Rural category: 418 books
by Alexander Weygers
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Teach 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. Weygers. The Complete Modern Blacksmith contains clear, step-by-step instructions and hundreds...
by Elizabeth Gilbert
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2003
**Finalist 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 through the portrait of an American Mountain Man. **
In this rousing examination of...
Hillbilly Elegy
A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, NAMED BY THE TIMES AS ONE OF "6 BOOKS TO HELP UNDERSTAND TRUMP'S WIN" AND SOON TO BE A MAJOR-MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY RON HOWARD
**"You will not read a more important book about America this year.**"—The Economist
"A riveting...
Heartland
A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
*Finalist for the National Book Award and the Kirkus Prize*
*Instant New York Times Bestseller*
*Named a Best Book of 2018 by NPR, The New York Post, BuzzFeed, Shelf Awareness, Bustle, and Publishers Weekly*
An essential read for our times: an eye-opening memoir of working-class poverty in...
Confederacy of Silence
A True Tale of the New Old South
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
A compelling and vivid portrait of a Deep South community poised between the past and the future, this is the stunning true story of how a young New York writer plunged into a closed Mississippi society, and what happened when he came out on the other side.
Fresh out of the Ivy League, New...
Friday Night Lights, 25th Anniversary Edition
A Town, a Team, and a Dream
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Return once again to the timeless account of the Permian Panthers of Odessa--the winningest high-school football team in Texas history. Odessa is not known to be a town big on dreams, but the Panthers help keep the hopes and dreams of this small, dusty town going. Socially and racially divided, its...
Our Towns
A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
***NATIONAL BEST SELLER***
A vivid, surprising portrait of the civic and economic reinvention taking place in America, town by town and generally out of view of the national media. A realistically positive and provocative view of the country between its coasts.
For the last five years,...
The Cowboy Legend
Owen Wister's Virginian and the Canadian-American Ranching Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
The cowboy, as perhaps no other figure, has captured the imagination of North Americans for over a century. Before Owen Wister's publication of The Virginian in 1902, the image of the cowboy was essentially that of the dime novel - a rough, violent, one-dimensional drifter, or the stage cowboy variety...
The Forgotten Village
Life in a Mexican Village
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2009
The novelist who wrote The Grapes of Wrath and the director who produced Crisis and Lights Out in Europe combined their superb talents to tell the story of the coming of modern medicine to the natives of Mexico. There have been several notable examples of this pen-camera method of narration,...
by Liz Walker
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
We all want a sustainable future, but what does it look like, and how do we get there? In Ithaca, NY a new culture is blossoming - one that values cooperation, local production, environmental stewardship, social justice and creativity. Ithaca is showing the way to meet the challenges of the day with...
Norwich
One Tiny Vermont Town's Secret to Happiness and Excellence
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
The extraordinary story of the small Vermont town that has likely produced more Olympians per capita than any other place in the country, Norwich gives “parents of young athletes a great gift—a glimpse at another way to raise accomplished and joyous competitors” (The Washington Post).
In...
Long Time Leaving
Dispatches from Up South
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
“I left the South in search of the Enlightenment. I’m pro-choice, in favor of gay marriage, and against creationism and the war in Iraq. But both my parents’ people are deep Southern from many generations, and I spent a little over a third of my life, including the presumably most formative...
Akenfield
Portrait of an English Village
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Woven from the words of the inhabitants of a small Suffolk village in the 1960s, Akenfield is a masterpiece of twentieth-century English literature, a scrupulously observed and deeply affecting portrait of a place and people and a now vanished way of life. Ronald Blythe’s wonderful book raises...
by Lyle Estill
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
In an era when incomprehensibly complex issues like Peak Oil and Climate Change dominate headlines, practical solutions at a local level can seem somehow inadequate.In response, Lyle Estill's Small is Possible introduces us to "hometown security," with this chronicle of a community-powered response...