A novel that talks about belonging and otherness, about insiders and outsiders, pride and prejudice, young love and unexpected old love, families and the impossibility of ever getting it right, about striving for connection and goodness against all the odds.

An enchanting and classic novel of a young woman's voyage of discovery across the Midwest.

Continuing the story begun in The Bean Trees , this novel features the characters Taylor and Turtle as they witness an event whose repercussions will change their lives forever. By the author of Animal Dreams and Homeland .

Tip and Teddy are increasingly strained by their adoptive father, Bernard Doyle's, protective plans for them. But when they are involved in an accident on an icy road, the Doyles are forced to confront certain truths about their lives, how the death of Doyle's wife Bernadette has affected the family, and an anonymous figure who is always watching.

The night Dr David Henry delivers his wife's twins is a night that will haunt five lives for ever. For though David's son is a healthy boy, his daughter has Down's syndrome. And, in a shocking act of betrayal whose consequences only time will reveal, he tells his wife their daughter died while secretly entrusting her care to a nurse.

Sixteen-year-old Simone is under no illusions about her family - they are loving, kind, thoughtful and intelligent. She couldn't ask for anything more, even though she's adopted. Then from out of the blue Rivka, her birth mother, rings. Simone's life is thrown into disarray as she starts the slow process of getting to know her biological mother.

On the day that Homes was born in 1961, she was given up for adoption. Thirty years later, out of the blue, Homes was contacted by a lawyer on behalf of her birth mother, and they began to correspond; her biological father contacted her soon after. These two individuals and their effect on the adult Homes are strange and unexpected.

Saffy feels she's an outsider when she discovers that she's adopted, but with the help of her quirky family, and of new friend Sarah, she uncovers the key to her past.

Full title: 'Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew'. An invaluable guide to the complex emotions that take up residence within the heart of the adopted child - and within the adoptive home.

The Cuthberts are in for a shock. They are expecting an orphan boy to help with the work at Green Gables - but a skinny red-haired girl turns up instead. Highly spirited Anne Shirley charms her way into the Cuthberts' affection with her vivid imagination and constant chatter, and soon it's impossible to imagine life without her.

A teenager wakes up in hospital to find that she can't remember the last three and a half years of her life A second brilliant book by the author of Elsewhere

A warm and witty story that has been made into a major Hollywood film

A second, revised edition of the book which considers the issues faced by adoptive families after a child comes home. Topics ranging from the problems with children who have experienced prenatal drug exposure, to telling your child that they are adopted, are covered, as are the changes which have affected the adoption procedure.

The author of the adoptees bible, Lost and Found , explores the inner psychological world of adopted people and shows how the search for biological roots can be a journey toward wholeness.. Betty Jean Lifton, whose Lost and Found has become a bible to adoptees and to those who would understand the adoption experience, explores further the inner world of the adopted person. She breaks new ground .

All Julia Scheeres ever wanted was to have a normal, happy family. But, when her fanatical mother decides they should all move to rural Indiana, Julia's life begins to unravel. In the blistering heat of the isolating community, Julia and her adopted brother David struggle together through adolescence.

'I promise: you will never forget this extraordinary story. Love, connection, loyalty, raw humanity and much more are the ingredients of this most unusual novel. Lori Lansens' blend of tragedy and comedy will touch you deeply' Isabel Allende

Winner of the 2002 Orange Prize for her novel 'Bel Canto', Ann Patchett's stunning first novel is about 'pilgrimage and healing!A fairytale. A delight'.

Combining humour, rich symbolism and pointed social criticism, this is an unsentimental, yet affectionate portrait of rural life. Its protagonist, a man wrongly accused and exiled is given a chance to achieve true happiness through his care of an orphaned girl.

A memoir by American jounalist Emily Prager about the search for her adopted daughter's roots in today's China. In 1994, Prager adopted seven month old Lulu in China. Five years later she returned to spend three months in Wuhu city, where Lulu had been found on the street.