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Product Description: Farmscape is inspired by the community play which documents the contemporary Midwest farmscape. Savor the taste of organic vegetables on a truck on its way to the local farmer s market, suit up in protective clothing and a mask before you enter a hog confinement operation...read more
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9781888160680 | Ice Cube Pr, October 4, 2012, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Farmscape is inspired by the community play which documents the contemporary Midwest farmscape.
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9781934999530 | Wordtech Communications, April 30, 2009, cover price $18.00
Product Description: Injured in a car accident, Swander made a pilgrimage to New Mexico where she sought the aid of traditional Hispanic and Native American healers in her recovery. In Albuquerque, she encountered Father Sergei, a Russian Orthodox monk whose barrio church is hidden away on the once-proud Route 66, now the terrain of crack dealers and the homeless...read more
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9780670031955 | Viking Pr, August 1, 2003, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Recounts the author's rediscovery of faith and purpose after a disabling accident, describing her painful recovery period, her tenure at the University of New Mexico, and her encounters with numerous people of faith.
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9781888160338 | Reprint edition (Ice Cube Pr, September 24, 2008), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Injured in a car accident, Swander made a pilgrimage to New Mexico where she sought the aid of traditional Hispanic and Native American healers in her recovery.
9780142196304 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, June 29, 2004), cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Recounts the author's rediscovery of faith and purpose after a disabling accident, describing her painful recovery period, her tenure at the University of New Mexico, and her encounters with numerous people of faith--including a Russian Orthodox monk and a native curandera.
Product Description: When a life-threatening allergic illness demanded that she eat only organically grown food, writer and professor Mary Swander built a new life in a former one-room Iowa schoolhouse in the middle of the largest Amish community west of the Mississippi...read more
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9781587296376 | 1 edition (Univ of Iowa Pr, April 15, 2008), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: When a life-threatening allergic illness demanded that she eat only organically grown food, writer and professor Mary Swander built a new life in a former one-room Iowa schoolhouse in the middle of the largest Amish community west of the Mississippi.
9780140241709 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, July 1, 1996), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: When a severe allergic illness dictates that she grow all her own food, Mary Swander finds herself living in a former one-room schoolhouse in the midst of the largest Amish community west of the Mississippi.
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9781888160178 | Ice Cube Pr, October 5, 2005, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: Exploration of the ties between weather and living in place.
Product Description: Living in the Midwest means living with the richest, most fertile land in the world. This Harvest Book engages the reader on a quest to connect sense-of-place with spirituality. Many of Iowa's top writers are included in this collection...read more
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9781888160994 | Ice Cube Pr, October 1, 2004, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Living in the Midwest means living with the richest, most fertile land in the world.
Product Description: A collection of poetry on the subjects of death and grieving, written as a series of family portraits. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780877456520 | Reprint edition (Univ of Iowa Pr, October 1, 1998), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A collection of poetry on the subjects of death and grieving, written as a series of family portraits.
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9780452277564 | Plume, April 1, 1998, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Essays describe how a variety of writers coped with the reality of illness, found their way to recovery, and incorporated their experiences into their lives
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9780880014731 | Ecco Pr, March 1, 1997, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: An anthology of essays, poetry, and fiction explores the emotional, social, and ecological implicatons of gardening
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9780880015653 | Ecco Pr, March 1, 1998, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: An anthology of essays, poetry, and fiction explores the emotional, social, and ecological implications of gardening
A collection of lyrical poems and dramatic monologues has been honored by the Whiting Foundation and is set in the author's native Iowa, where they pay tribute to the area's earth and its animals. Reprint.
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9780679429845 | 1 edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, May 1, 1994), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Poems deal with the author's quest to find her sense of place, and explores the balance between physical and spiritual, and mind and body
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9780679765684 | Reissue edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, February 1, 1996), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Poems deal with the author's quest to find her sense of place, and explores the balance between physical and spiritual, and mind and body
Product Description: "Coffee table" book published in 1996 in conjunction with Iowa's sesquicentennial celebration of statehood. Profusely illustrated- primarily with contemporary color photograghy and embellished by selected historic photographs. The text, consisting of essays by five prominant Iowa writers, captures the spirit and direction of the people of Iowa...read more
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9780696205187 | Meredith Books, September 1, 1995, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: "Coffee table" book published in 1996 in conjunction with Iowa's sesquicentennial celebration of statehood.
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9780670858088 | Viking Pr, July 1, 1995, cover price $20.95 | About this edition: The author, a poet and teacher, reflects on her experiences living in a community of Amish farmers in Iowa in 1993, explores the lore of the Great Plains settlers who came before them, and celebrates life on the land.
Product Description: Not since the early nineteenth century, when George Catlin and Karl Bodmer thoroughly sketched the area, have the rough-textured Loess Hills of western Iowa been artistically interpreted with any intensity. Now, inspired by this rugged landscape of steep-sided ridges and bluffs, Land of the Fragile Giants offers a collaboration of contemporary artists, scientists, and humanists all creating their interpretations of today's Hills...read more
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9780877454779 | Univ of Iowa Pr, September 1, 1994, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Not since the early nineteenth century, when George Catlin and Karl Bodmer thoroughly sketched the area, have the rough-textured Loess Hills of western Iowa been artistically interpreted with any intensity.
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9780877452799 | Univ of Iowa Pr, February 1, 1990, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Interviews with twelve gardeners reveal their approaches to growing vegetables and flowers in the harsh climate of the Midwest
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9780394550084 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, April 1, 1986, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Poems deal with mortality, grief, families, country life, friendship, the past, nature, and memories
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9780394742892 | 1 edition (Random House Inc, April 1, 1986), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Poems deal with mortality, grief, families, country life, friendship, the past, nature, and memories
Product Description: Book by Swander, Mary
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9780820304793 | Univ of Georgia Pr, January 1, 1980, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Book by Swander, Mary
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