From the Back Cover: When faced with a cancer diagnosis, many doctors and patients rush full-speed ahead into treatment, giving minimal attention to the potential fertility implications. Luckily, the field of oncofertility is growing quickly, and medical writer Gina M. Shaw is ready to guide you through pre- and post-cancer fertility and family-building options—for both men and women. This manual gives you all the tools you need to:

• Understand how different cancers can affect fertility

• Discuss fertility-sparing treatment options with your doctor

• Select the fertility preservation method that’s right for you

• Analyze the chances of getting pregnant with difficult methods

• Have a healthy post-cancer pregnancy

• Explore surrogacy and what to tell candidates about your medical history

• Consider adoption through survivor-friendly programs and countries

• Navigate insurance-company red-tape

• Think through the implications of mother- and fatherhood after cancer

With a foreword by Hope S. Rugo, medical oncologist and professor of medicine at the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, this first and only cancer-and-fertility guide for patients and survivors will help you be your own best advocate throughout the journey.

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Gina M. Shaw, an award-winning health and medical writer, was newly married and trying for a baby when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Now, she’s a survivor and proud mother of three children, both adopted and biological. She has been published by Redbook, Ladies’ Home Journal, Fitness, Woman’s Day, and WebMD. She lives in Montclair, New Jersey.

After a sorted childhood [sic], she pushed on to make her life defined by something other than abuse and sadness. She hadn’t been in college long when she decided education was the avenue she would pursue. As her life shaped and molded, she found her rock, her savior Jesus Christ. Shortly after she began living fully for him and was accepted as a teacher for an ESL program in China. On the journey of a lifetime, Janis comes across a most unexpected twist. While she began work in an orphanage, God began work on her heart. It wasn’t long before Janis realized her calling to adopt baby Sarah and pull her from the abusive life she was in. After seemingly impossible obstacles, Janis brought Sarah home to give her the life a child deserves. That was only the beginning. You’ll be overcome with respect and gratitude as you walk with Janis through the stresses and frustrations of an intercontinental adoption. Janis gives all the glory to God and knows that her constant faith in him was the biggest influence in Bringing Sarah Home.

From the Publisher: This is a testimony of how God has moved in amazing and mysterious ways in the life of a woman willing to be used of God. He was there through the growing-up and getting-an-education years, through the selection of a life mate, through twenty years of life in the military community, through the grief of losing loved ones, and through new ministries in the retirement years. This book is the result of God’s grace in a time of grief, which resulted in the author writing and publishing three books of prose and poetry based upon incidents from her own life. These books are now used in a ministry to share God’s love. From these books came this life testimony of how God is always with us and desires the best for us. He also wants to bless us and use us in the furtherance of His kingdom through the work He asks us to do for Him here in this life. The author’s desire is that by the sharing of her walk with God she can help someone to stay close to our Lord in his or her daily walk through life.

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About the Author: Sarah Berthelson calls Brookhaven, Mississippi, home. She obtained a degree in education from the University of Southern Mississippi. She met her husband, George, a U.S. Marine, in Meridian, Mississippi, where she was a fifth-grade teacher. Sarah spent 20 years moving from base to base and finally settled in Rosemark, Tennessee, after her husband’s retirement. A mother who lost a son and found herself writing poetry as part of her grief healing process, she has published three books of prose/poetry and an autobiography, He Guides My Path. In addition to ministering with her books, she teaches a women’s Sunday school class and speaks to church groups and other organizations. Sarah’s son Chad and family live in Huntsville, Alabama, and her son Shay lives in nearby Arlington, Tennessee, with his family.

When my husband and I adopted three-year-old Tyler from Ukraine in 1992, the orphanage director told us, “He just needs to be loved,” but Tyler needed much more than love. The product of neglect and abuse, he was a wounded little soul who fought every attempt to be integrated into our family, afraid to trust human relationships. During his first years in America, Tyler was diagnosed with PDD (an autism spectrum disorder), and Tourette Syndrome, leaving my family overwhelmed and ill-prepared to handle such an emotionally fragile little boy. He Just Needs to Be Loved chronicles Tyler’s journey from a troubled child to a confident, happy, young man with endless possibilities.

From the Publisher: On April 15, 2006, a red-headed, 46-year-old American executive drove Highway 101 through the coastal fog with three children abandoned by fieldworkers and felons asleep beneath blankets quick lit by the haloed high-beams of passing cars and trucks. Under a crescent pearl moon, the migrant family of four bid farewell to Santa Barbara County and their past.

