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An humors, colorful look at Orthodontics by two long time artists in the Midwest.

On August 3, 2016, my nine year old daughter was rushed to the University of Iowa Children's Hospital and diagnosed with stage IV cancer. Though her treatment was a harrowing experience, it was punctuated by acts of love great and small, exemplified par excellence by the Kinnick Wave. I wrote this book as an honest and heartfelt look at having a child with cancer, how that led to an outpouring of love towards our family, and as a reminder that...

Part romantic comedy, part whodunit, part great American road trip, What Cheer asks a lovers ageless questions: where, when, and with whom? Heres a celebration of love sprung from perfectly surreal yet real placesWhat Cheer, Lost Nation, Story County. Heres a comedy of errors featuring three not-yet-over-the-hill friends, a series of dreamy love letters, and a mysterious list of warm, nearly-gone touchstones that inspire a

Creation of an Artist is a fascinating look into the life of well known artist Grant Wood. This insightful book is almost entirely based on Grant Wood's own words and art. Early events were dictated to his secretary, Park Rinard, in an incomplete and therefore unpublished autobiography, Return from Bohemia. Other details were mentioned in letters Wood wrote as a ten-year-old boy, just after moving to Cedar Rapids from rural Iowa.

In The Last Caucus in Iowa, Jim O'Loughlin does for the Iowa Caucus what Anthony Bourdain did for restaurants. For over a year, O'Loughlin aimed to see as many presidential candidates as possible as they made their way through Iowa. His quest took him to meeting halls, living rooms, and more than a few craft brew pubs, and the result is a celebration of the state of Iowa and a cautionary tale about the Iowa Caucus. Chronicling a process that i...

Following perilous duty on a destroyer in World War II, then becoming the first person in his family to earn a college degree, Douglas Autry returned to his native Mississippi and was elected county superintendent of education. Thus began a heroic journey to bring change to a place and to people who had proved over and over again they did not want any change that threatened their way of life. He braved the condemnation of relatives and friends...

The poems in I May or May Not Love You reflect the author's belief that all of the history of poetry is there for the looting. You'll find Marianne Moore lurking in "I Should Have No Doubts, " and Ezra Pound hanging out in "Meditation in the Color of C", Homer beached in "Sentiment for a City, " and W.B. Yeats bar-hopping in "Aging Out, " among others. And while he believes that all schools of poetry have something to teach, it's better to sta...

Fresh and far-ranging, Zachary Michael Jack's commentaries illuminate a paradox: how, as the population living on the land plummets, the popularity of agrarianism rises anew. From buying organic to shopping local, from homesteading to homeschooling to homegrowing and slow-fooding, from DIYing to grassroots social justice to sustainable living and populist resistance, today's society resurrects and reenacts timeless agricultural values. Country...

CLUBFOOT tells the little known story of the world's most common skeletal birth defect and development of a revolutionary method for eliminating lifelong disability for the 200, 000 children born every year with this deformity. The hero of this story is Dr. Ignacio Ponseti (1914- 2009) who, as a young physician, became enmeshed in the Spanish Civil War before being forced into exile in France and then Mexico. He eventually found a home in the ...

In Coming Clean, Betty Moffett pays homage to the power of storytelling, revealing the glimmer and grit that ripple beneath the stoic exterior of rural America. In prose that's as clean and inviting as a fresh-swept porch, Moffett lovingly chronicles the heart-swells and heartaches that make up a life well lived."-"€"Dean Bakopoulos, author of Summerlong "I admire the charming, sometimes mischievous, restraint of the stories in Coming Clean. B...

A combination of simplicity and courage, honor and compassion, coordination and generosity. 2018 marks the hundredth anniversary of one of Iowa's most notable native sons. Inspirational in so many ways. This collection is a reminder that playing hard and thinking deep never go out of style. Author Mark Wilson says it best: "In our lifetimes, many of us have had or still have an individual we look up to, someone who inspires us, challenges us, ...

At the crossroads of two cultural icons exists Jay Sigmund, born near the Wapsipinicon River in Waubeek, Iowa. As the Regionalist movement was in full swing guess who had an enormous influence on well-known artist Grant Wood? Jay Sigmund! Also at this time, a paperboy in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was working on his interests in poetry with Jay Sigmund--this paperboy was Paul Engle, who later went on to co-create and direct the Iowa Writers' Workshop...

In times of trouble one can count on the Heartland for inspiration, lessons, and love. The Andersens of Eden is intriguing, entertaining, and valuable history for the whole family. For the Andersen family, life on the family farm near the small Iowa town of Eden was like its namesake--paradise. They happily accepted a life of hard work and a marginal income. Living simply, they were grateful for what they had. Their joy in life grew from their...

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The memoir opens with its Brooklyn-born narrator standing on his head outside an old one-room schoolhouse amid 500 acres of remote woodlands in Iowa, his new home. Why this Walden-like retreat? Is it to attend the renowned Iowa Writers Workshop, or is he actually on the lam from love? Structured like a schoolbook, each chapter is named after a school subject (i.e. Geography, History, Social Studies, What I Did On My Summer Vacation), which col...

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