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"This is the story of my childhood in Brazil, about the culture shock I experienced when I arrived in the forests of northern Sweden and about the loss of the people I loved most. It's about what I remember of my childhood in the Brazilian wilderness, on the streets of São Paulo, in the orphanage. And it's about my early days in Sweden, when I found myself dropped into a place and life that couldn't have been in sharper contrast to what I had known"--Back...
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"Alemitu lives with her mother in a poor village in Ethiopia, where she must walk miles for water and hunger roars in her belly. Even though life is difficult, she dreams of someday knowing more about the world. When her mother has no choice but to leave her at an orphanage to give her a chance at a better life, an American family adopts Alemitu"--
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"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,...
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"Jud and Elizabeth Curry are raising seven biological children and five adopted ones with special needs from China and Vietnam. Hayden & her family is a documentary that gives an intimate, nuanced look into the Curry's adoption journey -- struggles, joys and unique parenting philosophy. It explores themes of alternative parenting, challenges of special needs adoption and the motivations that drive the to transform lives of others. By making a case...
92) Waiting for May
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A young boy looks forward to the day when a new sister, who will be adopted from China, joins his family.
95) A chance
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"A narrative, in graphic novel format, following Cristina Durán and Miguel Ángel Giner Bou as they rebuild and reinvent themselves after their daughter Laia is born with cerebral palsy. Their story continues through the arduous process of adopting their second daughter, Selam, from Ethiopia"--
96) Stuck
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Documentary film that uncovers the personal, real-life stories of children and parents navigating a roller-coaster of bureaucracy on their journeys through the international adoption system. The lives of four children's individual voyages from orphanages in their native countries to their homes with families in the United States, revealing along the way the intense hope and disappointment they experience on the odyssey to unite as families.
100) Exclusively Chloe
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In the public eye since she was adopted as a baby from China by her Hollywood celebrity parents, sixteen-year-old Chloe-Grace, longing for a "normal" life," undergoes a transformation with the help of her mother's stylist and finds not only the life she wanted but an important key to her past.
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