Bur Oak Books

Alex, Lynn Marie. Iowa's Archaeological Past.

Anderson, Wayne I. Iowa's Geological Past: Three Billion Years of Change.

Bauer, Douglas. Prairie City, Iowa: Three Seasons at Home.

Bennett, Mary. An Iowa Album: A Photographic History, 1860-1920.

Bennett, Mary, & Paul C. Juhl. Iowa Stereographs: Three-Dimensional Visions of the Past.

Birkby, Evelyn. Neighboring on the Air: Cooking with the KMA Radio Homemakers.

Birkby, Evelyn, Foreword by Jane Stern & Michael Stern. Up a Country Lane Cookbook.

Black, Gladys, Foreword by Dean M. Roosa, Introduction by Carl Kurtz. Iowa Birdlife.

Bryan, Patricia L., & Thomas Wolf. Midnight Assassin: A Murder in America's Heartland.

Bunkers, Suzanne L. "All Will Yet Be Well": The Diary of Sarah Gillespie Huftalen, 1873-1952.

Christiansen, Paul, & Mark Müller. An Illustrated Guide to Iowa Prairie Plants.

Daniels, Leroy Judson, as told to Helen S. Herrick. Tales of an Old Horsetrader: The First Hundred Years.

Davis, Martha Moore. Sarah's Seasons: An Amish Diary and Conversation.

Dinsmore, James J., Drawings by Mark Müller. A Country So Full of Game: The Story of Wildlife in Iowa.

Dyas, Sandra Louise, Foreword by Chris Offutt. Down to the River: Portraits of Iowa Musicians.

Egenes, Linda, Woodcuts by Mary Azarian. Visits with the Amish: Impressions of the Plain Life.

Eilers, Lawrence J., & Dean M. Roosa. The Vascular Plants of Iowa: An Annotated Checklist and Natural History.

Foerstner, Abigail. Picturing Utopia: Bertha Shambaugh and the Amana Photographers.

Folmar, John Kent, ed. "This State of Wonders": The Letters of an Iowa Frontier Family, 1858-1861.

Fowler, Veronica Lorson. Gardening in Iowa and Surrounding Areas.

Gardner, Dana, & Nancy Overcott. Fifty Common Birds of the Upper Midwest.

Gardner, Dana, & Nancy Overcott. Fifty Uncommon Birds of the Upper Midwest.

Garvin, Paul. Iowa's Minerals: Their Occurrence, Origins, Industries, and Lore.

Gerber, John C. A Pictorial History of the University of Iowa: An Expanded Edition.

Gillhoff, Johannes, Translated by Richard Lorenz August Trost. Letters of a German American Farmer: Jürnjakob Swehn Travels to America.

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

Grant, H. Roger, ed. Iowa Railroads: The Essays of Frank P. Donovan, Jr.

Harker, Michael P., & Jim Heynen. Harker's Barns: Visions of an American Icon.

Harker, Michael P., & Paul Theobald. Harker's One-Room Schoolhouses: Visions of an Iowa Icon.

Harker, Michael P. Still Standing: A Postcard Book of Barn Photographs.

Hawkins, Cora Frear. Buggies, Blizzards, and Babies.

Heacock, Nan. Crinoline to Calico.

Henry, Lyell D., Jr. Was This Heaven? A Self-Portrait of Iowa on Early Postcards.

Hoppe, Emilie. Seasons of Plenty: Amana Communal Cooking.

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

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

Jackson, Laura Spess, Carol A. Thompson, & James J. Dinsmore. The Iowa Breeding Bird Atlas.

Karras, John, & Ann Karras. RAGBRAI: Everyone Pronounces It Wrong.

Keyes, Margaret N. Old Capitol: Portrait of an Iowa Landmark.

Keyes, Margaret N., Foreword by Irving Weber. Nineteenth-Century Home Architecture of Iowa City: A Silver Anniversary Edition.

Klaus, Carl H. My Vegetable Love: A Journal of a Growing Season.

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

Kuntz, Everett W., & Jim Heynen. Sunday Afternoon on the Porch: Reflections of a Small Town in Iowa, 1939-1942.

Kurtz, Carl. A Practical Guide to Prairie Reconstruction.

Lannoo, Michael J. Okoboji Wetlands: A Lesson in Natural History.

Lensink, Judy Nolte. "A Secret to Be Burried": The Diary and Life of Emily Hawley Gillespie, 1858-1888.

