordon Adopt a Baby - New York, Random House/Children's Television Workshop, 1986 Sesame Street
- Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born - Harper Collins Publishers Jamie Lee Curtis
- Tell me a Real Adoption Story - New York: Alfred A. Knopf: 1993 Betty Jean Lifton
- The Day We Met Your - Aladdin paperbacks 1997 Phoebe Koehler
- The Children of India - Minneapolis: Carolrhoda Books, Inc: 1993 Jules Hermes
- The Mulberry Bird (Story of an Adoption) - Indianapolis, Indiana, Perspectives Press: 1986 Anne Braff Brodzinsky
- The Rainbabies - New York: Lothrop-Lee Shepard Books: 1992 Laura Krauss Melmed
- Through Moon and Stars and Night Skies - Harper Trophy A Charlotte Zolotow Book
- Two Birthdays for Beth - Gay Lynn Cronin
- We Adopted You Benjamin Koo - Niles Illinois: Albert Whitman & Co: 1986 L. W. Girard
- We're Different We're the Same - New York: Random House Sesame Street
- Where the Sun Kisses The Sea - Indianapolis, Indiana, Perspectives Press: 1989 Susan Gabel
- Why Didn't She Keep Me - South Bend, Indiana: Langford Books: 1994 Barbara Burlingham-Brown
- Why Am I Different? - Morton Grove, Illinois: Albert Whitman & Company Norma Simon
- Why Was I Adopted - Secaucus, New Jersey: Lyle Stuart Inc., : 1978 Carole Livingston
- William Is My Brother - Illinois: Perspectives Press, 1991 J.T. Schnitter
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Reading - Booklets/Pamphlets
- Letter to Adoptive Parents on Open Adoption - Dallas Texas: House of Tomorrow Productions:1993 Randolph W. Severson
- A Mighty Time: Talking to Your Adopted Adolescent About Sex - Dallas Texas: House of Tomorrow Productions Randolph W. Severson
- Adopting and the Jewish Couple - New York, New York: United Synagogue of America: 1987 Rabbi Micahel Gold
- Adoptions in Alberta - Alberta Family & Social Services
- Assessing Attachment, Separation and Loss - Atlanta Georgia: Child Welfare Institute (booklet) Linda Bayless
- Can't you sit Still? Adoption & A.D.H.D. - Dallas, Texas: Heart Woods Randolph W. Severson
- Dear Birthfather - Dallas Texas: House of Tomorrow Productions Randolph W. Severson
- Getting Started on Adoption: Preparing the Heart - Dallas, Texas: Heart Words Randolph W. Severson
- Love and Discipline: Discipline in Adoptive Families - Dallas Texas: Heart Words Randolph W. Severson
- Nursing Your Adopted Baby - Chesterville, Ontario La Leche League Canada Kathryn Anderson
- Talking to Your Child About Adoption - Mt. Hermon, CA: Schaaefer Publishing Company: 1991 Patricia Martinez Dorner
- The Neighborhood of the Heart - Randolph W. Severson
- The Soul of Family Preservation -Dallas, Texas: Heart Words Randolph W. Severson
- Thinking About Adoption - Anchorage, Alaska: The Winking Owl Press Candace E. Wheeler
- To Bless Him Unaware: The adopted child conceived by rape - Dallas, Texas: House of Tomorrow Productions Randolph W. Severson
- Understanding: A Guide to Impaired Fertility for Family and Friends - Indianapolis Indiana: Perspectives Press: 1987 Patricia Johnston
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Reading - Birth Parents
- A Birthmother's Book of Memories - Michigan: R-Squared Press, 1994 Brenda Romanchik
- Birthmothers - Chicago: Chicago Review Press: 1993 J. Gediman & L. Brown
- Giving Away Simone - Toronto, ON: Anchor Books Doubleday 1995 Jan L. Waldron
- Given in Love (booklet) - North Saddle Creek, Omaha: Centering Corporation Maureen Connelly
- Out of the Shadows - Edina Minnesota: OJ Howard Publishing: 1995 Mary. M Mason
- Parents, Pregnant Teens and the Adoption Option - California: Morning Gory Press, 1989 Jeanne W. Lindsay
- Saying Goodbye to a Baby - Washington, CWLA: 1989 Patricia Roles
- The Other Mother - New York: Soho, 1991 Carol Scheafer
- To Love & Let Go - New York: Alfred Knopf, 1988 Suzanne Arms
