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Art Cullen
(390)
Summary: From a 2017 Pulitzer-winning newspaperman, an unsentimental ode to America's heartland as seen in small-town Iowa -- a story of reinvention and resilience, environmental and economic struggle, and...
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Call #: 071 CUL 2018 IOWA
Location: Iowa Collection
copies in: 1 of 1
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William B Friedricks
(2)
Summary: Chronicles the guiding principles that shaped the history of the Des Moines Register and Tribune Company for 150 years. This engaging narrative focuses on three interrelated elements: the newspaper's...
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Call #: 071 FRI 2000 IOWA
Location: Iowa Collection
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Kathleen Vyn
(10)
Summary: You say you don't believe in ghosts? After you read these spine-tingling stories of real-life encounters with the uncanny, you'll have to admit that there's something hard to explain going on in the old mansions and graveyards of Iowa.
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Call #: 133.1 VYN 2008 IOWA
Location: Iowa Collection
copies in: 1 of 1
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Robert Waggoner
(1,488)
Summary: While lucid (consciously aware) in the dream state and able to act and interact with dream figures, objects, and settings, dream expert Robert Waggoner experienced something transformative and...
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Call #: 154.63 WAG 2009 IOWA
Location: Iowa Collection
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Tony D. Thelen
(11)
Summary: This book is written for everyone who has ever wondered, am I doing this right? when thinking about their lives and careers.
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Call #: 158.1 THE 2022 IOWA
Location: Iowa Collection
copies in: 1 of 1
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Claire Hoffman
(919)
Summary: When Claire Hoffman's alcoholic father abandons his family, his struggling wife, Liz, tells five-year-old Claire and her seven-year-old brother, Stacey, that they are going to heaven -- Iowa -- to...
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Call #: 158.125 HOF 2016 IOWA
Location: Iowa Collection
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Laura Sohl-Cryer
Summary: This book is not only an invitation for you to get a glimpse into life on our family farm, it is a reminder for you to see how God is working during each and every moment in your life. Ultimately, it...
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Call #: 242 SOH 2022 IOWA
Location: Iowa Collection
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Lee Schott
(13)
Summary: Messy, raw, and real aren't the words most of us use when we say what|s good about our churches. But what if they were? Author Lee Schott found out, serving a beautiful church inside the Iowa women|s...
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Call #: 259 SCH 2019 IOWA
Location: Iowa Collection
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Steven M. Avella
(2)
Summary: Commissioned by the diocese to commemorate its centenary, this is the first book-length study of the history of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Des Moines, Iowa. Formally established in 1911, the...
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Call #: 282 AVE 2018 IOWA
Location: Iowa Collection
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Linda Meloy
Summary: A centennial history of the League of Women Voters of Iowa -- its roots in the suffrage movement; its processes of non-partisanship, study, and action, and its accomplishments, particularly legislation passed.
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Call #: 305.42 MEL 2020 IOWA
Location: Iowa Collection
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Louise R. Noun
(3)
Summary: Chronicling Noun's struggle for feminism, this memoir not only provides an account of one woman's emerging politics, but shows how the women's movement was affected and in fact created by remarkable women such as Noun.
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Call #: 305.42 NOU 1996 IOWA
Location: Iowa Collection
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Willis J Goudy
Summary: Goudy compiles and comments on the state's numbers that have been tabulated from each federal census since 1850. Aiming at continuity with current data, he includes only those variables that appeared...
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Call #: 317.77 GOU 2008 IOWA
Location: Iowa Collection
copies in: 1 of 1
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Summary: This book brings us the stories of three Americans -- three Iowans -- whose families have found home in the heartland over the past two generations. This collection brings together a variety of...
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Call #: 325.1 WE 2018 IOWA
Location: Iowa Collection
copies in: 1 of 1
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Summary: At six years old, Antonia Rivera crossed the border from Mexico with nothing but the doll in her hands. Ajla Dizdarević's family brought traditions across an ocean after leaving a home torn apart...
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Call #: 325.1 WE 2019 IOWA
Location: Iowa Collection
copies in: 1 of 1
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Summary: America is at a crossroads. In the great experiment of democracy, a defining moment has arrived, a time of reckoning: What does it mean to be an American? Does the American Dream still exist? In a...
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Call #: 325.1 WE 2020 IOWA
Location: Iowa Collection
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Verne Lyon
(11)
Summary: An Iowa boy away at college, Verne Lyon was recruited by the CIA to spy on college professors and fellow students as part of Operation CHAOS, a massive surveillance program at the height of the...
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Call #: 327.12 LYO 2018 IOWA
Location: Iowa Collection
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Neil D. Hamilton
Summary: This book blends personal memoir, a history of Midwestern land conservation, and an analysis of contemporary issues of soil health, water quality, public lands, and future challenges to tell the...
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Call #: 333.72 HAM 2022 IOWA
Location: Iowa Collection
copies in: 1 of 1
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Call #: 333.95 IOW IOWA
Location: Iowa Collection
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Pamela Riney-Kehrberg
(3)
Summary: Iowa in the 1980s -- the state was at the epicenter of a nationwide agricultural collapse unmatched since the Great Depression. While farms failed and banks foreclosed, rural and small town Iowans...
