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Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World
$20.00 Add to cart“I had been waiting for much of my life to read this extraordinary book…there are clues and messages for every fortunate reader who picks it up.” –Annie Proulx
*A New York Times Book Review Editors- Author: Joyce, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1668031094
- Language: English
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The Ghost Lab: How Bigfoot Hunters, Mediums, and Alien Enthusiasts Are Wrecking Science
$30.00 Add to cartA surprising and compelling journey into the business of paranormal investigation, and the state of scientific literacy in America.
In 2010, in a small New Hampshire town, next door to a copy center- Author: Hongoltz-Hetling, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1541703979
- Language: English
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The Caving Grounds: Poems
$34.95 Add to cartKathleen M. Heideman’s The Caving Grounds excavates the rubble of Negaunee, a small town in Upper Michigan hollowed by a century of mining. The extraction of hematite caused underground collapses and
- Author: Heideman, Kathleen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 124
- Publish Date: March 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1615998462
- Language: English
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Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy
$28.99 Add to cart2020 American Book Award winner, Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Criticism Award
With hundreds of thousands of copies sold, a Ron Howard movie in the works, and the r
Weatherford Award winner, nonfiction- Author: Harkins, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 13 2019
- ISBN10: 1946684791
- Language: English
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The Last Cowboys: A Pioneer Family in the New West
$26.95 Read moreFor generations, the Wrights of southern Utah have raised cattle and world-champion saddle-bronc riders–some call them the most successful rodeo family in history. Now Bill and Evelyn Wright, parents
- Author: Branch, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 15 2018
- ISBN10: 0393292347
- Language: English
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If You Lived Here You’d Be Home by Now: Why We Traded the Commuting Life for a Little House on the Prairie
$19.99 Add to cartAn NPR Best Book of the Year
The hilarious, charming, and candid story of writer Christopher Ingraham’s decision to uproot his life and move his family to Red Lake Falls, Minnesota, population 1,400–t
- Author: Ingraham, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0062861484
- Language: English
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The Good Life: Helen and Scott Nearing’s Sixty Years of Self-Sufficient Living
$19.00 Add to cart- Author: Nearing, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 411
- Publish Date: January 03 1990
- ISBN10: 0805209700
- Language: English
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Storm Lake: Change, Resilience, and Hope in America’s Heartland
$18.00 Read more“A reminder that even the smallest newspapers can hold the most powerful among us accountable.”–The New York Times Book Review
Iowa plays an outsize role in na
Watch the documentary Storm Lake on PBS.- Author: Cullen, Art
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 21 2020
- ISBN10: 0525558896
- Language: English
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Getting Something to Eat in Jackson: Race, Class, and Food in the American South
$46.58 Read moreJames Beard Foundation Book Award Nominee – Winner of the Ida B. Wells-Barnett Book Award, Association of Black Sociologists – Winner of the C. Wright Mills Award, the Society for the Study of Social
- Author: Ewoodzie, Joseph C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 05 2021
- ISBN10: 0691203946
- Language: English
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The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Small-Town America
$15.95 Read moreHow a fraying social fabric is fueling the outrage of rural Americans
What is fueling rural America’s outrage toward the federal government? Why did rural Americans vote overwhelmingly for Donald Trum- Author: Wuthnow, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 30 2019
- ISBN10: 0691191662
- Language: English
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Dirt Road Revival: How to Rebuild Rural Politics and Why Our Future Depends on It
$24.95 Read moreThe Democratic Party left rural America behind.
This urgent rallying cry shows how Democrats can win back and empower overlooked communities that have been pushing politics to the right–and why long-- Author: Maxmin, Chloe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 080700751X
- Language: English
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Twilight in Hazard: An Appalachian Reckoning
$17.99 Read more“Twilight in Hazard paints a more nuanced portrait of Appalachia than Vance did…[Maimon] eviscerates Vance’s bestseller with stiletto precision.” –Associated Press
From investigative reporter and P… [more below]- Author: Maimon, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1612199976
- Language: English
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Wastelands: The True Story of Farm Country on Trial
$30.00 Read more“Beautifully written, impeccably researched, and told with the air of suspense that few writers can handle, Wastelands is a story I wish I had written.” –From the Foreword by John Grisham
The once id- Author: Addison, Corban
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 0593320824
- Language: English
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Uprooted: Recovering the Legacy of the Places We’ve Left Behind
$27.00 Add to cart“A superior exploration of the consequences of the hollowing out of our agricultural heartlands.”–Kirkus Reviews
In the tradition of Wendell Berry, a young writer wrestles with what we owe the places- Author: Olmstead, Grace
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0593084020
- Language: English
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Going Driftless: Life Lessons from the Heartland for Unraveling Times
$16.95 Read moreSomething truly fascinating is afoot in a region of the Upper Midwest commonly known as the Driftless that runs counter to many of the trends in the rest of the nation and just might be blueprint for … [more below]
- Author: Lyons, Stephen J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0762780657
- Language: English
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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
$34.00 Add to cartHillbilly Elegy recounts J.D. Vance’s powerful origin story…
From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate now serving as a U.S. Senator from Ohio and the Republican Vice Presidential candidate f
- Author: Vance, J. D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0063438356
- Language: English
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Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America’s Edge
$19.00 Add to cartFrom Pulitzer Prize finalist and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Newjack, a passage through an America lived wild and off the grid, where along with independence and stunning view… [more below]
- Author: Conover, Ted
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0525563288
- Language: English
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On Farms and Rural Communities: An Agricultural Ethic for the Future
$16.95 Read moreA clarion call to recognize the importance of rural farming communities and to build a new agriculture policy for our future
In a twenty-first-century landscape marked by unprecedented challenges, t… [more below]- Series: Speaker’s Corner
- Author: Apps, Jerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1682754642
- Language: English
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Flyover Church: How Jesus’ Ministry in Rural Places Is Good News Everywhere
$19.99 Add to cartChrist is present and at work in rural communities. How do we lead from that reality?
The temptation to operate from a scarcity mindset is stronger than ever. The tensions unleashed over the past few- Author: Roth, Brad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1513813722
- Language: English
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Country Queers: A Love Letter
$24.95 Add to cartPart photo book, part memoir, part oral history project, this volume paints a vivid portrait of queer and trans experiences in rural areas and small towns across the US.
In 2013, Rae Garringer embark- Author: Garringer, Rae
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 9798888902486
- Language: English
