"This updated collection of stories about adoption includes our favorites from the original Chicken Soup for the Adopted Soul plus 17 new stories"--Page [4] of cover.

Jack and Molly Campbell consider disappearing with their four-year-old adopted son, Joey, when a judge rules he must be returned to his biological, ex-convict father.

There's a box in the back of Audrey's closet that she rarely thinks about. Inside is a letter, seventeen years old, from a mother she's never met, handed to her by the woman she's called Mom her whole life. Being adopted, though, is just one piece in the puzzle of Audrey's life -- the picture painstakingly put together by Audrey herself, consisting not only of the greatest family ever but of a snarky, loyal, sometimes infuriating best friend Rose,...

"When Ruby McTavish Callahan Woodward Miller Kenmore dies, she's not only North Carolina's richest woman, she's also its most notorious. The victim of a famous kidnapping as a child and a widow four times over, Ruby ruled the tiny town of Tavistock from Ashby House, her family's estate high in the Blue Ridge mountains. In the aftermath of her death, that estate -- along with a nine-figure fortune and the complicated legacy of being a McTavish -- pass...

"A tender and fierce debut novel that explores of the bond between two siblings -- one the biological child and one adopted -- and the complexities of motherhood, infertility, race, and the many definitions of family"--

Chung investigates the mysteries and complexities of her transracial adoption in this chronicle of unexpected family for anyone who has struggled to figure out where they belong. Nicole Chung was born severely premature, placed for adoption by her Korean parents, and raised by a white family in a sheltered Oregon town. She was told her biological parents had made the ultimate sacrifice in the hope of giving her a better life, that forever feeling...

The joy of adoption and bringing families together is presented in this tale.

When an adopted boy calls "Santa" for help, the man who answers and plays along finds that the boy's mother is just the woman he's been wishing for.

After learning that she is the daughter of accused serial killers Todd and Pamela Larsen, privileged 24-year-old Olivia Taylor ends up in the small town of Cainsville, Illinois, to prove her birthparents' innocence. But as she and Gabriel, her mother's lawyer, start investigating the case, Olivia finds herself drawing on abilities that have remained hidden since her childhood, gifts that make her both a valuable addition to Cainsville and deeply vulnerable...

From V.C. Andrews, bestselling author of Flowers in the Attic (the first in a series of Lifetime movie events about the Dollanganger family), comes the tale of a young girl kept under the watchful eye of her adoptive parents, as if they fear who{u2014}or what{u2014}she{u2019}ll become{u2026} Sixteen-year-old Sage is a lonely child. Her adoptive parents watch her obsessively, as if studying her for warning signs of{u2026}something. And maybe they{u2019}re...