Area Authors
River Lights takes pride in presenting a diversity of voices on our shelves and we place a priority on representing the work of authors living in the Tri-State area. Their works are always available at River Lights.
Featured Books from Local Authors
Give Your Best: How Willem Charles transformed his Haitian villiage from poverty in voodoo to prosperity in Christianity
by Andrew DeWitt
The Driftless Land: Spirit of Place in the Upper Mississippi Valley
Essays by Kevin Koch
$19.00 – email us to order
Shadows of War
by Jacob Lawrence Krapfl
Behold My Shorts
by Robert Byrne
Ninty-three of Robert Byrne’s most hilarious short works. The comic sketches are divided into seven sections: The Early Years, The Writing Life, Wild Imaginings, Random Shots, People I’ve Met and Can’t Forget, Billiards, and God Stuff. In A Chat With the Author, Byrne gradually suspects that his interviewer is his alter ego and that he has been foolishly talking to himself.
Dubuque Nostalgia
by Rita Rhomberg Pfohl