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E-books currently available from the University of Iowa Press

Abildskov, Marilyn. The Men in My Country.

Abramson, Deb. Shadow Girl: A Memoir of Attachment.

Amadon, Samuel. Like a Sea.

Amato, Joe. Industrial Poetics: Demo Tracks for a Mobile Culture.

Anderson, Donald, ed. When War Becomes Personal: Soldiers' Accounts from the Civil War to Iraq.

Anderson, Jon. City Watch: Discovering the Uncommon Chicago.

Atherly, Mary E. Farm House: College Farm to University Museum, Second Edition.

Barr, Marleen S. Genre Fission: A New Discourse Practice for Cultural Studies.

Belasco, Susan. Stowe in Her Own Time: A Biographical Chronicle of Her Life, Drawn from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, Friends, and Associates.

Berbineau, Lorenza Stevens. Edited by Karen L. Kilcup. From Beacon Hill to the Crystal Palace: The 1851 Travel Diary of a Working-Class Woman.

Berkowitz, Joel. Shakespeare on the American Yiddish Stage.

Berman, Russell A. Fiction Sets You Free: Literature, Liberty, and Western Culture.

Bosco, Ronald A., and Jillmarie Murphy, eds. Hawthorne in His Own Time: A Biographical Chronicle of His Life, Drawn from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, Friends, and Associates.

Bosco, Ronald A. and Joel Myerson. Emerson in His Own Time: A Biographical Chronicle of His Life, Drawn from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, Friends, and Associates.

Boszhardt, Robert F. A Projectile Point Guide for the Upper Mississippi River Valley.

Brodak, Molly. A Little Middle of the Night.

Bryson, J. Scott. The West Side of Any Mountain: Place, Space, and Ecopoetry.

Bunge, Nancy. Master Class: Lessons from Leading Writers.

Burian Jarka M. Modern Czech Theatre: Reflector and Conscience of a Nation.

Burroway, Janet. Embalming Mom: Essays in Life.

Canady, John. 101 Tips to Getting the Residency You Want.

Canning, Charlotte M. The Most American Thing in America: Circuit Chautauqua as Performance.

Carlson, Marvin. Theatre Is More Beautiful Than War: German Stage Directing in the Late Twentieth Century.

Cenkl, Pavel. This Vast Book of Nature: Writing the Landscape of New Hampshire’s White Mountains, 1784–1911.

Clark, Steve, and Mark Ford, eds. Something We Have That They Don't: British and American Poetic Relations since 1925.

Coats, Karen. Looking Glasses and Neverlands: Lacan, Desire, and Subjectivity in Children's Literature

Cognard-Black, Jennifer, and Elizabeth MacLeod Walls, eds. Kindred Hands: Letters on Writing by British and American Women Authors, 1865-1935.

Cohen, Samuel. After the End of History: American Fiction in the 1990s.

Conard, Rebecca. Benjamin Shambaugh and the Intellectual Foundations of Public History.

Crucet, Jennine Capó. How to Leave Hialeah.

Davidson, Osha Gray. Broken Heartland: The Rise of America's Rural Ghetto.

Davis, Jennifer. Her Kind of Want.

Davis, Jim, and Victor Emeljanow. Reflecting the Audience: London Theatregoing, 1840-1880.

Davis Vines, Lois, ed. Poe Abroad: Influence, Reputation, Affinities.

Delbridge, Melissa J. Family Bible.

Desaulniers, Janet. What You've Been Missing.

Dharwadker, Aparna Bhargava. Theatres of Independence: Drama, Theory, and Urban Performance in India since 1947.

Diehl, Huston. Dream Not of Other Worlds : Teaching in a Segregated Elementary School, 1970.

Donohue, Joseph. Fantasies of Empire: The Empire Theatre of Varieties and the Licensing Controversy of 1894.

Duncan, Patti. Tell This Silence: Asian American Women Writers and the Politics of Speech.

Edwards, Justin D. Gothic Passages: Racial Ambiguity and the American Gothic.

