Tracy Kidder
Tracy Kidder graduated from Harvard, studied at the University of Iowa, and served as an army officer in Vietnam. He has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Award, and many other literary prizes. He lives in ... [... more]
Random House |
The Family Medicine Handbook: Mobile Medicine Series ...
 great resource: If you were stranded on a desert island and could only take one family practice book, this should be it. (But wouldn't you take a good novel instead?) It covers the waterfront with details of diagnosis and treatment of all of the common [... more]
CDN$60.95
Amazon CA |
Hope Edelman
Hope Edelman has a bachelor's degree in journalism from Northwestern University and a master's degree in creative nonfiction writing from the University of Iowa. Her essays and articles have appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers. She ... [... more]
Random House |
John Casey
John Casey was born in 1939 in Worcester, Massachusetts, and educated at Harvard College, Harvard Law School, and the University of Iowa. His previous novel, Spartina, won the 1989 National Book Award for fiction. He lives with his wife in ... [... more]
Random House |
Beth Nugent
Beth Nugent received an MFA from the University of Iowa. She teaches at the University of Denver. Her short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker and Grand Street. Following her critically acclaimed collection of short stories, City of Boys, ... [... more]
Random House |
Robert Girardi
Robert Girardi was educated at Catholic schools in Europe and at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. He holds an MFA from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop and was a recipient of a James Michener Fellowship in 1989. He lives in ... [... more]
Random House |
Joseph P. Zwack
Joseph P. Zwack is an active Roman Catholic and practicing civil attorney in Dubuque, Iowa. He is married, the father of three children, and holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Iowa Law School. [... more]
Harper Collins |
Body Heat: Temperature and Life on Earth
Thoroughly Enjoyable: This is a thoroughly enjoyable book. The publisher's weekly reviewer's criticism is misdirected. I guarantee that you will enjoy this book, and annoy the hell out of your friends/family quoting them little tidbits. I particularly [... more]
CDN$17.56
Amazon CA |
Gerald's Game
Amazon.com Author Profile: Read about the author. Yes, "Gerald's Game" really is about what it is about: I started reading Stephen King around the time he published "Fire-Starter" and had occasion to hear him read from his work on a [... more]
CDN$17.19
Amazon CA |
Black Evening: Tales of Dark Suspense
From Amazon.com: David Morrell is best known for testosterone-fueled thrillers like Extreme Denial and First Blood (whose excellent movie version, reissued on DVD in 1999, stars Sylvester Stallone as Rambo). But Morrell has also penned many frightfully [... more]
CDN$9.99
Amazon CA |
Crossing: A Memoir
From Amazon.com: This fascinating memoir chronicles Deirdre McCloskey's transformation from Donald McCloskey, an economist at the University of Iowa and married father of two, into the woman he finally accepted he had always wanted to be. McCloskey had [... more]
CDN$15.63
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Out of the Girls' Room and Into the Night: Stories
more than a few diamonds in the rough: Like most CDs named after one of the songs on them, the title of Thisbe Nissen's first collection shares the same title as one of the worst of this 25-story set. The stories, which run from one to 21 pages long, [... more]
CDN$18.00
Amazon CA |
