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OPERATION IDENTITY

LENDING LIBRARY

Operation Identity has assembled a library of adoption-related books, pamphlets, DVDs, video and audio tapes which are available for members to borrow. At the mo­ment, the Lending Library is “homeless”—sitting in a number of boxes at the home of a member—and a selection of the available books is brought to each meet­ing. Previously, the Library was housed at The Serenity Shop; but when that store closed, the Library went into storage. We are actively looking for another home for the Library that would make our books more readily available for mem­bers to borrow.

Below is a list of all the items currently available in the Operation Identity Lend­ing Library.

NON-FICTION BOOKS and NOVELS


(Where available, a link to the O.I. book review is provided)

TITLE AUTHOR
The Admiral’s DaughterVictoria Fyodorova
The Adopted Break SilenceJean M. Paton
An Adopted WomanKatrina Maxtone-Graham
Adoptees Come of AgeRoland Nydam
Adopting the Hurt ChildGregory Keck & Regina Kupecky
Adoption: The Facts, Feelings, and Issues of a Double Heritage

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Jeanne DuPrau
Adoption: A Handful of HopeSuzanne Arms
Adoption Agencies, Orphanages, and Maternity HomesReg Niles
Adoption AwarenessJeanne Lindsay & Catherine Monserrat
The Adoption DilemmaVincenette Scheppler
The Adoption ExperienceJerome Smith & Franklin Miroff
Adoption in America Coming of AgeHal Aigner
The Adoption Life CycleElinor Rosenberg
Adoption Nation

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Adam Pertman
The Adoption Reader

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Susan Wadia-Ells, ed.
The Adoption Resource BookLois Gilman
The Adoption Resource Book (rev. ed.)Lois Gilman
The Adoption Reunion HandbookLiz Trinder, Julia Feast & David Howe
The Adoption Reunion Survival GuideJulie Jarrell Bailey & Lynn Giddens
Adoption ReunionsMichelle McColm
The Adoption SearchbookMary Jo Rillera
The Adoption TriangleArthur D. Sorosky, M.D., Annette Baran, M.S.W., & Reuben Pannor, M.S.W.
Adoption, Current Issues and TrendsPaul Sachdev
Adoption, Identity, and KinshipKatarina Wegar
Adoptions Without Agencies: A Study of Independent AdoptionsWilliam Meezan, Sanford Katz & Eva Manoff Russo
Adoptive KinshipH. David Kirk
Adoptive WisdomMarlou Russell
All You Can Ever Know

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Nicole Chung
The All-Girl Filling Station’s Last Reunion

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Fannie Flagg
Andrew and TobiasJ.I.M. Stewart
As If Kids MatteredMarlene Webber
Attaching in AdoptionDeborah Gray
Awakening Your Feminine Spirit: Finding Balance, Purpose and StrengthStacie Ivey
Beating the Adoption GameCynthia Martin
Before GermannaJohni Cerny & Gary J. Zimmerman
Being Adopted: The Lifelong Search for SelfDavid M. Brodzinsky, Marshall D. Schechter & Robin Marantz Henig
Beneath a Tall Tree

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Jean Strauss
Birth BondJudith Gediman & Linda Brown
BirthmarkLorraine Dusky
BirthmothersMerry Bloch Jones
Black Baby, White Hands

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Jaiya John
Can This Child Be Saved?Foster Cline & Cathy Helding
The Canadian Adoption GuideJudith Wine
The Child That Never WasYvonne Kaye
Coffee Rings

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Yvonne Lehman
Color Blind: A Memoir

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Precious Williams
The Complete Adoption BookLaura Beauvais-Godwin & Raymond Godwin
DalvaJim Harrison
Dear Birth MotherKathleen Silber & Phyllis Speedlin
Death by AdoptionJoss Shawyer
A Death in White Bear LakeBarry Siegel
Disturbing the Peace

