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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. […]

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A true insider’s look into medicine and research. We start with the Malaria Project at the Stateville Penitentiary Joliet, Illinois; 1960’sand Nathan Leopold and the process and the men who volunteered for studies and served on the staff of the
Malaria Project, and to the doctors whose stories I tell with admiration and affection.
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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.” […]

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Chasing Weather is an award-winning book. It is a Finalist in the Midwest Independent Bookseller Association’s Choice Award for poetry, and was also a Midwest Connections pick! Plus, the book was selected a Kansas Book Award Winner for the 2014. “The sky is made of rivers before and after they became rivers,” Caryn writes in Chasing […]

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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 […]

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OrderFracture direct and we’ll ship the book right away. 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 […]

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