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The king at the edge of the world : a novel

Peace talks : a novel of the Dresden files

Visual stories to move us into fall

Slaughterhouse-five : or the children's crusade : a duty-dance with death

Aspersian: a journey in embracing oddity

Jim : Jim Woodring's notorious autojournal.

Out of picture : art from the outside looking in.

Giraffes on Horseback Salad : the strangest movie never made! ; starring the Marx Brothers, screenplay by Salvador Dalí

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Marvel's Spider-Man. The Black Cat strikes

Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the sower

Superman smashes the Klan : the graphic novel

War and peas : funny comics for dirty lovers

Five nights at Freddy's : the graphic novel

Award-winning nonfiction, 2018-2020

The dragons, the giant, the women : a memoir

The source of self-regard : selected essays, speeches, and meditations

Volume control : hearing in a deafening world

Midnight in Chernobyl : the untold story of the world's greatest nuclear disaster

A pilgrimage to eternity : from Canterbury to Rome in search of a faith

The British are coming : the war for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777

Dying of whiteness : how the politics of racial resentment is killing America's heartland

Late migrations : a natural history of love and loss

Owls of the eastern ice : a quest to find and save the world's largest owl

The Club : Johnson, Boswell, and the friends who shaped an age

No visible bruises : what we don't know about domestic violence can kill us

The book of eels : our enduring fascination with the most mysterious creature in the natural world

Notes from a young Black chef : a memoir

Maid : hard work, low pay, and a mother's will to survive

I know what I am : the life and times of Artemisia Gentileschi

The trial of Lizzie Borden : a true story

Lakota America : a new history of indigenous power

The Queen : the forgotten life behind an American myth

$Audience of one : Donald Trump, television, and the fracturing of America$

The dreamt land : chasing water and dust across California

Enjoy the warm weather while it lasts--harvest, grill, go Hawks!

Start a community food garden : the essential handbook

The no-till organic vegetable farm : how to start and run a profitable market garden that builds health in soil, crops, and communities

Blood, sweat and cheers : great football rivalries of the Big Ten

Groundbreaking food gardens : 73 plans that will change the way you grow your garden

Fermented : a beginner's guide to making your own sourdough, yogurt, sauerkraut, kefir, kimchi, and more

How to store your garden produce : the key to self-sufficiency

Vegetables every day : the definitive guide to buying and cooking today's produce, with more than 350 recipes

Grow harvest cook : 280 recipes from the ground up

Apples of uncommon character : 123 heirlooms, modern classics, & little-known wonders

Cider : making, using & enjoying sweet & hard cider

Preserving summer's bounty : a quick and easy guide to freezing, canning, preserving and drying what you grow

The system : the glory and scandal of big-time college football

Perennial vegetables : from artichoke to 'zuiki' taro, a gardener's guide to over 100 delicious, easy-to-grow edibles

The apple cookbook : more than sixty easy, imaginative recipes

Soil mates : companion planting for your vegetable garden

The 50 greatest plays in Iowa Hawkeyes football history

Forks over knives : the plant-based way to health

Seed libraries : and other means of keeping seeds in the hands of the people

The carrot purple : and other curious stories of the food we eat

Fiery ferments : 70 stimulating recipes for hot sauces, spicy chutneys, kimchis with kick, and other blazing fermented condiments

Unbeatable : Notre Dame's 1988 championship and the last great college football season

College football traditions and rivalries : chants,pranks, and pageantry

University of Iowa football : the Hawkeyes

Greatest moments in Iowa Hawkeyes football history

Season of Saturdays : a history of college football in 14 games

Looking to hole up with some DVDs? These movies have award-winning chuckles that will warm your soul.

A collection of 2005 Academy Award nominated short films

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