A Books To Believe In's Top 10 List
Top 10 Best "Iowa" Books
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Growing Up CountryCarol BodensteinerBooks |
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Sunday Afternoon on the Porch Jim Heynen
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Sunday Afternoon on the Porch In 1939, just before graduating from high school in the small town of Ridgeway in northeast Iowa, Everett Kuntz spent his entire savings of $12.50 on a 35mm Argus AF camera. He made a camera case from a worn-out boot, scraps from a tin can, and a clasp from his mother’s purse. For the next several years, especially during the summers when he worked on his parents’ dairy farm, he clicked the shutter of his trusty Argus all around the quiet town. Everett bought movie reel film in bulk from a mail-order house, rolled his own film, and developed it in a closet at home, but he never had the money to print his photographs. More than two thousand negatives stayed in a box while he married, raised a family, and worked as an electrical engineer in the Twin Cities. When he became ill with cancer in the fall of 2002—sixty years after he had developed the last of his bulk film—Everett opened his time capsule and printed the images from his youth. He died in 2003, having brought his childhood town back to life just as he was leaving it. A sense of peace radiates from these... |
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Iowa ImpressionsLarsh BristolBooks |
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Iowa History ReaderMarvin BergmanBooks |
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Iowa Larsh K. Bristol
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Little HeathensMildred Armstrong KalishBooks |
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Art of the StateLandau DianaBooks |
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H is for HawkeyePatricia PierceBooks |
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The Great Iowa Touring BookMike WhyeBooks |
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Iowa Off the Beaten Path, 8th (Off the Beaten Path Series) Lori Erickson
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Walking Beans Wasn't Something You Did With Your Dog Inside these pages you'll find thirty heartwarming, funny and dramatic stories about life in the Midwest, ranging from the days after the Depression to the more recent past. Stories such as "Cyrano the Pig" and "The Great Snowman War of 1952" will have you laughing out loud, while "Stars in the Window" will bring back memories of widespread patriotism and rationing during WWII. |
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Walking Beans Wasn't Something You Did With Your DogJean TennantIowa |
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Oddball IowaJerome PohlenBooks |
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