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Nancy Newman
Faces of AdoptionLynn Giddens
Faint TrailsHal Aigner
Family SecretsDavid Leitch
Finding FernandaErin Siegal
Finding Me in a Paper Bag

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Sally Howard
Finding My FatherRod McKuen
For Every Man & Other PoemsDolores H. Rios
Fostering ChangesRichard Delaney
The Gift Wrapped in SorrowJane Guttman
Go Out and LiveDoris & Ken Hall
The Great Adoptee Search BookJean A.S. Strauss
The Great American Birth RiteWilliam & Joanna Woolfolk
Guide to County Records on Microfilm (Missouri)James Kirkpatrick
Half Way Home!: Contact and Reunion Guidelines for Families Separated by AdoptionLynn-Claire Davis
Hand Me DownLeigh Bonheur
Handbook for the SearchEmma Vilardi
Handbook for Treatment of Attachment-Trauma Problems in ChildrenBeverly James
Healing the Adoption Experience

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Nancy Parkhill
Hearts Do Not BreakJosephine Lawrence
How It Feels to be AdoptedJill Krementz
How to Find Your Past: A Search Handbook for AdopteesCarol Anne Gray
I Choose This DaySharon Fieker
I Choose You

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Deborah Ripoli-Greulich
I Hope You Have a Good Life

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Campbell Armstrong
I Wish You Didn’t Know My NameMichele Launders & Penina Spiegel
I Would Have Searched ForeverSandra Kay Musser
I’m Still MeBetty Jean Lifton
Imagining AdoptionMarianne Novy, ed.
In Search of a StrangerWarren Siegmond
In Search of ConnectionNancy Sitterly
In the Best Interests of the ChildJoseph Goldstein, Anna Freud, Albert J. Solnit, and Sonja Goldstein
Infertility: Women Speak OutRenate Klein
The InheritanceTom Savage
Journey of the Adopted SelfBetty Jean Lifton
Journeys After AdoptionJayne Schooler & Betsie Norris
Laura ZLaura Z. Hobson
A Limb of Your TreeDoris D. Smith
A Long Way Home

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Saroo Brierley
Looking for Lost BirdYvette Melanson
Lost and FoundBetty Jean Lifton
A Man and His Mother

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Tim Green
MaurieDouglas Morrow
May the Circle Be Unbroken

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Lynn Franklin
Michel, MichelRobert Lewis
The Miracle SeekersMary Martin Mason
Mommie DearestChristina Crawford
Mommy Far, Mommy Near

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Carol Antoinette Peacock
The Mother MachineGena Corea
A Mother’s StoryMary Beth Whitehead
Mothers-At-Risk: The Role of Social Work In Prevention of Morbidity in Infants of Socially Disadvantaged MothersFlorence Haselkorn
No Language But a CryRichard D’Ambrosio
No More Here and ThereAnn Carney
Off BalanceDominique Moceanu
Once Removed

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Wendie Redmond & Sherry Sleightholm
The OrphanChet House
Orphan: A True Story of Abandonment, Abuse, and RedemptionRoger Dean Kiser, Sr.
Orphan Number 8

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Kim van Alkemade
Orphan VoyageRuthena Hill Kittson (pseudonym of Jean Paton)
The Other Mother

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Carol Schaefer
Out of My TreeHaywood Giles
Out of the Shadows

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Mary Martin Mason
Pick Your Poison

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Leann Sweeney
PoppoJosef Berger
The Post-Adoption Blues

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Karen Foli & John Thompson
The Primal Wound

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Nancy Newton Verrier
The Psychology of AdoptionDavid Brodzinsky & Marshall Schecter
Raising Adopted ChildrenLois Ruskai Melina
The Reader’s Guide to Books on Post-Adoption IssuesMichelle Carlini
Real Parents, Real ChildrenHolly van Guiden & Lisa Barteis-Rabb
Reasonable People: A Memoir of Autism and AdoptionRalph James Savarese
The Reg Niles Searchbook for Adult AdopteesReg Niles
Reunion: A Year in LettersKatie Hern & Ellen Gary Carlson
Reunion: A Year in Letters Between a Birthmother and the Daughter She Couldn’t Keep

