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Recommended Reading Please peruse our recommended reading list. Many of these books can be found in libraries nationwide. To purchase these titles, the following specialized sources are recommended: Amazon.com: A portion of books purchased through Amazon will benefit the AAC. Just click on one of our links below. Tapestry Books: A mail order/online bookstore specializing in adoption titles. Adoptive Kinship: A Modern Institution in Need of Reform by H. David Kirk. Ben-Simon, 1985. ISBN 0914539019. The Adoption Triangle: Sealed or Opened Records: How They Affect Adoptees, Birth Parents, and Adoptive Parents by Arthur D. Sorosky, Rueben Pannor, Annette Baran. Doubleday, 1984. The Other Mother: A Woman's Love for the Child She Gave Up for Adoption by Carol Schaefer. Soho Press, 1991. ISBN 0939149753. The Primal Wound: Understanding the Adopted Child by Nancy Newton Verier. Verier Publications, PO Box 208, Lafayette, CA 94549, 1993. ISBN 0963648004. Shared Fate: A Theory and Method of Adoptive Relationships by H. David Kirk. Free Press, 1964. ISBN 002917340X Tell Me a Real Adoption Story by Betty Jean Lifton. OP Twice Born: Memoirs of an Adopted Daughter by Betty Jean Lifton. Griffon, 1998. ISBN 0312187661. Emotional/Psychological Apects of Adoption Adoptees Come of Age: Living Within Two Families (Counseling and Pastoral Theology) by Ronald J. Nydam. John Knox Press, 1999. ISBN 0664256716. Adoption Encounter: Hurt, Transition, Healing by Mary Jo Rillera. Pure, 1987. ISBN 0941771152. Adoption Healing ...a path to recovery by Joe Soll. Liturgical Press, 2000. ISBN 0967839009. Adoption Reunion Survival Guide: Preparing Yourself for the Search, Reunion, and Beyond by Julie Bailey and Lynn Giddens. New Harbinger, 2001. ISBN 1572242280. Adoption Wisdom: A Guide to the Issues and Feelings of Adoption by Marlou Russell. Broken Branch, 1996. ISBN 1888511125. The Art of Adoption by Linda Cannon Burgess. Acropolis, 1977. ISBN 0393000362. Being Adopted: The Lifelong Search for Self by David M.Brodzinsky, Marshall D. Schlechter, Robin Marantz Henig. Anchor, 1993. ISBN 0385414269. Coming Home to Self: The Adopted Child Grows Up by Nancy Newton Verrier Nancy Verrier, 2003. Exploring Adoptive Family Life: The Collected Adoption Papers of H. David Kirk by H. David Kirk. Ben-Simon, 1988. ISBN 0914539035. The Family of Adoption: Completely Revised and Updated by Joyce Maguire Pavao. Beacon Press, 1999. ISBN 0807028010. Finding Family by Rick Ouston. New Star, 1994. ISBN 0921586310. The Girls Who Went Away by Ann Fessler. Penguin Press HC, 2006. ISBN 1594200947. In A Country Of Mothers by A. M. Homes. Vintage, 1994. ISBN 0679742433. Journey of the Adopted Self: A Quest for Wholeness by Betty Jean Lifton. Basic Books, 2000. ISBN 0465036759. Looking for Lost Bird: A Jewish Woman Discovers Her Navajo Roots by Yvette Melanson and Claire Safran. Bard Books, 2000. ISBN 0380795531. Raising Adopted Children, Revised Edition: Practical Reassuring Advice for Every Adoptive Parent by Lois Ruskai Messina. Harper Perennial, 1998. ISBN 0060957174. Saying Goodbye to a Baby: Birthparents Guide to Loss and Grief in Adoption (Saying Goodbye to a Baby Vol. 1) by Patricia E. Roles. Child Welfare League of America, 1989. ISBN 0878683879. Searching for a Past: The Adopted Adult's Unique Process of Finding Identity by Jayne E. Schooler. ISBN 0891098682. So Here I Am! but Where Did I Come From?: An Adoptee's Search for Identity By Mary Ruth Wotherspoon. Pate, 1994. ISBN 0963848801. Synchronicity and Reunion: The Genetic Connection