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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
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Beth Howard | World Piece: A Pie Baker’s Global Quest for Peace, Love, and Understanding
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Beth Howard offers some answers in her feisty, often funny, always unflinching voice. Underlying her pie and peace mission is her personal story about overcoming fear, letting go of grief, searching for a new home, and making room for new love
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Adib Khorram | Kiss & Tell
Khorram's new book, Kiss & Tell, is the story of a boy band star who is the only gay member of the band.
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Lan Samantha Chang | The Family Chao
Charles Baxter | Wonderlands
Courtesy of DMACC Celebration of Literary Arts Festival
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An acclaimed storyteller returns with a captivating, witty novel of three brothers, a festering family drama, and the disquieting reality of the American dream.
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Christer Sturmark | To Light the Flame of Reason
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To Light the Flame of Reason is all about the art of clear thinking, an art that is needed now more than ever in the world we now live in.
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Kay Fenton Smith & Carol McGarvey | Baking Blue Ribbons: Stories and Recipes from the Iowa State Fair Food Competitions
@ ARTISAN GALLERY 218
“If a picture can paint a thousand words, recipes can tell a thousand stories,” says Kay Fenton Smith. It’s a...
Trick or Treat in Beaverdale Business District
Charlotte Gunnufson | Halloween Hustle
Stop by Beaverdale Books for treats and fun activities, including stories by author Charlotte Gunnufson.
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Anne Winkler-Morey | Allegiance to Winds & Waters: Bicycling the Political Divides of the United States
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In this personal/political memoir, historian Anne Winkler-Morey chronicles her 12,000-mile bike trip around the contiguous United States.
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Phil Adamo | The Medievalist
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White supremacists have ‘weaponized’ the Middle Ages. One medievalist aims to stop them.