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When My Husband Ran For President and Other Short Stories
When My Husband Ran For President and Other Short Stories | Ruth Harkin | 9781948509534 | $20 | 144p | Trade paper | Release September 5 2024 | Preorder for a signed copy when the books arrive | All author proceeds will go to The Tom and Ruth Harkin Institute Story in USA Today […]
Grant Wood’s Memorial Masterpiece
Grant Wood’s Memorial Masterpiece | Barbara Feller | $21.95 | ISBN 9781948509473 | 110, full color | 7 x 10 |trade paper | Release Friday 11/22/2024 7 – 9pm at the Veterans Building in Cedar Rapids! | Order early for a signed copy […]
Dancing In A Disabled World
A candid, behind the curtains consideration of disability and being human. On Being Human Differently […]
The Swine Republic
Takes a long hard look at the science, politics, culture, and economics of Iowa agriculture and the state’s degraded waters and connects the dots for everyone who wonders why progress toward improvement is so maddeningly slow in Iowa and the rest of the farmed Midwest. […]
Even So
A book about overcoming the odds and finding your way; it’s about breaking barriers and transcending one’s original station in life; it’s about courage in the face of adversity; and it’s about accepting one’s uniqueness rather than trying to change it. The main character is a farm kid growing up in Iowa in the ’60s and ’70s amongst a family of ten … […]
Inside Voices
For fifteen months Amy Kolen traveled between two very different worlds: a medium-security men’s prison, where she participated as an outside singer in the prison choir, and the confines of her mother’s room in a health center, where her mother required round-the-clock care following a massive stroke. Inside Voices speaks to our longing for human connection and is a testament to how embracing new experiences with “beginners mind” can deepen understanding and bring inner peace. […]
The Shadows Could Not Reach Her
Midwestern expanses of land and sky. Inspired by the powerful and bold spaces that I am lucky to call home. Making meaning from art and text. […]
My Father Called Us Monkeys
Introducing Marco. Short stories inspired by growing up Mexican-American in a small town in Western Illinois that was almost entirely white in the 1960s. […]
Emmi
Emmi | Sandy Moffett | 9781948509565 | $21.99 | 246p | Trade paper | Release June, 2024 A second novel by Sandy Moffett. Emily Reese, an eleven-year-old girl who has trouble reading, trouble with numbers, trouble with school, trouble with friends, who is only happy when she is alone in a special wild place that […]
Red, White, and Black. America’s Czech With Balance!
Red, White, and Black. America’s Czech With Balance! Antonín Dvořák | Gary Kelley | Graphic Novel | 56 pages | 9781948509497 | $15.99 | October 10 Release | Order Early for a Signed Copy. […]
The River Knows
Insightful, provocative, and humorous by turns, The River Knows is a thought-provoking discussion of how industrial agriculture, conservative politics, religion, and climate change combine to challenge the legions of citizens looking for hope on the river and in nature. […]
Saved By Schindler
Celina Karp Biniaz was just eight years old when the Germans invaded her homeland of Poland in 1939. Over the next six years, the child from Krakow endured the Holocaust as the Nazis took away her schooling and civil rights, then herded her and her family into a ghetto. Life grew worse when the ghetto was liquidated, […]
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