of Adoptees and Birthparents by La Vonne Harper Stiffler. Stiffler, 1992. ISBN 0963441000. Personal Accounts Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption Edited by Jane Jeong Trenka, Julia Chinyere Oparah, and Sun Yung Shin An Adopted Woman by Katrina Maxtone-Graham. Remi, 1983. ISBN 0943362008. Beneath a Tall Tree by Jean Strauss. Arete, 2001. ISBN 0962798207. Birthmark by Lorraine Dusky M. Evans, 1979 Birthmothers: Women Who Have Relinquished Babies for Adoption Tell Their Stories by Merry Bloch Jones. Backinprint.com, 2000. ISBN 059500637X. Caroline and Just Me by Caroline Garden. Harvist Media, 1997. ISBN 0966140400. Chasing Away the Shadows: An Adoptee's Journey to Motherhood by Zara Phillips. Zara Music, 2004. Confessions of a Lost Mother by Elisa M. Barton. Barton, 1996. ISBN 0965079503. Dear Birthmother by Kathleen Silber & Phylis Speedlin. Corona, 1983. ISBN 0931722195. Finding Me In a Paper Bag: Searching For Both Sides Now by Sally Howard. Publisher Gateway Press, 2003 A Ghost at Heart's Edge: Stories and Poems of Adoption edited by Susan Ito and Tina Cervin. North Atlantic, 1999. ISBN 1556433239. The Gift Wrapped in Sorrow: A Mother's Quest for Healing by Jane Guttman D.C. JMJ, 1999. ISBN 0967286107. The Gift of Roots: Heartwarming Reunion Stories As Told to an Adoptive Mother by Dorothy Morrow. Giving Away Simone by Jan Waldron. Anchor, 1997. ISBN 0385485999. Healing the Hole in A Heart: One Birthmother's Journey into the Adoption Triangle by Nancy Mac Isaac. Mac Isaac Enterprises, 1998. ISBN 097249902. I Hope You Have a Good Life: A True Story of Love, Loss and Redemption by Campbell Armstrong. Crown, 2000. ISBN 0609605313. I'm Still Me by Betty Jean Lifton. Bantam, 1986. May the Circle Be Unbroken: An Intimate Journey into the Heart of Adoption by Lynn C. Franklin. Three Rivers Press, 1997. ISBN 0609804804. The Missing Piece by Lee Ezell. Vine Books, 1992. ISBN 0892837977. Of Many Colors: Portraits of Multiracial Families by Gigi Kaeser & Peggy Gillespie. University of Massachusetts Press, 1997. ISBN 1558491015. Orphan Voyage by Ruthena Hill Kittson. OP Arvin Publications, 1980. Out of the Shadows: Birthfathers' Stories by Mary Martin Mason. Howard, 1995. ISBN: 0964625911. Outer Search/Inner Journey: An Orphan and Adoptee's Quest by Peter F. Dodds. Aphrodite, 1997. ISBN 1889702242. Perspectives on a Grafted Tree: Thoughts for Those Touched by Patricia Irwin Johnston.Perspectives Press, 1983. ISBN 0960950400. Sacred Connections: Stories of Adoption by Mary Ann Koenig. Photography by Niki Berg. Running Press, 2000. ISBN 0762408014. Shadow Train: A Journey Between Relinquishment and Reunion by Patricia E. Taylor. Taylor, 1995. ISBN 0965121704. She Called Me Dad by Joseph Tosini. Cityhill, 1990. ISBN 0939159201. Soul Connection: Memoir of A Birthmother's Healing Journey by Ann H. Hughes. Otter Bay, 1999. ISBN 0961405325. Ten Thousand Sorrows : The Extraordinary Journey of a Korean War Orphan by Elizabeth Kim. Doubleday, 2000. ISBN 0385496338. Touched by Adoption by Nancy A. Robinson. Green River Press, 1999. ISBN 0967336309. Waiting to Forget by Margaret Moorman. Norton, 1998. ISBN 0393317838. Wake Up Little Susie: Single Pregnancy and Race Before Roe v. Wade by Rickie Solinger. Routledge, 2nd edition 2000. Who Is My Mother: Birth Parents, Adoptive Parents, and Adoptees Talk About Living With Adoption and the Search for the Lost Family by Clare Marcus. MacMillan, 1981. ISBN 0771594941. Within Me, Without Me: Adoption : Open and Shut Case? by Sue Wells. Scarlet, 1994. ISBN 1857270428. Politics, Policy and Adoption Reform Making Room in Our Hearts: Keeping Family Ties Through Open Adoption by Micky Duxbury. Routledge, 2006. The Baby Thief: The Untold Story of Georgia Tann, the Baby Seller Who Corrupted Adoption by Barbara Bisantz Raymond. Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2007. Adoption: Philosophy and Experience by Randolph W. Severson House of Tomorrow Productions, 1994. ISBN 1880856093. The Adoption Mystique: A Hard-Hitting Exposé of the Powerful Negative Social Stigma That Permeates Child Adoption in the United States by Joanne Wolf Small Authorhouse, 2007. Adoption Nation: How the Adoption Revolution Is Transforming America by Adam Pertman. Basic Books, 2000. ISBN 0465056504. Adoption Politics: Bastard Nation and Ballot Initiative 58 by E. Wayne Carp University Press of Kansas, 2004. ISBN 978-0700613052 Lethal Secrets: The Psychology of Donal Insemination – Problems and Solutions by Annette Baran, Reuben Pannor and Arthur D. Sorosky. Amistad Press, 1993. ISBN 1567430201. The Politics of Adoption by Mary Kathleen Benet. The Dark Side of Adoption by Marsha Riben and Mirah Riben. Mirage 1988. ISBN 0966206002. To Prison With Love: The True Story of an Indecent Indictment and America's Adoption Travesty by Sandy Musser. Adoption Awareness Press, 1994. ISBN 0934896372. Search and Reunion Adoption Searchbook: Techniques for Tracing People by Mary Jo Rillera. Triadoption, 1991. Adoption Searches Made Easier by Joseph J. Culligan. FJA, Inc., 1996. ISBN 1572961007. Birthbond: Reunions Between Birthparents and Adoptees by Judith H. Gediman, Joan S. Dunphy, and Linda P. Brown. New Horizon Press, 1991. ISBN 0882820729. Birthright: The Guide to Search and Reunion for Adoptees, Birthparents, and Adoptive Parents by Jean Strauss. Penguin, 1994. ISBN 0140512950. Disturbing the Peace: A Novel by Nancy Newman. Avon, 2002. ISBN 0380798395. Faint Trails: A Guide to Adult Adoptee-Birth Parent Reunification Searches by Hal Aigner. Paradigm Press, 1987. ISBN 0937572039. How to Find Almost Anyone, Anywhere, Revised and Updated Edition by Norma Mott Tillman. Rutledge Hill Press, 1998. ISBN 1558536574. How to Open an Adoption: A guide for parents and birthparents of minors by Patricia Martinez Dorner. R-Squared Press, 1997. ISBN 0964103583. How to Locate Anyone Who Is or Has Been in the Military by Lt. Col. Richard S. Johnson. Military Information Enterprise, 1999. ISBN 1877639508. I Would Have Searched Forever by Sandra Musser. Adoption Awareness Press, 1992. ISBN 0934896003. In Search of Mom: Journey of an Adoptee by Michael Watson. Gallery of Diamonds, 1998. ISBN 1891665294. ITHAKA: A Daughter's Memoir of Being Found by Sarah Saffian. Delta, 1999. ISBN 0385334516. Lifeline: The Action Guide to Adoption Search by Virgil L. Klunden. Caradium, 1991. ISBN 1879499177. Lost and Found: The Adoption Experience by Betty Jean Lifton. Harper Colllins, 1988. ISBN 0060971320. A Man and His Mother: An Adopted Son's Search by Tim Green. Harper Collins, 1997. Reunion: A Year in Letters Between a Birthmother and the Daughter She Couldn't Keep by Katie Hern and Ellen McGarry Carlson. Seal Press, 1999. Search: A Handbook for Adoptees and Birthparents by Jayne Askin. Oryx press, 1998. ISBN 1573561150. Sibling Reunions: A Letter to Those Who Have Been Contacted by Randolph W. Severson. House of Tomorrow Productions, 1991. Thank You Son for Finding Me: A Birthmother's Story by Beth Kane. Aslan, 1999. ISBN 094403182X. Whose Child? : An Adoptee's Healing Journey from Relinquishment through Reunion ... and Beyond by Kasey Hamner. Triad, 2000. ISBN 0967414504.