Here are some Ukrainian Adoption books of interest. I haven't read all of them. But reading does help the time pass.

Finding Yasha : An Adoption Journey To Ukraine by Mickey & Len Sirowitz is Spiral-bound. Amazon.com is selling the book for $25.99. It was published May 11, 2006.

Yasha was adopted from Cherkassy.

FINDING YASHA is a very personal account of a shared family experience. It all began with a son's desire to become a single dad and his parents' willingness to support him in that endeavor. The odyssey took them to Ukraine where the heart-wrenching search to identify a child to adopt began. The decision to create a Sketchbook/Journal was the result of their wish to document the anxieties and difficulties, the highs and lows, and the ultimate joy in finding Yasha.

From: Amazon.com

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The Handbook of International Adoption Medicine : A Guide for Physicians, Parents, and Providers by Laurie C. Miller is a paperback which was published in 2004. On Amazon.com is $45.00 (new). There are some used copies available for a little less money.


One book reviewer stated

This book is NOT just for pediatricians. In fact, it is incredibly useful for adoptive parents at many stages in the adoption process

From: Amazon.com

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The Pumpkin Patch: A Single Woman's International Adoption Journey by Margaret L. Schwartz is a paperback that was published June 30, 2005. Amazon has it for $13.57. She adopted 2 boys.


Margaret's web site is here. She participated with American Radio Works adoption project and posted her story here.


Margaret was selected as an Angel in Adoption for 2005.

This adoption journal chronicles an 18-month transformation from successful businesswoman to a single mother of two children. The author, Margaret Schwartz, details her personal struggles and reveals how she navigates the bureaucracy of Ukraine, a country rife with poverty and corruption, to find the children who filled the emptiness in her heart. 10% of net profits are donated to hiskids2.org and life2orphans.org.

From: Adoption Books Review

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Two Little Girls : A Memoir of Adoption was written by Theresa Reid. She and her husband adopted a child from Russian and Ukraine (Kyiv). They adopted their daughter from Ukraine in 2002. The books is hardback and was published April 4, 2006. It costs $15.57 on Amazon.


Theresa's web site is here.

The Angelina Jolie factor: What she’s doing is great—she doesn’t consider biology a prerequisite to love. But it’s the image of her swooping down out of the skies, cool, magnanimous, unruffled, already in love. All of the angst is gone. What disturbs me about it is the reinforcement of the myth of the heroic and selfless adopter. But we’re neither heroic nor selfless—we’re usually scared and pretty selfish actually.

From: Interview with Theresa Reid

Reid has decided to show readers the adoption process warts and all and her account is often brutally honest. "You don't fall in love at first sight, most biological parents don't fall in love at first sight,'' she says. Reid and her husband certainly didn't fall in love at first sight with Natalie's photo: They thought she looked like Boris Yeltsin.

From: Book tells of internal and external travail of adoption