Crowley County Combined Library

It's a DSA holiday and Wiglaf and his pig, Daisy, are going home with Erica to the Royal Palace. But when they get there, it's a disaster! King Ken has the Pox, and Queen Barb shows up with a Great Healer, who turns out to be a not-so-great wizard. Before you can say ikes-yay!, Kin Ken is speaking Pig Latin. Only Daisy can save the king--but will she?

A former Speaker of the House and Fox News contributor explains why Donald Trump is different from previous presidents and offers advice to the newest commander-in-chief.

In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald’s only niece, shines a bright light on the dark history of their family in order to explain how her uncle became the man who now threatens the world’s health, economic security, and social fabric. Mary Trump spent much of her childhood in her grandparents’ large, imposing house...

To the framers of the Constitution, political parties were a fatal threat to republican virtues. They had suffered the consequences of partisan politics in Britain before the American Revolution, and they wanted nothing similar for America. Yet parties emerged even before the Constitution was ratified, and they took firmer root in the following decade. In Founding Partisans, master historian H. W. Brands has crafted a fresh and lively narrative of...

Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. Since his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela has been at the center of the most compelling and inspiring political drama in the world. As president of the African...

While planning a dinner party in Paris, the American wife of a high-ranking diplomat becomes unnerved by the unexpected arrival of her son, a random encounter with a Turkish terrorist, and the recurring appearance of someone dead for twenty years.

A comprehensive biography of the final leader of the Soviet Union chronicles Gorbachev's rise from peasant to politician and describes how his liberal policies ended the Cold War and unintentionally provoked the breakup of the USSR.

A biography of the Chinese leader who lost all his offices during the Chinese Cultural Revolution but later returned to power and recently retired from the Central Committee to the Communist Party.

Profiles the German dictator who formed the Nazi Party in order to restore Germany after World War I, and discusses the Holocaust, his means of gathering public support, and military conquests.