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Steve Dunn | Principal Park: A Diamond in the Rough
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Three ballparks at the confluence of the Des Moines and Raccoon rivers in Des Moines have hosted professional baseball since...
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Alicia Elifritz | Then and Now
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Just as a young life is opening up with promise, a diagnosis of leukemia disrupts everything. Then and Now takes us...
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Mary Gordon & Candace Camling | Hello Iowa
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Encourage Kids to Say Hello to Iowa Destinations Hello Iowa was published in January of 2019. It’s a...
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Local Author Fair
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If you love to read, stop by for FREE refreshments, then mix & mingle with FIVE local authors. Joy Cleveland...
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Angela Tedesco | Finding Turtle Farm: My Twenty-Acre Adventure in Community-Supported Agriculture
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On a twenty-acre farm in Iowa in 1995, Angela Tedesco planted the seeds (quite literally) of a quiet revolution. While...
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Bookstore Romance Day
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Looking for Romance? Join in this annual celebration of steamy novels, innocent love stories, and zany rom-coms. Plus, we will...
Panel Discussion: The Land Beneath Us
Amee Ellis, Neil Hamilton, & Beth Hoffman | The Sea Beneath Our Feet, The Land Remains, & Bet the Farm
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The Sea Beneath Our Feet is a project commissioned by the Des Moines Metro Opera, a photographic interpretation of their...
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Dennis Maulsby | Heart Songs
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Heart Songs is a book of seventy-eight pages of poetry by Dennis Maulsby. Heart songs come from many sources. We...
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Kay Fenton Smith & Carol McGarvey | Baking Blue Ribbons: Stories and Recipes from the Iowa State Fair Food Competitions
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“If a picture can paint a thousand words, recipes can tell a thousand stories,” says Kay Fenton Smith. It’s a...
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Jennifer Ohman-Rodriguez | A Time to Mourn & A Time to Dance
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A Love Story of Grief, Trauma, Healing & Faith. Tony Rodriguez was a compassionate and well-respected trauma therapist who devoted...
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Eric Saylor | Vaughan Williams
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Ralph Vaughan Williams ranks among the most versatile, influential, and enduringly popular British musicians of his era. Throughout his wide-ranging...
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Leah Angstman | Out Front the Following Sea
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A historical epic of one woman's survival in a time when the wilderness is still wild, heresy is publicly punishable, and being independent is worse than scorned--it is a death sentence.