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Iowa Book List Iowa Book List Title Author Youth/Adult About Iowa Iowa Author A Collar in My Pocket: Blue Eyes/Brown Jane Elliott Youth+ ✔ ✔ Eyes Exercise A Culinary History of Iowa: Sweet Corn, Darcy Dougherty Adult ✔ ✔ Pork Tenderloins, Maid-Rites & More Maulsby A Damned Iowa Greyhound: The Civil War William Henry Harrison Adult ✔ Letters of William Henry Harrison Clayton Clayton A Lucky Lie Sydney Pearl et al Youth ✔ A Thousand Acres Jane Smiley Adult ✔ ✔ A Transplanted Chicago: Race, Place, and Robert E. Gutsche, Jr. Adult ✔ the Press in Iowa City A Weed Is a Flower: The Life of George Aliki Youth ✔ Washington Carver African Americans of Des Moines and Polk Honesty Parker Adult ✔ ✔ County Against All Odds Lauren Plumley Youth ✔ Along Iowa's Historic Highway 20 Michael J. Till Youth+ ✔ ✔ Amazing Iowa Athletes Katy Swalwell Youth ✔ ✔ Amazing Iowa Women Katy Swalwell Youth ✔ Ames in Word and Picture: Further Tales Farwell T. Brown Youth + ✔ ✔ and Personal Memories, Book Two And They Persisted: A Century of Impact Linda Meloy Youth + ✔ ✔ ​ by Iowa Leagues. League of Women Voters Ball Hawks: The Arrival and Departure of Tim Harwood Adult ✔ the NBA in Iowa Beneath the Marble Sky John Shors Youth+ ✔ Black Diamonds: Life and Work in Iowa’s Dorothy Schwieder Adult ✔ ✔ Coal Mines, 1895-1925 Black Eagle Child Ray Young Bear Youth+ ✔ ✔ Body and Soul Frank Conroy Adult ✔ Bonne Femme Cookbook Wini Moranville Adult ✔ Bottomland Michelle Hoover Youth+ ✔ ✔ The Boy Who Changed the World Andy Andrews Youth ✔ Bridges of Madison County Robert James Waller Adult ✔ ✔ Bright Radical Star Robert R. Dykstra Adult ✔ ✔ Busy in the Cause: Iowa, The Free-State Lowell J. Soike Adult ✔ ✔ Struggle in the West, and the Prelude to the Civil War Buxton: A Black Utopia in the Heartland Dorothy Schwieder, Adult ✔ ✔ Joseph Hraba, and Elmer Schwieder Caucus Chaos: The Controversial Call, Dave Price Adult ✔ ✔ Characters and Surprises that Made Iowa 2012 a Year Like No Other Caucus Chaos Trump: How a Reality TV Dave Price Adult ✔ ✔ Star Shocked Politics and What that Means for 2020 Council Bluffs, Iowa: History & Stories of Nebraska Jewish Adult ✔ NA the Jewish Midwest Historical Society Creating the Black Utopia of Buxton, Iowa Rachelle Chase Adult ✔ ✔ Dear Abby Abigail Van Buren Youth+ ✔ Delights and Shadows US Poet Laureate Ted Youth+ ✔ Kooser Dubuque During the California Gold Rush: Robert F. Klein Adult ✔ ✔ When the Midwest Went West Dubuque On The Mississippi 1788-1988 William Wilkie Adult ✔ ✔ Duffy’s Iowa Caucus Cartoons: Watch ‘em Brian Duffy Youth + ✔ ✔ Run Elbow Room James Alan Youth+ ✔ McPherson Emancipation’s Diaspora: Race and Leslie Schwalm Adult ✔ Reconstruction in the Upper Midwest The Emerald Horizon: The History of Connie Mutel Adult ✔ ✔ Nature in Iowa Equal Before the Law: How Iowa Led Tom Witosky and Marc Adult ✔ ✔ Americans to Marriage Equality Hansen Farmers Helping Farmers: The Rise of the Nancy Berlage Adult ✔ Farm and Home Bureaus, 1914-1935 Frontier Forts of Iowa: Indians, Traders, William E. Whittaker Adult ✔ ✔ and Soldiers, 1682-1862 Flamingo Rising Larry Baker Youth ✔ Fritzi: The Story of Fred Lorber Shirah Jacobs et al Youth ✔ From Six on Six to Full Court Press: A Janice A. Beran Adult ✔ ✔ Century of Iowa Girls’ Basketball Gentlemen Bootleggers: The True Story of Bryce T. Bauer Adult ✔ Templeton