Rural category: 418 books
Remaking the Heartland
Middle America since the 1950s
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
For many Americans, the Midwest is a vast unknown. In Remaking the Heartland, Robert Wuthnow sets out to rectify this. He shows how the region has undergone extraordinary social transformations over the past half-century and proven itself surprisingly resilient in the face of such hardships as the...
Summary and Analysis of Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Based on the Book by J.D. Vance
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Hillbilly Elegy tells you what you need to know—before or after you read J.D. Vance’s book.
Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader.
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Ankle High and Knee Deep
Women Reflect on Western Rural Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Colicky horses, trucks high-centered in pastures, late nights spent in barns birthing calves--the trials and tribulations of farm and ranch life are as central to its experience as amber waves of grain and Sunday dinners at the ranch house. Ankle High and Knee Deep collects together essays about lessons...
Outside Shot
Big Dreams, Hard Times, and One County's Quest for Basketball Greatness
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
"A reporting tour de force and an utterly gripping account… Outside Shot unmistakably triumphs, with the reader rooting hard for the Cardinals—and delighted that O'Brien has brought his considerable skills to telling their story." —Wayne Coffey, New York Times Book Review
The...
Back Yonder
An Ozark Chronicle
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Wayman Hogue’s stories of growing up in the Ozarks, according to a 1932 review in the New York Times, “brilliantly illuminate mountain life to its very heart and in its most profound aspects.” A standout among the Ozarks literature that was popular during the Great Depression, this memoir of...
by Alissa Callen
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
A captivating rural romance featuring an indomitable young woman determined to save her family farm, and the city-boy who is not all he seems... Paige Quinn will let nothing and no one distract her from caring for her crippled father, Connor, and fighting for her remote, drought-stricken property,...
A Fortunate Man
The Story of a Country Doctor
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2011
In this quietly revolutionary work of social observation and medical philosophy, Booker Prize-winning writer John Berger and the photographer Jean Mohr train their gaze on an English country doctor and find a universal man--one who has taken it upon himself to recognize his patient's humanity when...
by Kent Meyers
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 1998
When Kent Meyers was sixteen years old, his father died of a stroke. There was corn to plant, cattle to feed, and a farm to maintain. Here, in a fresh and vibrant voice, Meyers recounts the wake of his father’s death and reflects on families, farms, and rural life in the Midwest.
A Boy's Own Dale
A 1950s childhood in the Yorkshire Dales
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2011
Growing up in rural Yorkshire in the 1940s and 50s, Terry Wilson spent his school days hunting down Just William books, cutting up apples to help with fractions and staring out the window dreaming up new schemes.
But it was on the Dales themselves that Terry came into his own. Whether he was...
La terre qui meurt (suivi de La terre par Zola)
édition intégrale
Language: French
Release Date: January 22, 2013
Cette édition de référence rassemble deux romans majestueux qui évoquent la condition paysanne comme une tragédie sociale : « La terre qui meurt » de René Bazin, suivi de « La terre » par Emile Zola.
« La terre qui meurt » de René Bazin, c’est l’histoire de la vie dans les...
Chosen Country
A Rebellion in the West
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
"Whoever you are, whatever side you’re on, if you care about the American west and what’s happening to it, read this book."
—Caroline Fraser, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Prairie Fires
An extraordinary inside look at America’s militia movement that shows a country at the...
by Pamela Rhodes
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
Pamela Rhodes, one of the first British policewomen, tells her fascinating story in Bobby on the Beat.
Back in 1950 Pam became one of the first policewomen in the country. But the force's new female recruits faced a sceptical public in rural Yorkshire and even before they stepped out on the...
Ethical Eating
A Complete Guide to Sustainable Food
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
Global food is not a nice business. Farming is no longer the gentle vocation of previous generations, food production is not the artisan craft of past centuries, retailing is not the friendly personal service of our grandparents' generation - these concepts are gone, swept away by the Big Food corporations...
by Eliza Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
It occurred to Eliza Thomas when she hit her forties that home might be "someplace you made." A modest cabin in the woods of Vermont seemed like a good place to start. Thomas's funny, heartwarming experiences transform the weekend cabin into a real home--a place where Thomas paints the floor...