He Shall Appear From Nowhere is a haunting and deeply human chronicle of four strangers turned family and the brutality, obstacles, and discrimination they rebuff with grit, humor, and purpose. A multi-ethnic odyssey, He Shall Appear From Nowhere obliterates the traditional distinctions between race, gender, and class, and transforms today’s prosaic immigration debate into a spinning kaleidoscope.

In 2005, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, only 8,000 children were adopted from local Social Services agencies by people without a previous relationship with the children. Just 2%, or 160, entered the home of a single male. David Marin adopted three. He was likely the only single Caucasian man in the nation to adopt three minority children.

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About the Author: David Marin (pronounced “marine”) is the Vice President of Mainstreet Media Group, publisher of 21 California newspapers and magazines. After graduating from law school in 1995, he held executive positions at E.W. Scripps, MediaNews, and Pulitzer Newspapers. David is an award-winning public speaker. He honed his presentation skills through the national organization Toastmasters where he competed against other highly trained presenters. David, a comfortable and engaging speaker, has made dozens of presentations to large audiences, among them, local community associations, business owners, and reader groups. David has the presence and skills suited to national media. Born in Georgia, David, who is half Puerto Rican, was raised in the Midwest, attended prep schools on the East coast, and has spent the past twenty years on the West Coast. An adventurer by nature, he has traveled to eleven countries and visited thirty-six of our fifty states. He has gone skydiving in Arizona, water skied on the Caribbean, tried to join Lech Walesa’s 1981 anti-communist Polish revolution, and rescued giant green sea turtles in Central America. By far the greatest adventure of David’s life—and his most powerful asset for the promotion of He Shall Appear From Nowhere—is his fatherhood. David and his children live in California.

Nurturing and dependable relationships are the building blocks of healthy childhood development. Secure attachments are basic to every aspect of a child’s well-being—mind, brain, emotions, relationships, and morality. Wounded children—those who have experienced maltreatment, loss, and disrupted attachments—are often defiant, angry, biologically disorganized, and afraid to trust and love. They are extremely challenging to parent. Healing Parents gives parents and caregivers the information, skills, self-understanding, support, and hope they need to be therapeutic and healing parents. This book is a toolbox filled with practical ideas and strategies that will enable parents to understand their child, create healthy relationships, and help their child heal emotional wounds and improve behaviorally, socially, and morally.

From the Back Cover: The Healing Power of the Family is a tribute to foster and adoptive parents and to their potent influence upon the disturbed children who have joined their families. This book addresses: telltale “survival behaviors” displayed by troubled, formerly abused children, the predictable, devastating impact of the disturbed child on the foster or adoptive family, unique family-based strategies which focus on curbing disruptive behaviors, while building bridges between the child and family, special issues related to parenting disturbed foster and adopted children.

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About the Author: Richard J. Delaney, Ph.D., is a practicing psychologist, nationally known consultant and trainer. He is a consultant to the Casey Family Program, Lutheran Family Services and to various county departments of social services.

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By the Same Author: Fostering Changes: Treating Attachment-Disordered Foster Children (1991, WJ Corbett); Troubled Transplants: Unconventional Strategies for Helping Disturbed Foster and Adopted Children (with Frank R Kustal, Ed.D.) (1993, University of Southern Maine); The Long Journey Home (1994, Journey Press); Raising Cain: Caring for Troubled Youngsters/Repairing Our Troubled System (1998); The Permutations of Permanency: Making Sensitive Placement Decisions (1998); Safe Passage: A Summary of the “Parent 2 Parent” Mentoring Program (2000); and Small Feats: Unsung Accomplishments and Everyday Heroics of Foster and Adoptive Parents (2003).

From the Dust Jacket: Child Found Hidden for Years

Parents Starve Their Children

1 in 10 homes has child batterers

Child Dies of Skull Fractures

CHILD ABUSE RATE CALLED ‘EPIDEMIC’

Headlines like these appear daily in newspapers across the country. Every year the epidemic sickness of child abuse claims the lives of more infants and children than infectious diseases, leukemia and automobile accidents. Hear the Children Crying reflects the deep concern of Dale Evans Rogers for America’s children. As the mother of an adopted child who suffered brain damage as the result of a beating, Dale has a special interest in wiping out all kinds of child abuse—physical, verbal, emotional and sexual.

