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Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"A provocative, virtuosic inquiry that reveals how the valorization of times and migrations past are intimately linked to our exclusion and demonization of migrants in the present When and how did migration become a crime? Why did "Greek ideals" become foundational to the West's idea of itself? How have our personal migration myths -and our nostalgia for a lost world of clear borders and values - shaped our troubling new realities? In 2020, Lauren...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"An emotionally rich collection of short stories, painting a fascinating portrait of contemporary India and its diaspora and a yearning rendering of the people and places we call home, from a major new literary talent. “A full-hearted, brilliant debut of necessary beauty.” —Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, author of Chain-Gang All-Stars and New York Times-bestseller Friday Black "Injam's stories made me want to cast all else aside and return home.”...
3) Millie
Author
Series
Publisher
Shadow Mountain Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
A street dog named Millie and a young girl, who are both dealing with abandonment issues, give trust and belonging a second chance.
''From the author of Stella--nominated for fourteen Best Book of the Year state awards--this heartwarming story is about a street dog named Millie and a young girl who are both dealing with abandonment issues and must give trust and belonging a second chance. Millie is a feisty border terrier who lives on the streets...
Author
Publisher
One World
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Promoted to principal dancer at the New York City Ballet, Cece Cordell, a young black woman, still feels like she doesn't belong, and, despite her dream achievement, is faced with a choice that may derail her career, sending her on a pilgrimage to find her missing older brother and reclaim the parts of herself lost in the pursuit of her art.
'A ballerina at the height of her powers becomes consumed with finding her missing brother in this “striking...
Author
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Cree
Description
"Starting daycare, Nikosis, who grew up going to powwows with his family, where he was immersed in music, dance and the sound of the drum, feels like he doesn’t fit in, until his mother and teachers use the drums to help him find connection and comfort"--OCLC.
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Tasha Jun has always been caught between worlds: American and Korean, faith and doubt, family devotion and fierce independence. As a Korean American, she wandered between seemingly opposing worlds, struggling to find a voice to speak and a firm place for her feet to land. The world taught Tasha that her Korean normal was a barrier to belonging―that assimilation was the only way she would ever be truly accepted. But if that were true, did that...
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A diaspora of memories runs through this poetry collection--a multiplicity of voices, bodies, and houses hold archival material for one another, tracing paths between Brooklyn, Beirut, and Jerusalem. Boundaries and borders blur between space and time and poetic form--small banal moments of daily life live within geopolitical brutalities and, vice versa, the desire for stability lives in familiarity with displacement. These poems take stock of who...
8) Night Song
Author
Publisher
Enchanted Lion Books
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Bernardo the frog loves the birdsong that carries the woods into each new day. But it's the very beauty of birdsong that also highlights for him his own croaking voice, and this makes him sad. How does he fit in? How can he contribute to his woodland home? Does he belong?--
A sad sack frog, who bemoans his inability to sing like a bird, discovers the vital role he's meant to play in his woodland home in this debut picture book from Mk Smith Despres,...
Author
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In this book, the author offers a new model that identifies social and cultural identity-who we are and who we want to be-as the most important factor driving the American phenomena of being wrong"--
"In this book, the author offers a new model that identifies social and cultural identity-who we are and who we want to be-as the most important factor driving the American pAn engaging look at how American politics and media reinforce partisan identity...
Author
Series
Publisher
Dorling Kindersley Limited
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....
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
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IL: UG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"In this memoir, Christine Suggs explores a trip they took to Mexico to visit family, as Christine embraces and rebels against their heritage and finds a sense of belonging"--
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