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Victor Ray

Iowa City Public Library 123 S. Linn St., Iowa City

From renowned scholar Dr. Victor Ray, On Critical Race Theory explains the centrality of race in American history and politics, and how the often mischaracterized intellectual movement became a political necessity. Ray draws

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Sarah Kendzior

Iowa City Public Library 123 S. Linn St., Iowa City

In They Knew, New York Times bestselling author Sarah Kendzior explores the United States’ “culture of conspiracy,” putting forth a timely and unflinching argument: uncritical faith in broken institutions is

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John Koethe

Prairie Lights Books 15 S. Dubuque St., Iowa City

A rich, meditative new collection of poetry from John Koethe, the "necessary and great poet" (Hyperallergic). "It’s presumptuous, but if you’re reading this you Probably know my usual obsessions and

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Elizabeth Crane

Iowa City Public Library 123 S. Linn St., Iowa City

One minute Elizabeth Crane and her husband of fifteen years are fixing up their old house in Upstate New York, finally setting down roots after stints in Chicago, Texas, and

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Jennifer L. Knox

Prairie Lights Books 15 S. Dubuque St., Iowa City

The poems in Jennifer Knox’s darkly imaginative collection, Crushing It, unearth epiphanies in an unbounded landscape of forms, voices and subjects―from history to true crime to epidemiology―while exploring our tenuous connections and

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Don McLeese in conversation with Kyle Munson

Iowa City Public Library 123 S. Linn St., Iowa City

Slippery Steps isn’t your typical, hell-and-back recovery memoir. I never intended to quit drinking, rarely gave it a thought. I’d spent decades as a successful and productive journalist. I was

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Elizabeth McCracken

Prairie Lights Books 15 S. Dubuque St., Iowa City

Ten months after her mother’s death, the narrator of The Hero of This Book takes a trip to London. The city was a favorite of her mother’s, and as the narrator wanders

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Cristalle “Psalm One” Bowen

Iowa City Public Library 123 S. Linn St., Iowa City

“Nowhere near famous but still infamous,” Psalm One is a legend to rap nerds, scholars, and “heads,” and has gone on to work with the brightest names in rap and

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Elizabeth Weiss

Prairie Lights Books 15 S. Dubuque St., Iowa City

All Harriet Szász has ever known is life onstage with her sister, Josie. As “The Sisters Sweet,” they pose as conjoined twins in a vaudeville act conceived of by their

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