Using many carefully documented case histories, Dale approaches the problem from psychological, sociological, medical and religious positions. Having worked with doctors and other professionals at Childrens Hospital in Los Angeles and the Child Trauma Intervention Project of the UCLA Medical Center, she offers a sensitive, realistic view of the problem, the parents involved and the solutions. Dale examines in detail the parental problems behind the adult disease of child abuse and the reasons why a child becomes a scapegoat for a parent’s frustration and distress.

Our courts, prisons, welfare systems and often our schools have failed to conquer a disease which is now epidemic. What can we do about this heinous come? Dale holds out hope that concerned citrons and the provision of treatment for abusive parents can help. As she discusses the effective and intelligent efforts being made by national and local programs such as Parents Anonymous, Dale reminds us that, “We need both skilled professionals and God and His love, if we are ever to eliminate and prevent the neglect and abuse of children. With God’s help, and with the working relationship of parents and professionals, child abuse can become a horror of the past.”

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About the Author: Dale Evans Rogers continues to use her talents for the glory of God. Wife, mother, actress-singer, she is also the author of more than a dozen bestselling books, including The Woman at the Well, Angel Unaware, Let Freedom Ring and Trials, Tears and Triumph. She travels nationwide appearing as a guest on TV and radio programs and as a speaker where she shares her faith in God and love of America.

Frank S. Mead, well-known minister, author and editor, has written more than a dozen books and edited many more, including The Encyclopedia of Religious Quotations and A Handbook of Denominations. Dr. Mead worked with Dale on her bicentennial bestseller, Let Freedom Ring!

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By the Same Author: My Spiritual Diary (1955); To My Son: Faith at Our House (1957); Dearest Debbie: In Ai Lee (1965); Salute to Sandy (1967); The Woman at the Well (1970); In the Hands of the Potter (With Les Stobbe; 1994); Our Values: Stories and Wisdom (With Carole C. Carlson; 1997); and Dale Evans Rogers: Rainbow on a Hard Trail (With Norman B Rohrer; 1999), among others.

From the Publisher: Longing for a child of her own, Vickie Bryan went through twelve years of barrenness before adopting. The Heart of Adoption is designed to be a point of contact between God and those who do not want to remain barren. Allow this book to become a companion of hope in the reader’s walk to parenthood. In this book the reader will discover: Bryan’s Personal Story, God’s Heart for Adoption, God’s Promise to Give Children, Biblical Examples of Barrenness, A Relationship with God, Prayer to Become a Parent, Adopted Children in the Bible, Encouragement for Adoption, Sources for Adoption Research, Scriptures for Having Children, Encouragement and Building of Faith for a Child, Personal Journal, God’s Call to the Church, And much more.

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About the Author: Vickie Patterson Bryan, devoted wife and mother of five adopted children, has been a Christian for over twenty years. She continues to glean nuggets of truth from her deep relationship with the Lord. God uses her love of children to bring life changing power to the lives of those who will hear.

From the Publisher: The Heart of Adoption was written to give you, the reader, a glimpse into the different perspectives of adoption. The book takes a peek into the heart of many people touched by this powerful event we call “adoption.” As we journey, we will get a glimpse into the following: The Heart of God; The Heart of the Birthparent; The Heart of the Adoptee; The Heart of the Adoptive Parents; The Heart of Family and Friends; The Heart of Abortion; and The Heart of the Professional. Each chapter of the book begins with some thoughts, feelings, and sayings from each one’s perspective. Hopefully this will give some insight into their hearts in order to open our minds to understand and embrace the adoption process and experience. Every chapter includes a collection of writings—letters, inspirational quotes, Scriptures, facts, and short personal experiences and stories.

The book is for anyone who has a desire to adopt, or feels called to support orphans, or just wants to read a great, true-life story about a family yielding to the Lord as He leads them to adoption.

From the Back Cover: While she was still a child, Rio Hogarty thought nothing of bringing home a schoolmate who was at risk. It was the start of nearly seventy years of opening her home and her heart to children in need.

A Heart So Big is the astonishing story of Rio’s life and how she has tried to make a difference. Since the 1960s she has fostered over 140 children and in 2010, in an award created especially for her, she was named Mother of the Year at the annual People of the Year Awards.

Rio’s is a story of suffering—she has rescued children from the direst of circumstances and has known heartbreak along the way. But it is also a story full of humour, searing honesty and an inspiring dose of good old-fashioned fighting spirit.

A Heart So Big is a moving and uplifting account of an amazing life lived to the full.

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About the Author: Rio Hogarty has been fostering children—informally and formally—for most of her life. At the 2010 People of the Year Awards she won an award created especially for her; Mother of the Year. She lives with her family in Clondalkin, Dublin.

