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Anderson, Jon. City Watch: Discovering the Uncommon Chicago.

Anderson, Lee. Iowa Pharmacy, 1880-1905: An Experiment in Professionalism.

Anderson, Wayne I. Iowa's Geological Past: Three Billion Years of Change.

Baender, Paul, ed. A Hero Perished: The Diary and Selected Letters of Nile Kinnick.

Bennett, Mary. An Iowa Album: A Photographic History, 1860-1920.

Bennett, Mary, & Paul C. Juhl. Iowa Stereographs: Three-Dimensional Visions of the Past.

Bergman, Marvin, ed. Iowa History Reader.

Black, Gladys, Foreword by Dean M. Roosa, Introduction by Carl Kurtz. Iowa Birdlife.

Boszhardt, Robert F. A Projectile Point Guide for the Upper Mississippi River Valley.

Bryan, Patricia L., & Thomas Wolf. Midnight Assassin: A Murder in America's Heartland.

Burns, E. Bradford. Kinship with the Land: Regionalist Thought in Iowa, 1894-1942.

Christiansen, Paul, & Mark Müller. An Illustrated Guide to Iowa Prairie Plants.

Conard, Rebecca, Foreword by Wayne Franklin. Places of Quiet Beauty: Parks, Preserves, and Environmentalism.

Conroy, Frank, ed. The Iowa Award: The Best Stories, 1991-2000.

Conroy, Frank, ed. The Iowa Award: The Best Stories from Twenty Years.

Dana, Robert, ed. A Community of Writers: Paul Engle and the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

Daniels, Leroy Judson, as told to Helen S. Herrick. Tales of an Old Horsetrader: The First Hundred Years.

Davidson, Osha Gray. Broken Heartland: The Rise of America's Rural Ghetto.

Davis, Martha Moore. Sarah's Seasons: An Amish Diary and Conversation.

Derleth, August. The Milwaukee Road: Its First Hundred Years.

Des Moines Register. Iowa's Lost Summer: The Flood of 1993.

Dinsmore, James J., Drawings by Mark Müller. A Country So Full of Game: The Story of Wildlife in Iowa.

Dyas, Sandra Louise, Foreword by Chris Offutt. Down to the River: Portraits of Iowa Musicians.

Elder, Donald C., III, ed. A Damned Iowa Greyhound: The Civil War Letters of William Henry Harrison Clayton.

Elder, Donald C., III, ed. Love amid the Turmoil: The Civil War Letters of William and Mary Vermilion.

Foerstner, Abigail. Picturing Utopia: Bertha Shambaugh and the Amana Photographers.

Folmar, John Kent, ed. "This State of Wonders": The Letters of an Iowa Frontier Family, 1858-1861.

Fowler, Veronica Lorson. Gardening in Iowa and Surrounding Areas.

Friedricks, William B. In for the Long Haul: The Life of John Ruan.

Fultz, Jay. In Search of Donna Reed .

Gardner, Dana, & Nancy Overcott. Birds At Your Feeder: A Guide to Winter Birds of the Great Plains.

Gardner, Dana, & Nancy Overcott. Fifty Common Birds of the Upper Midwest.

Gardner, Dana, & Nancy Overcott. Fifty Uncommon Birds of the Upper Midwest.

Gardner, Dana. Raptors in Your Pocket: A Guide to Great Plains Birds of Prey.

Garvin, Paul. Iowa's Minerals: Their Occurrence, Origins, Industries, and Lore.

Genoways, Ted, & Hugh H. Genoways, eds. A Perfect Picture of Hell: Eyewitness Accounts by Civil War Prisoners from the 12th Iowa.

Gerber, John C. A Pictorial History of the University of Iowa.

Gillhoff, Johannes, Translated by Richard Lorenz August Trost. Letters of a German American Farmer: Jürnjakob Swehn Travels to America.

Gradwohl, David M., & Nancy M. Osborn. Exploring Buried Buxton: Archaeology of an Abandoned Iowa Coal Mining Town with a Large Black Population.

Grant, H. Roger. Railroads in the Heartland: Steam and Traction in the Golden Age of Postcards.

Grearson, Jessie Carroll, & Lauren B. Smith. Love in a Global Village: A Celebration of Intercultural Families in the Midwest.

Harker, Michael P., & Jim Heynen. Harker's Barns.

Harker, Michael P. Still Standing: A Postcard Book of Barn Photographs.

Harnack, Curtis. The Attic: A Memoir.

Hawkins, Cora Frear. Buggies, Blizzards, and Babies.

Heacock, Nan. Crinoline to Calico.

Hendrix, Steve, & Diane Debinski. Butterflies in Your Pocket: A Guide to the Butterflies of the Upper Midwest.

