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Product Description: After moving to a humble cottage outside of a tiny Texas town, Debra Monroe rids herself of an abusive husband, battles sexist contractors and workers as she renovates her home, and finally, after several disheartening letdowns, is able to adopt her beautiful baby daughter, Marie...read more
Hardcover:
9780870745607 | 1 edition (Southern Methodist Univ Pr, May 15, 2010), cover price $22.50
Paperback:
9780820349114 | Reissue edition (Univ of Georgia Pr, November 1, 2015), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: After moving to a humble cottage outside of a tiny Texas town, Debra Monroe rids herself of an abusive husband, battles sexist contractors and workers as she renovates her home, and finally, after several disheartening letdowns, is able to adopt her beautiful baby daughter, Marie.
9780983547709 | Consortium Book Sales & Dist, June 15, 2011, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: "If On the Outskirts of Normal were a country song, Lucinda Williams would sing it.
Hardcover:
9781613746783 | Chicago Review Pr, May 1, 2014, cover price $24.95
Product Description: A woman unexpectedly finds her best self through a sleepy bundle handed over at the airport in this heartfelt and surprising memoir. In Make Me a Mother, acclaimed memoirist Susanne Antonetta adopts an infant from Seoul, South Korea...read more
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9780393068177 | W W Norton & Co Inc, February 17, 2014, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: A woman unexpectedly finds her best self through a sleepy bundle handed over at the airport in this heartfelt and surprising memoir.
Product Description: When Kim de Blecourt and her husband decided to adopt a child from Ukraine, they knew that the process might be challenging. Nothing, however, could have prepared de Blecourt for the twisted nightmare she would endure. During her year-long struggle to extricate her newly adopted little boy from that post-Soviet country's corrupt social service and judicial systems, de Blecourt was intimidated, physically assaulted, and arrested...read more
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9781455515103 | Faithwords, November 6, 2012, cover price $22.99 | About this edition: When Kim de Blecourt and her husband decided to adopt a child from Ukraine, they knew that the process might be challenging.
Product Description: When the two-time National Book Award finalist Melissa Fay Greene confided to friends that she and her husband planned to adopt a four-year-old boy from Bulgaria to add to their four children at home, the news threatened to place her, she writes, âamong the greats: the Kennedys, the McCaughey septuplets, the von Trapp family singers, and perhaps even Mrs...read more
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9780374223069 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 12, 2011, cover price $26.00
Paperback:
9780374533380 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 24, 2012, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: When the two-time National Book Award finalist Melissa Fay Greene confided to friends that she and her husband planned to adopt a four-year-old boy from Bulgaria to add to their four children at home, the news threatened to place her, she writes, âamong the greats: the Kennedys, the McCaughey septuplets, the von Trapp family singers, and perhaps even Mrs.
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9780849946448 | Thomas Nelson Inc, August 9, 2011, cover price $15.99
Product Description: The story that captivated a nation?how a horribly neglected little girl was rescued by her loving adoptive parentsIn July 2005, a six-year-old girl named Danielle was removed from her Florida home after authorities found her living in bug-ridden squalor, subjected to horrific neglect and so damaged by her own mother that recovery seemed hopeless...read more
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9780470591338 | 1 edition (Turner Pub Co, June 21, 2011), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The story that captivated a nation?
Product Description: When the two-time National Book Award finalist Melissa Fay Greene confided to friends that she and her husband planned to adopt a four-year-old boy from Bulgaria to add to their four children at home, the news threatened to place her, she writes, "among the greats: the Kennedys, the McCaughey septuplets, the von Trapp family singers, and perhaps even Mrs...read more
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9781452631882 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, April 25, 2011), cover price $90.99 | About this edition: When the two-time National Book Award finalist Melissa Fay Greene confided to friends that she and her husband planned to adopt a four-year-old boy from Bulgaria to add to their four children at home, the news threatened to place her, she writes, "among the greats: the Kennedys, the McCaughey septuplets, the von Trapp family singers, and perhaps even Mrs.
Product Description: When the two-time National Book Award finalist Melissa Fay Greene confided to friends that she and her husband planned to adopt a four-year-old boy from Bulgaria to add to their four children at home, the news threatened to place her, she writes, "among the greats: the Kennedys, the McCaughey septuplets, the von Trapp family singers, and perhaps even Mrs...read more
CD/Spoken Word:
9781452601885 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, April 25, 2011), cover price $44.99 | About this edition: When the two-time National Book Award finalist Melissa Fay Greene confided to friends that she and her husband planned to adopt a four-year-old boy from Bulgaria to add to their four children at home, the news threatened to place her, she writes, "among the greats: the Kennedys, the McCaughey septuplets, the von Trapp family singers, and perhaps even Mrs.
9781452651880 | Mp3 una edition (Tantor Media Inc, April 25, 2011), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: When the two-time National Book Award finalist Melissa Fay Greene confided to friends that she and her husband planned to adopt a four-year-old boy from Bulgaria to add to their four children at home, the news threatened to place her, she writes, "among the greats: the Kennedys, the McCaughey septuplets, the von Trapp family singers, and perhaps even Mrs.
Hardcover:
9781410429223 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, July 21, 2010), cover price $32.99
Paperback:
9780312577186 | Reprint edition (Griffin, February 1, 2011), cover price $17.99
9780198319474, titled "Twelfth Night" | Oxford Univ Pr, October 8, 1987, cover price $7.50 | also contains Twelfth Night | About this edition: Presents the classic dramatic work depicting the misadventures which result from trickery and deceit
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9781429929011 | 1 edition (Henry Holt & Co, July 13, 2010), cover price $10.99
By most accounts Pete Likins has had a successful life. But his personal accomplishments are only the backdrop for the real storyâthe story of his family, whose trials and triumphs hold lessons for many American families in the 21st century. This poignant but ultimately empowering memoir tells the story of Peter Likins, his wife Patricia, and the six children they adopted in the 1960s, building a family beset by challenges that ultimately strengthened all bonds. With issues such as inter-racial adoption, mental illness, drug addiction, unwed pregnancy, and homosexuality entwined in their lives, the Likinsâ tale isnât just a family memoirâitâs a story of the American experience, a memoir with a message. With circumstances of race, age, and health making all of their children virtually unadoptable by 1960s standards, Pat and Pete never strayed from the belief that loyalty and love could build a strong family. Both Pete and Pat have served as teachers. and Peteâs long academic careerâholding positions as a professor, dean, provost, and then presidentâ illuminates more than just his personal success. Peteâs professional attainments produce a context for his family story, wherein high achievements in educational, athletic, and financial terms coexist with the joys and sorrows of this exceptional family. A frank, open account of the difficulties his family faced, this is a brave story, told with unflinching honesty and remarkable compassion. A New American Family is a wonderful narrative of the genesis of a family and a journey to the deepest parts of a fatherâs heart.
Hardcover:
9780816529315 | Univ of Arizona Pr, January 8, 2011, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: By most accounts Pete Likins has had a successful life.
Paperback:
9780816530410 | Reprint edition (Univ of Arizona Pr, February 1, 2013), cover price $17.95
Presents the classic dramatic work depicting the misadventures which result from trickery and deceit
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9780198319740 | Oxford Univ Pr, January 27, 1994, cover price $7.95 | also contains Latte Trouble
9780198319474 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 8, 1987, cover price $7.50 | also contains In a Heartbeat: Sharing The Power of Cheerful Giving | About this edition: Presents the classic dramatic work depicting the misadventures which result from trickery and deceit
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