Grammatical investigator

RECOMMENDED READING FROM ZARA PHILIPS:

This is a list of adoption-related books. If you are searching or reunited, please take the time to read as many as you can.They will help you understand birth mothers, adopted people and adoptive parents, as well as reunions and all the issues that go with adoption.


Brodzinsky D M, Schechter M D and Hening R M (1992) Being Adopted: The lifelong search for self, New York/ London: Doubleday


Campbell N (2005) Blue-eyed Boy, Basingstoke/Oxford: Pan Books


Eldridge S (2005) 25 Things Adopted Kids Wish their Adoptive Parents Knew, New York: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc.


Elliott S (2005) Love Child: A memoir of adoption and reunion, loss and love, London: Vermilion


Feast J and Philpot T (2003) Searching Questions: Identity, origins and adoption, London: BAAF


Hamner K (2000) Whose Child? An adoptee's healing journey from relinquishment through reunion and beyond, Gainesville, FL: Triad Publishing


Howe D and Feast J (2003) Adoption, Search and Reunion: The long-term experience of adopted adults, London: BAAF


Jackson K and McKinley C (1996) ‘Sisters: a reunion story', in Wadia-Ellis S (ed), The Adoption Reader: Birth mothers, adoptive mothers and adopted daughters tell their stories, London: The Women's Press


Kay J (1991) The Adoption Papers, Newcastle Upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books


Lifton B J (1977, last reprint 2006) Twice Born: Memoirs of an adopted daughter, New York: St Martin's Press


Lifton B J (1988) Lost and Found:The adoption experience, New York: Harper Perennial


Lifton B J (1995) Journey of the Adopted Self: A quest for wholeness, New York: Basic Books


Mulholland J (2007) Special & Odd, London: BAAF


National Organisation for the Counselling of Adoptees and Parents (NORCAP) (2000) Searching for Family Connections, Wheatley, Oxon: NORCAP


Pool H (2005) My Father's Daughter, London: Penguin


Pannor R, Baran A and Sorosky (1989) The Adoption
Triangle, San Antonio, Texas: Corona Publishing


Rendall J (2006) Garden Hopping: An adoption memoir, Edinburgh: Canongate Books


Robinson E Burns (2000) Adoption and Loss: The hidden grief, Mitcham, South Australia: Jacobyte Books; www.cloverpublications.com


Russell M (1996) Adoption Wisdom, Los Angeles, CA: Broken Branch Productions


Schaefer C (1992) The Other Mother: A true story, New York: Soho Press


Soll J (2006) Adoption Healing: A path to recovery, Woodbury, NY: Juneau Press


Thomas V and Kelly J (1981, last reprint, 2004) The Secret Life of the Unborn Child, London: Time Warner Paperbacks


Trinder L, Feast J and Howe D (2004) The Adoption Reunion Handbook, Chichester: John Wiley & Sons


Triseliotis J, Feast J and Kyle F (2005) The Adoption Triangle Revisited: A study of adoption, search and reunion experience, London: BAAF


Verrier N (1993) The PrimalWound, Baltimore: Gateway Press




Some Useful
Websites
www.adoptioninstitute.org
www.almasociety.org
www.americanadoptioncongress.org
www.childwelfare.gov
www.ISRR.net
(International Search and Reunion Registry)
www.nj-care.org