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A life-changing book that uses new research to challenge old beliefs about belonging.
A timely and important new book that challenges everything we think we know about cultivating true belonging in our communities, organizations, and culture. Social scientist Brené Brown, PhD, LMSW, has sparked a global conversation about the experiences that bring meaning to our lives--experiences of courage, vulnerability, love, belonging, shame, and empathy....
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Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In You Belong, much-admired meditation expert Sebene Selassie reveals that accepting our belonging is the key to facing the many challenges currently impacting our world. Using ancient philosophy, multidisciplinary research, exquisite storytelling, and razor-sharp wit, Selassie leads us in an exploration of all the ways we separate (and thus suffer) and offers a map back to belonging."--
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DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A kid’s guide to accepting and understanding yourself, as well as loving who are you The feeling of belonging is something that everyone strives for, and this book teaches kids how to incorporate that feeling into their lives. It tackles what it’s like when you feel like you belong to a group or family or team, and what it’s like when you don’t. It addresses what it feels like when you don’t fit in, or when others don’t want you around....
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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Astonishing lessons of social psychology that really can make the world a better place"--
We live in enormously polarized times. From politics to race, religion, gender, and class, division runs rampant. In 2020, 40 percent of each political party said that supporters of the opposing party were "downright evil." In 2019, hate crimes reached a ten-year high in the United States. One in five Americans suffers from chronic loneliness, with teenagers...
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Publisher
North Atlantic Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Kentgen explores the ways in which we as a society experience isolation and its effects on our mental and physical healths; she proceeds to offer solutions in order to collectively work towards building a sense of authentic belonging and communication in six specific ways"--
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English
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"A rich, magical new novel on belonging and identity, love and trauma, nature and renewal, from the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World. Two teenagers, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, meet at a taverna on the island they both call home. In the taverna, hidden beneath garlands of garlic, chili peppers and creeping honeysuckle, Kostas and Defne grow in their forbidden love for each other. A fig tree stretches...
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Publisher
Harry N Abrams
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Humanity is at an inflection point. Stress, disconnection, and increasing environmental degradation have people yearning for more than just material progress, personal freedom, or political stability. We are searching for deeper connection. We are longing to belong. On Belonging is an exploration of the crisis of social isolation and of the fundamental human need to belong. It considers belonging across four core dimensions: in our relationships...
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Publisher
Editorial Sirio
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
Description
"Vivimos más conectados que nunca, sin embargo, jamás habíamos estado tan solos, tan separados los unos de los otros, de nosotros mismos y del mundo natural. Nos sentimos alienados, desarraigados y angustiados... Exiliados en busca de nuestro lugar en el mundo. Y es que la pérdida del sentido de pertenencia es la gran herida silenciosa de nuestro tiempo. Solemos pensar que la pertenencia hace referencia a un lugar mítico, un lugar fuera de nosotros...
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Frank and the puppy volume 1
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Frank the cat is happy at home with his two humans until they bring home a puppy who disturbs his entire way of life, so after running away and finding out how unwelcoming the world outside is he makes his way back to where he belongs.
12) Tokyo ever after
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Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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"The Princess Diaries meets Crazy Rich Asians in Emiko Jean's Tokyo Ever After, a "refreshing, spot-on" (Booklist, starred review) story of an ordinary Japanese-American girl who discovers that her father is the Crown Prince of Japan. Izumi Tanaka has never really felt like she fit in--it isn't easy being Japanese American in her small, mostly white, northern California town. Raised by a single mother, it's always been Izumi--or Izzy, because "It's...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Rumple Buttercup has 5 crooked teeth, 3 strands of hair, green skin, and his left foot is slightly bigger than his right. He is weird. Join him and Candy Corn Carl (his imaginary friend made of trash) as they learn the joy of individuality as well as the magic of belonging."--
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Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"From the author of the New York Times bestselling Can I Be Your Dog? series comes a picture book about a snazzy Christmas ornament who tries to find the tree on which he can shine the brightest. Otto is an ornament. He's glittery, he's colorful, he's full of Christmas pizzazz! Otto wants to be at the top of the tree, not in the middle with all of the regular ornaments! Doesn't he deserve to shine at the top? Will Otto be able to find the tree he...
15) The train home
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Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A young girl who wishes for a place to call her own, imagines a train that takes her through the city and beyond, and she explores different places until she discovers the place she truly belongs.
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Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"HEAVEN IS A PLACE ON EARTH tells the stories of both living and long-gone Americans trying to make utopia. Within these stories is Adrian Shirk's own practical and moral inquiry: how can she live a life "in community" in America today, a life which is not organized around private property, automation, and the acquisition of personal wealth? When Shirk's father-in-law has a stroke and loses his ability to speak and walk, her husband becomes his primary...
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Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ming, the daughter of Chinese immigrants in 1930s California, wants to be like other children at school and celebrate Christmas with a tree, but after her father takes her to see a wise old friend, she discovers a better way to honor her heritage.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Laura Rodríguez Colón has a plan: no matter what the grown-ups say, she will live with her parents again. Can you blame her? It's tough to make friends as the new kid at school. And while staying at her aunt's house is okay, it just isn't the same as being in her own space. So when Laura finds a puppy, it seems like fate. If she can train the puppy to become a therapy dog, then maybe she'll be allowed to visit her parents. Maybe the dog will help...
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English
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"Fourteen-year-old Linda lives with her parents in the beautiful, austere woods of northern Minnesota, where their nearly abandoned commune stands as a last vestige of a lost counter-culture world. Isolated at home and an outlander at school, Linda is drawn to the enigmatic, attractive Lily and new history teacher Mr. Grierson. When Mr. Grierson is charged with possessing child pornography, the implications of his arrest deeply affect Linda as she...
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A chorus of essays from a variety of voices, backgrounds, and experiences, exploring what it means to be human and true to yourself. What does it mean to be yourself? To be born here or somewhere else? To be from one family instead of another? What does it mean to be human? Collected by Lori Carlson-Hijuelos, A Path to the World showcases essays by a vast variety of luminaries--from Gary Soto to Nawal Nasrallah to Ying Ying Yu, from chefs to artists...
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