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Mary Helen Stefaniak’s latest novel, a mystery, is set in a nursing home where the game ends once its creators die.
Livy's alter ego — Viola — is the dark-side voice in her head that’s always overpowering her with negative talk in ‘Living with Viola.’
In celebration of National Poetry Month, Next Page Books and CSPS will present “An Evening with Page & Performance Poets” at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 28. The event will feature 10 of the area’s outstanding published, page, performance and emerging poets.
Iowa City author Erik Therme recently released “If She Wakes,” the follow-up to his novel “If She Dies,” which recounted the story of a mother beset by grief and the dangerous decisions she makes as a result.
How would you spend your last days on earth? That question drives Iowa City author Mike Meginnis’ latest novel, “Drowning Practice.”
A suggestion from a friend got Jennifer Fawcett started on a book project — a project that would eventually become her debut (and quite scary) novel “Beneath the Stairs.”
“Behind the Big House: Reconciling Slavery, Race, and Heritage in the U.S. South,” by Jodi Skipper, provides insight on how to fully tell the difficult history of slavery in the U.S. The book is out now from the University of Iowa Press.
The Reflections collection also includes kits with themed photo and activity cards and DVDs. They are designed to prompt conversations and reminiscing between people with dementia and their caregivers or other friends and family.
Award-winning children’s book “Watercress” looks at the complicated emotions involved in leaving one’s home and making a life in a new and foreign culture.
For four years, Frank the cat has been the best sales clerk at Next Page Books bookstore in Cedar Rapids’ NewBo neighborhood. “He’s become the face of the bookstore,” store owner Bart Carithers says.
Jennifer Ohman-Rodriguez, who lives and works in Eastern Iowa, lost her husband of 21 years to drowning while on a family vacation. In the aftermath, she began writing in a journal. Over time, that journal formed the basis for the book “A Time to Mourn and a Time to Dance: A Love Story of Grief, Trauma, Healing, and Faith.”
In Larry Baker’s “Wyman and the Florida Knights,” family secrets are plentiful and drive the drama of the book.
Her story has taken on new relevancy now as Republican lawmakers in Iowa assail public school districts for making library books available that they’ve dubbed “obscene,” many written by LGBTQ authors and people of color
