Rural
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Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains
$21.00 Add to cartAfter rising from poverty to earn two Ivy League degrees, an Appalachian lawyer pays tribute to the strong “hill women” who raised and inspired her, and whose values have the potential to rejuvenate a… [more below]
- Author: Chambers, Cassie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1984818937
- Language: English
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The Last American Man
$18.00 Add to cartFinalist for the National Book Award
From the New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love, Big Magic and City of Girls comes a riveting exploration of manhood and all its complicated meanings t- Author: Gilbert, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 27 2003
- ISBN10: 0142002836
- Language: English
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The Last Cowboys: A Pioneer Family in the New West
$16.95 Add to cartThe Last Cowboys is Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter John Branch’s epic tale of one American family struggling to hold on to the fading vestiges of the Old West. For generations, the Wrights of southe
- Author: Branch, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 04 2019
- ISBN10: 039335699X
- Language: English
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Foxfire 10: Railroad Lore, Boardinghouses, Depression-Era Appalachia, Chairmaking, Whirligigs, Snake Canes, Gourd Art
$23.00 Add to cartFirst published in 1972, The Foxfire Book was a surprise bestseller that brought Appalachia’s philosophy of simple living to hundreds of thousands of readers. Whether you wanted to hunt game, bake the… [more below]
- Series: Foxfire #10
- Author: Foxfire Fund Inc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: March 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0385422768
- Language: English
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The Cedar Choppers: Life on the Edge of Nothing
$19.95 Add to cartAt the low-water bridge below Tom Miller Dam, west of downtown Austin, during the summer of his tenth or eleventh year, Ken Roberts had his first encounter with cedar choppers. On his way to the bridg
- Series: Sam Rayburn Rural Life, Sponsored by Texas A&m University-Commerce #24
- Author: Roberts, Ken
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: August 20 2019
- ISBN10: 1623498201
- Language: English
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Diffusion of Innovations, 5th Edition
$37.50 Add to cartNow in its fifth edition, Diffusion of Innovations is a classic work on the spread of new ideas.
In this renowned book, Everett M. Rogers, professor and chair of the Department of Communication & Jour- Author: Rogers, Everett M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: August 16 2003
- ISBN10: 0743222091
- Language: English
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Nothing but the Dirt: Stories from an American Farm Town
$24.99 Add to cartIn this work of creative nonfiction, author Kate Benz provides an intimate look at the present-day residents of Courtland, Kansas (population 285), a town whose economy depends almost entirely on agri
- Author: Benz, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0700633456
- Language: English
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All Over But the Shoutin’: A Memoir
$19.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – From the Pulitzer Prize-winner and bestselling author, “a grand memoir…. Bragg tells about the South with such power and bone-naked love … he will make you cry” (Atlanta Jour… [more below]
- Author: Bragg, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 08 1998
- ISBN10: 0679774025
- Language: English
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Travels with Foxfire: Stories of People, Passions, and Practices from Southern Appalachia
$23.00 Add to cartSince 1972, the Foxfire books have preserved and celebrated the culture of Southern Appalachia for hundreds of thousands of readers. In Travels with Foxfire, native son Phil Hudgins and Foxfire studen… [more below]
- Series: Foxfire
- Author: Hudgins, Phil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 14 2018
- ISBN10: 0525436294
- Language: English
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Five Acres and Independence: A Handbook for Small Farm Management
$19.95 Add to cartEveryone who has ever dreamed of getting back to the soil will derive from Maurice Grenville Kains’ practical and easy-to-understand discussions a more complete view of what small-scale farming means.
- Author: Kains, Maurice G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 01 1973
- ISBN10: 0486209741
- Language: English
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The Egg and I
$17.99 Add to cart“A work of real comic genius. . . . A wonderful, funny, warm, honest book, and, to use a much overused word, a classic.” -Michael Korda, author of Country Matters
When Betty MacDonald married a marine
- Author: MacDonald, Betty
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 24 2008
- ISBN10: 0060914289
- Language: English
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Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight Against the Drug Companies That Delivered the Opioid Epidemic
$18.99 Add to cartA New York Times Critics’ Top Ten Book of the Year * 2021 Edgar Award Winner Best Fact Crime * A Lit Hub Best Book of The Year
From a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter at the Charleston G- Author: Eyre, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1982105321
- Language: English
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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
$30.00 Add to cartTHE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER IS NOW A MAJOR-MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY RON HOWARD AND STARRING AMY ADAMS, GLENN CLOSE, AND GABRIEL BASSO
“You will not read a more important book about America this
- Author: Vance, J. D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 28 2016
- ISBN10: 0062300547
- Language: English
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A Small Farm Future: Making the Case for a Society Built Around Local Economies, Self-Provisioning, Agricultural Diversity and a Shared Ear
$24.95 Add to cartA modern classic of the new agrarianism
“Chris Smaje…shows that the choice is clear. Either we have a small farm future, or we face collapse and extinction.”–Vandana Shiva
“Every young person shou
- Author: Smaje, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 21, 2020
- ISBN10: 1603589023
- Language: English
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families
$22.99 Add to cartPulitzer Prize-winning author James Agee and renowned photgrapher Walker Evans’s Let Us Now Praise Famous Men is a landmark work of American photojournalism “renowned for its fusion of social conscien… [more below]
- Author: Evans, Walker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 14 2001
- ISBN10: 0618127496
- Language: English
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The Complete Modern Blacksmith
$25.00 Add to cartTeach yourself the lost arts of blacksmithing, tool design, and tool repair.
Design, forge, and fix your own tools, hardware, and household accessories with master craftsman and teacher Alexander G…. [more below]- Author: Weygers, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 01 1997
- ISBN10: 898158966
- Language: English
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Storey’s Basic Country Skills: A Practical Guide to Self-Reliance
$24.99 Add to cartWhether you live on a small suburban lot or have a many acres in the country, this inspiring collection will empower you to increase your self-sufficiently and embrace a more independent lifestyle. A … [more below]
- Author: Storey, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: September 01 1999
- ISBN10: 1580172024
- Language: English
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$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America
$18.99 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book of the Year
The story of a kind of poverty in America so deep that we, as a country, don’t even think exists–from a leading national poverty expert who “defies conventi… [more below]- Author: Edin, Kathryn J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 13 2016
- ISBN10: 054481195X
- Language: English
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Dirt Road Revival: How to Rebuild Rural Politics and Why Our Future Depends on It
$16.95 Read more- Author: Maxmin, Chloe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 0807008214
- Language: English
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Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
$17.00 Add to cart*Finalist for the National Book Award*
*Finalist for the Kirkus Prize*
*Instant New York Times Bestseller*
*Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, New York Post, BuzzFeed, Shelf Awareness, Bustle, and… [more below]- Author: Smarsh, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 03 2019
- ISBN10: 1501133101
- Language: English
