The plans of four women--including a college student egg donor, a working-class surrogate mother, a wealthy woman, and her stepdaughter--are thrown into turmoil when the wealthy woman's husband suddenly dies and names the stepdaughter the unborn baby's guardian.

Nine months after bringing their adopted daughter Angelina home, Jack and Melissa McGuane receive a devastating phone call from the adoption agency: the birth father, a teenager and son of a powerful Denver judge, never signed away his parental rights, and he wants Angelina back.

The author shares what she learned from fostering a newborn--about injustice, about mistakes, and about how to better love and protect people outside of our immediate families.

Twelve-year-old Sophie and her 300-year-old best vampire friend Delphine break into a secret government facility to find a cure for the illness causing vampires to go rogue.

The painful and courageous journey toward adoption made by several of her clients forces Maya Lange, founder of The Red Thread, an adoption agency that specializes in placing baby girls from China with American families, to confront the lost daughter of her past.

For the first time, the remarkable couple depicted in The Blind Side tells their own inspiring story. First came the bestselling book, then the Oscar-nominated movie, but until now, Leigh Anne and Sean Tuohy have never told their tale in their own words. For Leigh Anne and Sean, it all begins with family. Leigh Anne, the daughter of a tough U.S. Marshal, decided early on that her mission was to raise children who would become "cheerful givers." Sean,...

Daisy Fuller Williams is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital the day Hurricane Katrina hits. At her side is her adult daughter, Caroline. Daisy asks Caroline to read to her aloud from the diary of Daisy's lifelong friend, Benjamin Button. Benjamin's diary recounts his entire extraordinary life, the unusual aspect of his life being that he ages backwards, being born an old man. He is diagnosed with several aging diseases at birth and thus given...

Simple text and photographs present adoptive families, including how family members interact with one another.

Eighteen-year-old Tim Adams has just graduated from high school in Jackson, Tennessee. Driving a red Volkswagen Bug, he's traveling to California as a graduation gift from his parents. His life changes forever when he stops for a night at a Motel 6 near St. Louis, Missouri, and twenty-four-year Mary Simpson knocks on his hotel room door. Strangers from different parts of the country, destiny has brought Tim and Mary together. Their faith in God and...

In this final installment of the trilogy, the Germanic warrior Atretes vows to move heaven and earth to find his son -- the baby he thought was dead --and take him back to Germania. Only one thing stands in his way: Rizaph, a Christian widow who has cared for the child since his birth. Atretes hadn't counted on Rizaph's fiery resistance to "her son" being taken away, nor is he prepared for the woman's strength and beauty. The two are caught in a stormy...