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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.
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T. Patrick Graves | Let Us Not Talk Falsely Now
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Johnny Desmond is a racist and a believer in white separatism. He tells us of past exploits and then, on...
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Graham Spanier | In the Lions’ Den
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In the Lions’ Den tells the true story of a scandal at Penn State University that unfairly resulted in the firing of the nation’s most successful and admired collegiate football coach and the respected president of the university.
THE OKOBOJI WRITERS’ RETREAT
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SEPTEMBER 19, 20 and 21, 2022 Award-winning authors, journalists, playwrights, teachers, editors, memoir-writers, and storytellers are all committed to helping...
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Jody Keisner | Under My Bed
John T. Price | All is Leaf
Kristine Langley Mahler | Curing Season
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In Under My Bed and Other Essays, Jody Keisner searches for the roots of the violence and fear that afflict women,...
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Catherine Haustein | Wrinkles in Spacetime
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Lonely food developer Stella would like nothing better than to finally have a lab partner to help her create new synthetic products and share her passion for science, but her nation of Cochtonia has gone off the deep end.
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Kirsten Anderson | More Than Words: Turn #MeToo into #ISaidSomething
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In More Than Words: Turn #MeToo into #ISaidSomething, Kirsten Anderson shares her remarkable journey from the debilitating despair of harassment...
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Anne E. Terpstra | Beyond Any Experience
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Anne E. Terpstra’s Beyond Any Experience is an intimate, emotional debut that explores grief, parenting, neurodiversity, and the vulnerability of love after loss.
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Darcy Maulsby | The Lincoln Highway
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Join author Darcy Maulsby as she rediscovers the past, savors some classic Iowa recipes and explores authentic Americana along the timeless Lincoln Highway