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The Presidential Election process comes to Iowa with full force every four years. Every serious (and unserious) candidate from all parties march, meet, speak, and try to shake the hands of all Iowans. Phones begin to ring and ring, the mail is flooded with promises of one kind or another, newspapers are squeezed full of advertisements, radios and tvs buzz with all the answers to all our problems, but what if. . .the story was more to the state...

Full flavored, wise, and wildly alive, Salvatore Marici's poetry rings and beats in your head as he travels through the Amazon, Guatemala, Sicily, doctor's offices, arenas, kitchens, and the Midwest. From one poem to the next, there is a connected cord. The imagery these poems project will have you swishing, swirling, and sniffing amidst the senses as well as becoming at one with the present.

Legendary bookseller at Prairie Lights Bookstore in Iowa City, Iowa, Paul Ingram has found what he feared was long lost--his collection of humorous, intelligent, rollicking, and witty clerihews. This collection will be a big hit with readers of all sorts: fans of poetry, of humor, the literary arts, political cartoons, as well as readers of history and current affairs. These clerihews and the illustrations are positively a match made in heaven.

Two distinctive FBI agents embark on a classified operation (The Biggest Secret in America) into the gambling battlefield which is bleeding into the corrupt empire of athletics. Will the FBI uncover the truth that could shock the nation? A deadly international hunt leads to a fascinating sting in Mexico City before it returns to the sickening web of sports corruption in the United States. THE GREAT GAMBLE is full of suspense and revelation. Un...

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. "Located in the tradition of the dramatic monologue, Lost Soliloquies is a masterful collection of literary, historical, and family voices. This 'lost and found' archive of meditations features Shakespearean characters long after they've left the stage, Clyde Barrow and Frank Lloyd Wright in mid-car...

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, and everywhere in between. She explores heights at a summit of Machu Picchu and King Kong's adventures at the top of the Empire State Building. She examines film noir sites in San Francisco, romance in Paris, art in the Nevada desert for Burning Man...

A deep dive into the Midwest experience through thought-provoking poems, recollections, essays, and vivid stories. Pondering nature and neighbors, bars and commutes--Bob Leonard's perspectives on these quiet aspects of life open up new ways of seeing everyday life. These little nods of Leonard's are at once tiny, but also everything. This is a book to provoke appreciation in the things we take for granted, and spark evenings spent reminiscing ...

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, he continues with two essays, one set in Colombia where he plays host for a week to a still-unknown Hunter Thompson, the other in Gabon with his Peace Corps daughter. Next comes a tribute to a former colleague and to the beginnings of Iowa's Nonfiction Wri...

Poetic, beautiful, meditative, and informative. Through short writings and photographs, Cindy Crosby and Thomas Dean enter a conversation to inspire new understandings of the Midwestern tallgrass prairie with word and image. Tallgrass Conversations encourages looking and listening to the prairie through the heart and mind as well as eyes, ears, and other senses, advancing both conservation and creative efforts on behalf of the tallgrass prairi...

Henri the farmer learns the secret to juggling when the circus comes to town.

Brother's Blood a "Whydunit" A story of true crime! Of a legal system that works! Justice served. An author's relentless quest to tell the story of one town's horror. A real-life episode of CSI, of reality television! Mystery & nonfiction readers will applaud. This is not just a story about a town in Iowa. It is a story of intrique, of wonder, of frustration, and horror. It touches on our base human emotions. We all wonder: How could he do tha...

In our current society hope can seep impossible, troubles frequently feel all around us. Becoming Real offers reasonable and thoughtful ideas on integrating everyday reality with authenticity.

Magic realism meets myth in the real and imaginary efforts of two small towns in the Cedar Valley when they face encroaching corruption and evil. Hysteria sets in with the murder of an anonymous girl followed by the abduction of a prominent citizen's daughter. The harassment of a professor's family and of a much respected farmer quickens the plot. The citizens of an idyllic college town and the factory and commercial centers of the other town ...

This poignant well-written book tells the story of a police officer's family and one daughter's quest for justice long after the heart-wrentching murder of her mother. The author embraces a legacy of unconditional love and faith to triumph over a life plagued with unspeakable abuse and pain. Based on a true story, told with the flow of a novel, spiced with frank wisdom and wit, Holding My Hand Through Hell encourages the reader to immerse them...

At the height of a Heartland summer a seventh generation midwesterner unlucky in love sets forth from a faraway farm on a quest to road-test what he calls his Beach Boys hypothesis: What if we really do live in a world where native boy meets native girl... What if the cutest girls and boys in the world really do live right under our nose? So begins a Cinderella season in search of a love homegrown. Pursuing the dream wherever it may lead, the ...

Part lessons from the field and part wisdom from the vantage point of a psychologist, parent, and outdoorsman -- Excellent Joy is a celebration of life through observations of important and subtle nuances about agriculture and its related endeavors: fishing and hunting. It also explains the psychology of why people engage in these aspirations and recreations.

The full story behind 11 immigrants found dead in a train car in Denison, Iowa. Companion to the public television documentary.

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." Still, these pieces are neither nostalgic nor sentimental. Boys bear burdens heavier than is just--they discover truths at too early an age. Woven through-out is the st...

The deep values of place learned during childhood can extend to living an enriched, responsible, creative, and authentic life in adulthood. The lessons in this collection demonstrate how sense-of-place can serve as a role-model for future generations as well as helping us learn how we can best live in our communities and with the natural world around us. These concise, informative, and poetic writings by long-time environmental educator and ar...

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 and the loss of a parent by connecting with an eclectic Midwest community, the land and sky, and a body undergoing vast renovation. Along the way, she swims with stingrays in the Gulf of Mexico, s...