DMPL Local History - Local Authors

Rupp, Joyce.
Walk in a Relaxed Manner: Life
Lessons from the Camino.
Orbis Books, 2005.

Blake, Penelope.
My Mother's Fort: A Photographic Tribute to Fort Des Moines,
First Home of the Women's Army Corps.
BookSurge, 2005.

Autry, James.
The Book of Hard Choices: How to Make the
Right Decisions at Work and Keep Your Self-Respect.
Morgan Road, 2006.

Michaels, Leigh.
On Writing Romance: How to Craft a Novel That Sells.
Writer's Digest Books, 2007.

Abdul-Samad, Ako.
A Deeper Truth: Revelations of the Soul.
Integer Group, 2004.

Bell, Marvin.
Nightworks: Poems, 1962-2000.
Copper Canyon Press, 2000.

Carey, Michael.
The Holy Ground.
Carrauntoohil Books, 2003.

Hopson, M.L.
Come Taste the Sugarcane.
Palindrome Publishing, 2004.

McPherson, James A.
A Region Not Home: Reflections from Exile.
Simon & Schuster, 2000.

Gartner, Michael.
Outrage, Passion & Uncommon Sense: How Editorial Writers
Have Taken On the Great American Issues of the Past 150 Years.
National Geographic, 2005.

McCue, Craig.
Des Moines, 1845-1920.
Arcadia, 2006.

Hoover, Dwight.
A Good Day's Work: An Iowa Farm in the Great Depression.
Ivan R. Dee, 2007.