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  • Innovative Therapeutic Life Story Work

    Developing Trauma-Informed Practice for Working with Children, Adolescents and Young Adults

    by Rebecca Wild, Kathy Crouch, Paula Price, Shoko Tokunaga, Joan Moore, Natalia O’Keefe, Anna-Elizabeth Mattiuzzo, Melissa Stokes, Margarida Marques, Marni Otway, Anna Fasolo, Sebastian LaSpina, Del Aulich, Elise Saunders, Soula Kontomichalos, Nadine Jay, Amanda Jones, Kendra Morris-Jacobson, Goedele A.M. De Clerck, Maria Barros, Jodie Park, Richard Rose ...
    Life story work is an approach designed to enable traumatized children to explore, question and understand the past events of their lives. It aims to secure their future by strengthening attachment with their carers and providing the opportunity to develop a healthy sense of self and a feeling of wellbeing.This new edited volume documents innovative ways in which life story work has been developed ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

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    A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

    In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life

    by George Saunders ...
    Narrated by George Saunders, Phylicia Rashad, Nick Offerman, Glenn Close, Keith David, Rainn Wilson, BD Wong, Renée Elise Goldsberry ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 44 min

    From the New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize–winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves—and our world today.For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In A Swim in a Pond in ... Read more

    $22.50 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Tenth of December

    Stories

    by George Saunders ...
    Narrated by George Saunders ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 40 min

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST FICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • ONE OF ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY AND BUZZFEED’S BEST BOOKS OF THE DECADE • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW’S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAROne of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the CenturyA BEST BOOK... ... Read more

    $15.00 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Little Girl Lost

    The true story of a broken child

    by Mia Marconi ...
    Series series HarperTrue Life – A Short Read
    The fourth in a series of true short stories from foster carer Mia Marconi.Kira first came to foster carer Mia Marconi’s home on respite care when she was three. She had suffered an unimaginable amount of abuse in her short life. Although she couldn’t tie her shoe laces, she could smash a room to pieces; she fought against everything like a wild cat.At the age of five Kira moved permanently to ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • To the End of June

    The Intimate Life of American Foster Care

    by Cris Beam ...
    A New York Times Notable Book that "casts a searing eye on the labyrinth that is the American foster care system" (NPR's On Point).Who are the children of foster care? What, as a country, do we owe them? Cris Beam, a foster mother herself, spent five years immersed in the world of foster care looking into these questions and tracing firsthand stories. The result is To the End of June, an ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Trauma-Informed Practices With Children and Adolescents

    by William Steele, Cathy A. Malchiodi ...
    Trauma-Informed Practices With Children and Adolescents is a sourcebook of practical approaches to working with children and adolescents that synthesizes research from leading trauma specialists and translates it into easy-to-implement techniques. The approaches laid out address the sensory and somatic experiences of trauma within structured formats that meet the "best practices" criteria for ... Read more

    Was $64.99 USD Now $55.99 USD

  • Found

    A Memoir

    by Jennifer Lauck ...
    Found is Jennifer Lauck's sequel to her New York Times bestseller Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found. More than one woman’s search for her biological parents, Found is a story of loss, adjustment, and survival. Lauck’s investigation into her own troubled past leads her to research that shows the profound trauma undergone by infants when they’re separated from their birth mothers-a finding that ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Adoption Is a Family Affair!

    What Relatives and Friends Must Know

    by Patricia Irwin Johnston ...
    A child is coming â?? whether you approve or not it's time to get with the program! If someone you care about â?? a family member, co-worker, or close friend â?? has recently announced that their family will be growing through adoption, you may have questions. After all, unless you have personally experienced adoption, you may know very little about how adoption works and what it means. Are you ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Mamalita

    An Adoption Memoir

    by Jessica O'Dwyer ...
    This gripping memoir details an ordinary American woman's quest to adopt a baby girl from Guatemala in the face of overwhelming adversity. At only 32 years old, Jessica O'Dwyer experiences early menopause, seemingly ending her chances of becoming a mother. Years later, married but childless, she comes across a photo of a two-month-old girl on a Guatemalan adoption website, and feels an instant ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Bubble Wrapped Children

    How Social Networking Is Transforming the Face of 21st Century Adoption

    by Helen Oakwater ...
    Numerous reasons cause adopted teenagers to reconnect with their birth family via Facebook, creating new challenges for adoption today and tomorrow. Incorporating theory, practice, anecdotes, metaphors, diagrams, models and case studies, this accessible book, written by an experienced adopter, clearly explains these complex issues. It maps connections between trauma, child development, grief, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Carried in Our Hearts

    The Gift of Adoption: Inspiring Stories of Families Created Across Continents

    by Dr. Jane Aronson ...
    "My mommy didn't carry me in her tummy, she carried me in her heart." Bailey, a 5-years old who was adopted from China. Her story is included in this book.According to People magazine, parents from all over the country seek adoption expert and Worldwide Orphans Foundation founder Dr. Jane Aronson’s help “as if consulting a master detective.” Angelina Jolie praised Dr. Aronson’s “drive and ambition ... Read more

    Was $12.99 USD Now $7.99 USD

  • Battered, Broken, Healed

    The true story of a mother separated from her daughter. Only a painful truth can bring them back together

    by Maggie Hartley ...
    Series Book 9 - A Maggie Hartley Foster Carer Story
    A new challenge faces foster carer Maggie Hartley: this time it's not a child that's at risk, it's her mother. Can Maggie help Hailey to escape her abusive husband, and reunite her with her baby daughter? A heartbreaking true story perfect for fans of Cathy Glass, Casey Watson, Angela Hart and Rosie Lewis**.*******A TRUE STORY BY THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR MAGGIE HARTLEYWhen six-week-old ... Read more

    Was $6.99 USD Now $2.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook