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This collection of eighty-four stories is written by classmates who, although living in various places, were primary students on December 7, 1941 when Pearl Harbor was attacked. This day was to change all their lives. These shared memories and vivid recollections range from moments during the attack to the impact on their lives and the world. In additional the books contains over 100 unique photos.

Age gives us much For remembering. I like to call it Novembering. A wonderful collection of life's lessons.

These stories will take you places you cant 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 in a correspondence course taught by a man who knows nothing about the subject matter. Sit in on a meeting of the Burning Desire Romance Writers. Apply for a job at the Ray of Hope Greeting Card Company. Join us now a...

One of the most dramatic stages in the world is the Midwestern atmosphere. 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 saturation of summer humidity. The wid...

Revealing what it means in this modern age to believe, an award-winning writer, poet, and radio commentator relates her inspiring journey of physical and spiritual healing in the American Southwest.

A captivating, exceptional and rational collection of accounts by concentration camp survivors who eventually ended up living in Des Moines, Iowa, following World War II.

A diverse and thoughtful collection by one of our country's more courageous voices. Tough Little Beauties examines issues that remain timely: overpopulation, ecological degradation, and the Peak Oil crisis as well as a lived spirituality. Named by Utne Reader as one of the world s leading visionaries and a prolific writer and speaker on ecology and social change, Stephanie Mills lives in northwest lower Michigan.

Inspired by the words of George Washington Carver, that "We can learn to synthesize every human need from the plants that grow, " This book is full of engaging interviews with biomass pioneers as well as filled with clear, honest information on the exciting future of biomass energy technology, with commentary from experts throughout Iowa and around the country. Biomass energy provides a clean, regional source of heat and power, renewable in as...

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 many he touched as mentor, teacher, colleague, friend. The Grace of Grass and W...

An exploration of the cultures, history, folklore, and movement of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers which border the state of Iowa. As much about Iowa as bordering states and the power of rivers all around the country.

Set in the heart of the Midwest, 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 might seem to require. This new book is a continuation of his popular and engaging book, Central Standard.

Explores the language of the prairie. 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 the human realm of literature.

One of the last essays written by author Paul Gruchow is included in this book. The contributors examine the surface and the spirit of the Midwest through such things as landscape art, the flight of wild geese, the lives of naturalist and even extraordinary earth worms.

The Tin Prayer journeys through childhood, the wilds, imagination, dreams and thunderstorms to discover the meaning of home. This essay is truly a regionalist manifesto!

Living with miracles is not as easy as people think. A boy walks on water, but that's perhaps the simplest miracle of all in this collection of engaging short stories full of both everyday and far out miracles. Some real, some hopeful. Love and travel, as well as wit and humor spice these tales of wishful wonder."--P. [4] of cover.

In Dodge & Scramble Morgan Grayce Willow becomes the poet-cantor of the prairies. Through the music and poetry in "Sorghum and sugar beets./ Northrup King. DeKalb./ Archer Daniels Midland" she examines memory, place, and time set on the prairie, the essence of infinity. Willow intones, ..".wither us backwards into time" and ..".place/that remembers itself as marshland/and longs to return/" Using myth, history, ecology, nails, sows, and winches...

A best-of collection of Homer Croy, Missouri's Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist, America's first student of journalism, and the world's first novelist to film his way around the globe.

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In this ambitious and cutting-edge follow-up to Barbarian at the Gate, poet Xavier Cavazos explores the intersection of race, agriculture, history, and plant genus to focus more clearly on the life and times of Iowa State university alumnus, George Washington Carver. Cavazos employs both persona and narrative structure with unapologetic delivery on the page to recreate Carver's living and social environments at the university and beyond.

A unique look at US history from the vantage point of a small independent house maker in Iowa.