In a world of shortcuts, a book that embraces the long way. Here are detours of discovery, a spiritual wayfinding through the wilderness of time and memory. […]
Slippery Steps isn’t your typical, hell-and-back recovery memoir. I never intended to quit drinking, rarely gave it a thought. I’d spent decades as a successful and productive journalist. I was a loving husband and father. My life worked, and worked well. Until it didn’t. Freedom from drinking has enriched my life in ways I’d never imagined. […]
A bitter row with his father caused Henry Hollis to move north to ante-bellum New York. Years later he returns home to the rugged mountains of Tennessee on the North Carolina border, drawn by his father’s peace offering, an extensive but extremely remote tract in the highest reaches of the Quachasee watershed. […]
Cellomaster Pablo Casals and ‘King of the Delta Blues’ Robert Johnson recorded iconic albums the very same week in history. Late November 1936. In Spain, Pablo was dealing with an erupting World War II. While in America’s ‘Jim Crow’ South, Robert was dealing with racism and the ‘Great Depression.’ […]
Sneezing Coyotes | Salvatore Marici | $19.99 | 9781948509312 | Poetry | Travel | Interview with Writer’s Voices Read the Toasted Cheese piece Read book review Review at Toasted Cheese Engaging interview on WVIK-NPR on Talking Art A short interesting interview with the author on Des Moines’ Culture Buzz Show Watch this interview with the […]
Post-Modern Blues: love, lost loves, mortality, time, death, sex, connection, a soupçon of politics, the weather, and the vicissitudes of daily distraction—and yet more love, because obsessions do not change. […]
The State University of Iowa Scottish Highlanders | Heather Stockman | 144 page hardcover | Full Color | $25 A fascinating look into the Scottish Highlanders at the State University of Iowa. A remarkable and insightful book full of stories, history, and photography. To order contact thstockman@aol.com directly. […]
Long time Midwest artists Craig Campbell and Priscilla Steele give us a unique, entertaining, colorful, and fascinating take on a seemingly everyday topic—devising a fully transformed adventure full of magic and charm. There are stories all around us and this one moves from the heart of creativity … […]
The Spirit Lake Incident in March of 1857 was a dark moment in Midwestern History, incited by indigenous resistance to their loss of homeland culture, and people. A number of white settlers in northwest Iowa’s lakes region were killed. Four female survivors were taken by lnkpaduta and his band of Dakota Sioux. […]
A long journey to homestead and in pioneer spirit the Dell’s moved from Iowa to the Dakota territory. Travel, food, children and hardships awaited them as they worked to achieve their dreams. Along the way, a friendship developed with well-known Lakota Chief Sitting Bull. A humble and educational story. […]
Wyman and the Florida Knights | Novel by Larry Baker | Isbn 9781948509299 | $19.99 | 364 pages | Fiction | Florida | Good write up in the Gazette: check it out here. Peter Wyman was the most famous portrait painter in America, but his fame had come with a high price—his mind and soul. […]
An extraordinary dream of biking across all fifty states becomes a reality, one remarkable ride after another. The winds of the Plains, beautiful ocean waves, Alaskan highways, memorable meals and conversations. A wise accounting of lifes up and downs from the perspective of a biker. A travel guide, a memoir, and cycling advice rolled into one. Friendships. Family, Determination. […]
Lyrical meditations on rural life braided with observations from her global public health and medical practice with struggles raising an autistic son and all the beauty and challenges brought by the creatures that surround her wild Iowa home. An instant environmental classic. An updated Leopold Land Ethics book. […]
