Ergebnis für "Iowa" in Biografien & Erinnerungen

Stefanie Sargnagels Blick auf die USA ist so unverwechselbar wie ihr Schreiben: Sarkastisch, schonungslos ehrlich und doch voll Sympathie bringt sie uns das ländliche Amerika nahe und berichtet nebenbei herzerwärmend über die Lebensnotwendigkeit von Frauenfreundschaften. 2022 tauscht Stefanie Sargnagel widerstrebend das bequeme Wiener Sofa gegen ein Flugticket in die USA ein. In Iowa soll sie an einem College mitten im Nirgendwo Creative Writing unterrichten.

“Searing…combines the black humor of Catch-22 with the savagery of Full Metal Jacket.” —The New York Times “Jarhead will go down with the best books on military life.” —Mark Bowden, author of Black Hawk Down “A brutally honest memoir…gut-wrenching frontline reportage.”...

Destined to Fly – The Story of Ron Strauss retraces the extraordinary life of an ordinary boy from Iowa as he leaves home and sets out for a life of unknown adventures. Often choosing an unconventional route, this book explains how Ron achieved his dream of becoming a pilot. What began as a desire to be involved in aviation, quickly turned into a 12-year military career in the United States Air Force. As flight engineer, he flew 3,400 hours during the Vietnam War, departing California with supplies and returning with fallen soldiers.

Hi, I’m David C. Andersen. I’m from Iowa. I’m Nice-ish. I guess that's why my podcast is called Iowa Nice-ish. Some assembly required. Sarcasm sold separately. Follow on social media @IowaNiceish!

Iowa: a land of endless cornfields, friendly neighbors, and wholesome small-town charm. But scratch the surface, and you’ll find a state with a history as dark as its nights are quiet. Beneath the bucolic veneer lies a chilling tapestry of violence, secrets, and crimes that defy explanation. Take the Villisca ax murders of 1912—a nightmarish bloodbath that turned a sleepy town into a scene of unspeakable horror. Eight souls, slaughtered in their beds.

Murder, madness, and the macabre in Iowa? You've got to be kidding! When most people think of Iowa, their minds conjure up pigs, cornfields, and crotchety old farmers. But ax murders, mass killings, and ghostly sightings - those atrocities are reserved for big cities like Chicago or LA, not a little burg like Villisca, Iowa - population 2,000. Gruesome Iowa is a collection of true-life stories - most of them rescued from old newspaper accounts published over 100 years ago. Only a few of the events in this audiobook - such as the Villisca Ax Murders have ever made it into print.

Iowa Cold is a show about Iowa Cold Cases. Host, Anne Black, summarizes a new cold case each episode from information found at iowacoldcases.org.

A Black woman’s experience in a fly-over state.

The day the second atomic bomb was dropped, Clabe and Leora Wilson’s postman brought a telegram to their acreage near Perry, Iowa. One son was already in the U.S. Navy before Pearl Harbor had been attacked. Four more sons worked with their father, tenant farmers near Minburn until, one by one, all five sons were serving their country in the military. Leora’s Letters is the compelling true account of a woman whose most tender hopes were disrupted by great losses. Yet she lived out four more decades with hope and resilience.

This audiobook is not the usual boring history listen. It's a fast-paced, easy-to-listen-to, behind the scenes look at the making of Iowa and Illinois focusing on Eastern Iowa and Western Illinois. When you're done listening to it, you might even scratch your head and think - "Oh, yeah! That's what Mrs. So, and So tried to tell me back in seventh-grade history class." And, I tell you what. We're going to skip all the boring parts, like dates, politics, and founding fathers. We're going to go right to the fun stuff... Indian Wars. Murder. Suicide. Robberies. Killer storms.

We want to tell your success story, whether it's about your business, community organization, or maybe just a great story about someone in your family. We are here to help turn the tide of negativity and put something positive into the world!

Cold cases and missing persons from Iowa.

From a searing new literary voice, a raw, compulsively readable memoir about a young man seeking hope, community, and ultimately recovery from addiction in a series of halfway houses and boys’ homes—the first book to so vividly capture this world. In his late teens Tom Macher rebelled...

Combining the by-the-bootstraps work ethic of Nikki Haley’s Can’t Is Not an Option with the military pluck of MJ Heger’s Shoot Like a Girl, Joni Ernst’s candid memoir details the rise of one of the most inspiring and authentic women in the United States Senate. The daughter of...

Writer Lyz Lenz lives in Iowa, but she was raised in a small town in Texas, and her Audible Original Cottonwood Creek explores her funny and emotional memories of her life as a homeschooled evangelical girl in a large family of eight children. Growing up, Lenz and her family fervently believed that the rapture was coming, maybe any day now, and she and her siblings spent their days - which for all they knew could have been their last on earth - exploring the woods near their home, conjuring playtime fantasies, and testing the limits of their imaginations.

To date, there are more than 600 unsolved homicides and disappearances in the state of Iowa. Although there are a handful of cases from the hawkeye state that gripped the nation many have gone years without notice. From a native Iowan born and raised it's time to give victims their voices back and attempt to bring some form of closure to families that have been waiting years, even decades for answers.

Most agree that West Liberty is a special place. The first majority Hispanic town in Iowa, it has been covered by media giants such as Reuters, Telemundo, NBC, and ESPN. But Chuy Renteria and his friends grew up in the space between these news stories, where a more complicated West Liberty awaits. We Heard It When We Were Young tells the story of a young boy, first-generation Mexican American, who is torn between cultures: between immigrant parents trying to acclimate to Midwestern life and a town that is, by turns, supportive and disturbingly antagonistic.