Rural America

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    • The Threat to American Democracy
    • By: Tom Schaller, Paul Waldman
    • Narrated by: Ray Porter
    • Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 255 ratings
    • A searing portrait and damning takedown of America’s proudest citizens—who are also the least likely to defend its core principles....

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    • A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America
    • By: Monica Potts
    • Narrated by: Monica Potts
    • Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 05-30-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 109 ratings
    • An acclaimed journalist returns home to Arkansas to understand how two similar childhoods could result in drastically different fates....

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    • A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
    • By: J. D. Vance
    • Narrated by: J. D. Vance
    • Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 60,645 ratings
    • Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis - that of white working-class Americans....

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    • Seeing Rural America for What It Is―and Isn’t
    • By: Steven Conn
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 02-27-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • A "piercing, unsentimental" (New Yorker) history that boldly challenges the idea of a rural American crisis.

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    • The Never After Series, Book 1
    • By: Emily McIntire
    • Narrated by: Felicity Munroe, Rupert Hawthorne
    • Series: The Never After Series, Book 1
    • Length: 9 hrs
    • Release date: 01-25-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12,209 ratings
    • Once upon a time, there was a little boy. His belly full of laughter, his life full of joy. Until one day, something changed; stripped his innocence away. The hole inside making space for the devil to come and play....

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    • By: Leo Tolstoy
    • Narrated by: Maggie Gyllenhaal
    • Length: 35 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13,729 ratings
    • Leo Tolstoy's classic story of doomed love is one of the most admired novels in world literature....

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    • A cop's guide to protecting your rural home or property during riots, civil war, or SHTF.
    • By: Don Shift
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • As America stands at the precipice of famine, political instability, a financial disaster, domestic conflict, and even a civil war, preparing ...

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    • Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books
    • By: Stephen J. Pyne
    • Narrated by: Jack de Golia
    • Length: 30 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 01-28-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • From prehistory to the present-day conservation movement, Stephen Pyne explores the efforts of successive American cultures to master wildfire and to use it to shape the landscape. A timely environmental classic....

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    • Notes on the State of America
    • By: Heather Cox Richardson
    • Narrated by: Heather Cox Richardson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,089 ratings
    • Democracy Awakening is more than a history book; it’s a vital and urgent call to action about the precarious state of American democracy, charting its historical challenges and current threats, from one of our era’s most important and insightful historians, with a new afterword by the author.

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    • 15 Authors Challenge Assumptions About Small-Town America
    • By: Nora Shalaway Carpenter - editor
    • Narrated by: Diana Blue, Emmanuel Chumaceiro
    • Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 12-21-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Think you know what rural America is like? Discover a plurality of perspectives in this enlightening anthology of stories that turns preconceptions on their head....

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    • A Town, a Team, and a Dream
    • By: H. G. Bissinger
    • Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
    • Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 12-03-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,276 ratings
    • Socially and racially divided, Odessa isn't known to be a place big on dreams, but every Friday night from September to December, when the Panthers play football, dreams can come true....

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    • The Dollars and Sense of Growing Food in America
    • By: Beth Hoffman
    • Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
    • Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Half of America's two million farms made less than $300 in 2019. Between rising land costs, ever-more expensive equipment, the growing uncertainty of the climate, and few options for health care, farming today is a risky business. For many, simply staying afloat is a constant struggle....

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    • The Politics of Place and the Disuniting of America
    • By: Nicholas Jacobs, Daniel M. Shea
    • Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
    • Length: 16 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 12-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • This pathbreaking book pinpoints forces behind the rise of the "rural voter"—a new political identity that combines a deeply felt sense of place with an increasingly nationalized set of concerns....

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    • By: Brian Allen Carr
    • Narrated by: Shawn Compton
    • Length: 4 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-19
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • During a week-long suspension from school, a teenage transplant to impoverished rural Indiana searches for a job, the whereabouts of his vanished drug-addicted guardian, and meaning in the America of the Trump years....

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    • By: P. J. Vernon
    • Narrated by: Amy McFadden, Bahni Turpin
    • Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 10-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 34,353 ratings
    • Socialite Gray Godfrey wakes from a night out to an empty bed. Her husband, Paul, is gone, and a thrashing hangover has wiped her memory clean. At first, she's relieved for the break; perhaps Paul needed space. But when his car is found abandoned on the highway, Gray must face the truth....

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    • A Senator’s Lessons on Winning Back Rural America
    • By: Jon Tester
    • Narrated by: Jon Tester
    • Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 09-15-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 141 ratings
    • Senator Jon Tester is a rare voice in Congress. He is the only United States senator who manages a full-time job outside of the Senate - as a farmer....

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    • How to Free Yourself, Change Your Life, and Achieve Real Happiness
    • By: Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga
    • Narrated by: Noah Galvin, Graeme Malcolm, January LaVoy
    • Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 05-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7,702 ratings
    • The Courage to Be Disliked, already an enormous best seller in Asia with more than 3.5 million copies sold, demonstrates how to unlock the power within yourself to be the person you truly want to be....

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    • Or the Evening Redness in the West
    • By: Cormac McCarthy
    • Narrated by: Richard Poe
    • Length: 13 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 05-16-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10,884 ratings
    • The striking novel Blood Meridian offers an unflinching narrative of the brutality that accompanied the push west on the 1850s Texas frontier....

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    • A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America
    • By: James Fallows, Deborah Fallows
    • Narrated by: James Fallows, Deborah Fallows
    • Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 05-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 205 ratings
    • 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....

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