Rye, Prohibition, and a Small Town in Cahoots Giant Edna Ferber Youth ✔ Gilead Marilynne Robinson Youth+ ✔ ✔ The Good Governor: Robert Ray and the Matthew R. Walsh Adult ✔ ✔ Indochinese Refugees of Iowa Grassroots Rules: How the Iowa Caucus Christopher Hull Adult ✔ ✔ Helps Elect American Presidents Growing Up Amish: A Memoir Ira Wagler Youth+ ✔ ✔ Growing Up Country: Memoirs of an Iowa Carol Bodensteiner Youth+ ✔ ✔ Farm Girl Hattie Big Sky Kirby Larson Youth+ ✔ Home Marilynne Robinson Youth+ ✔ Horizontal World Deb Marquart Youth+ ✔ The Home Fronts of Iowa, 1939-1945 Lisa L. Ossian Adult ✔ ✔ House of Tomorrow Peter Bognanni Youth ✔ I Remember When: Personal Susan Marks Conner Adult ✔ ✔ Recollections and Vignettes of the Sioux City Jewish Community, 1869-1984 Indians of Iowa Lance Foster Adult ✔ ✔ Invisible Hawkeyes: African Americans at Lena M. Hill and Adult ✔ ✔ the University of Iowa during the Long Civil Michael D. Hill Rights Era Iowa's Black Legacy Charline J. Barnes, Adult ✔ ✔ Ed.D., and Floyd Bumpers Iowa Confederates in the Civil War David Connon Adult ✔ ✔ Iowa: The Middle Land Dorothy Schwieder Adult ✔ Iowa Pride Duane A. Schmidt Youth + ✔ ✔ Irish Iowa Timothy Walch Adult ✔ ✔ John L. Lewis: An Unauthorized Biography Saul Alinsky Adult ✔ John Todd and the Underground Railroad: James Patrick Adult ✔ ✔ Biography of an Iowa Abolitionist Morgans Latina/o Midwest Reader Omar Valerio-Jimenez Adult ✔ and Santiago Vaquera-Vasquez Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Mildred Kalish Youth+ ✔ Spirits on an Iowa Farm during the Great Depression The Last Year of the War Susan Meissner Youth ✔ 1918. Legal and Political Status of Women Ruth Gallaher Adult ✔ ✔ in Iowa Legislators and Politicians: Iowa’s Women Suzanne O’Dea Adult ✔ ✔ Lawmakers Schenken The Liberation of the Concentration Adele Anolik Adult ✔ ✔ Camps 1945: The Des Moines, Iowa Survivors Life Narratives of African Americans in Charline J. Barnes Adult ✔ ✔ Iowa Lost Buxton Rachelle Chase Adult ✔ ✔ Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town Bill Bryson Youth+ ✔ America Lucky to Live in Iowa Kate B. Jerome Youth ✔ Magic Thief Sarah Prineas Youth ✔ Mary Jane Whiteley Coggeshall: Hicksite John N. Ferris Youth+ ✔ Quaker, Iowa/National Suffragette and Her Speeches Methland: The Death and Life of an Nick Reding Adult ✔ American Small Town Middle Class Life in Midwest America Timothy R. Mahoney Adult ✔ More Strong-Minded Women Louise R. Noun Adult ✔ ✔ The Music Man Meredith Wilson Youth+ ✔ Nancy Drew series Carolyn Keene Youth ✔ Necessary Courage: Iowa’s Underground Lowell J. Soike Adult ✔ ✔ Railroad in the Struggle Against Slavery The Next to Last Mistake Amalie Jahn Youth+ ✔ Okoboji and the Iowa Great Lakes Jonathan M. Reed Adult ✔ ✔ On Behalf of the Family Farm: Iowa Farm Jenny Barker Devine Adult ✔ ✔ Women’s Activism since 1945 On the Island Tracey Garvis Graves Youth+ ✔ The Ones I Bring With Me/Los Que Llevo Carol Spaulding-Kruse Adult ✔ ✔ Conmigo: Iowa’s Young Latinas on and Kelsey Leppers Education, Identity and Success The Only Dance in Iowa: A History of David McElwain Adult ✔ ✔ Six-Player Basketball Out of This World: A Journey of Healing Mary Swander Youth+ ✔ ✔ Outside In: African-American History in Bill Silag, Susan Adult ✔ ✔ Iowa, 1838-2000 Koch-Bridgford, & Hal Chase Plain Speaking: an Oral Biography of Merle Miller Adult ✔ Harry