Ice Cube Press Books

A Firefly In The Night

Posted on March 2, 2011 by Steve Semken

A Firefly In The Night is a candid and humorous story of a life repeatedly interrupted by emergencies. Irelan tells his story the only way he can, with more humor than the events recorded might seem to require. As a child he learned a set of values from his parents and other elders and he […]

River East, River West

Posted on March 2, 2011 by Steve Semken

Featuring writing by David Hamilton, John T. Price, Gary Holthaus, Lisa Knopp, Robert Wolf and “creekography” photography byEthan Hirsh. A collection full of the meanings, history, folklore, nature, and ideas of rivers and Iowa’s natural borders. Click here to see photos from the book. This popular Ice Cube Press, Harvest Book continued this year with an […]

A Good Man

Posted on March 2, 2011 by Steve Semken

A Good Man Was Nominated for the Southeastern Bookseller Association’s Book of the Year! Harry Ducharme is at the end of his rope. Booze and bad decisions have taken him from the A-list of talk radio fame down to a tiny cinder-block station, WWHD, in St. Augustine, Florida. He talks, mostly to himself, from 10 […]

The Ladybug Waltz

Posted on March 2, 2011 by Steve Semken

Capture the magic of a ladybugs’ ball … crimson colored gowns, antennae tiaras … and all of the starlight your child can imagine. A full-colored children’s book with lessons to be learned not only from the natural world, but through music, patterns, and artwork. A charming story told in the form of a waltz by […]

Reruns

Posted on March 2, 2011 by Steve Semken

“Always amusing, often hilarious, Irelan reminds me of Donald Barthelme and George Saunders.”–Dr. Science, (Dan Coffey) These stories will take you places you can’t ignore. Welcome to a world of office anarchy, self-improvement fraud, and space aliens who live in silos. Observe an urban scene so ugly that it drives people into group therapy. Enroll […]

The Sky Begins At Your Feet

Posted on March 2, 2011 by Steve Semken

Starred Review Library Journal A memoir on cancer, community, and coming home to the body. “I cannot figure out who I am as a body these days,” writes Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg in this powerful, tender and humorous memoir about resiliency and love in the face of cancer. Mirriam-Goldberg braves breast cancer, the breast cancer genetic mutation […]

Words of a Prairie Alchemist

Posted on March 2, 2011 by Steve Semken

Former Kansas Poet Laureate, Denise Low writes: “the Great Plains of the North American continent have dramatic seasons, intense colors, otherworldly thunderstorms, and epic winters.” Denise Low has emerged as one of the most trusted writers of this region. With a balance of drama and finesse, she describes the juncture between the natural world and […]

Grace of Grass and Water

Posted on March 2, 2011 by Steve Semken

The late Minnesota author Paul Gruchow was often described as beautifully intense, bard-like and prophetic. While plying his talents as seer and naturalist, Gruchow was also a master of trenchant insight into the right ways of living, as well as the foibles and hypocrisies of modern society. This collection honors the memory of Paul Gruchow through the words of […]

The Feel Good Heat

Posted on March 2, 2011 by Steve Semken

In a world needing changes, and facing limited natural resources we will require new answers to our energy needs. Iowa, with its agricultural capacity harbors a reserve of potential fuel much like the oil fields once did in Saudi Arabia. In this wonderfully educational book you’ll discover “pioneers” who have already begun to utilize new […]

Letters To A Young Iowan

Posted on March 2, 2011 by Steve Semken

A perfect gift for a graduate in your life. A homesick relative. A welcome home coming or house warming gift. Insert your own letter inside the front cover. What’s the single most important piece of advice you would share with a young Iowan growing up, or coming of age in the Hawkeye state? Editor and […]

Under A Midland Sky

Posted on March 2, 2011 by Steve Semken

In the middle of the middle land in the United States we have the greatest variety of weather possible: four distinct seasons, temperatures that plunge below zero by the double digits and escalate into triple digits, placid zephyrs and brutal tornadoes, gentle spring rains and mountains of snow, the crispness of autumn air and the […]

A Cook’s Journey

Posted on March 2, 2011 by Steve Semken

Great journeys are often inspired by simple questions and observations. Join Chef Kurt Michael Friese as he travels through our nation’s Heartland. When he recognized that the epicenters of the world’s different culinary heritages have always been in the heart of a nation’s grain belt, whether it be France, India, China, Italy, or Germany, he […]

The Desert Pilgrim

Posted on March 2, 2011 by Steve Semken

9781888160338, 296pgs This re-release of a classic includes a new Afterword, a new icon cover just for the book, as well as improved design. All in order to keep this vital and important exploration of mysticism and miracles alive and well. Injured in a car accident, Swander made a pilgrimage to New Mexico where she […]

The Liberation of the Concentration Camps

Posted on March 2, 2011 by Steve Semken

A captivating, exceptional, and rational collection of accounts from concentration camp survivors who eventually ended up living in Des Moines, Iowa, following World War II. Interviews performed by Adele Anolik. Adele was commended by Elie Wiesel for her interviews and work on this book. […]

The Day Our World Changed

Posted on March 2, 2011 by Steve Semken

The Day Our World Changed: Punahou ’52 Remembers Pearl Harbor. This collection of eighty-four stories is written by classmates of Punahou school in Hawai`i, who, although living in various places, were primary students on December 7, 1941, when Pearl Harbor was attacked. This day changed all their lives. These shared memories and vivid recollections […]

Homer Croy: Corn Country

Posted on March 2, 2011 by Steve Semken

A best-of collection by Homer Croy, Missouri’s prize-winning humorist, the United State’s first student of journalism, and the world’s first novelist to film his way around the globe. One part Mark Twain, and two parts Garrison Keillor, award-winning humorist and essayist Homer Croy was a man of many distinctions: “The first student of the first […]