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Browse the newest additions to our library.

  • The Forever Nest

    The Forever Nest: An Adoption Story for Children

  • From Foster to Forever

    From Foster to Forever: Jack’s Journey Home

  • The Love Tree

    The Love Tree

  • How I Wonder

    How I Wonder Where You Are

  • A is for Always

    A Is for Always: An Adoption Alphabet

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    A Family Is a Family Is a Family (Who We Are)

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    Home at Last

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NJArch maintains an extensive library of books and videos. Borrowing from the library is simple, convenient and offered at no cost to NJ residents. 

Here's how it works: Browse the collection and select the items you wish to borrow. Place the items in your cart, and fill out the required shipping information. The items will be shipped to you by USPS with a return shipping label provided for your convenience. Lending period is 4 weeks.
For best search results, we recommend selecting the “Advanced Search” to view the “audience” and “topic” selections. 
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A Place To Belong Books

During the years from 1854 to 1929, the Children's Aid Society, founded by Charles Loring Brace, sent more than 100,000 children on orphan trains from the slums... more
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Nixon, Joan Lowery

A Practical Guide: Transracial Adoption Books

“The step-by-step playbook to raising confident, empowered, and loved transracial adoptees.” Written by adoptee and advocate Isaac Etter, more
Transracial
Isaac Etter
Julie Etter

A Search to My Beginning Books

"Joan M. Battilana is a wife, mother, and grandmother. All her life she has known she was adopted. Joan was born in Farmington, NM to a single, young mother who... more
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Battilana, Joan

A Simple Piece of Paper Videos

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A STATE PROVIDES ADOPTED CITIZENS ACCESS TO THEIR ORIGINAL BIRTH CERTIFICATES? A Simple Piece of Paper documents a new law providing Illinois... more
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A Single Square Picture Books

Having only a picture to guide her, Katy tells of her personal journey to find her birth mother in Korea. Feeling like an American outsider in her native land, ... more
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Robinson, Katy

A Terrible Thing Happened Books

This gently told and tenderly illustrated story is for children who have witnessed any kind of violent or traumatic episode, including physical abuse, school or... more
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Holmes, Margaret M.

A Time To Grieve Books

This book discusses the stages of grief and loss in a most compassionate way.
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Simos, Bertha G.

A Volcano in my Tummy Books

"Children often have problems with anger. Teachers and parents often have problems with anger. Why? Because we're afraid of anger. It may mean that someone is o... more
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Whitehouse, Eliane
Pudney, Warwick

A Workbook about Taking Care of ME! Books

Victimization in childhood can take many forms including physical, verbal and emotional hurts, and it can happen to boys and girls of all ages and all religious... more
Take Care of ME
Stauffer, Lori, PhD
Deblinger, Esther, PhD

Abandoned at Birth: Searching for the Arms that Once Held Me Books

Adoption is often painted as a happy, inspirational act—a baby finds a family and lives happily ever after. But the truth is that adopted children experience ... more
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Janet Sherlund
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