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  • The Alchemy of Meth

    A Decomposition

    by Jason Pine ...
    Meth cooks practice late industrial alchemy—transforming base materials, like lithium batteries and camping fuel, into goldMeth alchemists all over the United States tap the occulted potencies of industrial chemical and big pharma products to try to cure the ills of precarious living: underemployment, insecurity, and the feeling of idleness. Meth fires up your attention and makes repetitive tasks ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Forgotten Girls

    A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America

    by Monica Potts ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An acclaimed journalist tries to understand how she escaped her small town in Arkansas while her brilliant friend could not, and, in the process, illuminates the unemployment, drug abuse, sexism, and evangelicalism killing poor, rural white women all over America.“[A] clear-eyed and tender debut . . . This book is as much the author’s story as a piece of reportage.”—The ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Between the Guerrillas and the State

    The Cocalero Movement, Citizenship, and Identity in the Colombian Amazon

    Translated by Andy Klatt ...
    Responding to pressure from the United States, the Colombian government in 1996 intensified aerial fumigation of coca plantations in the western Amazon region. This crackdown on illicit drug cultivation sparked an uprising among the region’s cocaleros, small-scale coca producers and harvest workers. More than 200,000 campesinos marched that summer to protest the heightened threat to their ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Re-Imagining Spaces and Places

    Interdisciplinary Essays on the Relationship between Identity, Space, and Place

    Series series Emerald Interdisciplinary Connexions
    While 'space' and 'place' appear as key concepts in the study of culture, their complexity and mutability require ever-new frameworks when approaching them critically. Including chapters by authors from different fields, career stages, and geopolitical backgrounds, the contributors in this edited collection scrutinize the changing dynamics of space and place in relation to current political, ... Read more

    $81.99 USD

  • Hill Folks

    A History of Arkansas Ozarkers and Their Image

    The Ozark region, located in northern Arkansas and southern Missouri, has long been the domain of the folklorist and the travel writer--a circumstance that has helped shroud its history in stereotype and misunderstanding. With Hill Folks, Brooks Blevins offers the first in-depth historical treatment of the Arkansas Ozarks. He traces the region's history from the early nineteenth century through ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Madison Park

    A Place of Hope

    In this inspiring memoir, a former special assistant to President George W. Bush recounts the lessons he learned from his small Southern hometown.Welcome to Madison Park, a small community in Alabama founded by freed slaves in 1880. Eric Motley came of age in this remarkable place, where lessons in self-determination, hope, and an unceasing belief in the American dream taught him everything he ... Read more

    $9.99 USD $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hillbilly Elegy

    A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

    by J. D. Vance ...
    THE#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 year.**"—The Economist"A riveting book."—The Wall Street Journal**"Essential reading."—David Brooks,**New York TimesHillbilly Elegy is a passionate ... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $10.99 USD

  • Confessions of a Counterfeit Farm Girl

    A Memoir

    A laugh-out-loud memoir about a city slicker who discovers that Manolos and manure just don?t mix.At her husband?s prompting, suburban mom and New York career woman Susan McCorkindale agreed to give up her stressful six-figure job. Together, they headed down south to a 500-acre beef farm, and never looked back. Well, he didn?t look back. She did. A lot.From playing ?spot the religious billboard? ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Bet the Farm

    The Dollars and Sense of Growing Food in America

    by Beth Hoffman ...
    “Eloquent and detailed…precise and well-thought-out...Read her book — and listen.” — Jane Smiley, The Washington Post.Beth Hoffman was living the good life: she had a successful career as a journalist and professor, a comfortable home in San Francisco, and plenty of close friends and family. Yet in her late 40s, she and her husband decided to leave the big city and move to his family ranch in Iowa ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Cheap Land Colorado

    Off-Gridders at America's Edge

    by Ted Conover ...
    **From 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 views come fierce winds, neighbors with criminal pasts, and minimal government and medical services.“In these dispatches, [Conover] invites readers to ride shotgun along an unraveling edge of the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • We Are As Gods

    Back to the Land in the 1970s on the Quest for a New America

    by Kate Daloz ...
    At the dawn of the 1970s, waves of hopeful idealists abandoned the city and headed for the country, convinced that a better life awaited. They were full of dreams, mostly lacking in practical skills, and soon utterly out of money. But they knew paradise when they saw it.When Loraine, Craig, Pancake, Hershe, and a dozen of their friends came into possession of 116 acres in Vermont, they had big ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Tree Thieves

