University of Iowa Press
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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$20.00 Add to cartEarly Stories by Tennessee Williams is an edited collection of thirty-one previously unpublished short stories written in the 1930s, when Tennessee Williams was living in the Midwest during a tumultuo… [more below]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 Read moreThe 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
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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 Add to cartUnited 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
