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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
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An Adopted Angel in Disguise

An Adopted Angel in Disguise

Malan, Barbara

Paperback

Entertainment & Performing ArtsBiographies General

ISBN10: 1631322540
ISBN13: 9781631322549
Publisher: Standard Books
Published: Jul 1 2025
Pages: 180
Weight: 1.27
Height: 0.49 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English

An Adopted Angel in Disguise is a radiant collage of love letters, diary pages, poems, school essays, and photographs that James Malan, an exuberant adopted child with a prodigious gift for music, theatre, and faith, quietly curated for the family he adored. Beginning with his parents' moving Our Adoption Story, the book opens five carefully preserved binders of Jim's work, revealing an inquisitive boy whose wonder for flight, astronomy, and Scripture grows into award-winning stage roles and heartfelt reflections on God and friendship. When a car accident ended his life at 18, Jim left behind a trove of words that still sing. Framed by a beloved teacher's biography and his mother's final remembrances, this testament to hope, creativity, and family purpose invites readers to laugh, dream, and grieve with the Malans while discovering how one short life can illuminate countless others. For anyone drawn to inspirational memoirs, adoption journeys, or faith-forward storytelling, Jim's legacy is pure, uplifting light.

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