A Beautiful View by Debbie Ceresa
A chance meeting with a fortune teller flings Debbie back into the past, to her husband, Jerry, and a year full of cancer doctors, tests, and treatments, and an unforgettable journey marked by despair and hope.
Stow Away by Dr. Lee Campbell
They told me to forget. And I did. Now my memory has mutiny in mind.
Cast Off by Dr. Lee Campbell
They called us dangerous women. So we organized and proved them right.
The Spirit of Open Adoption by Jim Gritter, LMSW
An outspoken and ardent advocate for openness in adoption, James Gritter writes of the need for members of the adoption triad to emphasize services that first and foremost benefit adoptees. Open adoption serves children first by reversing the traditional hierarchy -- by treating adoptive families as resources for birthfamilies. Adoptive parents, birthparents, and adoptees come together in a spirit of extended family that helps them replace the fear, pain, shame, and loss of adoption with honor, respect, and reverence. Drawing on the profound insights of contemporary thinkers in the fields of adoption, theology, philosophy, and literature, Gritter guides the reader along a spiritual journey that explores the candor, commitment, community, and cooperation that define successful open adoptions.
Hospitious Adoption by Jim Gritter, LMSW
Jim Gritter examines the next step after open adoption. Building on his previous books, which promote the inclusion of birthparents, Gritter takes the approach that practicing goodwill, respect, and courage within the realm of adoption makes the process move smoother and enriches children's lives.
Lifegivers by Jim Gritter, LMSW
Framing the Birthparent Experience in Open Adoption
Taking Down the Wall by Christine Murphy
The Girls Who Went Away by Ann Fessler
The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade
Why be Happy When you can be Normal? by Jeannette Winterson
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a memoir about a life's work to find happiness. It is the story of how a painful past, which Winterson thought she had written over and repainted, rose to haunt her later in life, sending her on a journey into madness and out again, in search of her biological mother.
I Know Why a Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
In this first volume of her six books of autobiography, Maya Angelou beautifully evokes her childhood with her grandmother in the American south of the 1930s.
Born with Teeth: A Memoir by Kate Mulgrew
By turns irreverent and soulful, laugh-out-loud funny and heart-piercingly sad, Born With Teeth is the breathtaking memoir of a woman who dares to live life to the fullest, on her own terms.
My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem
Gloria Steinem—writer, activist, organizer, and inspiring leader—now tells a story she has never told before, a candid account of her life as a traveler, a listener, and a catalyst for change.
(Publishing Date: October 27, 2015)
Walking Distance: Pilgrimage, Parenthood, Grief, and Home Repairs by David Hlavsa
Walking Distance is, simply put, stunning, lovely, compelling, impossible to put down, a glorious love story, and a truth telling treatise that should be required of every couple entering commitment. On David and Lisa's pilgrimage, you are transported into a devastating, yet, beautiful landscape of grief and traumatic loss. Then, you are taken into the last story of redemption and rebirth ~ literally. I assigned the author's story – which first appeared in the "Modern Love" column of The New York Times – to my graduate seminar in Grief and Loss. All the students said afterwards how it changed their lives and brought the lived experience of grief and resilience into sharp focus. We are fortunate that the author went the distance to write a book that contributes to the literature of grief and loss in a most profound way. (Amazon Review by Dr. Sharon E.R. Taylor)