Posted by Melody on Tuesday, Jul 2, 2019
Hardware stores are sending email after email about their Fourth of July sales right now. Who has the best sales?
Consumer Reports has collected sales information for their top-testing appliances all in one place. The article is available without logging in. To explore the appliances in depth with all the ratings and reviews that Consumer Reports has to offer, here's what you want to do:
- Visit ICPL's Consumer Reports link.
- Log in with your library card and password.
- Start exploring!
You must be a resident of Iowa City or one of its contracted service areas to use this resource. Visit the Ask Us page if you need help with your library card.
Happy sales hunting!
Once in a while, we get an Iowa history book that disrupts what we always believed was true. Iowa Confederates in the Civil War does exactly this. Author David Connon chronicles 76 Iowans who headed south and signed up to fight against the Union. Listen to the River to River interview with the author here: https://www.iowapublicradio.org/post/new-research-shows-least-76-iowans-joined-confederacy-during-civil-war#stream/0 -Melody