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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A timely and important new book that challenges everything we think we know about cultivating true belonging in our communities, organizations, and culture, from the #1 bestselling author of Rising Strong, Daring Greatly, and The Gifts of Imperfection“True belonging doesnt require us to change who we are. It requires us to be who we are.” Social scientist Brené Brown, PhD, LMSW, has sparked a global conversation...

Hatched from an egg and raised by a loving family, ten-year-old Nashville is more bird than human except for his lack of wings, but he and his classmates learn that differences need not keep them apart.

"What do you do when you feel like you don’t fit in? Find something that makes you stand out! Walter had spent all summer counting down the days to the first day of school. He couldn’t wait to make new shark friends and finally swim into his classroom for the first time. But the first class picture of the year changes everything. Walter realizes there is one BIG difference between him and his shark classmates. After his discovery, Walter spends...

"En un convulso 1974, mientras el ejercito turco ocupa el norte de Chipre, Kostas, un griego cristiano, y Defne, una turca musulmana, se reunen en secreto bajo las vigas ennegrecidas de la taberna La Higuera Feliz, donde cuelgan ristras de ajos, cebollas y pimientos. Alli, lejos del fragor de la guerra, crece a traves de una cavidad en el techo una higuera, testigo del amor de los dos jovenes, pero tambien de sus desencuentros, de la destruccion de...