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. […]
Taxi driver Harry Mason is obsessed with the loss of his girlfriend, who left him for Hollywood and never came back. One rainy night he finds himself inside a boarded-up movie theatre, where he meets a cast of ghosts. […]
Based loosely, or tightly (who knows for sure) on some real truths about life in and around the small town of Toronto, Kansas. These Lizard Lips stories will leave you smacking your own lips and wanting more–sweet romances and spicy adventures. […]
K. L. Cook | ISBN 9781948509114 | 302p | $21.95 | Short Stories “The collection ends with a definitive bang, and demonstrates how, in an excellently crafted story collection, the whole is always more than the sum of its parts. Cook’s Marrying Kind delivers just as much complexity and nuance as any novel, while providing […]
The Art of Disobedience: Essays on Form, Fiction, and Influence. | 21.95 | ISBN 9781948509145 | Essays On Writing | Available NOW The best art is always disobedient. The creative works that move us, compel us, provoke us, haunt us, and transform us—the works that matter most to us and that we cherish—break the rules […]
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, […]
A novel with a serious critique of the destruction caused by modern corporate agriculture and large-scale meat production. In the tradition of greats like Carl Hiaasen and Elmore Leonard. Mystery, CAFOs, and adventure in the Heartland. […]
this volume is an investigation into the forms and structure of poetry, attempting to craft with rigor an orderly enquiry into the chaos of the days we travel through (with, sometimes, a sense of wry humor and sometimes a bewildered wonder) […]
Update: Ice Cube Press true life murder mystery book Brother’s Blood: A Heartland Cain and Abel has been optioned by USA network’s Sirens star Michael Mosley. The book that is featured on Discovery Investigation’s television channel watch on YouTube Book available direct or through amazon.com, kindle, or nook A real-life crime drama recounted by Scott […]
Blends personal memoir, a history of Iowa land conservation, an analysis of contemporary issues of soil health, water quality, public lands, and future challenges to tell how land shapes our lives. A family farmer and expert agricultural lawyer delivers a dedicated conservationist’s assessment of the past, present and future of American soil. […]