Megan Day has been a scientific writer for twenty years. After moving from North Carolina to Ireland, she was befriended by the indomitable Rio Hogarty and found, first, a great friend and, second, an amazing story that just had to be written. She lives in County Kildare with a dog and—at the last count—four cats.

From the Back Cover: Life, for Lynda Freeman, is essentially positive. She believes in people’s innate goodness. Her faith in the beauty of love has led to an exploration and gathering of 50 true stories into a book called Heartbeats: True Stories of Love. These tales tell of romantic love, love of family and love of friends. There are also chronicles about love of animals. We see how love can change us. Her collection is beautiful, touching and truly inspiring and she wishes to share what has uplifted and motivated her life.

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About the Author: Lynda Freeman is a retired teacher living in Toronto, Canada. She attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY, and graduated from York University in Toronto. She is a writer and artist who teaches painting to adults. She shares her home with her son, three marmalade cats and a Dachshund named Wilbur.

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Compiler’s Note: See, particularly, “A Tidal Wave of Love,” “Adopting Nicole,” “Adoption, a Love Story,” “Leading with Loving Kindness,” “Mother and Daughter Reunion,” “The Secret,” and “How to Say Respect in Chinese.”

Little story about a bachelor whose sister invites him to spend his vacation “relaxing” while he watches her two children. Two little monsters make his vacation one to remember. Basis for a film of the same name in 1924, directed by William A. Seiter, and starring Baby Pegy and Clara Bow.

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About the Author: John Habberton was born in Brooklyn, but “brought up” in the West. For some years he contributed Bret Harte-like fictional sketches and observations about Western scenes and characters to Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper. Habberton was extremely well known for his first book, Helen’s Babies (which “enjoyed a popularity out of all proportion to its literary merit”—O. F. Adams). Though he wrote many other books, and spent almost twenty years (1873-1892) as the literary and drama critic for the New York Herald—it is his tales of California that will probably preserve his reputation, rather than the numerous copies of Helen’s Babies that can still be found in the antiquarian marketplace.

International adoption is not for the faint of heart. As the author and his wife discover, it takes an adventuresome spirit and an unwavering commitment to follow this trail of heart-stirring joys equaled by gnawing obstacles. The book chronicles the couple’s 25-day trip to Kazakhstan, through Moscow, with flashbacks touching upon poignant passage points earlier in the adoption process. Remembering their agency’s advice to expect the unexpected, they find their way through an eight-hour delay in landing in fog-covered Moscow and not finding their escort at the airport, a host family who’s seldom home, a bizarre Thanksgiving dinner, and their fears about early warning signs of cerebral palsy with their referred baby boy. But from his first smile, Aibek assures them that they have just begun the adventure of a lifetime! Author is donating a portion of proceeds to Little Miracles International’s Orphanage Projects! About the Author: Kevin Quirk is an author, editor, ghostwriter, and counselor. His first book, Not Now, Honey, I’m Watching the Game (Fireside), was featured by ABC’s 20/20, National Public Radio, Redbook, Men’s Health, and The Washington Post. He helps ordinary people share their personal stories through Memoirs for Life (www.memoirsforlife.com), and he guides authors with books in psychology, spirituality, politics, and business through A Writer’s Eye (www.awriterseye.com). A member of the Association of Personal Historians and the Washington Independent Writers, Kevin lives in Charlottesville, VA, with his wife Krista and son Aibek.

From the Back Cover: There’s noting like adoption to make a grown man cry. Repeatedly.

“They called Svetlana tonight and told her we have to go to America and wait sixty days for you. Sixty days! I punched the wall. I paced the room like an animal. I looked at your diapers and your book and I cried angry tears. I can’t leave you like this. I miss you already.”

Two ingredients are necessary for international adoption—domestic logistics (read: mundane) and foreign logistics (read: insane). The two adoptions we’ve completed featured extra doses of both.

The domestic details are fairly predictable: endless forms, cash, home studies, cash, bureaucratic red tape, cash... you get the picture. Though tedious, the details manage to be nerve-wracking—will we make the “definitely parent material” list?

Overseas, things in our country of choice (Ukraine) happen at extreme speeds—extremely slow (We have to wait thirty days for a court date?!) or extremely fast (We’re being picked up in three minutes?!). We begin to wonder if we’re capable of surviving this foreign land, much less bringing home a local to raise as our own.

Throw in sleepless nights, dark orphanage halls, infertility, and the prayers of the saints—and you have international adoption in the real world. Tristan Volodymyr and Maxim Dmitri are our pride and joy. Hello, I Love You is the story of how they came to be ours....