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Katie Hern and Ellen McGarry Carlson
Running ScaredLinda Jackson
The Sacred BondPhyllis Chesler
Sacred Connections

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Mary Ann Koenig
The Sea ChestToni Buzzeo
Search: A Handbook for Adoptees and Birth ParentsJayne Askin, with Bob Oskam
Search Aftermath and AdjustmentsPatricia Sanders & Nancy Sitterly
The Search for Anna FisherFlorence Fisher
Searching for a Past

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Jayne Schooler
Searching in CaliforniaPatricia Sanders
Searching in FloridaDiane C. Robie
Searching in IllinoisGayle Beckstead & Mary Lou Kozub
Searching in IndianaMickey Dimon Carty
Searching in New YorkKate Burke
The Secret Life of the Unborn ChildThomas Verny, M.D., with John Kelly
Shared FateH. David Kirk
Shedding Light on the Dark Side of AdoptionMarsha Riben
A Single Square Picture

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Katy Robinson
Soul Connection

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Ann Hughes
Straight from the Kitchen (O.I. Cookbook)O.I. Members
The Stranger Who Bore MeKaren March
Su AnnDoris Johnson
Sudden FuryLeslie Walker
Synchronicity and Reunion

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LaVonne Harper Stiffler
Tell Me My NameMary Carter
Tennessee TearsGeorge John Curtis
Thank You, Son, for Finding Me

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Beth Kane
The Third ChoiceLeslie Foge & Gail Mosconi
To Prison with LoveSandy Musser
Tree Castle Island

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Jean Craighead George
Twice BornBetty Jean Lifton
Ultimate Search BookLori Carangelo
Vietnamerica

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Thomas Bass
Waiting to ForgetMargaret Moorman
A Wedding to Die For

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Leann Sweeney
Welcome Home: A Guide for Adoptive, Foster and Treatment Foster Parents

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Christopher Alexander, Ph.D.
Welcome Home!: An International and Nontraditional Adoption Reader

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Lita Linzer Schwartz & Florence Kaslow
What Now?: Coping with Search, Contact and ReunionMary Jo Rillera
When Summer’s in the MeadowNiall Williams & Christina Breen
Wuhu Diary

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Emily Prager

PAMPHLETS

TITLE PUBLISHER/AUTHOR
Adoption Issues (Three)Randolph Severson
Booklets on various adoption issues (Nine) Concerned United Birthparents
Choices, Chances, Changes Concerned United Birthparents
How to Make Adoption an Affordable Option National Endowment for Financial Education
Pamphlets on Search American Adoption Congress
Program Transcript (adoption reunion with 13 siblings) Dateline

DVDs and VIDEOTAPES

TITLE SOURCE or DESCRIPTION
20/20 ABC News Program about Vietnamese woman finding birth father and Loretta Young’s birth daughter
Broken TiesDebra Baker
The Butterbox Babies
ClosureBryan Tucker
Cora Unashamed TV movie and 48 Hours program, Aug 2001, on Egg and Sperm Donors and Surrogate Custody Case
Daughter from DaNang PBS documentary on adopted daughter finding birth family in Vietnam
The Deep End of the OceanUlu Grosbard, Dir.
For the Life of MeJean A.S. Strauss
Lost and FoundDebra Baker (video on birth mother and birth son) (2003)
Lost and FoundDebra Baker (video on birth mother and birth son) (2005)
Mother and ChildRodrigo Garcia
Operation Identity interviews Channel 17
Program on adoption issues Sixty Minutes
Program on birth parents and birth daughter (reunion) Dateline
Secret Daughter Frontline documentary about June Cross (producer)
Secrets and LiesMike Leigh (Writer & Dir.)
Unlocking the Heart of AdoptionSheila Ganz
Without a Trace: Lost Boy Episode of TV show written by Byron Balasco and Greg Walker (writers)