BOOKS I RECOMMEND

Adoption:

The Connected Child: Bring Hope and Healing to Your Adoptive Family by Karyn Purvis

The Boy Who was Raised as a Dog: What Traumatized Children can teach us about Loss, Love and Healing

Beyond Consequences Logic and Control by Heather T. Forbes

When Love Is Not Enough: A Guide to Parenting Children with RAD (Reactive Attachment Disorder) by Nancy Thomas

Adopting the Hurt Child: Hope for Families with Special Needs Kids by Gregory Keck and Regina Kupecky

The Out-of-Sync-Child: Recognizing and Coping with Sensory Processing Disorder by Carol Stock Kranowitz

This is a Soul: The Mission of Rick Hodes

Culture:

Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria: A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity by Beverly Tatum

There Is No Me Without You by Melissa Fay Greene

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Solider by Ismeal Beah

Scared: A Novel on the Edge of the World by Tom Davis

Faith:

Radical: Taking back Your Faith from the American Dream by David Platt

A Renegade's Guide to God by David Foster

Where is God When It Hurts by Philip Yancey 

Crazy Love by Francis Chan

The Hole In Our Gospel by Richard Stearns

Fields of the Fatherless: Discover the Joys of Compassionate Living by Tom Davis

Journey to Health:

Beautiful You: A Daily Guide to Radical Self Acceptance by Rosie Molinary

Made to Crave : Satisfying Your deepest desire with God, not Food