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About the Author: Ted Kluck is coauthor of Why We’re Not Emergent and author of Facing Tyson, 15 Stories, Paper Tiger, and The Reason for Sports. His award winning writing has also appeared in ESPN the Magazine, Sports Spectrum Magazine and on ESPN.com’s Page 2. An avid sports fan, he has played professional indoor football, coached high school football, trained as a professional wrestler, served as a missionary, and taught writing courses at the college level. He currently lives in Michigan with his wife and children.

From the Publisher: This series of three, interactive, self-instructional workbooks can be used individually or in collaboration with a social worker. Ideas and information are presented, and then the foster parent or adoptive parent can respond by answering questions or completing worksheets relating the presented information to specific children in their care.

HOMEWORKS #2: Helping Children and Youths Develop Positive Attachments offers general background on how children form attachments and ways to help children develop and maintain positive attachments to their foster or adoptive parents.

From the Publisher: This series of three, interactive, self-instructional workbooks can be used individually or in collaboration with a social worker. Ideas and information are presented, and then the foster parent or adoptive parent can respond by answering questions or completing worksheets relating the presented information to specific children in their care.

HOMEWORKS #1: Helping Children and Youths Manage Separation and Loss provides basic information about separation, loss, and the grieving process to help the foster parent or adoptive parent understand the loss history of the child in their care, its effect on growth and development, and ways to help the child cope with angry or sad feelings and behaviors.

From the Publisher: This series of three, interactive, self-instructional workbooks can be used individually or in collaboration with a social worker. Ideas and information are presented, and then the foster parent or adoptive parent can respond by answering questions or completing worksheets relating the presented information to specific children in their care.

HOMEWORKS #3: Helping Children and Youths Manage the Impact of Placement shows how foster parents and adoptive parents can integrate a new child into their family and minimize the risk of placement disruption.

From the Dust Jacket: Perhaps you know a child who has suffered the terrifying experience of losing a parent to death. Perhaps you are in the middle of a divorce, caught up in your own worries and pain yet concerned about the effect it is having on your children. Perhaps you have just moved to a new city and have noticed alarming changes in your children’s behavior. Or perhaps you are coping with a long separation from your children because of hospitalization or military service.

In any of these situations, the children involved need your help. With few resources to turn to when a loved one is lost, they fear for their own survival. They feel sadness, anger, guilt, shame, despair—yet they may lack the words to describe their feelings. They restrain feelings they fear are improper; and when these emotions do escape, adults may misinterpret their behavior as destructive naughtiness. Confused about the past and unwilling to face the future, such children may founder. Losses that follow, however trivial, will compound their troubles. If their feelings are not resolved, their emotional distress will manifest itself in adolescence and adulthood—as depression, anxiety, alcoholism, or suicidal tendencies.

How can concerned adults help? From years of work with hundreds of bereaved children, child and family therapist Claudia Jewett has developed the simple techniques described in Helping Children Cope with Separation and Loss—techniques that any adult can use to help children through their grief. From the agonizing moment when an adult must tell a child what has happened, through the shock and denial, then anger and depression, that follow, Jewett describes the stages of mourning and the behavior that can be expected of grieving children at each stage. Using case histories and sample dialogues between helper and child, she explains how to help children to come to a timely resolution of their grief.

Nearly half of all children born today will spend a significant portion of their lives in single-parent families. Whether you are caretaker or teacher, counselor or friend, your understanding and support will be needed as they try to cope with the experience of separation. The adult who helps a grieving child performs a difficult task, but one that is crucial to the child’s well-being. Helping Children Cope with Separation and Loss makes that task clearer and easier.

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By the Same Author: Adopting the Older Child (1978).

From the Back Cover: Long before you decided to adopt, long before your child was born, God planned to put your adopted child into your home. Your child is an amazing gift from God, but nurturing an adopted child also brings unique challenges.

Understanding your adopted child from God’s perspective will allow you to address those challenges by faith and with hope. Learn from counselor and adoptive father Paul David Tripp how to help adopted children understand their identity and place in God’s world.

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About the Author: Paul David Tripp, M.Div., D.Min., is the president of Paul Tripp Ministries, on the pastoral staff of Tenth Presbyterian Church, adjunct faculty at CCEF, and has counseled for over 25 years. He is the author of many articles, booklets, and books, including Age of Opportunity: A Biblical Guide to Parenting Teens; Instruments in the Redeemer’s Hands; and A Quest for More, and the coauthor of How People Change and Relationships: A Mess Worth Making.

