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10 best books like Inside Transracial Adoption (Gail Steinberg): The Silver Star, Indian Horse, The Heaviness of Things That Float, The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind, Survive Everyday Parenting Struggles, and Help Your Family Thrive, The Pursuit of Endurance: Harnessing the Record-Breaking Power of Strength and Resilience, In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories, Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor, Rising Strong, The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You, No-Drama Discipline: The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind

The Silver Star
AuthorJeannette Walls
ISBN1451661509
It is 1970 in a small town in California. “Bean” Holladay is twelve and her sister, Liz, is fifteen when their artistic mother, Charlotte, takes off to find herself, leaving her girls enough money to last a month or two. When Bean returns from school one day and sees a police car outside the house, she...
Indian Horse
AuthorRichard Wagamese
ISBN1553654021
Saul Indian Horse has hit bottom. His last binge almost killed him, and now he’s a reluctant resident in a treatment centre for alcoholics, surrounded by people he’s sure will never understand him. But Saul wants peace, and he grudgingly comes to see that he’ll find it only through telling his...
The Heaviness of Things That Float
AuthorJennifer Manuel
ISBN1771620871
Jennifer Manuel skilfully depicts the lonely world of Bernadette, a woman who has spent the last forty years living alone on the periphery of a remote West Coast First Nations reserve, serving as a nurse for the community. This is a place where truth and myth are deeply intertwined and stories are “like...
The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind, Survive Everyday Parenting Struggles, and Help Your Family Thrive
AuthorDaniel J. Siegel
ISBN0553807919
Your toddler throws a tantrum in the middle of a store. Your preschooler refuses to get dressed. Your fifth-grader sulks on the bench instead of playing on the field. Do children conspire to make their parents’ lives endlessly challenging? No—it’s just their developing brain calling the shots!

In...
The Pursuit of Endurance: Harnessing the Record-Breaking Power of Strength and Resilience
AuthorJennifer Pharr Davis
ISBN0735221898
National Geographic Adventurer of the Year Jennifer Pharr Davis unlocks the secret to maximizing perseverance--on and off the trail

Jennifer Pharr Davis, a record holder of the FKT (fastest known time) on the Appalachian Trail, reveals the secrets and habits behind endurance as she chronicles...
In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories
AuthorRita James Simon
ISBN0231118295
Nearly forty years after researchers first sought to determine the effects, if any, on children adopted by families whose racial or ethnic background differed from their own, the debate over transracial adoption continues. In this collection of interviews conducted with black and biracial young...
Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
AuthorVirginia Eubanks
ISBN1250074312
A powerful investigative look at data-based discrimination—and how technology affects civil and human rights and economic equity

The State of Indiana denies one million applications for healthcare, foodstamps and cash benefits in three years—because a new computer system interprets...
Rising Strong
AuthorBrené Brown
ISBN0812995821
The physics of vulnerability is simple: If we are brave enough often enough, we will fall. The author of Daring Greatly and The Gifts of Imperfection tells us what it takes to get back up, and how owning our stories of disappointment, failure, and heartbreak gives us the power to write a daring new ending....
The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You
AuthorJulie Zhuo
ISBN0735219567
Instant Wall Street Journal Bestseller!

Congratulations, you're a manager! After you pop the champagne, accept the shiny new title, and step into this thrilling next chapter of your career, the truth descends like a fog: you don't really know what you're doing.

That's exactly how...
No-Drama Discipline: The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind
AuthorDaniel J. Siegel
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The pioneering experts behind The Whole-Brain Child and The Yes Brain tackle the ultimate parenting challenge: discipline.

Highlighting the fascinating link between a child's neurological development and the way a parent reacts to misbehavior, No-Drama Discipline...
Happiness: The Crooked Little Road to Semi-Ever After
AuthorHeather Harpham
A shirt-grabbing, page-turning love story that follows a one-of-a-kind family through twists of fate that require nearly unimaginable choices.

Happiness begins with a charming courtship between hopelessly attracted opposites: Heather, a world-roaming California girl, and Brian,...
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