In When My Husband Ran for President and Other Short Stories, it’s Ruth Harkin's turn to share lessons, memories, and parts of the lasting influences she has provided her family, Iowans, and the nation.

Join us at Franklin Event Center for the Second Annual Banned Books Fair as we celebrate the Freedom to Read. 

Local nonprofit Poetry Palooza presents “Poetry & Film,” an interactive evening of spoken word poetry.

Join CCI Action and author Jennifer Berkshire for a conversation on what we can do together to win honest, equitable, and fully-funded public education here in Iowa.

Support the Des Moines Public Library and enjoy an evening celebrating literacy and Iowa authors. The memorable event includes dinner, the recitation of the Library Bill of Rights, and remarks by award-winning authors.

A young girl wrote this book after experiencing an act of discrimination at school. Her aim is to empower others to rise above negative situations, and provide teaching moments on how to overcome, and find your voice.

Written at a dramatic moment in American and global life, this work from one of the country's most important writers is about the urgent need to untangle ourselves from the destructive myths that shape our world--and our own souls--and embrace the liberating power of even the most difficult truths.

Lushly written and philosophically hard-hitting, A Natural History of Empty Lots by
Christopher Brown is a genre-bending blend of naturalism, memoir, and social manifesto for rewilding the
city, the self, and society.

Set in the late 1950s through the 1970s, Catch and Release is a story about holding on, letting go, and the leaps we must take to become the people we are meant to be.

 Support the children's literacy programs at Everybody Wins! Iowa as Beaverdale Books presents Giving Saturday! 

A children's book about a group of animal teammates who are all different, but have fun being on a team together. 

Mary Swander is an award-winning writer of drama, poetry and nonfiction with a national and international reputation.