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Iowa Interests
A selection of books about Iowa & the Mid-West. To order books without a link to our online bookstore, please email karl@prairielights.com.
A Body to Bones
A Body to Bones is set in Clinton, Iowa in the year 1964 and is Donan Berg's debut novel and the first book in his Skeleton Series. Donan Berg's life's journey is as a journalist, corporate executive, and lawyer residing in America's heartland. The price is $28.95 for hardcover and $12.95 for paperback.To order please email karl@prairielights.com or call the store.
Jewels Of The Prairie Poster
Now back in stock, Jewels of the Prairies poster, featuring the wild flower art of Mark Muller. It is a 24x36 inch full color poster. The price is $15. To order please email karl@prairielights.com or call the store.
Little Heathens
Mildred Kalish's story of growing up on her grandparents' Iowa farm during the depths of the Great Depression is filled with stories of a family that gave is members a remarkable legacy of kinship, kindness, and remembered pleasures, and is brimming with recipes and how-tos for everything from catching and skinning a rabbit to preparing homemade skin and hair beautifiers, apple cream pie, and the world's best head cheese.
Iowa: An Explorer's Guide
Iowa: An Explorer’s Guide is the first comprehensive guide to the Hawkeye state. With hundreds of lodging, dining, and recreational recommendations, over 100 illuminating photos and maps, transportation details, and a “What’s Where” section to help travelers get their bearings, Rice will guide you through the backcountry and cities of the state.
Iowa: The Definitive Collection
Iowa: the Definitive Collection gathers for student, teacher, researcher, and leisure reader alike a rich harvest of Iowa lore as told by a bevy of its most famous and forgotten voices—Iowa history as made and told by Iowans, for Iowans. Totaling over 500 browsable pages and nearly 100 highly readable, classic and contemporary selections, this mammoth compendium of Iowa history, literature, and lore captures the Hawkeye State more diversely and more comprehensively than ever before.
Deep Nature: Photographs from Iowa
Photographers Linda and Robert Scarth have an incredible eye for that magic moment when small becomes beautiful. Matched with patience and skill, their eye for magic produces dazzling images of Iowa nature up close. Revealing the miniature beauties hidden among the patches of prairie, woodland, and wetland that remain in Iowa’s sadly overdeveloped landscape, the seventy-five color photographs in Deep Nature give us a breathtaking cross section of the state’s smallest inhabitants.
Iowa Simply Beautiful
Come home to Iowa in this beautiful color tribute to the Hawkeye State by two native sons who also are professional photographers. Although they travel the United States and the world on assignment, Larsh K. Bristol lives in Waukon, and Curt Maas in Johnston.
1142: The History and Growth of the N. Oakes--Grant Wood--Dr. Pauline Moore--James P. Hayes House
1142 East Court street, although on the National Register of Historic Places, is not the museum that others like it have become. It is a home that has been lived in. It has been maintained as a work of art. It is a home which has satisfied the needs and comforts of different residents living in different times, all having left their indelible mark on this period home. It is appropriate that the last private owner of "1142", Jim Hayes, is the best living proof that the "American Dream" can be achieved.