Egenes, Linda. Visits with the Amish: Impressions of the Plain Life.

Elbert, Monika M., Julie E. Hall, and Katharine Rodier, eds. Reinventing the Peabody Sisters.

Faldet, David S. Oneota Flow: The Upper Iowa River and Its People.

Falkoff, Marc. Poems from Guantánamo: The Detainees Speak.

Fatout, Paul. Mark Twain Speaking.

Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of Iowa. The WPA Guide to 1930s Iowa.

Feinsod Cane, Aleta, and Susan Alves. "The Only Efficient Instrument": American Women Writers and the Periodical, 1837-1916.

Feitell, Merrill. Here Beneath Low-Flying Planes.

Firstenberger, W.A. In Rare Form: A Pictorial History of Baseball Evangelist Billy Sunday.

Foerstner, Abigail. James Van Allen: The First Eight Billion Miles.

Folsom, Ed, ed. Whitman East and West: New Contexts for Reading Walt Whitman.

Foster, Lance M. The Indians of Iowa.

Freedman, James O. Liberal Education and the Public Interest.

Frost, Elizabeth A. The Feminist Avant-Garde in American Poetry.

Galligani Casey, Janet, ed. The Novel and the American Left: Critical Essays on Depression-Era Fiction.

Genoways, Ted, Hugh H. Genoways, eds. A Perfect Picture of Hell: Eyewitness Accounts by Civil War Prisoners from the 12th Iowa.

Genoways, Ted, ed. Walt Whitman: The Correspondence, Volume VII.

Germana, Michael. Standards of Value: Money, Race, and Literature in America.

Glazer, Michele. Aggregate of Disturbances.

Goodman, Joanna. Trace of One.

Gradwohl, David M., and Nancy M. Osborn. Exploring Buried Buxton: Archaeology of an Abandoned Iowa Coal Mining Town with a Large Black Population.

Gray, Janet. Race and Time: American Women's Poetics from Antislavery to Racial Modernity.

Gray, Timothy. Gary Snyder and the Pacific Rim: Creating Countercultural Community.

Greenberg, David Micah. Planned Solstice.

Haeg, Larry. In Gatsby's Shadow: The Story of Charles Macomb Flandrau.

Harris, W.C. E Pluribus Unum: Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Constitutional Paradox.

Hayashi, Robert T. Haunted by Waters: A Journey through Race and Place in the American West.

Hazners, Dainis. (some of) The Adventures of Carlyle, My Imaginary Friend.

Heberle, Mark A. A Trauma Artist: Tim O'Brien and the Fiction of Vietnam.

Henry, Lyell D. Zig-Zag-and-Swirl: Alfred W. Lawson's Quest for Greatness.

Herzog, Tobey C. Writing Vietnam, Writing Life: Caputo, Heinemann, O'Brien, Butler.

Holt McGavran, James, ed. Literature and the Child: Romantic Continuations, Postmodern Contestation.

Hudson, David, Marvin Bergman, and Loren Horton, eds. The Biographical Dictionary of Iowa.

Huffman, D.M., L.H. Tiffany, G. Knaphus, and R.A. Healy. Mushrooms and Other Fungi of the Midcontinental United States: Second Edition.

Hughey, Elizabeth. Sunday Houses the Sunday House.

Hull, Lynda. Star Ledger.

Inness, Sherrie A., and Clifford Ashby. Dinner Roles: American Women and Culinary Culture.

Irelan, Patrick. Central Standard: A Time, a Place, a Family.

Isles, John. Ark.

Isles, John. Inverse Sky.

Japtok, Martin. Growing Up Ethnic: Nationalism and the Bildungsroman in African American and Jewish American Fiction.

Jenkins, G. Matthew. Poetic Obligation: Ethics in Experimental American Poetry after 1945.

Johnson, Megan. The Waiting.

Julien, Catherine. Reading Inca History.

Kilcup, Karen, ed. Soft Canons: American Women Writers and Masculine Tradition.

