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A Cook's Journey: Slow Food in the Heartland (Book)

Kurk Michael Friese

ISBN:9781888160369

Friese's expedition explores and explains the Slow Food movement throughout the American Midwest. If you haven't heard of the Slow Food movement this book will be an eye-opener for you...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:179

USD $36.05

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A Firefly in the Night: A Son of the Middle West (Book)

Patrick Irelan

ISBN:9781888160208

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...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:151

USD $18.19

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A Good Man (Book)

Larry Baker

ISBN:9781888160444

Harry Ducharme is at the end of his rope. Booze and bad decisions have taken him from the A-list of talk radio fame down to a tiny cinder-block station...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:259

USD $26.78

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Finding the Center of the World (Book)

Peter Bakken

ISBN:9781888160055

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...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:96

USD $11.76

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Good Earth: Three Poets of the Prairie (Book)

Paul Engle

ISBN:9781888160093

This small book is a companion to the 5th Harvest Lecture and looks at the poetry of Paul Engle, James Hearst and William Stafford through the eyes of Robert Dana...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:69

USD $10.68

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Grace of Grass and Water: Writing in Honor of Paul Gruchow (Book)

Mary Pipher

ISBN:9781888160284

The late Minnesota author Paul Gruchow was often described as beautifully intense, bard-like and prophetic. While plying his talents as seer and naturalist...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:149

USD $18.19

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Hanging Out in Bur Oak: During the 1930's Depression, Bootleggers, the Draft and World War II (Book)

Neal Smith

ISBN:9781888160086

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Format:Hardcover  Pages:162

USD $23.56

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Letters to a Young Iowan: Good Sense from the Good Folks of Iowa for Young People Everywhere (Book)

Zachary Michael Jack

ISBN:9781888160215

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Format:Paperback  Pages:257

USD $21.41

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Living with Topsoil: Tending Spirits, Cherishing Land (Book)

Mary Swander

ISBN:9781888160994

Living in the Midwest means living with the richest, most fertile land in the world. This Harvest Book engages the reader on a quest to connect sense-of-place with spirituality. Many of Iowa's top writers are included in this collection. Ideas range from fossils to red cabbage...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:91

USD $10.68

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Novembering: Poems from Late in Life (Book)

Robert Wachal

ISBN:9781888160413

Age gives us much For remembering. I like to call it Novembering. A wonderful collection of life's lessons....more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:77

USD $12.83

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Personal Experience of a Great Earthquake (Book)

Isabella Strybing Klinck

ISBN:9781888160499

An original document on the Great Charleston Earthquake of 1886. This quake is still one of the largest earthquakes ever on the USA eastern shore...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:66

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Prairie Roots: Call of the Wild (Book)

Paul Gruchow

ISBN:9781888160123

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...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:143

USD $12.83

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Prairie Weather (Book)

Jim Heynen

ISBN:9781888160178

Exploration of the ties between weather and living in place. A wonderful mix of Midwestern authors including new work by Jim Heynen. This is part of the harvest book series....more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:85

USD $10.73

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Reruns: Stories (Book)

Patrick Irelan

ISBN:9781888160406

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...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:139

USD $18.19

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River East, River West: Iowa's Natural Borders (Book)

David Hamilton

ISBN:9781888160246

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....more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:120

USD $13.90

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The Desert Pilgrim: En Route to Mysticism and Miracles (Book)

Mary Swander

ISBN:9781888160338

In this exquisite memoir, critically acclaimed writer Mary Swander recounts her extraordinary trek from suffering to emotional, physical, and spiritual recovery. After a car accident left her almost completely paralyzed and in chronic pain with no medical cure in sight...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:295

USD $21.41

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The Feel-Good Heat: Pioneers in Corn and Biomass Energy (Book)

Sheila Samuelson

ISBN:9781888160291

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...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:146

USD $18.19

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The Ladybug Waltz (Book)

Jeanette Hopkins

ISBN:9781888160376

Capture the magic of a ladybug's ball ... crimson colored gowns, antennae tiaras ... and all of the starlight your child can imagine Ice Cube Books are not just for adults anymore! Our first full-colored children's book is filled with lessons to be learned not only from the natural world...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:32

USD $23.56

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The Sky Begins at Your Feet (Book)

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

ISBN:9781888160437

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. Along the way...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:229

USD $21.41

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Tin Prayer: Words of the Wolverine (Book)

S H Semken

ISBN:9781888160017

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!...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:92

USD $12.83

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Tough Little Beauties: Selected Essays and Other Writings (Book)

Stephanie Mills

ISBN:9781888160307

A diverse and thoughtful collection by one of our country's more courageous voices. Tough Little Beauties examines issues that remain timely: overpopulation...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:190

USD $18.19

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Under a Midland Sky (Book)

Thomas K Dean

ISBN:9781888160345

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...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:169

USD $19.27

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Words of a Prairie Alchemist: The Art of Prairie Literature (Book)

Denise Low

ISBN:9781888160185

Explores the language of the prairie. The Great Plains of the North American continent have dramatic seasons, intense colors, otherworldly thunderstorms...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:127

USD $12.83

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