- Yesterday They Took My Baby - Toronto, Ontario: Stoddart Publishing Co: 1993 Ben Wicks
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Reading - Adoption
- A Canadian Guide to International Adoptions - North Vancouver, B.C.: Self Counsel Press: 1992 John Bowen
- A Child's Journey Through Placement - Indianapolis: Perspective Press, 1991 V.I. Fahlberg
- Adopting the Hurt Child - Colorado Springs, Pinon Press, 1995 Gregory Keck & Regina Kupecky
- Adopting the Older Child - Boston: The Harvard Common Press, 1978 C.L. Jewett
- Adopting Your Child - Vancouver: Self-Counsel Press, 1993 Nancy T. Reynolds
- Adoption and the Family System - New York: Guildford Press, 1992 M. Reitz & K.W. Watson
- Adoption and the Schools - Resources for Parents and Teachers - Edited by Lansing wood and Nancy Ng
- Adoption and Prenatal Alcohol and Drug Exposure - Research, Policy, and Practice - Child Welfare League of America, Edited by Richard P. Barth, Madelyn Freunddlich, and David Brodzinsky
- Adoption Awareness - Bovena Park: Morning Glory Press, 1989 J. Lindsay & C. Monserrat
- Adoption: Charms & Rituals for Healing - Dallas, Texas: House of Tomorrow Productions: 1991 Randolph W. Severson
- Adoption: Current Issues and Trends - Toronto, Ontario: Butterworth Group of Companies: 1984 Paul Sachdev
- Adoption in Canada - Final Report - University of Guelph: Guelph Ontario: 1993 K.J. Daly, M.P. Sobol
- Adoption Nation - How the Adoption Revolution is Transforming Ameria - Adam Pertman
- Adoption: Parenthood Without Pregnancy - New York: Avon Books: 1986 Charlene Canape
- Adoption Philosophy & Experience - Dallas Texas, House of Tomorrow Productions Randolph W. Severson
- Adoption Without Fear - Alamo: Corona Press, 1989 James L. Gritter
- An Adoptee's Dreams: Poems & Stories - Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press Inc: 1995 Penny Callan Partridge
- An Adoptor's Advocate - Indianapolis Indiana, Perspectives Press Patricia Irwin Johnston
- Are These Kids Yours? - Toronto: Collier, 1991 Cheri Register
- As If Kids Mattered - Toronto Ontario, Key Porter Books Marlene Webber
- Being Adopted: The Life Long Search For Self - New York: Doubleday 1992 D.M. Brodzinsky, M. Scheschter & R.M. Henig
- Children of Open Adoption - San Antonio: Corona Publishing, 1991 Kathleen Solber & Patricia Dorner
- Clinical Practice in Adoption - Toronto: Pergamon Press: 1988 R. Winkler, A. Blanchard, M. Van Keppel, D. Brown
- Communicating with the Adopted Child - New York, Walker & Co: 1991 Miriam Komar
- Dear Birthmother: Thank You For Our Baby - San Antonio: Corona Publishing, 1991 Kathleen Silber, Patricia Dorner
- Designing Rituals of Adoption - Minneapolis Minnesota: Resources for Adoptive Parents, Mary Martin Mason
- Eden's Secret Journal - The Story of an Older Child Adoption, Brenda McCreight, Ph.D., Adoption Press 2003
- Family Bonds (Adoption & the Politics of Parenting) - Boston, New York: Houghton Misslin: 1993 Elizabeth Bartholet
- Filling in the Blanks - Indianapolis Indiana: Perspectives Press: 1988 Susan Gabel
- Flight of the Stork - Indianapolis Indiana: Perspectives Press: 1994 A.C. Bernstein
- Give Them Roots, Then Let Them Fly - Kearney, NE: Mooris Publishing The Attachment Center at Evergreen
- Gone to an Aunt's - Toronto, ON: McMclelland & Stewart Anne Petrie
- Grief, Dying & Death - Illinois: Research Press: 1984 Theresa A. Rando
- Helping Children Cope with Separation and Loss - Harvard: Harvard Common Press: 1982 Claudia L. Jewett
- How To Open An Adoption - Hawthorne, Royal Oak: R-Square Press Patricia Martinez Dorner
- How To Raise An Adopted Child - New York: Crown Publishers Inc: 1989 Judith Schaffer & Christina Lindstrom
- How To Raise Children's Self-Esteem - San Jose, CA: Enrich, Div/Ohaus Harris Clemes & Reynold Bean
- How To Raise: Teenager's Self Esteem - San Jose, CA: Enrich, Div/Ohaus Aminah Clark, Jarris Clemes & Reymond Bean
