Central Kansas Library System

A small child experiences difficult emotions when their parents divorce, but each parent reassurances the child that their emotions are valid and that they are loved.

During the first days on the front lines of the war in Ukraine, Ia finds solace in her astronaut in the sky, whom she believes is watching over her family, keeping them safe.

As the twentieth century draws to a close, Maria is at the start of a life she never thought possible. She and Khalil, her college sweetheart, are planning their wedding. They are the perfect couple, "King and Queen of the Racially Nebulous Prom." Their skin is the same shade of beige. They live together in a black bohemian enclave in Brooklyn, where Khalil is riding the wave of the first dot-com boom and Maria is plugging away at her dissertation,...