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DSM Book Festival

Des Moines Book Festival @ Capital Square

Saturday, March 26 from 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.

Capital Square 400 Locust Street, Des Moines, IA, United States

The  Des Moines Book Festival connects people who love books with the people who create them, and features nationally acclaimed...

AViD Author

Angeline Boulley | The Firekeeper’s Daughter

 @ DSM Book Festival — Capital Square

On Saturday, March 26, at 5 PM, Angeline Boulley will speak as one of the headlining authors at the DSM...

Meet the Author

Dan Hunter | Pandemic Panacea

 @ Artisan Gallery 218

Artisan Gallery 218 218 Fifth Street, West Des Moines, IA, United States

Join us at Artisan Gallery 218 in Valley Junction as Iowa native Dan Hunter shares his new book, Pandemic Panacea....

Meet the Author

Justin Martin | Genius of Place, The Life of Frederick Law Olmsted

 @ Waveland Golf Course Lodge

Waveland Golf Course Lodge 4908 University Avenue, Des Moines, IA, United States

Des Moines Founders Garden Club presents  OLMSTED 200 WEEK: Celebrating Parks for All People The Genius of Place, The Life...

Meet the Author

Sarah Noll Wilson | Don’t Feed the Elephants:  Overcoming the Art of Avoidance to Build Powerful Partnerships

You see the giant footprints the moment you walk through the door. The conference room is a swirling mess of...

Meet the Poets

Daniel Khalastchi & Marc Rahe | American Parables & Gravity Well

 

Mainframe Studios 900 Keosauqua Way, Des Moines, IA, United States

American Parables—Daniel Khalastchi’s award-winning third collection of poetry—provides an uncompromising exploration into the political and societal disturbances facing America today....

Meet the Author

Wes Pranschke | Little Ben and the Old Man in the House

 

Mainframe Studios 900 Keosauqua Way, Des Moines, IA, United States

Little Ben discovers that the Old Man in the scary house is not exactly as he seems.   About the...

Meet the Poet

Paul Brooke | The Skald and the Drukkin Tröllaukin

 

Mainframe Studios 900 Keosauqua Way, Des Moines, IA, United States

Dr. Paul Brooke's writing has been featured in such journals as the North American Review, The Antioch Review, Rocky Mountain...

Meet Three Poets

Laura Johnson, Hannah Soyer, & Dawn Terpstra | Memento Vivere, The Ending Hasn’t Happened Yet, & Songs from the Summer Kitchen

@ Artisan Gallery 218 

 

Artisan Gallery 218 218 Fifth Street, West Des Moines, IA, United States

Memento Vivere by Laura Johnson In Memento Vivere, a tiny volume of rebellion against death, Cedar Rapids poet Laura Johnson...

Book-Signing

Roxanne Conlin | Unstoppable: The Nine Lives of Roxanne Barton Conlin 

 

Mainframe Studios 900 Keosauqua Way, Des Moines, IA, United States

Unstoppable is the first in-depth biography of Roxanne Barton Conlin, who rose from a difficult childhood where she faced an...

AViD Author

Amanda Montell | Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

 @ Central Library

Language scholar and author Amanda Montell will appear at Central Library on Thursday, April 21 at 7 PM to discuss...

Booksigning

David Mosinski | Life Lessons and Lost Wars  

 

Enlightening accounts from a US Army soldier covering an unusual range of assignments, training events, operations, military intelligence work, and...