Cyber Monday with the University of Iowa Press

It's Cyber Monday! If you're getting a head start on your holiday shopping, a book is always a perfect gift! Make sure you check out the University of Iowa Press sale book page today.

University of Iowa Press Annual Holiday Sale Ending Tomorrow!

There is one day left for our holiday sale! Stock up on books up to 65% off while you still can! We have a large selection of books for all of the readers in your life. From new titles to cookbooks to pocket guides, it's all there.

Check out our sale books here. Hurry and order your favorites from the UI Press!

For the History Buff in Your Life

The end of our holiday sale is quickly approaching. Get our books at prices up to 65% off while you still can! We're sure to have a book for all of the loved ones in your life. You can browse through our selections here.

Here are just a few books that are on sale now…

Necessary Courage: Iowa's Underground Railroad in the Struggle against Slavery

by Lowell J. Soike

Iowa and the Midwest Experience

"Soike tells the stories of those individuals—enslaved and free, black and white, male and female—who had the 'necessary courage' to prevail against the tragedy of slavery."—Dearanda Johnson, Midwest regional manager, National Park Service's Network to Freedom

Regular Price: $24.95

Sale Price: $15.00

An Iowa Schoolma'am: Letters of Elizabeth "Bess" Corey, 1904-1908

by Philip C. Gerber and Charlotte Wright

Bur Oak Book

The lively letters home of young "Bachelor Bess" Corey as she faces the realities of life in an Iowa country school system with energy, enthusiasm, and ambition.

Regular Price: $25.00

Sale Price: $14.00

Bur Oak Guides on Sale Just in Time for the Holidays!

It's that time year of again, and the University of Iowa Press' annual holiday sale is well underway! Find great books for up to 65% off for all of the readers in your life.

Here are just a few of the books that are on sale now…

Forest and Shade Trees of Iowa, Third Edition
by Peter van der Linden and Donald Farrar
Bur Oak Guide

"Amateur naturalists, professional scientists, and landowners in Iowa and beyond—in fact, tree lovers everywhere—will enjoy this much-appreciated update of a widely used classic."—John Pearson, ecologist, Iowa Department of Natural Resources

Regular Price: $34.95
Sale Price: $17.50

Turtles in Your Pocket: A Guide to Freshwater and Terrestrial Turtles of the Upper Midwest
by Terry VanDeWalle, photographs by Suzanne L. Collins
Bur Oak Guide

Regular Price: $9.95
Sale Price: $6.00

Snakes and Lizards in Your Pocket: A Guide to Reptiles of the Upper Midwest
by Terry VanDeWalle, photographs by Suzanne L. Collins
Bur Oak Guide

Regular Price: $9.95
Sale Price: $6.00

Frogs and Toads in Your Pocket: A Guide to Amphibians of the Upper Midwest
by Terry VanDeWalle, photographs by Suzanne L. Collins
Bur Oak Guide

Regular Price: $9.95
Sale Price: $5.00

Give an Iowa Cookbook this Season!

Still holiday shopping? The University of Iowa Press is currently holding our annual holiday sale. We've got great books covering a wide range of topics and interests for up to 65% off. Buy some for your loved ones or buy some for yourself!

Here are just a few of the books that are on sale now…

Gardening the Amana Way
by Lawrence L. Rettig
Bur Oak Book

As a child of parents who were part of the communal life of the Amana Society, Larry Rettig pays homage to the Amana gardening tradition and extends it into the twenty-first century and extends his gardening advice into the kitchen. He shares family recipes for radish salad, dumpling soup, Amana pickled ham, apple bread, and more!

Regular Price: $27.50
Sale Price: $15.00

A Cook's Tour of Iowa
by Susan Puckett
Bur Oak Book

"This book may shock the food snobs of America because Iowa's down-home cuisine is not dull after all."--Des Moines Register

"…a combination oral history and cookbook which should delight aficionados of Americana."--Cookbook Digest

"Puckett tapped into the culture of America's Middle West and the result is a book that will give Iowans cause for pride."--World of Cookbooks

Regular Price: $23.00
Sale Price: $5.00

Bur Oak Books for Readers of All Ages -- On Sale!

If you missed (or avoided) Black Friday and Cyber Monday but still need some great gifts, check out the University of Iowa Press's holiday sale! Find great books for up to 65% for all of the readers in your life.

