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Perspectives on a Grafted Tree: Toughts for Those Touched by Adoption    by Patricia Irwin Johnston
Price: $10.00 USD. 18440 words. Published by Perspectives Press Inc on August 20, 2009. .

A moving anthology of poetry written by people who have been touched personally by adoption, including birthparents, adoptive parents, adoptees, extended family members, and social workers, Perspectives on A Grafted Tree reflects the reality that adoption is a blend of gain and loss, happiness and pain for all whom it touches.
The Hard Way    by William Byron Hillman
Price: $2.49 USD. 82950 words. Published on April 18, 2011. .

Married at the impossible age of sixteen, two kids emerge from a sheltered beginning and are thrust into adulthood without a blueprint. She was adopted and yet came from a loving family, while his background was unconventional and dysfunctional at best. She spent years looking for birth parents, he built an entertainment career as an actor, filmmaker, writer and director.
Becoming Patrick: A Memoir    by Patrick McMahon
Price: $8.99 USD. 107750 words. Published on January 11, 2012. .

Becoming Patrick is the story of one adopted man’s universal quest for identity by uncovering the truth of his past. After an anguished search, the call to his original mother releases a torrent of conflicting emotions. He absorbs her shocking revelations, comes out as gay once again, and during a sometimes turbulent unfolding, forges a profound bond which shapes a future rooted in truth.
Healing    by Larry Mortensen
Price: $0.99 USD. 111650 words. Published on April 20, 2012. .

“Healing” is a feel good story that keeps you reading. In a desperate need for genetic information, Amy is forced to reunite with her reluctant birth-mother. Her birth-mother must revisit and overcome the dark corners of her past and the tragedies of her youth. An emotional story of two families thrown into conflict, and turmoil will help two women with their life long search