Rural
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What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia
$18.95 Add to cart“The most damning critique of Hillbilly Elegy.”―The New York Review of Books
“A spiky polemic.”–Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker
In recent years and in countless ways, Appalachia has been
- Author: Catte, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: February 06 2018
- ISBN10: 0998904147
- Language: English
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The Vermont Plays
$22.95 Add to cart“Baker may just have the subtlest way with exposition of anyone writing for the theater today… There is something distinctly Chekhovian in the way her writing accrues weight and meaning simply throu
- Author: Baker, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: June 12 2012
- ISBN10: 1559363894
- Language: English
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Wastelands: The True Story of Farm Country on Trial
$19.00 Add to cart- Author: Addison, Corban
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0593315324
- Language: English
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Woodsqueer: Crafting a Sustainable Rural Life
$18.95 Add to cartWoodsqueer is sometimes used to describe the mindset of a person who has taken to the wild for an extended period of time. Gretchen Legler is no stranger to life away from the rapid-fire pace of the t… [more below]
- Author: Legler, Gretchen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 15, 2022
- ISBN10: 1595349596
- Language: English
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The Back to Basics Handbook: A Guide to Buying and Working Land, Raising Livestock, Enjoying Your Harvest, Household Skills and Crafts, and More
$24.99 Add to cartAnyone who wants to learn basic living skills–the kind employed by our forefathers–need look no further than this eminently useful, full-color guide. Dye your own wool, raise chickens, weave a rug,
- Series: Handbook
- Author: Gehring, Abigail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 25, 2011
- ISBN10: 1616082615
- Language: English
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The Overlooked Americans: The Resilience of Our Rural Towns and What It Means for Our Country
$32.00 Add to cartHow small-town America’s surprising success reshapes our understanding of the nation’s urban-rural divide, offering “the most balanced and broadest-ranging look at the topic” (Tyler Cowen, George Maso
- Author: Currid-Halkett, Elizabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 06, 2023
- ISBN10: 154164672X
- Language: English
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Billionaire Wilderness: The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West
$19.95 Add to cartA revealing look at the intersection of wealth, philanthropy, and conservation
Billionaire Wilderness takes you inside the exclusive world of the ultra-wealthy, showing how today’s richest people are- Series: Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology #24
- Author: Farrell, Justin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0691217122
- Language: English
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The Lies of the Land: Seeing Rural America for What It Is–And Isn’t
$29.00 Read moreA “piercing, unsentimental” (New Yorker) history that boldly challenges the idea of a rural American crisis.
It seems everyone has an opinion about rural America. Is it gripped in a tragic decline? O- Author: Conn, Steven
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0226826902
- Language: English
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Notes from the Porch: Tiny True Stories to Make You Feel Better about the World
$29.99 Add to cart“Covid-19 stole so much. But one of the things it couldn’t steal was the power of stories.”
From the author of the international bestseller The Headmaster’s Wife and other novels comes a collec
- Author: Greene, Thomas Christopher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 142
- Publish Date: February 20, 2024
- ISBN10: 1578691605
- Language: English
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Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America’s Edge
$30.00 Read moreFrom 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 vie… [more below]
- Author: Conover, Ted
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0525521488
- Language: English
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Downeast: Five Maine Girls and the Unseen Story of Rural America
$17.99 Add to cart- Author: Georges, Gigi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 07, 2022
- ISBN10: 0062984446
- Language: English
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Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World
$30.00 Add to cart*A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice*
A landmark new history of the peasant experience, exploring a now neglected way of life that once encompassed most of humanity but is vanishing in our ti- Author: Joyce, Patrick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 20, 2024
- ISBN10: 1668031086
- Language: English
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Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains
$19.95 Add to cartFinalist for the National Book Award
The Ogallala aquifer has nourished life on the American Great Plains for millennia. But less tha
An intimate reckoning with aquifer depletion in America’s heartland- Author: Bessire, Lucas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0691216436
- Language: English
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If You Can’t Quit Cryin’, You Can’t Come Here No More: A Family’s Legacy of Poverty, Crime and Mental Illness in Rural America
$17.95 Add to cartThere’s another hillbilly elegy. It’s the reality of multi-generational trauma, poverty, and how our society has abandoned millions of Americans to suffer the ravages of a system they don’t control.
On
- Author: Frizzell, Betty
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 21, 2021
- ISBN10: 1627311017
- Language: English
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The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia
$19.99 Add to cart*** A NEW YORK TIMES “100 Notable Books of 2020” ***
A stunning, complex narrative about the fractured legacy of a decades-old double murder in rural West Virginia–and the writer determined to put th- Author: Eisenberg, Emma Copley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 19, 2021
- ISBN10: 0316449210
- Language: English
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Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town
$18.00 Read moreA New York Times Bestseller
Named a best book of the year by:
Winner of the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize
Winner of the Hillman Prize for Book Journalism
the Los Angeles Times
the San Francisco Chroni- Author: Reding, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 25, 2010
- ISBN10: 1608192075
- Language: English