Here are just a few of the books included…

Where Do Birds Live?
by Claudia McGehee
Bur Oak Blog

"An an artist and a nature enthusiast, I am completely enthralled by Where Do Birds Live? Beauty is everywhere if one only slows down to look for it. This lovely book is a good reminder of that."--Stan Fellows, illustrator, The Cuckoo's Haiku and Other Birding Poems

Regular Price: $17.95
Sale Price: $8.00

The Raptors of Iowa

illustrated by James F. Landenberger

essays by Dean M. Roosa, Jon W. Stravers, Bruce Ehresman, and Rich Patterson

Bur Oak Book

"To pioneer homesteaders, a hawk in the sky was reason to reach for a gun. Now, with out better understanding of the raptors' ecological importance and of their perilous future, a wheeling red tail against the sun is something to cherish, not kill. In The Raptors of Iowa, artist and authors have given to all who are interested in midwestern birds a book that will set the standard for years to come."--J. Fenwick Lansdowne

Regular Price: $29.95

Sale Price: $14.00

Happy shopping!

UI Press Annual Holiday Sale: WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? and OTHERS HAD IT WORSE

The University of Iowa Press will be kicking off their annual holiday sale tomorrow! Find great books for up to 65% off for all the readers in your life. Don't miss out on these unbeatable prices for two of our newest books:

What Happens Next? Matters of Life and Death
by Douglas Bauer
Iowa and the Midwest Experience

"A literate, thoughtful memoir/essay collection from the heartland."—Kirkus

"This remarkable memoir-in-essays respects time but is not enslaved to it. Bauer moves in circular fashion among incidents that foreshadow later ones and recall earlier. It's not a linear but a spiral history, which touches us and then touches again. As for the language: in each sentence each word seems the only possible choice. How easily the prose lets us read it; what artistic intensity made it that way."—Edith Pearlman, author, Binocular Vision, winner of the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award

Regular Price: $17.00
Sale Price: $9.00

Others Had It Worse: Sour Dock, Moonshine, and Hard Times in Davis County, Iowa
by Vetra Melrose Padget Covert and Chris D. Baker
Bur Oak Book

"A rare, insightful, and intimate work of history. . . . Like the frames on a zoetrope, these brief snippets run together to create a rich, vivid view of a bygone era."—Publishers Weekly

"Chris Baker has not only preserved the life of one woman but has also given us a way to read a text that follows its own path. By valuing what would typically be overlooked, he has broadened our understanding of life writing and illuminated the daily effects of poverty and isolation, as well as the small joys that arise amid both. It is a song one should not miss hearing."—Jennifer Sinor, author, The Extraordinary Work of Ordinary Writing: Annie Ray's Diary

Regular Price: $17.95
Sale Price: $9.00

Iowa City Book Festival: featuring books from the University of Nebraska Press

The Iowa City Book Festival starts one month from today, but we’re already getting ready! We're happy to say that the University of Nebraska Press, as well as several other Midwest presses, will be joining us this year. UNP will be selling:

• Mr. Wrigley's Ball Club, by Roberts Ehrgott
• Your Midwest Garden, by Jan Riggenbach
• The Life and Poetry of Ted Kooser, by Mary K. Stillwell
• The Prairie Schooner Book Prize, edited by James Engelhardt and Marianne Kunkel
• Fried Walleye and Cherry Pie, edited and with an introduction by Peggy Wolff

For more information on the Nebraska University Press and these books, please visit the press's website. In the meantime, join our Facebook event, and we hope to see you at the festival!

Iowa City Book Festival: featuring books from the Ohio University Press

Make sure to mark your calendars for the Iowa City Book Festival that will be going from October 11-13! We're especially excited to announce that the Ohio University Press will also be in attendance. They'll be selling:

• Sharp and Dangerous Virtues: A Novel, by Martha Moody
• Ministers of Fire: A Novel, by Mark Harril Saunders
• Dragging Wyatt Earp: A Personal History of Dodge City, by Robert Rebein
• The Wife of Martin Guerre, by Janet Lewis
• Barn Quilts and the American Quilt Trail Movement, by Suzi Parron and Donna Sue Groves

For more information about the Ohio University Press, visit their website by clicking here. If you're looking for more information on our events for the ICBF, please visit our Facebook events page.

We can't wait to see you there!