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Red, White, and Black. America's Czech With Balance! looks at the well-known musician, Antonín Dvořák. Already a success in Europe, Dvorak was invited to New York City where he arrived in 1892. Once in the United States he connects quickly with both the city's and the nation's cultural variety. He comes to believe the roots of American music are all its cultures: African American, Native American, Ragtime, Louisiana Bayou, and more. A summer "...

Kin is simply brilliant. Graebner delivers a stunningly original exploration of the complex stories of white and Black people of East Tennessee through Civil War, Reconstruction, and the turn of the 20th century. While he puzzles mysteries of historical memory, and of 'history' itself, he refuses to answer them. He embraces uncertainty: how do we know what we think we know? Kin is the best kind of historical fiction, well situated in the schol...

Water, land, soil--any Midwesterner knows these resources shape our states, they define our economies, our culture, our social structure, and our politics. While we have made progress to a more modern political and economic structure, these fundamental forces--the water, land, soil--still play an outsize role in all dimensions of our societies. This book is their story, in particular, the story of our water--its presence or lack thereof, and h...

The Widow's Guide to Becoming a Handyman is part grief memoir, part immigrant story, and part how-to-guide. This is a story of premature death and emotional wreckage that uses the narrator's old house as its foundation. Grief is as palpable as a hammer hitting a nail and doesn't come at all the way a reader might expect as the narrator methodically cares for her quirky old farmhouse's many needs following her husband's sudden death: a leaky ro...

Since 1974, Eulenspiegel has toured in thirty-one states and four other countries while also establishing and maintaining a nationally known puppetry center in West Liberty, Iowa. My memoir traces its history and explores the relationship between work and play, between loss and recovery, between puppets and puppeteers. It reflects on midwestern life between the late 1970's and the present day.

Based loosely, or tightly (who knows for sure) on some real truths about life in and around the small town of Toronto, Kansas. These Lizard Lips stories will leave you smacking your own lips and wanting more-sweet romances and spicy adventures. You will learn about the importance of chocolate and what to do with old cans of Spam. There are local recipes for serving up a good time and Rumpledethumps. Why there's even a remedy for using cow dung...

Taxi driver Harry Mason is obsessed with the loss of his girlfriend, who left him for Hollywood and never came back. One rainy night he finds himself inside a boarded-up movie theatre, where he meets a cast of ghosts. From Houdini and Mark Twain to Will Rogers and Marilyn Monroe, Harry finds himself in a world where magical realism meets memories.

Interested in the truth about Iowa and the Midwest's water quality? You won't get it from Iowa's agricultural and political leaders. Among midwestern Corn Belt states, Iowa contains some of the world's most productive farmland, the state frequently tops all others in harvested totals of corn and soybeans and has helped the U.S. be the world's largest producer of corn every year since at least 1961. Iowa also has a lot of animals that eat corn ...

Timely writing from the folded landscape of the Middle West. Peter Bakken writes on "Patriotism aand the Care of the Earth." Using his interests in environmentalist Aldo Leopold and Theologian Joesph Sittler. Also included are the zesty and addictive poems of Hospital Chaplain Nancy Adams-Cogan as she roams the Roadscapes of the Central USA. Visual imagery is provided by professional photographer Mr. Rod Strampe.

Subtitle on title page verso: A community's journey from tragedy to triumph.

Celina Karp Biniaz was just eight years old when the Germans invaded her homeland of Poland in 1939. Over the next six years, the child from Krakow endured the Holocaust as the Nazis took away her schooling and civil rights, then herded her and her family into a ghetto. Life grew worse when the ghetto was liquidated, and the family was sent to Plaszów, a slave labor/concentration camp where they lived in constant fear, witnessing unspeakable h...

When you encounter a poem by Dan Campion--and they have been appearing all over the place formany years now--you know you are going to besurprised by rhyme and entranced by smart formal choices. In this amazing book of (mostly) sonnets, Campion demonstrates some of the wild surprisesthat long-tested form still holds, in skilled hands like his.

In a travel memoir that ventures from his smalltown upbringing to vastly different cultures around the globe, Tom Montgomery Fate comes to define "home" not as a physical location, but as a way of belonging. "Migrating birds have an internal compass that allows them to home their way back to their nesting place each spring, " he writes. "For birds, home is both verb and noun--both journey and destination." The same is true for Fate. Whether he...

Slippery Steps isn't your typical, hell and back recovery memoir. I never intended to quit drinking, rarely gave it a thought. I'd spent decades as a successful and productive journalist. I was a loving husband and father. My life worked, and worked well. Until it didn't. Freedom from drinking has enriched my life in ways I'd never imagined. I'd been numbing myself to sleep, and sleepwalking my way through life. It's never too late to wake up....

Wind In My Wheels will appeal to all who follow their dreams, rise to a challenge and cherish friendships, old and new. Bicyclist or not, you will enjoy the way Jan Down has woven her tale of bicycling across all fifty states, alongside husband Jim. This book is written with historical content, many funny stories, stories of triumphs, mishaps and adventures. Jan's writing captures the vast diversity of people, places and geography in our USA w...

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.

An earthly and surreal collection of poetry ranging from science, rats and pigs, confessions to romance. Lust, travel and ecology. The imagery in Marici's Sneezing Coyotes combines the faraway to the close at home. Links us to the busy streets of Hanoi, the killing fields of Cambodia, collapsing barns in the Midwest as well as the life of Latin American Campesinos. Tuna casseroles becoming the catalyst for discovery.

The Land Remains blends personal memoir, a history of Iowa land conservation, and an analysis of contemporary issues of soil health, water quality, public lands, and future challenges to tell the story how land shapes our lives. Written by Prof. Neil Hamilton, a well-known authority on agriculture and land policy who recently retired after 36 years directing the Agricultural Law Center at Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa. The Land Remains we...

Artist and author Gary Kelley takes a look at two musicians and how they merged in November 1936. Two men - half a world apart shared more than they would ever know. One was a cello prodigy who had performed the world and other played guitar and was a regular in the juke joints of Mississippi and the USA. A graphic novel that explores this unqiue tie between Pablo Casals and Robert Johnson.

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