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Joe Gonzalez was one of the first Latino officers to serve in the Des Moines Police Department a half century ago. Today, he is the executive director of the largest ethnic event in Iowa, the Latino Heritage Festival.
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Get ready, get set, read with us! This year, the Talk of Iowa Book Club will read books of all sorts, from music biographies and memoirs to YA fiction and Pulitzer Prize-winning selections.
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Today we listen back to an October 2023 installment of the Talk of Iowa book club.
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For the Talk of Iowa book club, expert readers join host Charity Nebbe to discuss Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer.
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Colson Whitehead won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for his novel about a young enslaved woman who escapes a Georgia plantation on a literal train to freedom.
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How High We Go in the Dark is a climate change and pandemic story that takes place over thousands of years
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A look at dry January, plus a study by University of Iowa researchers shows a link between the location of a brain injury to levels in depression in patients.
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Ann Patchett joins the show to discuss the collection of essays with our expert readers.
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Two lawsuits aim to block the state from enforcing SF 496, which bans books with sexual content and prohibits instruction about sexual orientation and gender identity in K-6.
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Megan Bannister has compiled Iowa's best-kept secrets — from the world's largest Cheeto to the Great Pyramids of Avery — in her new book Secret Iowa: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful and Obscure.