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ssearch When author Eliza Thomas realizes suddenly, in her forties, that she has forgotten to make a life or a home, she thinks it’s time to find an alternative to her leaky, drafty apartment in Boston. After a few trips to the country, she finds an old Boy Scout cabin in a small valley in Vermont. At first Thomas’s one-room cabin doesn’t seem like a place where she could live year-round—even with the cabinets and bunk beds that the previous owners added. It’s just somewhere to go on the weekends for some peace and quiet. But with Yankee ingenuity and a good sense of humor, Thomas sets about turning this tiny, eccentric structure into something closer to home. She clears the land, builds two additions—the first to accommodate her grand piano and bed, the second to make room for her newly adopted Chinese daughter, Amelia—and she plants a garden.

Road to Cali, The: A Journey to Adoption. Corinne Chateau. 2007. 205p. Xlibris Corp. “I didn’t know if I could be a mother. I wasn’t sure if I even wanted to be a mother. Nothing in my upbringing seemed to support motherhood.” So begins Corinne Chateau’s odyssey to claim the mother in herself and embark upon an unexpected journey that will lead her to a child in the distant Republic of Georgia. The Road to Cali is about not giving up. It is the story of a rescue––of both a child and oneself.

Romanian Babies: Robbery or Rescue?. Vivien Pullar. Daphne Brasell Associates Press.

Romanian Orphans, Adopted Daughters. Lindsay Galbraith. 1998. 152p. Stoneridge Publishing House (Canada). In 1990, reports of a collapsed Romanian dictatorship made headline news. Grim pictures of a civil revolution were in newspapers worldwide. Months later, images of Romanian orphans housed in state-run facilities were publicized. In Romanian Orphans, Adopted Daughters, Lindsay Galbraith explains how she and her husband decided to adopt two Romanian girls and the legal maze they had to go through to do it. In the second part, she talks about the challenges they faced once home in Canada. This story would be of interest to anyone interested in adopting nationally or internationally.

Romanian Rescue. Sue Smith. 1997. 215 p. Hodder & Stoughton. The story of one couple’s fight to adopt a Rumanian Orphan.

Russian Adoption Handbook, The: How to Adopt from Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Bulgaria, Belarus, Georgia, Azerbaijan & Moldova. John H Maclean. 2000. 727p. Writers Club Press; 2004. 557p. iUniverse Star. Adopting a child can be one of life’s most rewarding experiences. Unfortunately, complex policies, legal risks, and fewer available children make adopting domestically difficult. International adoption offers a solution to parents yearning for a child of their own. American parents are now adopting over 5000 children a year from Russia and Eastern Europe. John Maclean’s The Russian Adoption Handbook is a comprehensive guide to adopting a child from overseas. From the pitfalls to the practical, the rewards to the risks, The Russian Adoption Handbook leads parents through the maze of: How the international adoption process works; How to start the process; What you need to know before traveling to Russia and Eastern Europe; Making the most out of your trip—the inside scoop on customs, hotels, and food; The children’s homes, the courts, and the questions that need to be asked; Medical issues, special adoption doctors, and travel requirements; Post adoption procedures, and much, much more. Practical, accurate, and written with a father’s sense of humor, The Russian Adoption Handbook is the most comprehensive and up-to-date guide to adoption yet. About the Author: John Maclean is an attorney. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia with his wife and their two children adopted from Russia.

Russian Word for Snow, The: An Adoption Story. Janis Cooke Newman. 2001. 224p. St Martin’s Press. Honest, humorous and insightful—a story of adoption set against the turmoil of Russian politics. The Russian Word for Snow is Janis Cooke Newman’s enchanting, funny and perceptive account of her emotional journey toward motherhood, from Newman’s efforts to become pregnant, to her first visit with the child who would become her son, to the upheaval of Russia’s first democratic election. Newman and her husband chose their son, originally named for the Russian word for snow because he was born in the winter, from a videotape of Russian orphans. Four months later, they were caught up in Moscow’s social and political unrest, desperately trying to get that child out of the country. American families adopt more children from Russia than any other country. Unlike most books on the topic, Newman’s work describes in unflinching detail what it feels like to adopt. This book is a must-read for anyone who has adopted or considered adoption, and for anyone who is looking for a heartfelt story set against an exciting international backdrop. About the Author: Janis Cooke Newman’s writing on this subject has been published in numerous magazines, including Salon, and in several anthologies. She lives in Northern California with her husband and their son Alex.

