A Certain Arc follows Hamilton through a university career where he encounters and participates in the culture of writers and writing. Beginning with “Hometown,” which portrays his origins, […]
A writer of fine intelligence and style, Stephanie Mills is known for her nature essays. This readable and relevant collection selects a handful of those as well as pieces on technological hubris, war resistance, reproductive rights and wrongs, and a sojourn in India. Varied, deep, and often witty, Mills’ writings deal with matters that concern […]
A Midwest Booksellers Association Midwest Connections Pick The pieces in this collection form a lament for a way of life mostly gone. “The family farm is dead. Did you know?” says one character within. “E.B. White writes Charlotte’s Web today, it takes place in a hog confinement. Imagine Wilbur living in a concentration camp for pigs.” […]
Read the fanstastic review by Boria Sax. There is a very real, center-of-the-world spot lurking in an unknown valley of northeastern Kansas, where chalky old growth trunks of sycamore trees and a slow moving stream exist alongside the nests, the souls, and the lives of great blue herons. This is a book of both fact […]
David Perkins | ISBN 9781948509152 | $19.99 | 136p | gatefold paper Read all about the book below and WATCH (and listen to) the wonderful book trailer. “I want you to step easily into me and feel comfortable and calm, though storms may be going on, and touch the reachable in ways your mind will […]
Coming Soon … Poetic, beautiful, meditative, and informative. Through short writings and photographs, enter a conversation to inspire new understandings of the Midwestern tallgrass prairie …Read more… […]
The Great Gamble: At What Price? A Thriller Novel #thebiggestsecretinamerica David L. Bluder with an Epilogue by Congressman James Leach $19.99 | gate-fold paper | 390p | Isbn 9781948509138 | Sports Betting | Thriller Novel Legendary sports journalist Bob Ryan via Twitter: “Want a good read? A different read? Try David Bluder’s ‘The Great Gamble,’ about […]
Clubfoot: The Quest for a Better Life for Millions of Children tells the little-known story of the world’s most common skeletal birth defect and development of a revolutionary […]
K. L. Cook | ISBN 9781948509121 | 88p | $16.95 | Poetry I await the muse, which has come thus far in the form of odd profundities, half-baked theories, lost soliloquies, and promises of greater fluency— assuming I’m reading the signs rightly and not just hopefully. “Located in the tradition of the dramatic monologue, Lost […]
Fresh and far-ranging, these timely commentaries illuminate an important paradox: how, as the population living on the land plummets, the popularity of agrarianism rises anew. […]
A deep dive into the Midwest experience through thought-provoking poems, recollections, essays, and vivid stories. Pondering nature and neighbors, bars and commutes […]
In a highly imaginative blend of film locations, memories, and colorful travel essays, Robin Holabird offers an extensive and entertaining exploration of film locations far and wide, close to home […]
RECOMMENDED READING FOR IOWA HISTORY by The Iowa State Historical Society Iowa, the Definitive Collection gathers for student, teacher, researcher, and leisure reader alike a rich harvest of Iowa lore as told by a bevy of its most famous and forgotten voices—Iowa history as made and told by Iowans, for Iowans. Totaling over 500 browsable […]
488 p | 978-1888160901 | 24.95 Fracture is a Midwest Connections Pick. Quality books recommended by the Midwest Independent Booksellers Association and reviewed in the Chicago Tribune This book bears witness to hydraulic fracturing in the United States. Fracture: Essays, Poems, and Stories on Fracking in America brings together the voices of more than fifty […]
… Voices after Evelyn seeks not so much to dig up a cold case—the 1953 disappearance of La Crosse, Wisconsin, babysitter Evelyn Hartley—as reopen its heart. A fugue of voices …“Read more… […]
… At the crossroads of two cultural icons exists Jay G. Sigmund, born in Waubeek, Iowa. As the Regionalist movement was in full swing guess who had an enormous influence on well-known artist… Read more… […]
