Books like The Enneagram of Belonging by Christopher L. Heuertz

Nora Krug’s vivid graphic memoir confronts the hidden truths of her family’s wartime past in Nazi Germany, exploring collective memory and its psychological impact on a generation of German Americans.

"How we come to feel at home in our towns and cities is what Warnick sets out to discover in This Is Where You Belong. She dives into the body of research around place attachment--the deep sense of connection that binds some of us to our cities and increases our physical and emotional well-being--then travels to towns across America to see it in action. Inspired by a growing movement of placemaking, she examines what its practitioners are doing to create likeable locales. She also speaks with frequent movers and loyal stayers around the country to learn what draws highly mobile Americans to a new city, and what makes us stay. The best ideas she imports to her adopted hometown of Blacksburg for a series of Love Where You Live experiments designed to make her feel more locally connected. Dining with her neighbors. Shopping Small Business Saturday. Marching in the town Christmas parade. Can these efforts make a halfhearted resident happier? Will Blacksburg be the place she finally stays? What Warnick learns will inspire you to embrace your own community--and perhaps discover that the place where you live right now ... is home."--Jacket.

Toko‑pa Turner explains how modern alienation erodes belonging and offers skill‑based strategies to rebuild community, self‑worth, and connection to the natural world.

This book analyzes the social, psychological, and religious dimensions of a performance piece centered on death and resurrection, drawing on popular culture, shamanism, and the performing arts.

When a 15‑year‑old girl loses her hearing to meningitis, she faces the challenge of adjusting to deafness while seeking acceptance from friends and family.

In 1848, sixteen‑year‑old Elspet narrates her journey from orphanage in Scotland to a challenging yet rewarding pioneer life in Canada with relatives.

"Visions of Belonging explores how beloved and still-remembered family stories - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, I Remember Mama, Gentleman's Agreement, Death of a Salesman, Marty, and A Raisin in the Sun - entered the popular imagination and shaped collective dreams in the postwar years and into the 1950s. These stories helped define widely shared conceptions of who counted as representative Americans and who could be recognized as belonging." "The book listens in as white and black authors and directors, readers and viewers reveal divergent, emotionally textured, and politically charged social visions. Their diverse perspectives provide a point of entry into an extraordinary time when the possibilities for social transformation seemed boundless. But changes were also fiercely contested, especially as the war's culture of unity receded in the resurgence of cold war anticommunism and demands for racial equality were met with intensifying white resistance. Judith E. Smith traces the cultural trajectory of these family stories as they circulated widely in bestselling paperbacks, hit movies, and popular drama on stage, radio, and television."--BOOK JACKET.