From the Dust Jacket: As soon as Tayo was brought to Cathy’s home for placement, she was puzzled. The social worker had no records for Tayo: no school files, family history or medical records. It was as if Tayo didn’t exist.

Tayo maintained strict silence when Cathy asked about his past. Only when she glimpsed a scar on his arm did Tayo’s story gradually begin to unfold. Cathy learned of his abduction by his drink- and drug-dependent mother, and a sinister van with blackened windows that picked him up every morning at daybreak and ferried him across London.

In her twenty-three years as a foster carer, Cathy had never seen a case as horrific as Tayo’s nor had she met a boy with such loyalty, inner resolve and strength.

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About the Author: Cathy Glass, who writes under a pseudonym, has been a foster carer for more than twenty years: She has three children. She is the author of the bestseller Damaged.

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By the Same Author: Damaged: The Heartbreaking True Story of a Forgotten Child (2006); Cut: The True Story of an Abandoned, Abused Little Girl Who Was Desperate to be Part of a Family (2008); I Miss Mummy: The True Story of a Frightened Young Girl Who is Desperate to Go Home (2009); Saddest Girl in the World: The True Story of a Neglected and Isolated Little Girl Who Just Wanted to Be Loved (2009); The Night the Angels Came (2011); A Baby’s Cry (2012); Another Forgotten Child (2012); Please Don’t Take My Baby (2013); Will You Love Me?: The Story of My Adopted Daughter Lucy (2013); Daddy’s Little Princess (2014); and Saving Danny (2015), among many others.

From the Back Cover: “Though I am not a missionary, nor even a bold witness in approaching strangers, I can make the difference in the lives of many by touching and investing in the life of just one child.” This belief has led one family on a miraculous journey down a pathway of life that has been blessed immensely by the adoption of 12 children and the unexpected birth of one son.

In her book Hidden for Glory, Destined for Adoption, SuDawn Peters shares testimonies of God’s faithfulness and love, even in hurtful situations and valleys of uncertainty. Facing head on such excuses as unemployment, age, race, size of their family, and health issues, they have found that nothing could stop God’s plan as they obediently followed Him. From their first adoption over 28 years ago to their latest addition hidden to reveal a surprising double blessing, the journey has been unique.

This book is one that no Christian should miss reading. As everyday challenges and seemingly insignificant events mesh into stories of inspiration and great spiritual significance, you will realize anew, that conception is purposed and each life is incredibly special in God’s eyes.

Whether you are considering adopting a child, a veteran looking for encouragement, a birth mother struggling with your part in the big picture of life, an adoptee searching for identity, or someone who simply enjoys reading about God’s awesome orchestration of lives, it is this family’s prayer that you will find hope, and renewed vision within these pages. In giving of themselves, they have found the true purpose of life. God does have a plan.

From the Dust Jacket: In January 2009, the world witnessed one of the most remarkable emergency landings in history when Captain Sullenberger brought a crippled US Airways flight onto the Hudson River, saving the lives of all of the passengers and crew aboard. The successful outcome was the result of effective teamwork, Sully’s dedication to airline safety, his belief that a pilot’s judgment must go hand-in-hand with—and can never be replaced by—technology, and forty years of careful practice and training.

From his earliest memories of learning to fly as a teenager in a crop duster’s single-engine plane in the skies above rural Texas to his years in the United States Air Force at the controls of a powerful F-4 Phantom, Sully describes the experiences that have helped make him a better leader, particularly the importance of taking responsibility for everyone in his care. And he talks about what he believes is at the heart of America’s “can do” spirit: the very human drive to prepare for the unexpected and to meet it with optimism and courage.

His wife, Lorrie, has been a pillar of support through all the highs and lows that life has offered, from the challenges of commercial flying to the birth of their two daughters, from financial struggles to the event of January 15, 2009. Though the world may remember Sully as the hero of Flight 1549, the legacy he desires even more is that of a loving husband and father.

Highest Duty is the intimate story of a man who has grown up to embrace what we think of as quintessential American values—leadership, responsibility, commitment to hard work, and service to others. And it is a narrative that reminds us that cultivating seemingly ordinary virtues can prepare us to perform extraordinary acts.

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About the Author: Captain Chesley B. Sullenberger III is an airline pilot and safety expert, and has served as an instructor and an Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) safety chairman and accident investigator. He was named the Outstanding Cadet in Airmanship in his graduating class at the United States Air Force Academy, and he holds two master’s degrees. A native of Denison, Texas, he lives in Danville, California, with his wife and family.

