Nina Popkin goes searching for her birth mother and in the process turns some lives upside down, but also learns that family has nothing to do with DNA.

Eighteen-year-old Maggie runs away from her adopted Christian home after her father's tragic death. She feels the need to locate her birth mother, but when she does, she finds a mother that does not love her or want her. Maggie now finds herself living on the streets alone, broke, and scared. But God brings just the right people into Maggie's life, Max and Grace, who will help make her 'passage' to a new life in Christ a reality.

Partnered with a boy named Brody, high school senior Avery embarks on a class project to find her birth mother, after Avery's former best friend, also adopted, dies.

"This is the day you give up the most precious thing you've ever been given, Pat said in a quiet, sad corner of her mind. The time had come, the last time she would see her daughter-forever. Pat's decision to place Suzzane for adoption haunted her for years. The true story of a woman whose life of disappointment and loss was transformed by her growing awareness of a God who surprised and blessed her beyond what she ever imagined." -- Amazon.com.

Ben, a thirty-one-year-old who was adopted by orthodox Jewish parents as a baby and has never been quite comfortable with the Jewish faith, receives a letter from his birth mother inviting him to meet her.

"Iris Bowen is a young Irish gardener and mother of a beloved adopted daughter, Rose. A recent widow, Iris has spent the last two years concentrating on the day-to-day business of launching Rose into the world. But when she receives some worrisome results on a breast scan, the words of her husband as he was dying of cancer become hauntingly urgent. He had begged Iris to search for Rose's birth mother so that Rose would still have family if anything...

Lucie's aunt and uncle are having a baby, which makes Lucie wonder about her birth mother and what it was like before she was born.

Avery James' life is turned upside down when she sees a portrait of a woman who is the mirror image of herself, and realizes it must be the mother who abandoned her. When she learns her mother, an artist, died in a tragic accident years earlier, she sets out to discover as much about the woman as she can.

After being widowed with six children, a young immigrant spends years searching for the four daughters that were taken from her and put on an orphan train.