Henry, Lyell D., Jr. Was This Heaven? A Self-Portrait of Iowa on Early Postcards.

Hoppe, Emilie. Seasons of Plenty: Amana Communal Cooking.

Hubbard, Philip G., Foreword by Albert E. Stone. My Iowa Journey: The Life Story of the University of Iowa's First African American Professor.

Huffman, D. M., L. H. Tiffany, G. Knaphus, & R. A. Healy. Mushrooms and Other Fungi of the Midcontinental United States: Second Edition.

Irelan, Patrick. Central Standard: A Time, a Place, a Family.

Jackson, Laura Spess, Carol A. Thompson, & James J. Dinsmore. The Iowa Breeding Bird Atlas.

Karras, John, & Ann Karras. RAGBRAI: Everyone Pronounces It Wrong.

Keyes, Margaret N. Old Capitol: Portrait of an Iowa Landmark.

Keyes, Margaret N., Foreword by Irving Weber. Nineteenth-Century Home Architecture of Iowa City: A Silver Anniversary Edition.

Klaus, Carl H. Weathering Winter: A Gardener's Daybook.

Knopp, Lisa. Field of Vision.

Knopp, Lisa, Foreword by Albert E. Stone. Flight Dreams: A Life in the Midwestern Landscape.

Kuntz, Everett W., & Jim Heynen. Sunday Afternoon on the Porch: Reflections of a Small Town in Iowa, 1939-1942.

Lannoo, Michael J. Okoboji Wetlands: A Lesson in Natural History.

Lannoo, Michael J., ed. Status and Conservation of Midwestern Amphibians.

Lee, Deemer. Esther's Town.

Loveless, Leslie A., Foreword by Christie Vilsack. A Bountiful Harvest: The Midwestern Farm Photographs of Pete Wettach, 1925-1965.

Loveless, Leslie A., selected by. Children on the Farm: A Postcard Book of Photographs by Pete Wettach.

Loveless, Leslie A., selected by. From the Heartland: A Postcard Book of Photographs by Pete Wettach.

Lyftogt, Kenneth L. From Blue Mills to Columbia: Cedar Falls and the Civil War.

Lyftogt, Kenneth L. Iowa's Forgotten General: Matthew Mark Trumbull and the Civil War.

Madson, John. Stories from under the Sky.

Madson, John. Where the Sky Began: Land of the Tallgrass Prairie.

Martone, Michael, ed., Photographs by David Plowden. A Place of Sense: Essays in Search of the Midwest.

Martone, Michael, ed., Photographs by Raymond Bial. Townships.

McGarvey, Carol, Marie McCartan, & C. R. Mitchell. "The Des Moines Register" Cookbook.

McGehee, Claudia. A Tallgrass Prairie Alphabet.

McGehee, Claudia. A Woodland Counting Book.

McGivern, Gene. Here's Johnny Orr.

Mills, George S. The Little Man with the Long Shadow: The Life and Times of Frederick M. Hubbell.

Mollenhoff, Clark. Ballad to an Iowa Farmer and Other Reflections.

Morain, Thomas J. Prairie Grass Roots: An Iowa Small Town in the Early Twentieth Century.

Morgan, William Towner, Foreword by Wayne Franklin. Salt Lantern: Traces of an American Family.

Müller, Mark. Woodland in Your Pocket: A Guide to Common Woodland Plants.

Müller, Mark. Wetlands in Your Pocket: A Guide to Common Plants and Animals of Midwestern Wetlands.

Mutel, Cornelia F. The Emerald Horizon: The History of Nature in Iowa.

Mutel, Cornelia F. Fragile Giants: A Natural History of the Loess Hills.

Nelsen, Jane Taylor, ed., Foreword by Albert E. Stone. A Prairie Populist: The Memoirs of Luna Kellie.

Nelson, Paula M. After the West Was Won: Homesteaders and Town-Builders in Western South Dakota, 1900-1917.

Nelson, Paula M. The Prairie Winnows Out Its Own: The West River Country of South Dakota in the Years of Depression and Dust.

Offenburger, Chuck. Iowa Boy: Ten Years of Columns.

Olson, George, & John Madson. The Elemental Prairie: Sixty Tallgrass Plants.

Orchard, Hugh. Old Orchard Farm: The Story of an Iowa Boyhood.

Persons, Stow. The University of Iowa in the Twentieth Century: An Institutional History.

Pichaske, David R., Foreword by Wayne Franklin. Rooted: Seven Midwest Writers of Place

Popchock, Barry, ed. Soldier Boy: The Civil War Letters of Charles O. Musser, 29th Iowa.

Prior, Jean C. Landforms of Iowa.

Prior, Jean C., & James Sandrock, Illustrations by Claudia McGehee. The Iowa Nature Calendar.

