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	An Illustrated Guide to Iowa Prairie Plants IOWA: An American Portrait Bicycle Trails of Iowa Iowa Off the Beaten Path IOWA: Art of the State Gardening In Iowa and Surrounding Areas Victorian Architecture of Iowa Iowa Birdlife Iowa City: An Illustrated History LIFEWORK: Portraits of Iowa Women Artists The Lincoln Highway Time and Chance: An Iowa Murder Mystery Listen to the Land Iowa's Wild Places Iowa: A Photographic Celebration Iowa's Country Schools: Landmarks of Learning A Community of Writers: Paul Engle and the Iowa Writers Workshop I is for Iowa
	An Illustrated Guide to Iowa Prairie Plants by Paul Christiansen and Mark Muller Iowa is the only state completely within the tallgrass prairie formation. Using text, maps and drawings, this first comprehensive guide to native Iowa prairie plants provides all the information necessary for identifying and distinguishing even the most similar species. $22.95 Return to top of page IOWA: An American Portrait narrated by Tom Brokaw IOWA-An American Portrait is an Iowa Public Television video which chronicles the enduring bonds between past and present and explores the human spirit nourished by a deep and pervasive love of land, community and family. $19.95 Return to top of page Bicycle Trails of Iowa by American Bike Trails This book provides a comprehensive, easy-to-use quick reference to the many off-road trails throughout Iowa. It contains over 85 detailed trail maps, plus overviews covering the state by sectional, organized by and west. $12.95 Return to top of page Iowa Off the Beaten Path by Lori Erickson From the limestone bluffs bordering the Mississippi to the loess hills flanking the Missouri River, from the natural lakes in the north and across the central plains to the southern border, Iowa is, above all, a place to savor, to enjoy, to visit and revisit. --Tracy Stuhr, Editor $12.95 Return to top of page IOWA: Art of the State This is a series of books that capture each of the fifty States. Each volume has fine and folk art, architecture, crafts, photos of places, and describes what is exceptional about the state. Also featured are a perennial calendar of events and useful listings of museums and other tourist destinations. $12.95 Return to top of page Gardening In Iowa and Surrounding Areas by Veronica Lorson Fowler A wonderful gardening book specifically for Iowa. It goes through each month, addressing what needs to be done, such as starting plants from seeds, soil preparation, shopping for plants, composting, and so on. $14.95 Return to top of page Victorian Architecture of Iowa by William Plymat Jr. This is a photographic collection of Iowa's 19th century architecture. Most of the buildings are found in Iowa's small cities and county-seats and includes an index and map. $25.00 Return to top of page Iowa Birdlife by Gladys Black All my life I have been fascinated and thrilled by the nesting of birds, the songs, courtship rituals, nest building... In these essays Gladys Black presents the results of years of painstaking observation of the haunts and habits of Iowa birds. A great book on Iowa's birdlife for both amateur and professional naturalists. $19.95 Return to top of page Iowa City: An Illustrated History by Gerald Mansheim This book takes its readers in words and pictures from the rising brick walls of early Iowa City to the falling and rising brick walls of urban renewal-and beyond. Meanwhile, the parallel stories of Johnson County and the University of Iowa unfold. $40.00 Return to top of page LIFEWORK: Portraits of Iowa Women Artists Photographs by Robbie Steinbach edited by Marianne Abel and Carol Lauhon Iowa native Robbie Steinbach collaborated with eleven writers to create this portfolio of photographic and literary portraits of fifty contemporary Iowa artists. Steinbach's award-winning photographs how these women at work, at play, at home, and at ease. The conversational portraits explore the worlds of women--from the traditional to the exotic, from the silly to the sad, from the aesthetic to the political and beyond. $24.95 Return to top of page The Lincoln Highway by Drake Hokanson In his new introduction to this tenth anniversary edition, Hokanson revisits the Lincoln Highway and finds it changed-much for the better- since the original publication. He finds more and more tourists traveling the road--not only Americans but foreigners as well-by car, bus, and motorcycle on journeys simply to see America. $29.95 Return to top of page Time and Chance: An Iowa Murder Mystery This is a serial novel by 17 Iowa writers commissioned by KUNI Public Radio. Authors include Mary Swander, Venise Berry, Robert Baldwin, Jean Florman, Carolyn Lieberg, just to name a few. $10.95 Return to top of page Listen to the Land by Larry A. Stone Larry Stone worked for the Des Moines Register for 25 years as an outdoor writer and photographer. This is a collection of his favorite columns, stories and photos. When you really start to read and listen to Larry Stone, you realize his voice is a call to real living, to balance in life, to respect for the great wonder that surrounds us-and to the fun of the hunt, the fishing expedition and the nature walk. -Chuck Offenburger $17.95 Return to top of page Iowa's Wild Places by Carl Kurtz Join Carl Kurtz as he explores some of his favorite Iowa natural landscapes. In stunning full-color photographs and vivid prose, Carl presents a multifaceted picture of Iowa as he has grown to love it. Each chapter includes personal observations, anecdotes, and facts about Iowa's geology, topography, and natural history. $24.95 Return to top of page Iowa: A Photographic Celebration foreword by Chuck Offenburger A collection of beautiful pictures showing Iowa in all of its glory. $14.95 Return to top of page Iowa's Country Schools: Landmarks of Learning edited by William L. Sherman This book provides a historical overview of the growth and development of one-room schools in Iowa as well as producing a photographic record of Iowa country schools past and present. $27.95 Return to top of page A Community of Writers: Paul Engle and the Iowa Writers Workshop edited by Robert Dana This is a collection of essays by and about those writers who shared the energetic early years of the Iowa Writers Workshop. The beginning essays are given over to memories of Paul Engle in his heyday. The second group focuses particularly on those teachers--Robert Lowell, John Berryman, Kurt Vonnegut, for example--who made the workshop hum on a day-to-day basis. Finally, the third section is devoted to storytelling: tall tales, vignettes, surprises, sober and not-so-sober moments. $17.95 Return to top of page I is for Iowa by Mary Ann Gensicke, Illustrated by Lonna Nachtigal A glimpse of Iowa's rich heritage from A to Z for young readers. Photographs and engaging illustrations will stimulate interest in reading and learning more about the state of Iowa. $17.95 Return to top of page An Illustrated Guide to Iowa Prairie Plants IOWA: An American Portrait Bicycle Trails of Iowa Iowa Off the Beaten Path IOWA: Art of the State Gardening In Iowa and Surrounding Areas Victorian Architecture of Iowa Iowa Birdlife Playing For Knight Iowa City: An Illustrated History LIFEWORK: Portraits of Iowa Women Artists The Lincoln Highway Time and Chance: An Iowa Murder Mystery Listen to the Land Iowa's Wild Places Iowa: A Photographic Celebration Iowa's Country Schools: Landmarks of Learning A Community of Writers: Paul Engle and the Iowa Writers Workshop I is for Iowa

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