29. Before We Were Yours, by Lisa Wingate.  Oh, my!  This book is fiction about adoption atrocities that actually occurred.  As heartbreaking as it is, the author does a good job of making the story not too bleak, while sharing the history. There is a follow-up book she co-wrote with a journalist about the actual victims, and I plan to read that, too.  It is a shocking piece of history that should be more widely known. Corrupt individuals kept child theft and selling going on for years.  The Memphis area was the center of it, but it affected the nation. The pair of books were included in a book review series.  

30.  The Lost Family: How DNA Testing Is Upending Who We Are, by Libby Copeland. Published this year, this book explores many ethical issues coming from our new abilities.  It begins and ends with the story of one particular family and what they learned after getting surprising results. It is a pretty good introduction to today's genetic genealogy. My personal feeling is that more good than bad comes from hobby genealogy.

31. Before and After: The Incredible Real Life Stories of Orphans Who Survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society, by Judy Pace Christie and Linda Wingate. Wow again! At the mercy of corruption in our own U S of A government, these children and their families have suffered.  This particular institution is long gone, fortunately. One woman alone could not have done what she did without a lot of people going along.  It is so sad, but one should know.  How many things happen now that ought to be unearthed?