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Established 1991. Featured in Publishers Weekly, Independent Publisher, | 2023 Iowa Governor’s Art Award | MIPA Award Winner | Check out our Substack on Publishing
Dark Waters
Dark Waters: Essays, Stories, & Articles | Russell Chatham | 9781948509619 | 224p | $21.95 | New Foreword by Terry McDonell as well as new photos | Release July 8, 2025 at Elk River Books Livingston, MT […]
We Crapped In Our Nest
Dear Marty, We Crapped In Our Nest: Notes from the Edge of the World | Art Cullen | $20 | 192p | ISBN 9781948509633 […]
We Can Do Better
We Can Do Better: Collected Writings on Land, Conservation, and Public Policy | Paul W. Johnson edited by Curt Meine | 9781948509657 | $25 | 298p | Coming October 2, 2025! […]
Goethe’s Oak: A Holocaust Story
Goethe’s Oak: A Holocaust Story | John T. Price | 9781948509602 | $19.99 | Color Tradepaper | 68 p […]
Dreams of Fields
Dreams of Fields: Memory Traces of Iowa’s Past | Roy R. Behrens | $21.95 | 9781948509626 | 184p | Trade Paper | Release August 17, 2025 at the Hearst Center in Cedar Falls […]
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. […]
Iowa Nature Calendar
The IOWA Nature Calendar | Jean Prior & James Sandrock with illustrations by Claudia McGehee | 9781948509664 | $20 | Re-release of this timeless classic […]
What Happened On the Garden Street Bus
What Happened On the Garden Street Bus | Co-Created by Garry Klein & Sabrina Claman | 9781948509640 | $20 | 66p | Full Color | Graphic Novel […]
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 | 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 […]
Dancing In A Disabled World
A candid, behind the curtains consideration of disability and being human. On Being Human Differently […]
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 … […]
