Crowley County Combined Library

Presents a collection of poems, traditional tales, and both fictional and true stories about all kinds of heroes.

Short stories, anecdotes, cartoons, and columns are compiled in this amusing collection by male authors, such as Stephen King and Gordon Korman, who share their comical, sad, and strange memories of what life was like for them when they were boys and the impact those moments had in their later lives.

Includes Beren and Luthien, Turin and the Dragon, and full narratives of the Necklace of the Dwarves and the Fall of Gondolin. Also includes commentary and poems associated with each tale.

A collection of stories and poems about tricksters in all parts of the world by a variety of authors.

A collection of the poems about dogs is accompanied by essays by young people about the dogs in their lives.

Includes short stories, poems, and excerpts from plays that relate what it is like growing up Asian American.

This version of Nature is an 1843 revision to the popular essay written and published in 1836. In the original essay, Emerson put forth the foundation of transcendentalism, and suggested that reality can be understood by studying nature. Within the essay, Emerson divides nature into four usages: Commodity, Beauty, Language and Discipline. These distinctions define how humans use nature for their basic needs, their desire for delight, their communication...

Features over one hundred forty selections of the American West from diaries and travelogues to short stories and stone inscriptions.

Collection of over one hundred commentaries and poems from Baxter Black an irregular commentator on National Public Radio, syndicated columnist, best-selling cowboy poet, and former large animal veterinarian.