What Remains After the Future: A Civic Anatomy of Cleveland
(FORTHCOMING)
Author: Don Iannone
Nonfiction
What Remains After the Future: A Civic Anatomy of Cleveland is not a comeback story. It is a close, unsentimental portrait of a city that encountered limits early and kept living anyway. Drawing on decades of work in economic development and public policy, Donald T. Iannone looks beneath plans and slogans to examine Cleveland as a lived condition shaped by endurance, care, memory, and moral choice.
This book challenges the American fixation on growth as the only measure of progress. It asks what a city becomes when guaranteed futures fade, and what holds a place together when spectacle no longer persuades. Clear-eyed, reflective, and deeply grounded in experience, What Remains After the Future offers readers a new way to understand not only Cleveland, but every American city learning to live beyond illusion.
Place an order: Available mid-March 2026
Cleveland’s Flats: A Symphonic Essay in Black and White
February 2026
Author: Don Iannone
Nonfiction
Cleveland’s Flats: A Symphonic Essay in Black and White is a visual and poetic meditation on one of the city’s most storied landscapes. Through nearly one hundred black-and-white photographs paired with lyrical essays and original verse, Don Iannone interprets the Cleveland Flats as both geography and music. Inspired by Antonín Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, From the New World, the book unfolds in movements, tracing the river’s elemental presence, the architecture of industry, and the enduring human spirit that animates its banks.
Bridges arc across the Cuyahoga like musical lines on a staff, freighters glide with the gravity of low strings, and light itself carries the resonance of memory. The Flats emerges not simply as a site of industry or reinvention, but as a landscape of transformation where labor, nature, history, and renewal converge. More than a photographic collection, this work invites readers to see the city as both subject and song, a place where endurance and beauty remain inseparable.
Available in paperback ($39.99 landscape) and hardback ($24.99 portrait): On Amazon
Dreams as Mirrors: Finding Wisdom in the Night
October 2025
Author: Don Iannone
Nonfiction
Dreams as Mirrors: Finding Wisdom in the Night is an exploration of the dream world as a source of psychological insight, spiritual depth, and human understanding. Drawing on psychology, neuroscience, cultural tradition, and decades of personal dream practice, Don Iannone, Ph.D., reflects on how dreams illuminate vulnerability, desire, identity, and our shared life in society. Through personal vignettes and archetypal reflection, he invites readers to listen more closely to the images and stories that emerge in sleep.
Iannone argues that dreams are not random fragments of the mind but mirrors of who we are and who we might become. They reveal hidden fears and longings while opening pathways toward compassion, imagination, and transcendence. Written with scholarly grounding and personal honesty, the book situates dreaming within a broader wisdom tradition, suggesting that in a fractured age, attention to our inner life is not an indulgence but a responsibility.
Available in paperback (8.5x11)($18.99) and Kindle ($5.99): On Amazon
What He Lived, What I Wrote,
Telling My Father’s Life Story in Poetry
July 2025
Author: Don Iannone
What He Lived, What I Wrote is an intimate memoir in verse that explores a working man’s life through the reflective lens of his son. Blending personal memory, imagined voice, and poetic craft, Don Iannone honors his father, Donald Lowell Iannone—an Ohio Valley mechanic, Navy veteran, husband, and quiet poet—whose life was shaped more by action than speech. Each chapter pairs the father’s own poems with the son’s lyrical responses, creating a dialogue across generations.
Set against the industrial landscapes of the Ohio Valley and the American Southwest, the book traces themes of labor, faith, silence, emotional distance, and reconciliation. With candor and restraint, Iannone reflects on inherited stoicism, unspoken love, and the search for understanding between fathers and sons. The result is both tribute and reckoning—a meditation on family, memory, and the healing power of giving voice to what was once left unsaid.
Available in paperback ($12.99) and Kindle ($5.99): On Amazon
A Magical Chagrin Valley Christmas Story
November 2025
Author: Don Iannone
Fiction
Snow comes early in the Chagrin Valley, and with it arrives a season that remembers more than gifts. Wendy Widner is eight, and her brother Carl is six, and they are learning to live in a world that lost their parents too soon. On a farm just outside Chagrin Falls, their grandparents steady them through Advent’s quiet moments and winter’s bright ones. But when Wendy slips a letter into the red mailbox in town, something older than grief and gentler than time begins to stir.
A dream opens a doorway to 1864, to a missing Union soldier, and to a Christmas miracle that has been waiting generations to find its way home. As snow gathers and lantern light grows, Wendy discovers what Santa has always known: belief is not a childish thing. It is the brave, luminous thread that keeps love from leaving.
A Magical Chagrin Valley Christmas Story is a tender, wonder-filled tale about family, loss, and the kind of magic that returns when you dare to believe again.
Available in paperback ($17.99): On Amazon
Kindling Hope: Stories Awakening the Heart
November 2024
Author: Don Iannone
Fiction
Kindling Hope: Stories Awakening the Heart is a collection of short stories that affirm the enduring power of hope in a fractured world. Drawn from moments across American history and everyday life, these narratives illuminate how ordinary acts of kindness, courage, and compassion can transform despair into resilience and isolation into connection. Each story reminds us that even in uncertain times, hope remains a quiet yet persistent force.
More than inspiration, this book is an invitation to action. It calls readers to recognize hope as a responsibility as well as a gift—to tend it within themselves and extend it to others. Through simple gestures and steadfast resolve, we become participants in a larger human tapestry, weaving light into places where it is most needed.
Available in paperback ($14.99): On Amazon
America’s Dream at a Crossroads, The 2024 Presidential Election and Beyond
July 2024
Author: Don Iannone
Nonfiction (Bestseller on Amazon)
America's Dream at the Crossroads: The 2024 Presidential Election and Beyond is a crucial primer on what is at stake in the 2024 Election. The book suggests that the American Dream itself is up for re-evaluation. It invites readers to consider how the outcomes of this pivotal election could redefine the pursuit of happiness, prosperity, and well-being for all Americans. The 2024 Presidential Election is a referendum on the American Dream. The book offers a twelve-point strategy to strengthen the American Dream. For that reason, it is a must-read for voters, policymakers, and opinion leaders eager to contribute to a national conversation about America's future. The book explains how a person's choice of president directly affects their ability to achieve their goals in life. The book is written in clear, understandable language. Don Iannone was interviewed by national media over 60 times after the book’s release, just 5 months before the election.
Available in paperback ($19.99 and Kindle ($4.99): On Amazon.
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