Salvador’s Children: A Song for Survival. Lea & MJ Marenn. 1992. 240p. Ohio State University Press. Salvador’s Children tells the extraordinary story of a North American woman who adopts an eight-year-old orphaned girl from El Salvador in 1984 and, by this action, becomes a witness to the impact of the Salvadoran civil war on one child—her child. From the moment the narrator meets Maria in a Salvadoran orphanage, she is compelled by her terrified silences, silences that seem to reflect on a private level the gaps and absences in the official writing of the decade’s larger history. Through documentary research, through imagined conversations with the child’s birth mother, and—most poignantly—through Maria’s own stories as she begins to speak, the narrator attempts to reconstruct the reality and meaning of the child’s young life. What emerges is a portrait of the everyday life of a young girl growing up in an extended family of landless Salvadoran peasants. The reader and the narrator come to know Maria’s memories—of sleeping in a hammock, the birth of a sibling, carrying her father’s lunch to the sugarcane fields—and also the terror and violence that tore apart the child’s life and the lives of more than one million children in El Salvador during the 1980s. The narrator and her adopted daughter move from a five-day initial encounter in San Salvador—from orphanages through barrios, doctors offices, the American Embassy, and a luxury hotel—to the insularity of middle-class life in a North American city, a cross-cultural journey that intersects the polarities of North-South, brown-white, present and past, life and death. Combining lyrical narrative, documentary material, and poetry, Salvador’s Children explores cross-cultural relationships, identity, and responsibility. Both intensely personal and political, this powerful account will move anyone who cares about the rights and survival of today’s children.

Sarangie, A Child of Chosen: A Tale of Korea. Lois Hawks Swinehart. 1926. 157p. Fleming H Revell Co.

Saving Levi: Left to Die ... Destined to Live. Lisa Misraje Bentley. 140p. Tyndale House Publishers. From the Back Cover: Covered with third- and fourth-degree burns over 70 percent of his body, the tiny baby boy shrieked in agony in a cold village field on the outskirts of Langfang, China. Horrified villagers gathered around him, then walked away, But one older man stayed behind, gathered the child in his arms and went for help. His compassion and courage sparked a momentous chain of events: The baby left to die would bring together people from different countries, faiths and social backgrounds in the successful battle to save his life and secure his future. About the Author: Lisa Misraje Bentley is the co-founder with her husband, John, of Harmony Outreach, an orphanage and outreach to orphans in China. She is also an author, speaker, and mother of six children, including two adopted children. Lisa and her family live near Beijing, China. Visit the

Seeds From a Silent Tree: An Anthology by Korean Adoptees. Tonya Bishoff & Jo Rankin, editors. 1997. 180p. Pandal Press. Born in one culture, raised in another...assigned new names, families, and identities ... thirty men and women write about their experiences of being Korean-born adoptees in America. Seeds From a Silent Tree is the first collection of poetry, fiction, and personal narratives ever written exclusively by Korean adoptees. The works are loosely grouped into four sections: “Roots Remembered and Imagined” (images of Korea and birth families from memory and fantasy), “Transplantations” (exploring issues of identity, race, culture, and sexuality), “Reunions” (adoptees meeting their biological families), and “Seeds” of Resolution (individual solutions, both tragic and triumphant).

Shiniest Jewel, The: A Family Love Story. Marian Henley. 2008. 176p. Springboard Press. At 49, cartoonist Marian Henley hasn’t committed to marrying the man with whom she has been dating for seven years. But as the Big 5-0 looms, she realizes that above all else she wants a child. Her story follows the heartbreaking ups and downs of going through the international adoption process; deciding when it’s time to grow up and maybe even get married; and in the end, it’s the story of a daughter’s relationship with her father, and how becoming a mother finally led her to understand him. The Shiniest Jewel is a touching narrative, accompanied by Marian’s winsome drawings, that beautifully weaves together her realizations about the joy, and sometimes heartbreak, of building a family. About the Author: Marian Henley’s comic strips have appeared in More, Glamour, Ms, Heavy Metal, MAD, San Francisco Chronicle, LA Weekly, Dallas Morning News, Texas Monthly, Austin Chronicle, Utne Reader, and many other newspapers and magazines. Live-action video adaptations of her comic strip have aired on PBS and The Learning Channel. She is the author of Maxine!, a graphic novel, and Laughing Gas, a collection of comic strips. Marian lives in Los Angeles, with her husband Rick and their son William.