University of Iowa Press
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Beyond Ridiculous: Making Gay Theatre with Charles Busch in 1980s New York
$35.00 Read moreBeyond Ridiculous tells the story of Theatre-in-Limbo, a downtown band of actors formed in 1984 by director Kenneth Elliott and playwright and drag legend Charles Busch. They launched Vampire Lesbians… [more below]
- Series: Studies Theatre Hist & Culture
- Author: Elliott, Kenneth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: November 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1609389190
- Language: English
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The Beckoning World
$18.00 Read moreThe Beckoning World is set in the first quarter of the twentieth century and follows Earl Dunham. His weeks are comprised of six days mining coal, followed by Sundays playing baseball. Then one day a … [more below]
- Author: Bauer, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 160938847X
- Language: English
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Iowa’s Changing Wildlife: Three Decades of Gain and Loss
$30.00 Read moreMuch has changed with Iowa’s wildlife in the years 1990 to 2020. Some species such as Canada goose, wild turkey, and white-tailed deer that once were rare in Iowa are now common, and others like sandh… [more below]
- Series: Bur Oak Book
- Author: Dinsmore, James J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1609389255
- Language: English
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You Never Get It Back
$16.00 Read moreThe linked stories in Cara Blue Adams’s precise and observant collection offer elegantly constructed glimpses of the life of Kate, a young woman from rural New England, moving between her childhood in… [more below]
- Series: Iowa Short Fiction Award
- Author: Adams, Cara Blue
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: December 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1609388135
- 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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What Flies Want: Poems
$19.95 Read moreColorado Book Award – poetry finalist
In What Flies Want, disaster looms in domesticity: a family grapples with its members’ mental health, a marriage falters, and a child experiments with self-harm.- Series: Iowa Poetry Prize
- Author: Pérez, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1609388437
- Language: English
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In Kind
$20.00 Read morePart wunderkammer, part grimoire, Maggie Queeney’s In Kind is focused on survival. A chorus of personae, speaking into and through a variety of poetic forms, guide the reader through the aftermath of … [more below]
- Series: Iowa Poetry Prize
- Author: Queeney, Maggie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: May 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1609388976
- Language: English
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The Wapsipinicon Almanac: Selections from Thirty Years
$27.50 Read moreIn 1988, Timothy Fay published the very first issue of the Wapsipinicon Almanac at his Route 3 Press in Anamosa, Iowa. Fay’s goal was to offer a journal somewhat outside of mainstream Iowa journalism…. [more below]
- Series: Bur Oak Book
- Author: Fay, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 267
- Publish Date: April 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1609388879
- Language: English
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Bub: Essays from Just North of Nashville
$17.00 Read moreNashville native Drew Bratcher writes musically about memory and memorably about music in uncommonly beautiful essays that announce the arrival of a major new voice. The title essay, a requiem in frag… [more below]
- Author: Bratcher, Drew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: November 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1609388496
- Language: English
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How to Leave Hialeah
$16.00 Read moreUnited in their fierce sense of place and infused with the fading echoes of a lost homeland, the stories in Jennine Cap? Crucet’s striking debut collection do for Miami what Edward P. Jones does for W… [more below]
- Series: Iowa Short Fiction Award
- Author: Crucet, Jennine Cap?
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1587298163
- Language: English
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Welcome to Dragon Talk: Inspiring Conversations about Dungeons & Dragons and the People Who Love to Play It
$19.95 Read moreIf it seems like everyone you know is playing Dungeons & Dragons, it’s because they are! After nearly five decades, the iconic roleplaying game is more popular than ever. Famous Hollywood actors and d… [more below]
- Author: Mazzanoble, Shelly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: December 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1609388593
- Language: English
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Khabaar: An Immigrant Journey of Food, Memory, and Family
$19.95 Read moreIndependent Publishers Book Awards (IPPY Awards) gold medalist
Khabaar is a food memoir and personal narrative that braids the global journeys of South Asian food through immigration, migration, and i- Series: Foodstory
- Author: Ghosh, Madhushree
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: April 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1609388232
- Language: English
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The Principles of Comedy Improv: Truths, Tales, and How to Improvise
$25.00 Read moreThe Principles of Comedy Improv is an authoritative handbook for beginners and experts alike. More than just entertainment, improv’s tenets enable you to change every moment of your life. Your guide i… [more below]
- Author: Blank, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 261
- Publish Date: June 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1609388852
- Language: English
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Lo
$20.00 Read moreLo maps the deprivation and richness of a rural girlhood and offers an intimate portrait of the woman–tender, hungry, hopeful–who manages to emerge. In a series of lyric odes and elegies, Lo explor… [more below]
- Series: Iowa Poetry Prize
- Author: Crowe, Melissa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: May 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1609388992
- Language: English
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No Use Pretending
$19.00 Read moreThe characters in these stories have been forced into conditions of life that they find unbearable, and the stories chart their often tragically misguided attempts to relieve their suffering via conne… [more below]
- Series: Iowa Short Fiction Award
- Author: Dodson, Thomas A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 172
- Publish Date: October 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1609389174
- Language: English
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We Heard It When We Were Young
$16.00 Read moreMost agree that West Liberty is a special place. The first majority Hispanic town in Iowa, it has been covered by media giants such as Reuters, Telemundo, NBC, and ESPN. But Chuy Renteria and his frie… [more below]
- Author: Renteria, Chuy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: November 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1609388054
- Language: English
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Stories No One Hopes Are about Them
$17.50 Read more2023 Lammy Award for Bisexual Fiction, shortlist
At once playfully dark and slyly hopeful, Stories No One Hopes Are about Them explores convergences of power, privilege, and place. Characters who are- Series: Iowa Short Fiction Award
- Author: Bermudez, A. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: November 14 2022
- ISBN10: 1609388631
- Language: English
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The Diver
$19.00 Read moreMarta doesn’t mean to kill her husband. In fact, she hardly believes that he’s dead. After a dramatic accident leaves him drowned at the bottom of Lake Michigan, she embarks on a grief-fueled descent … [more below]
- Author: Knight, Samsun
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 237
- Publish Date: November 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1609389271
- Language: English
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An Influencer’s World: A Behind-The-Scenes Look at Social Media Influencers and Creators
$25.00 Add to cartWhat is the influencer lifestyle? How do influencers win their fight for relevance and create a brand that catches fire, while still leading an authentic, healthy life? Influencing is a business built… [more below]
- Author: Baker, Caroline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: June 26 2023
- ISBN10: 160938895X
- Language: English
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High Hawk
$19.00 Add to cartIt’s 1970, and on the Windy Creek Reservation in South Dakota, amidst the rise of AIM in neighboring Pine Ridge, a baby boy appears nestled in a box of Styrofoam peanuts on the doorstep of St. Rose Ca… [more below]
- Author: Frykholm, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1609389735
- Language: English
