EVENTS
Meet the Author
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.
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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,...