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Chronicles the life of physics professor John Vincent Atanasoff, who, in the late 1930s, devised a method of using the binary number system and electrical switches to create the world's first computing device, and describes how his ideas were stolen and used by the people commonly credited with creating the computer.

Discusses the friendship of eleven childhood friends who grew up together in Ames, Iowa before moving to various states and managing to maintain their connections through college, careers, marriage, motherhood, illness, and divorce.

Presents an account of the murder of Iowa farmer John Hossack in December 1900, drawing from newspaper accounts, government documents, unpublished memoirs, and the legal record to retrace the subsequent investigation, and the arrest and trial of his wife, Margaret.

Michael Tillman, a middle-aged college economics professor recently-returned from India, finds himself drawn to Jellie Braden, the wife of a colleague. When Jellie disappears, Michael is ready to travel the world to make her his.

Explains how to draw some of Iowa's sights and symbols, including the state seal, the official flower, and the Fenlon Place Elevator in Dubuque.

A biography of the fifteen-year-old Iowa teenager who helped avert a train disaster in 1881 and became a national heroine.