Adopted for Life: The Priority of Adoption for Christian Families and Churches

The Lucky Few: Finding God's Best in the Most Unlikely Places

Heather Avis · 224 pages

Everything You Ever Wanted: A Memoir

Jillian Lauren · 254 pages

"'A punk rock Scheherazade' (Margaret Cho) shares the zigzagging path that took her from harem member to PTA member. In her younger years, Jillian Lauren was a college dropout, a drug addict, and an international concubine in the Prince of Brunei's harem, an experience she immortalized in in her bestselling memoir, SOME GIRLS. In her thirties, Jillian's most radical act was learning the steadying

Instant Mom

Nia Vardalos · 282 pages

Writer and star of My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Nia Vardalos firmly believed she was supposed to be a mom, but Mother Nature and modern medicine stood in her way. So she made a choice that shocked friends, family, and even herself: with only fourteen hours' notice, she adopted a preschooler. This is Vardalos's hilarious and poignant true chronicle of trying to become a mother while fielding nosy "fre

The Kid: What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant

Dan Savage · 246 pages

No Biking in the House Without a Helmet

Melissa Fay Greene · 361 pages

With four children of their own, Atlanta journalist Greene and her husband, a criminal defense attorney, gradually adopted five more--one from Bulgaria and four from Ethiopia--to create a roiling, largehearted family unit.

Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption

Katie J. Davis, Beth Clark · 264 pages

What would cause an eighteen-year-old old senior class president and homecoming queen from Nashville, Tennessee, to disobey and disappoint her parents by forgoing college, break her little brother’s heart, lose all but a handful of her friends (because the rest of them think she has gone off the deep end), and break up with the love of her life, all so she could move to Uganda, where she knew only

The Family Nobody Wanted

Helen Grigsby Doss · 267 pages

The Connected Child: Bring Hope and Healing to Your Adoptive Family

Karyn B. Purvis · 288 pages

Will You Love Me?: The Story of My Adopted Daughter Lucy

Cathy Glass · 304 pages

"The eleventh memoir and latest title from the internationally bestselling author and foster carer Cathy Glass. This book tells the true story of Cathy's adopted daughter Lucy. Lucy was born to a single mother who had been abused and neglected for most of her own childhood. Right from the beginning Lucy's mother couldn't cope, but it wasn't until Lucy reached eight years old that she was finally t

The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking, and the New Gospel of Adoption

Kathryn Joyce · 352 pages

"Adoption has long been enmeshed in the politics of abortion. But as award-winning journalist Kathryn Joyce makes clear in The Child Catchers, adoption has lately become entangled in the conservative Christian agenda. To tens of millions of evangelicals, adoption has become a new front in the culture wars: a test of "pro-life" bonafides, a way to reinvent compassionate conservatism on the global s

If It's Not One Thing, It's Your Mother

Julia Sweeney · 246 pages

While Julia Sweeney is known as a talented comedienne and writer/performer of her one-woman shows, she is also a talented essayist--and the past few years have provided her with some rich material. Julia adopted a Chinese girl named Mulan and then, a few years later, married and moved from Los Angeles to Chicago. She writes about deciding to adopt her child, strollers, nannies, knitting, being ado

Choosing to SEE

Mary Beth Chapman · 292 pages

From the beginning, Mary Beth Chapman's life was not how she planned. All she wanted was a calm, peaceful life of stability and control. Instead, God gave her an award-winning singer/songwriter husband, crazy schedules, and a houseful of creatively rambunctious children. And then, she experienced the tragedy she never could have imagined. In Choosing to See, Mary Beth unveils her struggle to allow

Does This Baby Make Me Look Straight?: Confessions of a Gay Dad

Dan Bucatinsky

From actor/writer/producer Dan Bucatinsky, executive producer of NBC’s Who Do You Think You Are?, a collection of snort-milk-through-your-nose funny stories of parenthood that will obliterate the boundaries of gender and sexual orientation, and sweep readers up on a journey into fatherhood—warts and all. In 2005, Dan Bucatinsky and his partner, Don Roos, found themselves in an LA delivery room,

Family Worship: In the Bible, in History & in Your Home

Donald S. Whitney · 80 pages

Gathering together for worship is an indispensable part of your family's spiritual life. It is a means for God to reveal himself to you and your loved ones in a powerful way. This practical guide by Donald S. Whitney will prove invaluable to families -- with or without children in the home -- as they practice God-glorifying, Christ-exalting worship through Bible reading, prayer, and singing. Inclu

The Memory Keeper's Daughter

Kim Edwards · 408 pages

Kim Edwards's stunning family drama evokes the spirit of Sue Miller and Alice Sebold, articulating every mother's silent fear: what would happen if you lost your child and she grew up without you? In 1964, when a blizzard forces Dr. David Henry to deliver his own twins, he immediately recognizes that one of them has Down Syndrome and makes a split-second decision that will haunt all their lives fo

The Lost Child of Philomena Lee: A Mother, Her Son and a 50 Year Search

Martin Sixsmith · 442 pages

"When she became pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent to a convent to be looked after as a "fallen woman." Then the nuns took her baby from her and sold him, like thousands of others, to America for adoption. Fifty years later, Philomena decided to find him. Meanwhile, on the other side of the Atlantic, Philomena's son was trying to find her. Renamed Michael Hess, he h

Treasuring God in Our Traditions

Noel Piper, John Piper · 122 pages

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

Jeanette Winterson · 240 pages

Memories of the author about her difficult childhood as the adopted daughter of an English mother with strong religious convictions, and her subsequent search for her biological mother.

Glimpses of Grace: Treasuring the Gospel in Your Home

Gloria Furman

Sometimes life feels a lot like a burden. Day-in and day-out, it's the same chores and tasks, challenges and discouragements, anxieties and responsibilities. Dust bunnies show up on the stairwell, social commitments clutter the calendar, and our families demand daily attention and care. At times, just catching our breath seems like an impossible feat. So where is God in all of this? Does he care a

What He Must Be …If He Wants to Marry My Daughter

Voddie T. Baucham Jr.

Introduction Multigenerational vision The ministry of marriage A father's role He must be a follower of Christ He must be prepared to lead He must lead like Christ (Ephesians 5) He must be committed to children He must practice the four P's Don't send a woman to do a man's job Can't find one : build one Conclusion

Indigo Children

Lee Carroll, Jan Tober · 249 pages

Offers advice on educating and parenting children who display new and unusual psychological attributes.

For the Love: Fighting for Grace in a World of Impossible Standards

Jen Hatmaker · 224 pages

The popular writer, blogger, and television personality reveals with humor and style how Jesus' extravagant grace is the key to dealing with life's biggest challenge: people. The majority of our joys, struggles, thrills, and heartbreaks relate to people, beginning first with ourselves and then the people we came from, married, birthed, live by, live for, go to church with, don't like, don't und

Feminine Appeal: Seven Virtues of a Godly Wife and Mother

Carolyn Mahaney · 167 pages

Feathers from My Nest: A Mother's Reflections

Beth Moore · 219 pages