Nine months after the McGuanes adopt a daughter, they learn that the birth father, a teenager, never signed away his parental rights, and when they try to handle the situation personally, they learn something unsettling about the boy and his father, a powerful judge in Denver, while trying to protect their child.

Rachel Dawson and her husband, Thomas, felt their dreams had finally come true the day they brought home their newly adopted twin babies. Though the lawyer, Baron Bell, who arranged for the surrogate mother, charged a hefty fee, it was all worth it to them. Until the birth mother reappeared, first demanding more money, then the twins themselves. Suddenly Bell was nowhere to be found. When the case finds its way to the offices of high-profile attorney...

Botswanan detective Precious Ramotswe and her assistant open an adjunct business--a men's typing school--which helps Mma Makutsi find a man and also helps financially when some arrogant investigative competition arrives in town; meanwhile, Precious's adopted son hits puberty at full speed.

"A young girl, kidnapped on the eve of Word War II, changes the lives of a German archaeologist forced into the Nazi Party and-decades later-a researcher trying to overcome her own trauma. 1940. Hanna Tillich cherishes her work as an archaeologist for the Third Reich, searching for the Holy Grail and other artifacts to bolster evidence of a master Aryan race. But when she is reassigned to work as a museum curator in Nuremberg, then forced to marry...

Jubilee Jenkins is no ordinary librarian. With a rare allergy to human touch, any skin-to-skin contact could literally kill her. But after retreating into solitude for nearly ten years, Jubilee's decided to brave the world again, despite the risks. Armed with a pair of gloves, long sleeves, and her trusty bicycle, she finally ventures out the front door-and into her future. Eric Keegan has troubles of his own. With his daughter from a failed marriage...

The remarkable couple, Leigh and Sean Tuohy, featured in The Blind Side tell their own deeply inspiring story. In this touching, funny, nad profoundly inspiring book, the Tuohys take us on an extraordinary journey of faith and love--and teach us unforgettable lessons about the power of cheerful giving.

"An extremely useful parenting handbook... truly outstanding ... strongly recommended."
—Library Journal (starred review)

"A tremendous resource for parents and professionals alike."
—Thomas Atwood, president and CEO, National Council for Adoption

The adoption of a child is always a joyous moment in the life of a family. Some adoptions, though, present unique challenges. Welcoming these children

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"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...

From "Adoptive Families "magazine, the country's leading resource on adoption, this warm, authoritative book is full of practical, realistic advice from leading attorneys, doctors, social workers, and psychologists, as well as honest, intimate stories from real parents and children.

Desperate to start a family, New York schoolteacher April Epner hits a midlife crisis when, in quick succession, her husband unexpectedly abandones her and her adoptive mother dies. She gets another shock when she meets her biological mother, an eccentric, self-centered talk show host, whom at first she rejects. Then the divorced dad of one of her students begins courting April. As her life is turned upside-down, April finds herself opening up in...