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Keurium : a novel
\"Shay Stone lies in a hospital bed, catatonic -- dead to the world. Her family thinks it's a ploy for attention. Doctors believe it's the result of an undisclosed trauma. At the mercy of memories and visitations, Shay unearths secrets that may have led to her collapse. Will she remain paralyzed in denial? Or can she accept the unfathomable and break free? KEURIUM threads through one adopted Korean American's life of longing and letting go. On a quest for family, sanity, and survival, it challenges saviorism and forced gratitude. Woven through its heartbreaking fabric is a story of love and resilience. \"KEURIUM tells the harrowing journey of adopted Korean American Shay Stone's fight for her emotional well-being and ultimately, her life. Told in thoroughly satisfying chronological vignettes, this is a brave and necessary novel about hard truths, self-care, self-discovery, and one woman's hard-earned liberation.\"--Amazon.
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Looking for Oliver
While clearing through her mother's bedroom after her death, Emma comes across a thirty-year-old newspaper clipping that her mother had kept, announcing the arrival of a new baby boy. Realizing that the baby must be the son she gave up for adoption, Emma becomes transfixed by this link to her first-born. But she now has a husband and two teenage children, all of whom know nothing of her past...Vividly recalling the stigma of her schoolgirl pregnancy and the pain of her separation from the baby, this absorbing and illuminating story follows Emma's search, years later, for Oliver, her adopted son.
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Rituals
\"In the series' fifth and final novel, not only does Gabriel's drug addict mother--who he thought was dead--make a surprise reappearance, but Kelley Armstrong delivers a final scary and surprising knock-out twist: it turns out a third supernatural force has been at work all along, a dark and malevolent entity that has had its eye on Olivia since she was a baby and wants to win at any cost\"--Publisher marketing.
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The seventh day : a novel
Yang Fei was born on a moving train. Lost by his mother, adopted by a young switchman, raised with simplicity and love, he is utterly unprepared for the tempestuous changes that await him and his country. As a young man, he searches for a place to belong in a nation that is ceaselessly reinventing itself, but he remains on the edges of society. At age forty-one, he meets an accidental and unceremonious death. Lacking the money for a burial plot, he must roam the afterworld aimlessly, without rest. Over the course of seven days, he encounters the souls of the people he's lost.
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White Like Me: Whiteness in Scandinavian Transnational Adoption Literature
According to Hübinette, \"transracial,\" a concept often used in the context of transracial adoption to highlight adoption across racial borders, for instance, in US domestic adoption, should in this context instead be compared to the terminology that includes \"transsexual\" and \"transgender,\" in that an individual identifies himself or herself\"wrongly,\" as the \"opposite\" body. [...]previous research shows that this question is extremely stigmatizing for transnational/transracial adoptees (see, for instance, Lundström 2007). According to them, \"the difference between the bodily concept of race and the cultural concept of ethnicity has collapsed completely within the Swedish national imagery, such that whiteness is Swedishness, and Swedishness is whiteness\" (2011, 44). [...]whiteness is also depicted through the perspective adoptees take when (partly) identifying with the white norm and the realization that they, in this perspective, struggle with their own perception of race.
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The heart's invisible furies
Adopted by a well-to-do if eccentric Dublin couple who remind him that he is not a real member of their family, Cyril embarks on a journey to find himself and where he came from, discovering his identity, a home, a country, and much more throughout a long lifetime.
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My darling daughter
Out of the blue, Susie Jukes is contacted on social media by Anna, the girl she gave up for adoption fifteen years ago. But when they meet, Anna's home life sounds distinctly strange to Susie and her husband Gabe. And when Anna's adoptive parents seem to overreact to the fact she contacted them at all, Susie becomes convinced that Anna needs her help. But is Anna's own behaviour simply what you'd expect from someone recovering from a traumatic childhood? Or are there other secrets at play here - secrets Susie has also been hiding for the last fifteen years?
Scread Mhaidne
(An Irish-language title) Joe Steve O Neachtain was born and reared in An Cre Dubh, Spiddal, Co. Galway, where he still resides. He is well-known throughout the country for his part in the TG4 soap opera Ros na Run. A prolific writer, Scread Mhaidne is his first novel. He has also written short stories, pantomimes, plays, songs, poetry, scripts, sketches, agallaimh bheirte and luibini, not to mention his works for children and teenagers! He also wrote the drama series Baile an Droichid which ran for ten years on Raidio na Gaeltachta. He was awarded the Clo Iar-Chonnachta Literary Prize in 1998 for his anthology of short stories Clochmhoin, and in 2001 for his novel Lamh Laidir.
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