University of Iowa Press
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Work to Do
$19.95 Read moreWhen Eleanor founded Guadalupe Street Co-op in the early 1980s, she was in her mid-twenties and madly in love with her girlfriend, Meg. Together, they envisioned an idyllic grocery store owned by its
- Author: Wernersbach, Jules
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 1685970532
- Language: English
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What Mennonite Girls Are Good for
$19.00 Add to cartA Debutiful Best Debut Short Story Collection of 2025
In these eleven stories, a Mennonite minister’s daughter moves from a youthful, exuberant understanding of her family’s faith toward religious doub
- Series: Iowa Short Fiction Award
- Author: Sears, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: November 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1685970494
- Language: English
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No Swaddle
$21.00 Add to cartMackenzie Kozak examines the complex question of whether or not to bear children. Through a series of untitled American sonnets, the poems speak to themes of origin and desire, noting the shame that c… [more below]
- Series: Iowa Poetry Prize
- Author: Kozak, MacKenzie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: April 10 2025
- ISBN10: 1685970109
- Language: English
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Love, Dirt
$19.00 Add to cartFrom the intimate confines of a Nebraska farmhouse to the bustling streets of South America, the characters of Love, Dirt traverse uneasy spaces in search of human connection. A closeted teen on a tri… [more below]
- Series: Iowa Short Fiction Award
- Author: Johnson, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 154
- Publish Date: November 12 2025
- ISBN10: 1685970397
- Language: English
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The Extremities!
$19.00 Add to cartOne day at work, a young newspaper reporter is suddenly struck with a mysterious pain in her hands that renders her unable to type. Kim initially believes the disorder–as she refers to it–will disap… [more below]
- Author: Kimmey, Samantha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1685970249
- Language: English
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Natch
$18.00 Read moreThe Center for Fiction 2025 First Novel Prize, Shortlist
At the age of twenty-nine, tired of trying to get along with members of his crew and tired of the money going into somebody else’s pocket, Nat… [more below]- Author: Kinsey, Darrell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: April 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1685970001
- Language: English
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Brightening Glance: Art and Life
$28.00 Add to cartFor more than five decades, Pat Lipsky has been a leading figure in American color field painting. In loosely connected vignettes, this extraordinary book looks back on a life starting in 1970s SoHo: … [more below]
- Author: Lipsky, Pat
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: October 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1685970346
- Language: English
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Flagrant, Self-Destructive Gestures: A Biography of Denis Johnson
$22.50 Add to cartThe year was 1988, and Denis Johnson was at a low point. He caught malaria on a reporting trip into the jungles of the Philippines and was nearly pronounced dead. The disease left him unable to write
- Author: Geltner, Ted
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1685970370
- Language: English
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For This and Other Cruelties
$22.00 Add to cartThe shadow of mothering has never been given a richer, fuller, more debased vision than in Youna Kwak’s For This and Other Cruelties. Kwak casts a cold eye on the splendid and cruel intransigence of m… [more below]
- Series: Kuhl House Poets
- Author: Kwak, Youna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 114
- Publish Date: September 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1685970281
- Language: English
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Likeness
$18.00 Add to cartOn a summer evening in the 1990s, Anne learns that one of her husband’s lovers is expecting his child, only a few weeks after learning that she too is pregnant. He tells her casually, as if it’s just
- Author: Knight, Samsun
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1685970206
- Language: English
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I Always Carry My Bones
$20.00 Add to cartThe poems in I Always Carry My Bones tackle the complex ideation of home–the place where horrid and beautiful intertwine and carve a being into existence–for marginalized and migrant peoples. Felici… [more below]
- Series: Iowa Poetry Prize
- Author: Zamora, Felicia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 90
- Publish Date: April 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1609387767
- Language: English
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How to Dungeon Master Parenting: A Guidebook for Gamifying the Child Rearing Quest, Leveling Up Your Skills, and Raising Future Adventurers
$19.95 Add to cart2025 Independent Publishers Book Awards (IPPY Awards) bronze medalist, Parenting
2024 Zibby Awards, Best Book for Parents selection2024 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalist, Family & Relat
- Author: Mazzanoble, Shelly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1609389816
- Language: English
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Attachments: Essays on Fatherhood and Other Performances
$19.00 Add to cartLucas Mann turns his attention, tenderness, self-reflection, and humor to contemporary fatherhood. He looks closely at all the joys, frustrations, subtleties, and contradictions within an experience t… [more below]
- Author: Mann, Lucas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: May 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1609389530
- Language: English
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Safe as Houses
$16.00 Add to cartSafe as Houses, the debut story collection of Marie-Helene Bertino, proves that not all homes are shelters. The titular story revolves around an aging English professor who, mourning the loss of his w… [more below]
- Series: Iowa Short Fiction Award
- Author: Bertino, Marie-Helene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: October 01 2012
- ISBN10: 1609381149
- Language: English
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From Chaos to Stability: How the Brain Invents Our Conscious Worlds
$19.00 Read moreAt the heart of Israel Rosenfield and Edward Ziff ‘s inquiry is the nature of brain function. The sensory world is disordered and chaotic. There are no labels for tables, chairs, or airplanes, and ind… [more below]
- Series: The New Neuroscience
- Author: Rosenfield, Israel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 142
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1609389891
- Language: English
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Early Stories by Tennessee Williams
$20.00 Add to cartEarly Stories by Tennessee Williams is an edited collection of thirty-one previously unpublished short stories written in the 1930s, when Tennessee Williams was living in the Midwest during a tumultuo… [more below]
- Author: Williams, Tennessee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1685970044
- Language: English
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Mother Archive: A Dominican Family Memoir
$27.50 Add to cartA family murder kept secret, the mysterious disappearance of her father, the systematic erasing of family photographs, a turbulent relationship with her mother, layers of trauma and abuse. In Mother A… [more below]
- Author: Morillo, Erika
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: October 28 2024
- ISBN10: 160938993X
- Language: English
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The Man in the Banana Trees
$18.00 Add to cartThe stories in The Man in the Banana Trees take place in the past, present, and future–from the American Gulf South to the orbit around Jupiter. We meet teachers and students, ghosts and aliens. An i… [more below]
- Series: Iowa Short Fiction Award
- Author: Sheffer, Marguerite
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1609389956
- Language: English
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The Tigers of Lents
$19.95 Add to cartThis is the story of the Garrison family, who live in Lents, an outer neighborhood of Portland, Oregon. At the heart of it all, there are the three Garrison sisters: Sara, the eldest, a fiery soccer s… [more below]
- Author: Pomeroy, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 234
- Publish Date: March 28 2024
- ISBN10: 1609389379
- Language: English
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The Cleveland Heights LGBTQ Sci-Fi and Fantasy Role Playing Club
$16.00 Add to cartOn Thursday nights, the players assemble in the back of Readmore Comix and Games. Celeste is the dungeon master; Valerie, who works at the store, was roped in by default; Mooneyham, the banker, likes
- Author: Henderson, Doug
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: April 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1609387562
- Language: English
