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1) A mercy
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Language
English
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Description
Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison's ninth novel, A Mercy, looks at racism in three different periods of American history.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
176 p. : b ill. ; c 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After a tragic airplane crash that claims the lives of most of his family, sixteen-year-old Tate goes to live with his wealthy great-grandfather and his adopted black great-aunt Vidalia and he finds unexpected solace in the stories of her childhood spent travelling with a Depression-era Negro baseball team.
3) Invisible Asians: Korean American adoptees, Asian American experiences, and racial exceptionalism
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Series
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xiii, 230 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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Series
Seoul volume 1
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
332 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
As a Korean adoptee, Hara Wilson doesn't need anyone telling her she looks different from her white parents. She knows. Every time Hara looks in the mirror, she's reminded that she doesn't look like anyone else in her family-not her loving mother, Ellen; not her jerk of a father, Pat; and certainly not Pat's new wife and new "real" son. At the age of twenty-five, she thought she had come to terms with it all, but when her father suddenly dies, an...
5) Seoulmates
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Series
Seoul volume 2
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
284 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A Korean-American adoptee fights to be with the one she loves while coming to terms with her new identity in this enthralling romantic drama and sequel to Heart and Seoul by USA Today bestselling author Jen Frederick. When Hara Wilson lands in Seoul to find her birth mother, she doesn't plan on falling in love with the first man she lays eyes on, but Choi Yujun is irresistible. If his broad shoulders and dimples weren't enough, Choi Yujun is the...
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Series
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Chung investigates the mysteries and complexities of her transracial adoption in this chronicle of unexpected family for anyone who has struggled to figure out where they belong.
Nicole Chung was born severely premature, placed for adoption by her Korean parents, and raised by a white family in a sheltered Oregon town. She was told her biological parents had made the ultimate sacrifice in the hope of giving her a better life, that forever feeling...
7) The fight
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Publisher
Trio House Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
87 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
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"Winner of the 2022 Trio Award, Jennifer Manthey's The Fight showcases Manthey's experience with adoption, alongside the actions of Varina Davis, history's only First Lady of the Confederate States, to present readers with the complexity of adoption, especially in the case of white mothers with Black children. Her poetry is intimate, tender, and full of potency, navigating "truth...difficult as history," revealing the "Hate hidden everywhere," and...
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Publisher
Stanford University Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xvi, 299 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The first book about the origins and history of international adoption. Although it has become a commonplace practice in the United States, we know very little about how or why it began, or how or why it developed into the practice that we see today. International adoption began in the aftermath of the Korean War. First established as an emergency measure through which to evacuate mixed-race "GI babies," it became a mechanism through which the Korean...
10) The final case
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A provocative new novel from the best-selling author of Snow Falling on Cedars--a moving father-son story that is also a taut courtroom drama and a bold examination of privilege, power, and how to live a meaningful life. In a small rural town outside Seattle, Joanna, an Ethiopian girl adopted by a white fundamentalist Christian family, is found dead of hypothermia in her own backyard--setting in motion a gripping journey into the complexities of...
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Publisher
Ecco an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
239 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the bestselling author of ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW comes a searing memoir of class, inequality, and grief-a daughter's search to understand the lives her adoptive parents led, the life she forged as an adult, and the lives she's lost. In this country, unless you attain extraordinary wealth, you will likely be unable to help your loved ones in all the ways you'd hoped. You will learn to live with the specific, hollow guilt of those who leave hardship...
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Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
2024
Physical Desc
237 pages : illustrations ; 21
Language
English
Description
Dream Country author Shannon Gibney returns with a new book woven from her true story of growing up as the adopted Black daughter of white parents and the fictional story of Erin Powers, the name Shannon was given at birth by the white woman who gave her up for adoption. At its core, the novel is a tale of two girls on two different timelines occasionally bridged by a mysterious portal and their shared search for a complete picture of their origins....
Author
Publisher
Harper, and imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) ; color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"From New York Times bestselling Joanna Ho, of Eyes that Kiss in the Corners, and award-winning educator Liz Kleinrock comes a powerful companion picture book about adoption and family. A young girl who is a transracial adoptee learns to love her Asian eyes and finds familial connection and meaning through them, even though they look different from her parents'. Her family bond is deep and their connection is filled with love. She wonders about her...
Author
Publisher
Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, a member of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"In this heartwarming and hilarious memoir, Claude Knobler describes how he learned the hard way that the apple actually can fall far from the tree-and that's Okay. Already the biological parents of a seven-year-old son and a five-year-old daughter, Claude Knobler and his wife decided to adopt Nati, a five-year-old Ethiopian boy who seemed different from Knobler in every conceivable way. After more than five years spent trying to turn his wild, silly,...