Rural category: 418 books
by Rick Bragg
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2010
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
This haunting, harrowing, gloriously moving recollection of a life on the American margin is the story of Rick Bragg, who grew up dirt-poor in northeastern Alabama, seemingly destined for either the cotton mills or the penitentiary, and instead became...
Amity and Prosperity
One Family and the Fracturing of America
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
In Amity and Prosperity, the prizewinning poet and journalist Eliza Griswold tells the story of the energy boom’s impact on a small town at the edge of Appalachia and one woman’s transformation from a struggling single parent to an...
Madison Park
A Place of Hope
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Welcome to Madison Park, a small community in Alabama founded by freed slaves in 1880. And meet Eric Motley, a native son who came of age in this remarkable place where constant lessons in self-determination, hope, and unceasing belief in the American dream taught him everything he needed for his...
Open Secrets
A Memoir of Faith and Discovery
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2002
Open Secrets is Richard Lischer's story of his early career as a Lutheran minister. Fresh out of divinity school and full of enthusiasm, Lischer found himself assigned to a small conservative church in an economically depressed town in southern Illinois. This was far from what this overly enthusiastic...
The End of Country
Dispatches from the Frack Zone
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
“A rare, honest, beautiful, and, yes, sometimes heartbreaking examination of the echoes of water-powered natural gas drilling—or fracking—in the human community . . . vivid, personal and emotional.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune
** **
Susquehanna County, in the remote northeastern corner of...
Too High to Fail
Cannabis and the New Green Economic Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
The first in-depth look at the burgeoning legal cannabis industry and how the “new green economy” is shaping our country
The nation’s economy is in trouble, but there’s one cash crop that has the potential to turn it around: cannabis (also known as marijuana and hemp). According to...
Dopesick
Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
An instant New York Times and indie bestseller, Dopesick is the only book to fully chart the devastating opioid crisis in America: "a harrowing, deeply compassionate dispatch from the heart of a national emergency" (New York Times) from a bestselling author and journalist who has lived through...
Idyll Banter
Weekly Excursions to a Very Small Town
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
In March 1986, while living in Brooklyn, Chris Bohjalian and his wife were cab-napped on a Saturday night and taken on a forty-five-minute joy ride in which the driver ignored all traffic lights and stop signs. Around midnight he deposited the young couple on a near-deserted street, where police officers...
Appalachian Reckoning
A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
With hundreds of thousands of copies sold, a Ron Howard movie in the works, and the rise of its author as a media personality, J. D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis has defined Appalachia for much of the nation. What about Hillbilly Elegy accounts for this explosion...
by
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
The Affordable Housing Reader brings together classic works and contemporary writing on the themes and debates that have animated the field of affordable housing policy as well as the challenges in achieving the goals of policy on the ground. The Reader – aimed at professors, students, and researchers – provides...
Something's Rising
Appalachians Fighting Mountaintop Removal
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
Like an old-fashioned hymn sung in rounds, Something's Rising gives a stirring voice to the lives, culture, and determination of the people fighting the destructive practice of mountaintop removal in the coalfields of central Appalachia. Each person's story, unique and unfiltered, articulates the...
by Foxfire Fund, Inc.
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
First 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 old-fashioned way, or learn the art of successful moonshining, The Foxfire Museum and Heritage Center...
Red Sky at Night
The Book of Lost Country Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
Ever wondered how to predict the weather just by looking at the sky?
Or wanted to attract butterflies to your garden?
Is there a knack to building the perfect bonfire?
And how exactly do you race a ferret?
In this world of traffic tailbacks, supermarket shopping and 24-hour internet access,...
by Novato Press
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Be prepared when real disaster strikes.
Everyone believes that they have their life completely under control—until a major disaster hits. In an emergency, the fantasy of control collapses, along with everything that makes our lives normal. Only those who have planned ahead will survive....