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 […]
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. […]
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 … […]
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. […]
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 | Sandy Moffett | 9781948509565 | $21.99 | 246p | Trade paper 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 she considers her own. […]
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. […]
Since 1974, Eulenspiegel has toured in thirty-one states and four countries around the world. All along establishing and maintaining an internationally known puppetry center in West Liberty, Iowa. A look at puppets, arts, culture, and creativity. […]
Part grief memoir, part immigrant story, and part how-to-guide. A story of premature death and emotional wreckage that uses the narrator’s old house as its foundation. […]
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. […]
An exciting multidisciplinary, multimodal project and partnership between the arts and sciences. This convergence of writers, naturalists, artists, and various –ologists took place in the fall of 2021 in the northern Loess Hills. […]