- Inside Transracial Adoption - Strength-based, culture-sensitizing pearenting strategies for inter-country or domestic adoptive families that don't "match" - Gail Steinberg & Beth Hall
- Journey of the Adopted Self - new York: Basic Books, Division of Harper Collins Publishers, 1994 Betty Jean Lifton
- Kids are worth it! - Toronto: Sumerville House Publishing: 1994 Barbara Coloroso
- Launching A Baby's Adoption - Indianapolis, Indiana: Perspectives Press, 1997 Patricia Irwin Johnston
- Making Babies - Mississauga, Ontario: Random House of Canada Ltd: 1990 H. Pullen & J. Smith
- Making Sense of Adoption: A Parent's Guide - new York: Harper and Row: 1989 Lois Ruskai Melina
- My Child is a Mother - San Antonio: Corona Publishing Co. Mary Stepehnson
- On the Frontier of Adoption - New York, New York: Child Welfare League of America: 1985 Katherine A. Nelson
- One on the Seesaw - New York: Random House Carol Lynn Pearson
- Open Adoption: A Caring Option - Beana Park, California: Morning Glory Press: 1988 Jeanne Warren Lindsay
- Our Baby: A Birth & Adoption Story - Indianapolis, Indiana: Perspectives Press: 1985 Janice Koch
- Pandora's Hope: Poems & Prose about being Adopted - Amherst, MA: Penelope Partridge, 1997 Penny Callan Partridge
- Parenting with Love & Logic - Colorado Springs, Colorado: Pinon Press: 1990 Foster Cline MD, Jim Fay
- Perspectives on a Grafted Tree - Indianapolis, Indiana: Perspectives Press: 1983 Patricia Johnston
- Raising Adopted Children - New York: Harper and Row: 1986 Lois Ruskai Melina
- Bartels Gulden, Publishing Van Crossroad York: New - Children Real Parents,
- Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls - New York: Ballantine Books, 1994 Mary Pipher
- Rituals for our Times - New York: Harper Collins: 1992 Evan Imber-Black, Janine Roberts
- Sacred Connections - Stories of Adoption - Mary Ann Koenig
- Special Kids Need Special Parents - Judith Loseff Lavin
- Stories of Adoption: Loss and Reunion - Portland, Oregon: New Sage Press: 1993 Eric Blau
- Stress and the Healthy Family - Harper San Francisco Dolores Curran
- Successful Adoption: A Guide to Finding a Child and Raising a Family - New York: Harmony Books 1982 Jacqueline Hornor Plumez
- The Adoption Triangle - London: Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd: 1992 Julia Tugendhat
- The Adoption Life Cycle - New York: The Free Press: 1992 Elinor B. Rosenberg
- The Adoption Reader - Seattle, Washington: Seal Press: 1995 Susan Wadia - Ells
- The Adoption Resource Book - New York: Harper and Row, 1977 Lois Gilman
- The Broken Cord - New York: Harper Collins Publishers: 1989 Michael Dorris
- The Family of Adoption Joyce Maguire Pavao
- The Grief Recovery Handbook - New York, New York: Harper Perennial: 1988 J.W. James, F. Cherry
- The Open Adoption Book - New York: MacMillan Publishing, 1992 Bruce M. Rapaport
- The Open Adoption Experience - New York: Harper and Row Lois Melina, Sharon Kaplain Roszia
- The Other Mother - New York: Soho Press: 1991 Carol Scheafer
- The Spirit of Open Adoption - Washington, DC: CWLA Press, 1997 James L. Gritter
- Toddler Adoption: The Weaver's Craft - Indianapolis, IN: Perspectives Press, 1997 Mary Hopkins-Best
- What is Written on the Heart - Primal Issues in Adoption - Marcy Wineman Axness
- What to Expect the First Year - New York, New York: Workman Publishing: 1989 Eisenberg, Murkoff, Hathaway
- What to Expect When You're Expecting - New York, New York: Workman Publishing: 1991 Eisenberg, Murkoff, Hathaway
- When Friends Ask About Adoption - Swan Publications Linda Bothun
- Working with Adoptive Families Beyond Placement - New York, New York: Child Welfare League of America Inc: 1984 Ann Hartman
- You're Our Child: The Adoption Experience - Lanham: Madison Books: 1987 Jerome Smith, Franklin Miroff
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