S. Truman Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland Stephen G. Bloom Adult ✔ ✔ America Prairie Voices: Iowa’s Pioneering Women Glenda Riley Youth+ ✔ Preserving Carrie’s Legacy: The National Wendy Johnson and Youth + ✔ ✔ th 19 ​ Amendment Society Susan Jacob ​ RAGBRAI: America's Favorite Bicycle Greg Borzo, Foreword Adult ✔ ✔ Ride by John Karras, co-founder of RAGBRAI Railroads of Dubuque John Tigges and Adult ✔ ✔ James Shaffer Remnants of the First Earth Ray Young Bear Youth+ ✔ ✔ Rise and Fall of the Third Reich William Shirer Adult ✔ Road to Perdition Max Allan Collins Youth+ ✔ Rogues and Heroes from Iowa's Amazing George Mills, Frank Youth+ ✔ ✔ Past Miller (Illustrator) Sam McCain Mysteries Ed Gorman Youth+ ✔ Slavery in the Upper Mississippie Valley, Christopher P. Lehman Adult ✔ 1787-1865: A History of Human Bondage in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin Soldier Boy: The Civil War Letters of Barry Popchock Youth+ ✔ Charles O. Musser, 29th Iowa Solidarity and Survival: An Oral History of Shelton Stromquist Adult ✔ ✔ Iowa Labor in the Twentieth Century Some Luck Jane Smiley Youth+ ✔ ✔ Spirit Lake MacKinlay Kantor Youth+ ✔ ✔ Stars Over Clear Lake Loretta Ellsworth Adult ✔ ✔ Steam Railroads of Northern Iowa and Jim Angel and Ashley Adult ✔ ✔ Southern Minnesota Mantooth Storm Lake: Change, Resilience, and Art Cullen Adult ✔ ✔ Hope in America’s Heartland Strong-Minded Women: The Emergence Louise Rosenfield Adult ✔ ✔ of the Woman-Suffrage Movement in Iowa Noun Searching for Anne Frank: Letters from Susan Goldman Rubin Youth+ ✔ Amsterdam to Iowa Sticks and Bones David Rabe Adult ✔ A Sugar Creek Chronicle : Observing Connie Mutel Adult ✔ ✔ Climate Change from a Midwestern Woodland The Butterfly Effect Rachel McKenny Adult ✔ ✔ The Iowa Baseball Confederacy W.P. Kinsella Adult ✔ ✔ The Iowa Caucus Rachel Paine Caufield Adult ✔ ✔ The Iowa State Fair: In Vintage Postcards Ron Playle Adult ✔ ✔ The Jefferson Highway: Blazing the Way Lyell D. Henry Adult ✔ ✔ from Winnipeg to New Orleans The Mississippi River: Father of Waters James L. Shaffer and Adult ✔ John T. Tigges The Sacred Cause of the Union: Iowa in Thomas R. Baker Adult ✔ ✔ the Civil War The Stones of Summer Dow Mossman Adult ✔ ✔ The Wise Animal Handbook Iowa Kate B. Jerome Youth ✔ The World Between Two Rivers Gretchen Bataille and Adult ✔ ✔ David Gradwohl This State of Wonders: The Letters of an John Kent Folmar Adult ✔ Iowa Frontier Family, 1858-1861 Twice in a Lifetime Dorothy Garlock Adult ✔ Uncle Henry: A Documentary Profile of the Richard Stewart Adult ✔ ✔ First Henry Wallace KirKendall Utopia, Iowa Brian Yansky Youth ✔ We Are Interwoven: An Anthology of Edited by Chuy Adult ✔ ✔ Bicultural Iowa (Volume 1) Renteria and Andrea Wilson We Are Interwoven: An Anthology of Edited by Andrea Adult ✔ ✔ Bicultural Iowa (Volume 2) Wilson and Alisha Jeddeloh We Have All Gone Away Curtis Harnack Adult ✔ ✔ What’s Eating Gilbert Grape Peter Hedges Youth+ ✔ ✔ White Racism on the Western Frontier: Mohammad A. Adult ✔ Dynamics of Race and Class in Dubuque, Chaichian Iowa (1800-2000) Woman Suffrage and Citizenship in the Sarah Egge Adult ✔ ✔ Midwest, 1870-1920 You Forgot Your Skirt, Amelia Bloomer Shana Corey Youth ✔ Zakery’s Bridge: Children’s Journeys to Kay Fenton Smith and Adult ✔ ✔ Iowa From Around the World Carol Roh Spaulding .
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