Despite their traumatic experiences, coauthors Dr. Allen Lycka and Harriet Tinka survived and grew stronger, just as steel is tempered by extreme elements. Together, they wrote a book to share the key lessons they had learned hoping to help readers find the golden pearls in their biggest challenges and how to make their lives fantastic, too.

Images in the news, social media, advertisements, memes, websites, and selfies shape how we understand ourselves, our society, and our world. Even the images we don’t see have an impact on our daily lives. But images are not innocent. And we don’t have to be passive consumers. Our racial identities, assumptions, histories, and biases filter the images we absorb and affect how we interpret them. Are they problematic? How can you tell? Why should you care?

Margaret Renkl's earlier books are Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss and Graceland, At Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache from the American South. She is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times, where her essays appear weekly.

When Glory Got Her Glow Back describes the magic that occurs when children from ages five to 95 work with the power of color beyond what the eye can see.

Images in the news, social media, advertisements, memes, websites, and selfies shape how we understand ourselves, our society, and our world. Even the images we don’t see have an impact on our daily lives. But images are not innocent. And we don’t have to be passive consumers. Our racial identities, assumptions, histories, and biases filter the images we absorb and affect how we interpret them. Are they problematic? How can you tell? Why should you care?

Join the AAMI for our brand-new book club, Book Club 802. We will be reading and discussing Wake: The Hidden History of Women Led Slave Revolts, by Rebecca Hall.

Boyhood’s End is the remarkable true story of a young man finding his way through a changing culture and a world at war. From high school through his enlistment in the Army, from his experiences as a front-line combat infantryman in Patton’s Third Army during the Rhineland Campaign to his return home at end of World War II, this “memories and a memoir” provides readers with an intimate portrait of a personal journey through an epic time.  It combines history, cultural memories, and social commentary punctuated with more than a hundred of Coleman’s images and illustrations from that time.

A New History of Iowa is a comprehensive survey of the state's history from the last ice age until the end of 2020.

Join us at Art on the Prairie again this year as Poetry& and the Iowa Poetry Association present "Poetry on the Prairie" in Perry, Iowa. They will be welcoming many local poets, so mark your calendar to join in on the fun. This event is free and open to the public!

Join us at Art on the Prairie again this year as Poetry& and the Iowa Poetry Association present "Poetry on the Prairie" in Perry, Iowa. They will be many local poets featured, so mark your calendar to join in on the fun. This event is free and open to the public!

Ex-pat Stella and British aristocrat Viscount “Lyndy” Lyndhurst are thrilled to celebrate their first Christmas together as Morrington Hall comes alive with caroling, intricate decorations . . . and a deadly murder.

This book details steps to improve student creativity through imagination. Hunter explores metacognition, teacher attitudes, exercises, ideation, and problem-solving techniques. Throughout the book there are stories of creative successes fueled by imagination: Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Franz Schubert, Sherlock Holmes, Leonardo Da Vinci, and more. Hunter clearly explains the latest neuroscience on creativity. Hunter draws on humor, extensive research, and his lifetime of practicing and teaching creative work.