Loveless, Leslie A. Children on the Farm: A Postcard Book of Photographs by Pete Wettach.

Loveless, Leslie A. From the Heartland: A Postcard Book of Photographs by Pete Wettach.

Loveless, Leslie A., Foreword by Christie Vilsack. A Bountiful Harvest: The Midwestern Farm Photographs of Pete Wettach, 1925-1965.

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

Madson, John. Stories from under the Sky.

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

Martone, Michael, ed., Photographs by David Plowden. A Place of Sense: Essays in Search of the Midwest.

Martone, Michael, ed., Photographs by Raymond Bial. Townships.

McGarvey, Carol, Marie McCartan, & C. R. Mitchell. "The Des Moines Register" Cookbook.

McGehee, Claudia. A Tallgrass Prairie Alphabet.

McGehee, Claudia. A Woodland Counting Book.

McGivern, Gene. Here's Johnny Orr.

Mills, George S. The Little Man with the Long Shadow: The Life and Times of Fredrick M. Hubbell.

Mollenhoff, Clark. Ballad to an Iowa Farmer and Other Reflections.

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

Mutel, Cornelia F. Fragile Giants: A Natural History of the Loess Hills.

Mutel, Cornelia F., & Mary Swander, eds. Land of the Fragile Giants: Landscapes, Environments, and Peoples of the Loess Hills.

Offenburger, Chuck. Iowa Boy: Ten Years of Columns.

Olson, George, & John Madson. The Elemental Prairie: Sixty Tallgrass Plants.

Orchard, Hugh. Old Orchard Farm: The Story of an Iowa Boyhood.

Prior, Jean C. Landforms of Iowa.

Prior, Jean C., James Sandrock, & Claudia McGehee. The Iowa Nature Calendar.

Puckett, Susan. A Cook's Tour of Iowa.

Robbins, Dorothy Dodge, & Kenneth Robbins, eds. Christmas on the Great Plains.

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

Roseman, Curtis C., & Elizabeth M. Roseman, eds. Grand Excursions on the Upper Mississippi River: Places, Landscapes, and Regional Identity after 1854.

Sayre, Robert F., ed. Take the Next Exit: New Views of the Iowa Landscape.

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

Schmeal, Jacqueline Andre. Patchwork: Iowa Quilts and Quilters.

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

Schwieder, Elmer, & Dorothy Schwieder, Essay by Thomas J. Morain. A Peculiar People: Iowa's Old Order Amish: An Expanded Edition.

Scot, Barbara J. Prairie Reunion.

Sherman, Althea R., Foreword by Marcia Myers Bonta. Birds of an Iowa Dooryard.

Sherman, William L., ed. Tributes to Iowa Teachers.

Shirley, Shirley. Restoring the Tallgrass Prairie: An Illustrated Manual for Iowa and the Upper Midwest.

Staw, Jane Anne, & Mary Swander. Parsnips in the Snow: Talks with Midwestern Gardeners.

Stong, Phil, Foreword by Robert A. McCown. State Fair.

Suckow, Ruth, Foreword by Clarence A. Andrews. The Folks.

Suckow, Ruth, Foreword by Patricia E. M. Daly. New Hope.

Suckow, Ruth, Introduction by Clarence A. Andrews. A Ruth Suckow Omnibus.

Sunday, William A., Foreword by Robert F. Martin. The Sawdust Trail: Billy Sunday in His Own Words.

Swander, Mary. Driving the Body Back.

Swander, Mary. Out of This World: A Journey of Healing.

Taylor, Henry C. Tarpleywick: A Century of Iowa Farming.

Theler, James L., & Robert F. Boszhardt. Twelve Millennia: Archaeology of the Upper Mississippi River Valley.

Thompson, Janette R., Foreword by John A. Pearson. Prairies, Forests, and Wetlands: The Restoration of Natural Landscape Communities in Iowa.

Turnbull, Buck. From the Press Box: The Iowa Sports Scene.

Waller, Robert James. Iowa: Perspectives on Today and Tomorrow.

Witt, Bill, & Osha Gray Davidson. Enchanted by Prairie.

Young, Carrie. Nothing to Do but Stay: My Pioneer Mother.

Young, Carrie. The Wedding Dress: Stories from the Dakota Plains.

Young, Carrie, with Felicia Young. Prairie Cooks: Glorified Rice, Three-Day Buns, and Other Reminiscences.