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Call #: 338.1 RIN 2022 IOWA
Location: Iowa Collection
copies in: 1 of 1
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Call #: 338.4 IOW 2016 IOWA
Location: Iowa Collection
copies in: 1 of 1
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Summary: Looking to identify and contact Iowa manufacturers and their decision makers? This directory profiles 5,089 companies and 16,804 executives by name and title. Each Iowa company profile contains up to thirty detailed facts.
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Call #: 338.4 IOW 2019 IOWA
Location: Iowa Collection
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Kit Bonner
(10)
Summary: The striking of the USS Iowa (BB 61), the lead ship in the last and most capable of the classes of American battleships, from the Naval Vessel Register marks the end of an era for the U.S. Navy. WIth...
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Call #: 359.8 BON 2007 IOWA
Location: Iowa Collection
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Charles C. Mann
(3,520)
Summary: Presents two influential scientists, William Vogt (1902-1968), and Norman Borlaug (1914-2009), whose diametrically opposed views shaped modern understandings about the environment and related public policies.
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Call #: 363.7 MAN 2018 IOWA
Location: Iowa Collection
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Katherine Dykstra
(747)
Summary: In July 1970, eighteen-year-old Paula Oberbroeckling left her house in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and never returned. Four months later, her remains were discovered just beyond the mouth of a culvert...
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Call #: 364.1523 DYK 2021 IOWA
Location: Iowa Collection
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Diane Fannon-Langton
(80)
Summary: Byron C. Hattman sealed his fate when he checked into the Roosevelt Hotel on December 13, 1948. A maid found his body in a blood-spattered room two days later. An investigation linked him to the...
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Call #: 364.1523 FAN 2016 IOWA
Location: Iowa Collection
copies in: 1 of 1
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Mara Hvistendahl
(1,169)
Summary: A riveting true story of industrial espionage in which a Chinese-born scientist is convicted of trying to steal U.S. trade secrets. In September 2011, sheriff's deputies in Iowa encountered three...
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Call #: 364.168 HVI 2020 IOWA
Location: Iowa Collection
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Teresa Holmgren
(3)
Summary: Scott didn't speak for five years. Richard had no thumbs, Robert ate his clothes. Dale was a pathological liar. Kathy had been abused and all she wanted was Ranch dressing on her salad. Some students...
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Call #: 371.9 HOL 2014 IOWA
Location: Iowa Collection
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Matt Kuhns
(2)
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Call #: 378.777 KUH 2016 IOWA
Location: Iowa Collection
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Barbara Hall
(17)
Summary: Women and the Land takes a look at more than twenty-five women who are impacting Iowa's farmland. Some of them have inherited rural property and are managing the agriculture practices from afar. Some...
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Call #: 630 HAL 2017 IOWA
Location: Iowa Collection
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Decem Doctae
Summary: Collection of recipes from the members of Decem Doctae (Ten Learned Women), who met in their Des Moines homes for lunch on the third Thursday of every month. Includes photographs of Des Moines and...
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Call #: 641.5977 DEC 2008 IOWA
Location: Iowa Collection
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Beth M. Howard
(903)
Summary: Relates the sudden death of the author's husband and her decision to pack up the RV he left behind and embark on a cross-country journey, during which she used America's quintessential comfort food and the simple act of giving to overcome tragedy.
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Call #: 641.8652 HOW 2012 IOWA
Location: Iowa Collection
copies in: 1 of 1
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Darcy Dougherty Maulsby
(20)
Summary: With Italian steakhouses, the Younkers Tea Room and Stella's Blue Sky Diner, Des Moines's culinary history is tantalizingly diverse. It's filled with colorful characters like bootlegger /...
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Call #: 647.95 MAU 2020 IOWA
Location: Iowa Collection
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by
Beth Cody
Summary: There's something about vintage garden photos: moments of beauty preserved from gardens long gone. This book features more than 250 color and grayscale images of beautiful Iowa gardens from mid-19th...
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Call #: 712 COD 2020 IOWA
Location: Iowa Collection
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Rob Sand
(37)
Summary: Rob Sands gives an inside look at one of the most complicated yet seat-of-your-pants financial investigations and prosecutions in recent history. Rob Sand, the youngest attorney in his office, was...
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Call #: 795 SAN 2022 IOWA
Location: Iowa Collection
copies in: 1 of 1
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Brian J. Borland
(36)
Summary: Brian J. Borland was inspired to write this story after visiting his family|s ancestral home of Maynard, Iowa while attending his Grandmother Ruth|s funeral in 2004. He realized that he might never...
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Call #: 796.323 BOR 2013 IOWA
Location: Iowa Collection
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Bill Haglund
Summary: Read about the history of the IMCA Stock Car Series in this book containing stories, stats and photos from the beginning in 1949 to the series end in 1977.
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Call #: 796.72 HAG IOWA
Location: Iowa Collection
copies in: 1 of 1
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