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Books by, and about, birthmothers (in no order whatsoever, and not necessarily a complete list):

1. With Courage & Love: A Journal for Birthmother's by Janet Sieff
2. To Prison With Love by Sandy Musser
3. I Would Have Searched Forever by Sandy Musser
4. Birthmothers: Women Who Have Relinquished Babies for Adoption Tell Their Stories by Merry Bloch Jones
5. Healing the Hole in A Heart: One Birthmother's Journey into the Adoption Triangle
6. Soul Connection: Memoir of A Birthmother's Healing Journey by Ann H. Hughes
7. Shadow Mothers: Stories of Adoption and Reunion by Linda Back McKay
8. Healing the Hole in A Heart: One Birthmother's Journey into the Adoption Triangle by Nancy Mac Isaac
9. Dear Birthmother by Kathleen Silber
10. shedding light on…The Dark Side of Adoption, Mirah Riben
11. Birthmark Lorraine Dusky
12. Violets Blooming in a Late Spring Snow: A Birthmother Reflects on Adoption by Jacqueline Ramthun, Robin Mueller, Patricia Hoolihan, and Jessica A. Johnson
13. Reunion: A Year in Letters Between a Birthmother and the Daughter She Couldn't Keep by Katie Hern and Ellen McGarry Carlson
14. Reaching Out: The Guide to Writing a Terrific Dear Birthmother Letter by Nelson Handel
15. Adopted Like Me: Chosen to Search for Truth, Identity, and a Birthmother by Michael C. Watson
16. Thank You Son for Finding Me: A Birthmother's Story by Beth J. Kane
17. Letters to My Birthmother: An Adoptee's Diary of Her Search for Her Identity by Amy E. Dean
18. Torn from the Heart: The Amazing True Story of a Birthmother's Search for Her Lost Daughter by Louise Jurgens
19. Dear Linda: An Adoptive Fathers Open Letter to the Birthmother of His Child by Anonymous
20. Early contact in adoption: Contact between birthmothers and adoptive parents at the time of and after the adoption by Clare Dominick
21. Predicting contact over time between adoptive parents and birthmothers in the open adoptive kinship network by Susan Margaret Wolfgram
22. A Birthmother's Book of Memories by Brenda Romanchik
23. A birthmother speaks out with an opened heart: A little book with a contemporary message for anyone touched by adoption by Susan Van Sleet
24. Adoption love stories: True stories by birthmothers, adoptive parents-- by Marcia Rhone
25. The Adoption Reader: Birth Mothers, Adoptive Mothers, and Adopted Daughters Tell Their Stories by Susan Wadia-Ells
26. The Other Mother: A True Story by Carol Schaefer
27. Wake up Littlee Susie by Rickie Solinger
28. Beggers and Coosers by Rickie Solinger
29. Adoption and Loss: The Hidden Grief by Evelyn Robinson
30. Adoption Recovery: Solving the mystery of reunion by Evelyn Robinson
31. The Girls Who Went Away by Ann Fessler