Geographic Orientation/Iowa
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A Thousand Acres
$19.00 Add to cartPULITZER PRIZE WINNER – NATIONAL BESTSELLER – A “powerful and poignant” twentieth-century reimagining of Shakespeare’s King Lear (The New York Times Book Review) that takes on themes of truth, justice… [more below]
- Author: Smiley, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 02 2003
- ISBN10: 1400033837
- Language: English
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The Weight of Silence
$18.99 Add to cartMasterfully written and beautifully told, Heather Gudenkauf’s debut is a stunning novel of family devotion, honesty and regret that will linger long after the last page is turned.
It happens quietly o… [more below]
- Author: Gudenkauf, Heather
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 28 2009
- ISBN10: 077832740X
- Language: English
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Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression
$17.00 Add to cartI tell of a time, a place, and a way of life long gone. For many years I have had the urge to describe that treasure trove, lest it vanish forever. So, partly in response to the basic human instinct t… [more below]
- Author: Kalish, Mildred Armstrong
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 29 2008
- ISBN10: 0553384244
- Language: English
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Rotters
$17.00 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Whalefall, The Shape of Water with Guillermo del Toro, Scowler, and more, comes Rotters.
Grave-robbing. What kind of monster would do such a thing? It’s tr… [more below]- Author: Kraus, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 10 2012
- ISBN10: 0385738587
- Language: English
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Oddball Iowa: A Guide to Some Really Strange Places
$16.99 Read moreThis zany travel guide presents a more peculiar state than the Iowa Tourism Office might like out-of-towners to imagine. Leaving out the traditional scenic trips to the Mississippi River bluffs and th… [more below]
- Series: Oddball
- Author: Pohlen, Jerome
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1556525648
- Language: English
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Forest and Shade Trees of Iowa
$39.95 Read moreBack in print at last in a third edition, the classic Forest and Shade Trees of Iowa now has a wealth of full-color photographs and updated, reorganized information that will please both new and retur… [more below]
- Series: Bur Oak Guides
- Author: Van Der Linden, Peter J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: July 15 2011
- ISBN10: 1587299941
- Language: English
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The Land Remains: A Midwestern Perspective on Our Past and Future
$24.99 Add to cart- Author: Hamilton, Neil D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: April 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1948509334
- Language: English
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Old Town in the Green Groves: Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Lost Little House Years
$9.99 Add to cartBased on Laura Ingalls Wilder’s unpublished memoirs, Old Town in the Green Groves continues the classic American pioneer saga from the award-winning Little House series. This middle grade novel is an
- Series: Little House
- Author: Rylant, Cynthia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 0060885467
- Language: English
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Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World
$36.00 Add to cartExperience the uplifting, “unforgettable” New York Times bestseller about an abandoned kitten named Dewey, whose life in a library won over a farming town and the world — with over 2 million copies s… [more below]
- Author: Myron, Vicki
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 24 2008
- ISBN10: 0446407410
- Language: English
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Four Days to Glory: Wrestling with the Soul of the American Heartland
$17.99 Add to cartSomewhere beyond the circle of money, glitz, drugs, and controversy that characterizes professional sports in America, remnants of an ideal exist. In Iowa, that ideal survives in the form of high scho
- Author: Kreidler, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 26 2007
- ISBN10: 0060823194
- Language: English
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Postville U.S.A.
$14.95 Add to cartPostville is an obscure meatpacking town in the northeast corner of Iowa. Here, in the most unlikely of places, unparalleled diversity drew international media. Now people declare the town’s experimen… [more below]
- Author: Grey, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1934848646
- Language: English
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A Wrestling Life: The Inspiring Stories of Dan Gable
$18.00 Read moreWhat does it take to be an Olympic gold medalist and to coach a collegiate team to fifteen NCAA titles? In A Wrestling Life: The Inspiring Stories of Dan Gable, famed wrestler and wrestling coach Dan … [more below]
- Author: Gable, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 172
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1609383265
- Language: English
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Haunted Iowa
$19.99 Add to cartFollow a team of real-life ghost hunters on the trail of visitors to the Hawkeye State from the spirit world. You say you don’t believe in ghosts? Tell it to the woman who was thrown down the stairs b… [more below]
- Author: Vyn, Kathleen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 30 2019
- ISBN10: 1625361289
- Language: English
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Hiking Iowa: A Guide To Iowa’s Greatest Hiking Adventures
$30.00 Add to cartWith nearly fifty featured trails, Iowa’s verdant countryside is an excellent place for a hike, and this guide covers the state’s varied terrain with a focus on the state parks and recreation areas.
A… [more below]
- Series: State Hiking Guides
- Author: Hill, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0762722401
- Language: English
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The Iowa Baseball Confederacy
$19.99 Add to cartBearing W.P. Kinsella’s trademark combination of “sweet-natured prose and a richly imagined world” (Philadelphia Inquirer), The Iowa Baseball Confederacy tells the story of Gideon Clark, a man on a qu
- Author: Kinsella, W. P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 14 2003
- ISBN10: 0618340807
- Language: English
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Patterns of Love
$15.99 Add to cartMy dear Beth, Though Uppsala, Iowa, takes its name from a city in my native Sweden, life here is different from what I have known. With my parents’ blessing, I have taken employment in the home of Mr.
- Series: Coming to America #2
- Author: Hatcher, Robin Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 12 2001
- ISBN10: 0310231051
- Language: English
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The Bridges of Madison County
$18.99 Add to cartFall in love with one of the bestselling novels of all time — the legendary love story that became a beloved film starring Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep.
If you’ve ever experienced the one true lov… [more below]- Author: Waller, Robert James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 07 2014
- ISBN10: 1455554294
- Language: English
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Best Garden Plants for Iowa
$15.95 Add to cartWe’ve taken some of the work and a lot of the worry out of your next trip to the garden center. In this book you’ll find over 160 accounts featuring the best plant varieties in nine categories: annual… [more below]
- Author: Porto, Chuck
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 20 2005
- ISBN10: 1551055201
- Language: English
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Shoeless Joe
$18.99 Add to cartThe inspiration for the beloved film Field of Dreams, Shoeless Joe by W. P. Kinsella is the story about the beauty and history of baseball, and the power and endurance of a dream.
“A moonlit novel abo
- Author: Kinsella, W. P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 28 1999
- ISBN10: 0395957737
- Language: English
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What’s Eating Gilbert Grape
$19.00 Add to cartJust about everything in Endora, Iowa (pop. 1,091 and dwindling) is eating Gilbert Grape, a twenty-four-year-old grocery clerk who dreams only of leaving. His enormous mother, once the town sweetheart… [more below]
- Author: Hedges, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0671038540
- Language: English