Killingsworth, M. Jimmie. Walt Whitman and the Earth: A Study in Ecopoetics.

Kinnahan, Linda A. Lyric Interventions: Feminism, Experimental Poetry, and Contemporary Discourse.

Klaus, Carl H. Letters to Kate: Life after Life.

Klaus, Carl H. Weathering Winter: A Gardener's Daybook.

Knobloch, Frieda E. Botanical Companions: A Memoir of Plants and Place.

Kohn, Denise, Sarah Meer, and Emily B. Todd, eds. Transatlantic Stowe: Harriet Beecher Stowe and European Culture.

Krieg, Joann P. Whitman and the Irish.

Krutch, Joseph Wood. The Great Chain of Life.

Lago, Don. On the Viking Trail: Travels in Scandinavian American.

Lawson, Andrew. Walt Whitman and the Class Struggle.

Lazar, David. The Body of Brooklyn.

Lazar, David, ed. Truth in Nonfiction: Essays.

Leff, David K. Deep Travel: In Thoreau's Wake on the Concord and Merrimack.

Leon, Mechele. Molière, the French Revolution, and the Theatrical Afterlife.

Lewis, Lesle. Small Boat.

Lewis, Nghana tamu. Entitled to the Pedestal: Place, Race, and Progress in White Southern Women’s Writing, 1920–1945.

Linzie, Anna. The True Story of Alice B. Toklas: A Study of Three Autobiographies.

Lowney, John. History, Memory, and the Literary Left: Modern American Poetry, 1935–1968.

Leuth, Elmar. No Such Country: Essays Toward Home.

Lyftogt, Kenneth L. From Blue Mills to Columbia: Cedar Falls and the Civil War.

Lyftogt, Kenneth L. Iowa's Forgotten General: Matthew Mark Trumbull and the Civil War.

Ma, Kathryn. All That Work and Still No Boys.

Madson, John. Edited by Michael McIntosh. Illustrations by Dycie Madson. Out Home.

Madson, John. Illustrated by Dycie Madson. Where the Sky Began: Land of the Tallgrass Prairie.

Mani, B. Venkat. Cosmopolitical Claims: Turkish-German Literatures from Nadolny to Pamuk.

Marra, Kim. Strange Duets: Impresarios and Actresses in the American Theatre, 1865–1914.

Martin, Robert K., and Leland S. Person, eds. Roman Holidays: American Writers and Artists in Nineteenth-Century Italy.

Mayer, David. Stagestruck Filmmaker: D.W. Griffith and the American Theatre.

McConachie, Bruce. American Theater in the Culture of the Cold War: Producing and Contesting Containment, 1947-1962.

McCormick, John. The Victorian Marionette Theatre.

McEwan, Gordon F., ed.  Pikillacta: The Wari Empire in Cuzco.

McNett, Molly. One Dog Happy.

Metres, Philip. Behind the Lines: War Resistance Poetry on the American Homefront since 1941.

Michael, Magali Cornier. New Visions of Community in Contemporary American Fiction: Tan, Kingsolver, Castillo, Morrison.

Mix, Deborah M. A Vocabulary of Thinking: Gertrude Stein and Contemporary North American Women’s Innovative Writing.

Moddelmog, William E. Reconstituting Authority: American Fiction in the Province of the Law, 1880-1920.

Moffett, Kevin. Permanent Visitors.

Morano, Michele. Grammar Lessons: Translating a Life in Spain.

Mutel, Cornelia F. The Emerald Horizon: The History of Nature in Iowa.

Mutel, Cornelia F. A Watershed Year: Anatomy of the Iowa Floods of 2008.

Myerson, Joel, ed. Fuller in Her Own Time: A Biographical Chronicle of Her Life, Drawn from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, Friends, and Associates.

Nichols, Donald R. Currency of the Heart: A Year of Investing, Death, Work, and Coins.

Pichaske, David. Rooted: Seven Midwest Writers of Place.

