Rural Poverty

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    • A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
    • By: Sarah Smarsh
    • Narrated by: Sarah Smarsh
    • Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 973 ratings
    • During Sarah Smarsh’s turbulent childhood in Kansas in the 1980s and 1990s, the forces of cyclical poverty and the country’s changing economic policies solidified her family’s place among the working poor....

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    • Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America
    • By: Kathryn J. Edin, H. Luke Shaefer, Timothy J. Nelson
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Three of the nation’s top scholars ­– known for tackling key mysteries about poverty in America – turn their attention from the country’s poorest people to its poorest places....

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    • One Family and the Fracturing of America
    • By: Eliza Griswold
    • Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
    • Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 06-12-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 251 ratings
    • Prize-winning poet and journalist Eliza Griswold’s Amity and Prosperity is an expose on how fracking shattered a rural Pennsylvania town, and how one lifelong resident brought the story into the national spotlight. This is an incredible true account of investigative journalism....

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    • Love, Livestock, and Big Life Lessons Down on Mischief Farm
    • By: Hilarie Burton
    • Narrated by: Hilarie Burton
    • Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 05-05-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2,986 ratings
    • The beloved actress and star of One Tree Hill, White Collar, and Lethal Weapon, Hilarie Burton, tells the inspiring story of leaving Hollywood for a radically different kind of life in upstate New York with her husband Jeffrey Dean Morgan....

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    • A Coal Country Fight Against the Drug Companies that Delivered the Opioid Epidemic
    • By: Eric Eyre
    • Narrated by: Michael David Axtell
    • Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 03-31-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 90 ratings
    • From a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter at the Charleston Gazette-Mail, a “powerful" (The New York Times), urgent, and heartbreaking account of the corporate greed that pumped millions of pain pills into small Appalachian towns, decimating communities....

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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 59,684 ratings
    • Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis - that of white working-class Americans....

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    • By: John Branch
    • Narrated by: John Pruden
    • Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 05-15-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 453 ratings
    • New York Times reporter and best-selling author John Branch takes listeners to the magnificent red soil and rocky arroyos of southern Utah, where the Wright family of Smith Mesa have for generations raised cattle and world-champion saddle-bronc riders....

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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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    • Five Maine Girls and the Unseen Story of Rural America
    • By: Gigi Georges
    • Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan
    • Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 05-25-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 65 ratings
    • In this captivating and empathetic book, Gigi Georges follows five girls as they come of age in one of the most challenging and geographically isolated regions on the Eastern seaboard....

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    • By: William Faulkner
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 10-30-07
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 162 ratings
    • Intruder in the Dust is at once an engrossing murder mystery and an unflinching portrait of racial injustice....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Bobi Conn
    • Narrated by: Bobi Conn
    • Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 297 ratings
    • A clear-eyed and compassionate memoir of the Appalachian experience by a woman who embraced its astonishing beauty, narrowly escaped its violence, and struggles to call it home....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Roland Merullo
    • Narrated by: Em Eldridge
    • Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 10-24-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 64 ratings
    • In one of the poorest parts of rural New Hampshire, teenage girls have been disappearing, snatched from back country roads, never to be seen alive again....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Sarah Elaine Smith
    • Narrated by: Kristen Sieh
    • Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 07-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 78 ratings
    • Consumed by the longing for a different life, a teenager flees her family and carefully slips into another - replacing a girl whose own sudden disappearance still haunts the town....

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    • A Search for Rural Justice in an Unsettled Land
    • By: Charles Thompson Jr.
    • Narrated by: Charles D. Thompson Jr.
    • Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Charles D. Thompson, Jr., was born in Southwestern Virginia into an extended family of small farmers. Yet, as he came of age, he witnessed the demise of every farm in his family....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Philip N. Jefferson
    • Narrated by: Leon Nixon
    • Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 11-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • In this Very Short Introduction, Philip N. Jefferson explores how the answers to these questions lie in the social, political, economic, educational, and technological processes that impact all of us throughout our lives. The degree of vulnerability is all that differentiates us....

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    • Dispatches from Coal Country on What's Ailing America
    • By: Jeff Young
    • Narrated by: Gibson Frazier
    • Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • A searing, on-the-ground examination of the coal industry - and the workers left behind - in the midst of an environmental crisis, addiction, and rising white nationalism....

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    • The Unfinished History of the Last Great American Highway
    • By: Matt Dellinger
    • Narrated by: Robert Fass
    • Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 08-24-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 45 ratings
    • infrastructure. If completed, I-69 will stretch from Canada to Mexico through Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas....

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    • A Journey in Running, Courage, and the Search for the American Dream
    • By: Johanna Garton
    • Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
    • Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-24
    • Language: English
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    • Professional distance runners Elvin Kibet and Shadrack Kipchirchir grew up in rural Kenyan villages. Though their lives began in poverty, both were driven to reach their full potential, to gain an education, and make a difference.

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