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Prospective Adoptive Parents

• The Adoption Resource Book by Lois Gilman

• The Essential Adoption Handbook by Colleen Alexander-Roberts

• Adopting After Infertility by Patricia Irwin Johnston

• Dear Birthmother by Silber and Speedlin

• Open Adoption: A Caring Option by Jeanne Warrant Lindsay

• Adoption Without Fear James Gritter, editor

• Raising Adopted Children by Lois Ruskai Melina

• Secret Thoughts of an Adoptive Mother by Jana Wolfe

• Inside Transracial Adoption by Steinberg and Hall

Pregnant Women

• Nurturing The Unborn Child by Thomas Verny, M.D. and Pamela Weintraub

• The Secret Life of the Unborn Child by Thomas Verny, M.D. with John Kelly

• What To Expect When You're Expecting by Arlene Eisenberg, Heidi

Pregnant Women Considering Adoption

• Dear Birthmother by Silber and Speedlin

• Now & Later—Sharing Your Love Through the Gift of Adoption (Available through Catholic Charities)

• Parents, Pregnant Teens and the Adoption Option by Jeanne Warren Lindsey

• Pregnant? Adoption is an Option by Jeanne Warren Lindsay

Birthparents Who Have Placed a Child for Adoption

• Birth Fathers and Their Adoption Experiences by Gary Clapton

• Good Grief by Granger E. Westberg (Grief/loss for all people.)

• How To Open An Adoption: A Guide for Parents and Birthparents of Minors by Patricia Martinez Dorner

• Lifegivers: Framing The Birthparent Experience in Open Adoption by James Gritter

• Out of the Shadows: Birthfathers' Stories by Martin Martin Mason

• Praying Our Goodbyes by Joyce Rupp (Rituals for times of grief and loss.)

• Saying Goodbye To A Baby—The Birthparent's Guide to Loss and Grief in Adoption by Patricia Roles