Seven years of research has culminated in author Steve Dunn’s latest book on the history of professional baseball in Des Moines., 'Pug’ ‘Fireball’ and Company: 116 Years of Professional Baseball in Des Moines, Iowa.

Join author and presidential candidate Marianne Williamson for a spirited discussion about her vision for creating an America that works for everyone.

After losing the World Series in 1922, Babe Ruth and Bob Meusel left the harsh glare of New York for an eighteen-game Great Plains barnstorming tour.

Chris M. Arnone's cyberpunk science fiction Necropolis Alpha is the exciting follow-up to The Hermes Protocol, following an Intel Operative with cybernetic enhancements as she tries to stop a plot to tear apart everything.

Join us as we celebrate books by four local authors!  Our community is lucky to have so many talented writers and this is a great chance to hear about their lives, their writing experience, and how they came to create such fascinating books.  

This picture book, Susie Clark: The Bravest Girl You've Ever Seen!, beautifully simplifies for young readers a decades-long struggle for civil rights in a period before, during, and after the Civil War.

West Des Moines Library will host an evening with author Carol Roh Spaulding, an Iowa-based author, whose new book, Waiting for Mr. Kim and Other Stories spans four generations of a Korean-American family, centering on the life of a character named Gracie Song.

Meet authors Denise Williams and Chloe Angyal as they share their newest romance novels.

A moving take on a coming-of-age story that questions who we call family and who we let write the soundtrack to our lives." Carolyn Boehlke Youngbauer; author of Literaria

In a straightforward, friendly style, Iowa’s premier scientists and experts consider what has happened to our land and outline viable solutions that benefit agriculture as well as the state’s human and wild residents.

A candid, unforgettable, and often hilarious memoir of two dads daunting quest for fatherhood.

Thompson’s award-winning trilogy of historical fiction: Follow the Angels, Follow the Doves: The Bass Reeves Trilogy, Book One and Hell on the Border: The Bass Reeves Trilogy, Book Two will be the basis for the Paramount+ miniseries "Lawmen: Bass Reeves."