Puckett, Susan. A Cook's Tour of Iowa.

Reigelman, Milton M. The Midland: A Venture in Literary Regionalism.

Reynolds, David R. There Goes the Neighborhood: Rural School Consolidation at the Grass Roots in Early Twentieth-Century Iowa.

Riney-Kehrberg, Pamela, ed. Waiting on the Bounty: The Dust Bowl Diary of Mary Knackstedt Dyck.

Roseman, Curtis C., & Elizabeth M. Roseman, eds. Grand Excursions on the Upper Mississippi River: Places, Landscapes, and Regional Identity after 1854.

Rosendahl, Peter Julius, Einar Haugen, ed., Joan N. Buckley, ed. More han Ola og han Per.

Runkel, Sylvan T., & Dean M. Roosa. Wildflowers and Other Plants of Iowa Wetlands.

Savage, Tom, Foreword by Loren N. Horton. A Dictionary of Iowa Place-Names.

Sayre, Robert F., ed. Take the Next Exit: New Views of the Iowa Landscape.

Schenken, Suzanne O'Dea. Legislators and Politicians: Iowa's Women Lawmakers.

Schlicht, Dennis W., John C. Downey, & Jeffrey C. Nekola. The Butterflies of Iowa.

Schmeal, Jacqueline Andre. Patchwork: Iowa Quilts and Quilters.

Schoonover, David E., ed. P.E.O. Cook Book: Souvenir Edition.

Schwieder, Dorothy. Iowa: The Middle Land.

Schwieder, Dorothy, Joseph Hraba, & Elmer Schwieder. Buxton: A Black Utopia in the Heartland. An Expanded Edition .

Schwieder, Dorothy, Thomas Morain, & Lynn Nielsen. Iowa Past to Present: The People and the Prairie, Third Edition.

Schwieder, Dorothy Hubbard. Growing Up with the Town: Family and Community on the Great Plains.

Scot, Barbara J. Prairie Reunion.

Shank, Wesley I. Iowa's Historic Architects: A Biographical Dictionary.

Shank, Wesley I., ed. The Iowa Catalog: Historic American Buildings Survey.

Sherman, Althea R., Foreword by Marcia Myers Bonta. Birds of an Iowa Dooryard.

Shoemaker, Verl Crow. Tales Out of School.

Spriestersbach, D. C. The Way It Was: The University of Iowa, 1964-1989.

Stanley, C. Maxwell. The HON Story: A History of HON Industries, 1944-1985.

Staw, Jane Anne, & Mary Swander. Parsnips in the Snow: Talks with Midwestern Gardeners.

Stong, Phil, Foreword by Robert A. McCown. State Fair.

Stromquist, Shelton, & Marvin Bergman, eds. Unionizing the Jungles: Labor and Community in the Twentieth-Century Meatpacking Industry.

Suckow, Ruth, Foreword by Clarence A. Andrews. The Folks.

Suckow, Ruth, Foreword by Patricia E. M. Daly. New Hope.

Suckow, Ruth, Introduction by Clarence A. Andrews. A Ruth Suckow Omnibus.

Swander, Mary. Driving the Body Back.

Taylor, Henry C. Tarpleywick: A Century of Iowa Farming.

Theler, James L., & Robert Boszhardt. Twelve Millennia: Archaeology of the Upper Mississippi River Valley.

Thompson, Janette R., Foreword by John A. Pearson. Prairies, Forests, and Wetlands: The Restoration of Natural Landscape Communities in Iowa.

Tjernagel, Peder Gustav, Foreword by Wayne Franklin, Afterword by Peter Tjernagel Harstad. The Follinglo Dog Book: A Norwegian Pioneer Story from Iowa.

Turnbull, Buck. From the Press Box: The Iowa Sports Scene.

Vogel, Virgil J. Iowa Place Names of Indian Origin. (Out of print)

Waller, Robert James. Iowa: Perspectives on Today and Tomorrow. (Out of print)

Warren, Wilson J. Struggling with "Iowa's Pride": Labor Relations, Unionism, and Politics in the Rural Midwest since 1877.

Warren, Wilson J. Tied to the Great Packing Machine: The Midwest and Meatpacking.

Webber, Philip E. Kolonie-Deutsch: Life and Language in Amana.

Webster, Catherine, ed., Foreword by James Galvin. Over This Soil: An Anthology of World Farm Poems.

Winebrenner, Hugh. The Iowa Precinct Caucuses: The Making of a Media Event, Second Edition.

Witt, Bill. Orchids in Your Pocket: A Guide to the Native Orchids of Iowa.

Young Bear, Ray A., Foreword by Albert E. Stone. Black Eagle Child: The Facepaint Narratives.

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