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Adopting Online: Your 1 Guide to a Successful Adoption

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If not for this book, I wouldn't know where to begin. If not for Mardie Caldwell's efforts and talent, her caring heart and experience, I'd be swimming in the vast, endless sea of the Internet floundering around, stumbling upon wonderful websites, but lacking direction and guidance. Thank God for this book. It is a roadmap, clearly explaining everything from how to use a computer and the Internet, to pointing you towards adoption websites and resources. I'd never know most of these websites existed if not for Mardie's book. Her work is a blessing, and am indebted to her for pouring much of her time and heart into this book.

Whatever your circumstances: the pains of infertility, wanting to adopt to add to your current family, or wanting to adopt because you're like me- you just know it's the right thing for you and the child you eventually end up with, I strongly recommend the book Adopting Online.com by Mardie Caldwell. I've looked in bookstores, on the Internet- and have never found such a concise, easy to understand adoption book that breaks down the process and guides you, step by step, through the entire adoption process and then some.

If I could personally thank Mardie Caldwell for writing this book, I'd do it. The next best thing is posting a book review in the hopes that she'll see it, and others will discover, as I have, this amazing adoption resource book.

BUYER BEWARE: I purchased this book and Adoption: Your Step-by-Step Guide (also by Mardie Caldwell) and to my surprise THEY WERE ACTUALLY THE SAME BOOK, PUBLISHED LESS THAN FOUR MONTHS APART UNDER DIFFERENT TITLES! Nowhere did it say that one was a minimally updated version of the other.

While the information that these books contain is very good, I find it a very shady practice indeed to publish two books in this manner less than 4 months apart without informing potential buyers of the duplication. It has left me very wary of the author and the publisher. In fact, I would guess the US ISBN Agency would be interested in knowing these books are the same...