Poirier, Suzanne. Doctors in the Making: Memoirs and Medical Education.

Porter, Horace A. Jazz Country: Ralph Ellison in America.

Porter, Horace A. The Making of a Black Scholar: From Georgia to the Ivy League.

Porter, Jeff. Oppenheimer Is Watching Me: A Memoir.

Pourciau, Glen. Invite.

Presley, Gary. Seven Wheelchairs: A Life beyond Polio.

Proulx, Donald A. A Sourcebook of Nasca Ceramic Iconography: Reading a Culture through Its Art.

Pyne, Stephen J. Grove Karl Gilbert: A Great Engine of Research.

Quilter, Jeffrey. Cobble Circles and Standing Stones: Archaeology at the Rivas Site, Costa Rica.

Ramke, Bin. Matter.

Reynolds, David R. There Goes the Neighborhood: Rural School Consolidation at the Grass Roots in Early Twentieth-Century Iowa.

Rhodes, Chip. Politics, Desire, and the Hollywood Novel.

Richardson, Robert D. First We Read, Then We Write: Emerson on the Creative Process.

Roberson, Ed. Voices Cast Out to Talk Us In.

Robinson, Michelle. The Life of a Hunter.

Roche, Dan. Great Expectation: A Father's Diary.

Rockwell, M. Emilia. Edited by Sharon E. Wood. A Home in the West, or, Emigration and Its Consequences.

Rokem, Freddie. Performing History: Theatrical Representations of the Past in Contemporary Theatre.

Rosendale, Steven, ed. The Greening of Literary Scholarship: Literature, Theory, and the
Environment.

Rosko, Emily. Raw Goods Inventory.

Rozik, Eli. The Roots of Theatre: Rethinking Ritual and Other Theories of Origin.

Rudd, Jill, and Val Gough, eds. Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Optimist Reformer.

Runkel, Sylvan T., and Dean M. Roosa. Photographs by Thomas Rosburg. Wildflowers of the Tallgrass Prairie: The Upper Midwest, Second Edition.

Ryden, Kent C. Landscape with Figures: Nature and Culture in New England.

Salwak, Dale. Teaching Life: Letters from a Life in Literature.

Sanchez, Maria Carla. Reforming the World: Social Activism and the Problem of Fiction in Nineteenth-Century America.

Sauter, Willmar. The Theatrical Event: Dynamics of Performance and Perception.

Savage, Tom. A Dictionary of Iowa Place-Names.

Scarth, Linda, and Robert Scarth. Essay by John Pearson. Deep Nature: Photographs from Iowa.

Scheese, Don. Mountains of Memory: A Fire Lookout's Life in the River of No Return Wilderness.

Schiff, Robyn. Revolver.

Schiff, Robyn. Worth.

Schlicht, Dennis W., John C. Downey, and Jeffrey C. Nekola. The Butterflies of Iowa.

Schmidgall, Gary, ed. Intimate with Walt: Selections from Whitman's Conversations with Horace Traubel, 1882-1892.

Schneider, Richard J., ed. Thoreau's Sense of Place: Essays in American Environmental Writing.

Schuler, Catherine A. Theatre and Identity in Imperial Russia.

Schwieder, Dorothy Hubbard. Growing Up with the Town: Family and Community on the Great Plains.

Schwieder, Dorothy, Joseph Hraba, and Elmer Schwieder. Buxton: A Black Utopia in the Heartland, An Expanded Edition.

Schwieder, Elmer, and Dorothy Schwieder. A Peculiar People: Iowa's Old Order Amish, An Expanded Edtion.

Scott, John Beldon, and Rodney P. Lehnertz. The University of Iowa Guide to Campus Architecture.

Shaker, Bonnie James. Coloring Locals: Racial Formation in Kate Chopin's Youth's Companion Stories.

Shealy, Daniel, ed. Alcott in Her Own Time: A Biographical Chronicle of Her LIfe, Drawn from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, Friends, and Associates.

