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By Cindy Diaz
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Posted February 11, 2025

Goodbye Again – A Memoir

Candace lost her son. Twice. The first time to adoption and the second not long after reuniting with him. In this heartwrenching and heartwarming memoir, Candace Cahill offers an intimate […]

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By Cindy Diaz
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Posted September 24, 2024

The Son With Two Moms

Tony was taken in at the age of three by Mary Hynes and Janet Simons, after being separated from his mother, who suffered from schizophrenia. After that time, he was […]

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By Cindy Diaz
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Posted March 21, 2024

Safe: A Memoir of Fatherhood, Foster Care, and the Risks We Take for Family

A heartrending and unforgettable memoir of an unlikely journey to parenthood through America’s broken foster care system. What does it take to keep a child safe? As a long-time strategist […]

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By Cindy Diaz
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Posted August 7, 2023

Acceptance: A Memoir

Description “As a homeless teenager writing college essays in her rusty Toyota Corolla, Emi Nietfeld was convinced that the Ivy League was the only escape from her dysfunctional childhood. [...]

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By Cindy Diaz
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Posted August 7, 2023

A Place Called Home: A Memoir

Book Description As a child, David Ambroz was raised homeless in New York City, the home of Wall Street, and more than 100,000 homeless children. For David and his two […]

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By Cindy Diaz
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Posted April 27, 2023

American Baby – A Mother, A Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption

The shocking truth about postwar adoption in America, told through the bittersweet story of one teenager, the son she was forced to relinquish, and their search to find each other. […]

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By Cindy Diaz
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Posted February 16, 2022

Lost In Child Welfare

In this memoir, 30-year-old Ashley shares her experience in foster care from the ages of four through fifteen. Ashley opens up about spine-chilling events that she has now processed in […]

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By Cindy Diaz
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Posted December 22, 2020

Ordinary Hazards: A Memoir

Growing up with a mother suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and a mostly absent father, Nikki Grimes found herself terrorized by babysitters, shunted from foster family to foster family, and [...]

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By Cindy Diaz
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Posted October 1, 2018

Where Has Mommy Gone? – A young girl and a mother who no longer knows her

The true story of Melody, aged 8, the last of five siblings to be taken from her drug dependent single mother and brought into care. When Cathy is told about […]

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Posted August 22, 2006

The Kid: What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided To Go Get Pregnant

About the Book Dan Savage’s nationally syndicated sex advice column, Savage Love, enrages and excites more than four million people each week. In The Kid, Savage tells a no-holds-barred, [...]

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