Kiowa County Public Library District

High school senior Avery Dennis runs the prom committee, and she has always had a date for everything, but when a public breakup with her current boyfriend makes her start wondering about her own dating history, she sets out to investigate why her relationships never seem to work out--and ends up discovering some hard truths about herself and her dating choices.

Would-be supervillain Doctor X-Ray swoops into the mall, threatening destruction, only to be confronted by a little girl asking "why" to his every declaration, until finally he is forced to reveal, and understand, the root of his anger--and so departs in peace.

Take off your shoes is Feder's brutally honest journey of self-rediscovery, his revealing, heartfelt attempt to find personal fulfillment and rebuild family relationships. Exploring brain plasticity and our ability to change our lives by changing our minds, he discovered more meaningful connections to his family and experiences. Now, could he return to his New York City reality and practice compassion and gratitude, engaging in a richer life fiercely...

"A prominent figure in the entertainment world who has turned to fiction in the last decade, Kevin Morris received wide literary acclaim with his story collection White Man's Problems, praised by David Carr as "remarkable" and Tom Perrotta as "revelatory." Now Morris cements his place as a bold new voice in American literature with his muscular debut novel, All Joe Knight. 1961. Outside Philadelphia, a soon-to-be father runs into a telephone pole...

A step-by-step guide to making peace with your mistakes and getting on with your life

Walt, a middle-aged man, follows the twenty-year-old journal of a hike on the Appalachian Trail by a younger man, Strider, who had undertaken the trek to discover the "good life" and quit to pursue it. Since Walt's good life with his wife and daughters has gone sour, he starts this walk to think about his future. On the way Walt reflects on Strider's memorable encounters and plunges into his own life-changing experiences, leaving him lost and uncertain...

In this capstone work, Lamont unpacks the power of recognition--rendering others as visible and valued--by drawing on nearly forty years of research and new interviews with young adults, and with cultural icons and change agents who intentionally practice recognition--from Nikole Hannah Jones and Cornel West to Michael Schur and Roxane Gay. She shows how new narratives are essential for everyone to feel respect and assert their dignity s of neoliberalism...