Shippy, Peter Jay. Thieves' Latin.

Silverman, Helaine. Cahuachi in the Ancient Nasca World.

Sinor, Jennifer. The Extraordinary Work of Ordinary Writing: Annie Ray's Diary.

Smith, Evans Lansing. James Merrill, Postmodern Magus: Myth and Poetics.

Smith, Rod. Deed.

Steinberg, Ellen FitzSimmons. Irma: A Chicago Woman's Story, 1871-1966.

Stevens, Sharon McKenzie. A Place for Dialogue: Language, Land Use, and Politics in Southern Arizona

Stitt, Peter. Uncertainty and Plenitude: Five Contemporary Poets.

Stromquist, Shelton. Solidarity and Survival: An Oral History of Iowa Labor in the Twentieth Century.

Sunday, William A. The Sawdust Trail: Billy Sunday in His Own Words.

Swensen, Cole. The Book of a Hundred Hands.

Thomas, M. Wynn. Transatlantic Connections: Whitman U.S., Whitman U.K.

Tomlinson, Jim. Things Kept, Things Left Behind.

Tost, Tony. Complex Sheep.

Trevor, Douglas. The Thin Tear in the Fabric of Space.

Trites, Roberta S. Disturbing the Universe: Power and Repression in Adolescent Literature.

Trites, Roberta S. Twain, Alcott, and the Birth of the Adolescent Reform Novel.

Tulloch, John. Shakespeare and Chekhov in Production and Reception: Theatrical Events and Their Audience.

Van Allen, James A. Origins of Magnetospheric Physics: An Expanded Edition.

Vap, Sarah. American Spikenard.

Varallo, Anthony. This Day in History.

Vernon, Alex. Soldiers Once and Still: Ernest Hemingway, James Salter, and Tim O'Brien.

Volkman, Karen. Spar.

von der Heydt, James E. At the Brink of Infinity: Poetic Humility in Boundless American Space.

Voros, Gyorgyi. Notations of the Wild: Ecology in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens.

Waldner, Liz. A Point Is That Which Has No Part.

Warren, Wilson J. Tied to the Great Packing Machine: The Midwest and Meatpacking.

Waters, Don. Desert Gothic.

Watts, David. The Orange Wire Problem and Other Tales from the Doctor's Office.

Wear, Delese, and Janet Bickel, eds. Educating for Professionalism: Creating a Culture of Humanism in Medical Education.

Webber, Philip E. Kolonie-Deutsch: Life and Language in Amana.

Weinfield, Henry. The Music of Thought in the Poetry of George Oppen and William Bronk.

Weyler, Karen A. Intricate Relations: Sexual and Economic Desire in American Fiction, 1789-1814.

Wheeler, Susan. Ledger.

Whittaker, William E., ed. Frontier Forts of Iowa: Indians, Traders, and Soldiers, 1682–1862.

Whitten, Norman E., Jr., ed. Millennial Ecuador: Critical Essays on Cultural Transformations and Social Dynamics.

Wilkinson, Joshua Marie. Lug Your Careless Body out of the Careful Dusk: A Poem in Fragments.

Willis, Elizabeth, ed. Radical Vernacular: Lorine Niedecker and the Poetics of Place.

Wilmer, S.E. Writing and Rewriting National Theatre Histories.

Wilson, Emily. Micrographia.

Winckler, Suzanne. Prairie: A North American Guide.

Wisenberg, S.L., The Adventures of Cancer Bitch.

Woodland, Malcolm. Wallace Stevens and the Apocalyptic Mode.

Wright, Charlotte M. Plain and Ugly Janes: The Rise of the Ugly Woman in Contemporary American Fiction.

Zarhy-Levo, Yael. The Making of Theatrical Reputations: Studies from the Modern London Theatre.

Zelinsky, Wilbur. The Enigma of Ethnicity: Another American Dilemma.

Zhou, Xiaojing. The Ethics and Poetics of Alterity in Asian American Poetry.