Crowley County Combined Library

"With its blend of Eastern mysticism and Western culture, Hesse's best-known and most autobiographical work is one of literature's most poetic evocations of the soul's journey to liberation."-publisher's website.

"When a plague wipes out most of humanity, fifteen-year-old Eric sets out to find his father. Sixty years later, Eric starts another long journey in an America that has long since quit resembling our own, but there are shadows everywhere. Shadows of what the world once was, and shadows from Eric's past. Blood bandits, wovles, fire, feral children, and an insane militia are only a few of the problems Eric faces. Set in Denver, Colorado and the western...

Photographs, drawings and paintings depict both historical and fantastical elements of medieval life as it pertains to knighthood and heroes.

Views the mix of people and cultures that make up South Africa today, including a special section on traditional beliefs and customs.

While telling about her life in Ancient Egypt, nine-year oldHunefer includes information about families, homes, food, clothing. fun and games,travel, beliefs,and burial practices.

Striking illustrations enhance this concise social, political, cultural, and religious history of Russia from the 9th century through the reign of Peter the Great.

Short articles examine the way in which man is changing the environment and his own society by industrial development and use of natural resources.

"In the face of a crisis that sweeps an entire high-tech planet back to the age before electricity, the Brannings face a choice. Will they hoard their possessions to survive -- or trust God to provide as they offer their resources to others? .... a what-if series in which global catastrophe reveals the darkness in human hearts and lights the way to restoration for a self-centered world."--p. [1].