Myer, Sarah

Summary: "Sarah has always struggled to fit in. Born in South Korea and adopted at birth by a white couple, she grows up in a rural community with few Asian neighbors. People whisper in the supermarket. Classmates bully her. She has trouble containing her anger in these moments--but through it all, she has her art. She's always been a compulsive drawer, and when she discovers anime, her hobby becomes an...

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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2023

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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 921 MYE

Chung, Nicole

Summary: "What does it mean to lose your roots--within your culture, within your family--and what happens when you find them? Nicole Chung was born severely premature, placed for adoption by her Korean parents, and raised by a white family in a sheltered Oregon town. From childhood, she heard the story of her adoption as a comforting, prepackaged myth. She believed that her biological parents had made...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHU

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHUNG, NICOLE CHU

Lee, Julayne

Summary: A provocative and furious book about race, culture, identity and what it means to be an inter-country adoptee in America. Julayne Lee was born in South Korea to a mother she never knew. When she was an infant, she was adopted by a white Christian family in Minnesota, where she was sent to grow up. Not My White Savior is a memoir in poems, exploring what it is to be a transracial and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Vireo Book/Rare Bird Books 2018

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 811 LEE

Rhodes-Courter, Ashley

Summary: "Rhodes-Courter expands on life beyond the foster care system, the joys and heartbreak with a family she's created, and her efforts to make peace with her past"--Amazon.com.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RHODES-COURTER, ASHLEY RHO

Hayasaki, Erika

Summary: "Isabella and Ha, identical twin girls born in Vietnam, were raised on opposite sides of the world, each having no idea that the other existed. Erika Hayasaki's deeply reported, intimate story of their journey back to each other upends common conceptions of adoption, family, and identity"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 HAY

Lauck, Jennifer.

Summary: The author continues the story of her life, relating her journey into adulthood while confronting the demons of her traumatic childhood and considering the troubled soul of her brother Bryan.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 2001

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.033 LAU

Summary: The astonishing true story of three men who make the chance discovery, at the age of nineteen, that they are identical triplets, separated at birth and adopted to different parents. The trio's joyous reunion in 1980 catapults them to fame but it also sets in motion a chain of events that unearths an extraordinary and disturbing secret that goes far beyond their own lives, a secret that goes to...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD THR

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC THR

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE THR

Lierow, Diane

Summary: "The story that captivated a nation: how a horribly neglected little girl was rescued by her loving adoptive parents. In 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. But hope was waiting for Dani and help. In...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LEIROW,DIANE LIE

Stein, Deborah.

Summary: After discovering that she was born in a prison to a heroin-addicted mother, the author recalls her subsequent descent into drugs and crime and her recovery as she finds forgiveness and acceptance for both her real and adopted mothers."Even at twelve years old Deborah Jiang Stein, the adopted daughter of a progressive Jewish couple in Seattle, felt like an outsider. Her multiracial features set...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STEIN, DEBORAH STE

Carangelo, Lori

Summary: Find your family, find yourself! Carangelo offers the largest collection of updated resources and methods in order to overcome roadblocks for finding anyone-- with or without a name to start-- and at little or no expense. She shares 'how to' secrets of experienced investigators and much more, to help you find information on adoptees, birth relatives, unaccompanied migrant children and their...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Access Press 2021

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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 362.82 CAR