Jeffrey Zaslow is a Wall Street Journal columnist and, with Randy Pausch, coauthor of the number one international bestseller The Last Lecture, which has now been translated into 46 languages. He is also the author of the New York Times bestseller The Girls from Ames: A Story of Women and a Forty-Year Friendship. Zaslow lives in suburban Detroit with his wife, Sherry, and daughters Jordan, Alex, and Eden.

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Compiler’s Note: The story of the Sullenbergers’ adoption of their two daughters is related in Chapter 5: “The Gift of Girls.”

Author’s follow-up to her previous book, Hope Shining Brightly: My Experience with Legal Risk Adoption.

From the Dust Jacket: Whining. Temper tantrums. Sibling rivalry. Sound familiar? With the myriad responsibilities you face today as a parent, raising a child can often become a nerve-jangling, emotionally draining experience. But it doesn’t have to be that way.

Holding Time presents a break-through parenting strategy that will revolutionize the way you relate to your child—and the way your child relates to you. Based on Dr. Martha Welch’s ground-breaking work with parents and children, holding time is a simple but amazingly effective technique that will make your child happier, more cooperative, more self-confident and less demanding—and put a stop to problem behavior once and for all.

Holding Time is based on the nurturing bond that forms when you physically hold your child. Drawing from research on primate and infant bonding, Dr. Welch shows how holding allows two biochemical systems in your child’s brain to reach a balance, creating an optimal level for learning and emotional development. Dr. Welch’s brilliant clinical research proved that holding can not only help cure profound autism, but that it achieves amazing results with normal children, too—children, like yours, who have occasional behavior problems.

A mother herself, Dr. Welch has developed a systematic program based on holding time techniques that will bring you and your child closer together. Whether your child is a demanding infant or a rambunctious preteen, all it will take is regular holding time sessions to achieve almost miraculous results.

And Dr. Welch has included chapters that focus on the special problems faced by today’s two-career and single parent households, showing how holding time can help keep these families close.

With holding time, you’ll see your children become more loving and less demanding. You’ll feel your own self-esteem grow as you’re better able to anticipate and cope with your child’s problems. And best of all, you and your child will feel closer than ever before. With inspiring examples of other parents’ experiences with holding time, a troubleshooting chapter that answers all of the most common questions about holding time techniques, and checklists that will help you monitor your progress, Dr. Welch’s book is a complete formula for happier, more harmonious families.

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About the Author: Martha G. Welch, M.D., a graduate of Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, is a practicing psychiatrist specializing in child development and parent-child attachment. Internationally renowned for her work on autism and mothering, in 1977 she founded The Mothering Center, which teaches holding time techniques to parents from all over the world. Dr. Welch lives in New York City and Greenwich, Connecticut, with her family. Her eight-year-old son volunteered this testimony about holding time: “After holding you feel as though you have never been angry and you never will be.”

From the Dust Jacket: When all-American Aminta Arrington moves from suburban Georgia to a small town in China, she doesn’t go alone. Her Army husband and three young children, including an adopted Chinese daughter, uproot themselves too.

Arrington hopes they will all grow to understand the country with its long civilization, ancient philosophy, and complex language. In Tai’an, a small city where pigs’ hooves are available at the local supermarket, donkeys share the road with cars, and the warm-hearted locals welcome this strange-looking foreign family, the family is bewildered by the seemingly endless cultural differences they face. But, with the help of new friends, they find their way.

Home is a Roof Over a Pig is full of humor and unexpectedly moving moments. It will rivet anyone who is thinking of adopting, or of raising children abroad, or of being immersed in a foreign culture—or anyone who is already familiar with these experiences. An everywoman with courage and acute cultural perspective, Aminta Arrington recounts this transformative quest with a freshness that will delight.

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About the Author: Aminta Arrington has an M.A. in international relations from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and studied at Waseda University in Tokyo. She has written about China for The Seattle Times, and she edited the anthology Saving Grandmother’s Face: And Other Tales from Christian Teachers in China. Aminta continues to live and work in China with her family.

From the Back Cover: This beautiful and striking book examines one of the most enduring subjects in the history of picture-making: the image of the mother. Focusing on the work of twelve international photographic artists, the publication challenges the stereotypical or sentimental views of motherhood handed down by traditional depictions, exploring instead how photography can be used to address changing conditions of power, gender, domesticity, the maternal body and female identity.