    Crime and Survival in North America's Woods

    **SHORTLISTED FOR THE COLUMBIA SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM J. ANTHONY LUKAS BOOK AWARDLONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 PEN/JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH AWARD FOR NONFICTIONFINALIST FOR THE NELLIE BY CHANTICLEER INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARDS FOR JOURNALISTIC NON-FICTIONA gripping investigation of the billion-dollar timber black market “and a fascinating examination of the deep and troubled relationship between people and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Idyll Banter

    Weekly Excursions to a Very Small Town

    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 were about to storm a crack house. Bohjalian and his wife were told to hit the ground for ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Salvation on Sand Mountain

    Snake Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia

    A haunting exploration of faith, from a preacher convicted of attempted murder to a first-hand account of holiness serpent handling--"One of the best books on American religion from the last 25 years" (Chicago Tribune)For New York Times reporter Dennis Covington, what began as a journalistic assignment-covering the trial of an Alabama pastor convicted of attempting to murder his wife with ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Quiet Zone

    Unraveling the Mystery of a Town Suspended in Silence

    In this riveting account of an area of Appalachia known as the Quiet Zone where cell phones and WiFi are banned, journalist Stephen Kurczy explores the pervasive role of technology in our lives and the innate human need for quiet.“Captures the complex beauty of a disconnected way of life.” —The NationWith a new afterword to the paperback editionDeep in the Appalachian Mountains lies the last truly ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • What Next?

    A laugh-out-loud novel from #1 bestseller Shari Low

    by Shari Low ...
    Two weeks, four friends and one big bucket list of secrets to unravel…Val Murray and her best friend, Josie had been planning a ‘Thelma and Louise’ bucket list style holiday.Now Josie is gone, and Val needs to make the trip before it’s too late.But Val doesn’t want to do it alone, so she enlists the help of her nieces, Carly and Carole, and their best pal, Jess, who jump at the chance to join Val ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Friday Night Lights (25th Anniversary Edition)

    A Town, a Team, and a Dream

    **Named Sports Illustrated's best football book of all time and a #1 NYT bestseller, this is the classic story of a high school football team whose win-loss record has a profound influence on the town around them.Return once again to the timeless account of the Permian Panthers of Odessa -- the winningest high-school football team in Texas history. Socially and racially divided, Odessa isn't known ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Why Rural Schools Matter

    From headlines to documentaries, urban schools are at the center of current debates about education. From these accounts, one would never know that 51 million Americans live in rural communities and depend on their public schools to meet not only educational but also social and economic needs. For many communities, these schools are the ties that bind. Why Rural Schools Matter shares the untold ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Breaking Clean

    “A memoir with the fierce narrative force of an eastern Montana blizzard, rich in story and character, filled with the bone-chilling details of Blunt’s childhood. She writes without bitterness, with an abiding love of the land and the work and her family and friends that she finally left behind, at great sacrifice, to begin to write. This is a magnificent achievement, a book for the ages. I’ve ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Remembering Peasants

    A Personal History of a Vanished World

    by Patrick Joyce ...
    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 time.“What the skeleton is to anatomy, the peasant is to history, its essential hidden support.” For over the past century and a half, and still more rapidly in the last seventy years, the world has become increasingly urban, and the peasant way of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Fragile Neighborhoods

    Repairing American Society, One Zip Code at a Time

    An “essential and engaging ” (Richard Florida) exploration of social decline in America: its true causes and the practical steps each of us can take to combat it, starting with the places we call home.The neighborhoods we live in impact our lives in so many ways: they determine who we know, what resources and opportunities we have access to, the quality of schools our kids go to, our sense of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Dinner Lady Detectives

    A charming British village cosy mystery

    by Hannah Hendy ...
    Series Book 1 - The Dinner Lady Detectives
    Murder is a dish best served ice cold...Margery and Clementine are enjoying a peaceful middle-age together in the small, idyllic town of Dewstow, and eagerly awaiting retirement from their work on the front line serving meals to the students at Summerview secondary school.Their calm life is shattered when their kitchen manager is found dead in the school’s walk-in freezer. The police are adamant ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Forgotten Village

    Life in a Mexican Village

    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, but The Forgotten Village is unique among them in that Steinbeck wrote the text before a single picture was ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Rural America in a Globalizing World

    Problems and Prospects for the 2010's

    Series series Rural Studies
    This fourth Rural Sociological Society decennial volume provides advanced policy scholarship on rural North America during the 2010’s, closely reflecting upon the increasingly global nature of social, cultural, and economic forces and the impact of neoliberal ideology upon policy, politics, and power in rural areas.The chapters in this volume represent the expertise of an influential group of ... Read more

    $35.99 USD