The work featured here is highly personal, often documentary in approach, and with the individual at its centre, reflecting photography itself in the twenty-first century. The artists offer very different views of contemporary motherhood, from the devoted to the dysfunctional, representing the myriad ways that becoming—or even trying to become—a mother can radically alter a woman’s sense of self and how others perceive her. Each one deals with the many truths of motherhood—its joys and sorrows, its harrowing chaos, its immense expectations—illuminating this fundamentally human theme in honest, compelling and provocative fashion.

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From the Foreword, “Motherlode: Photography, Motherhood and Representation” by Susan Bright: The effects of loss are particularly apparent in the work of Ann Fessler (American, b. 1950). In the autobiographical Along the Pale Blue River (2001/2013) Fessler combines her own video footage with vintage film to create collaged images of farms and rivers in the rural Midwest of America.

The narrative that unfolds is of a young woman who, when finding out she is pregnant, flees her rural community for anonymity in a city where she can give up her baby for adoption. Forty years later, the adopted daughter searches for her birth mother, having identified her picture in a school yearbook. Seeking the family farm, she realizes that the river that flowed by her childhood home had its source in this rural place. Via this metaphorical umbilical cord with the past, Fessler—an adopted child raised by a woman who was herself adopted—traces the tales of tragedy and loss that run through every single case of adoption, but also establishes a poetic connection of strange coincidence and chance with her own biological mother in an effort to reconstruct her life story.

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About a Featured Contributor: Ann Fessler is a film-maker, video/sound installation artist and author. Her work has focused on the stories of women and the impact the myths, stereotypes and mass-media images have on their lives and intimate relationships. Fessler turned to the subject of adoption in 1989. Since then, she has produced three films (Cliff & Hazel [1999], A Girl Like Her [2011], e.g.) and written a non-fiction book on adoption, The Girls Who Went Away. In 2003-4, she was awarded a prestigious Radcliffe Fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, to continue her research, conduct interviews and produce new work. The Girls Who Went Away was chosen as one of the top five non-fiction books of 2006 by the National Book Critics Circle, won the Ballard Book Prize, and was chosen by the readers of Ms. magazine as one of the top 100 feminist books of all time.

Adoptive applicants are required to pass a homestudy before being approved to adopt. Up until now applicants have faced the homestudy process with feelings of vulnerability, intimidation and uncertainty. Not anymore! Revealing “Insider Secrets” never before disclosed—the country’s top adoption professionals discuss how to reduce anxiety, boost your confidence and pass your homestudy effortlessly. Prepared for any homestudy situation that comes your way—you’ll know exactly what to expect, what not to say, and the best way to respond to questions. Homestudy Boot Camp promises to be an invaluable tool to assist you in preparing for your homestudy. Utilizing straight forward discussions, practical advice and a little candid humor, expect our Boot Camp to whip you into shape quickly for the experience of a lifetime! About the Author: Monica P. A. Whittsette is the Founder and Executive Director of Brightside Adoption Connection, a private adoption agency located in Twinsburg, OH. Monica, a remarkable serial entrepreneur, obtained her Master’s Degree from The University of Akron. Over the last decade she has worked as a counselor in the field of foster care and adoption, while completing adoptive homestudies and working with birthparents, adoptive parents and countless adoption professionals.

From the Dust Jacket: What happens when a romantic dates a pragmatist? When you, for instance, like to wow your lover with an original song while he thinks a bar of soap is a thoughtful gift? The answer is: You fall in love, of course.

In his charming, often hilarious account of his decade-long relationship with his boyfriend (now husband), journalist David Valdes Greenwood sets the record straight on gay marriage—and reminds us what really matters in the institution. Sure, you may be bound to your true love by a wedding band, but the defining moments of every good relationship begin long before the proposal—and continue long after the rice has been thrown.

Here are the high points (and some low points) that chart a relationship destined for greatness, including: the first blush of romance and that first “nondate”; forgetting your pants at your own wedding; learning to share duties (and mince words) in the kitchen; understanding what it means to “flirt but not touch”; figuring out that “life as a couple is all about discovering just how many things you can approach differently without actually killing each other”; and sharing a great love, a baby.

Poignant and smart, these notes from a same-sex marriage will strike a chord with anyone who knows just how outrageous and maddeningly wonderful the ties of love can be, no matter what configuration your family. Valdes Greenwood radiantly confirms that HOMO DOMESTICUS is where the heart is, after all.

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About the Author: Journalist and playwright David Valdes Greenwood is a regular contributor to the Boston Globe Magazine. He teaches at Tufts University and lives in Massachusetts with his husband and baby daughter.