Rural America

"We live so far in the backwoods, we have to pump sunshine through hollow logs," young Susanette's daddy says, when asked where the Howell family lives. Their cracker house, which has never been slapped by a loaded paintbrush, sits on a small tobacco farm near the Suwannee River in North Florida, 18 miles from the small town of Live Oak - a town that was, at the turn of the 19th century, the fifth largest town in Florida and the largest inland city in the state.

Story telling at its best! A Tater Knob Almanac is set in a remote Alabama mountain community during the late 1940s and early '50s. Based on real people, real places and real adventures, these 68 heart-warming short stories are told through the eyes of three intrepid country boys and one just-as-gutsy girl. Through them, you'll meet a large and memorable supporting cast of other characters who spent much of their lives as patch farmers, trappers, fishermen, and ginseng diggers. With money and modern conveniences in short supply among their families, these four kids certainly had to work ...

No Friday Night Lights is the story of a rural Nevada high school football team that never wins. Veteran reporter John M. Glionna examines the 2022 season in which the McDermitt Bulldogs practiced for weeks in the summer only to learn once again that they had come up short of the necessary players due to the dwindling population on the Fort McDermitt Indian Reservation on the Nevada-Oregon border.

In "Master and Man," Bobbie is a black man who can outride, outfight, and outshoot any white man in the mountain desert. His unwavering moral code serves as a model for his often cruel and dissolute white master.

Der Pulitzer-Preis-Finalist und National Book Critics Circle Award-Preisträger von Newjack führt durch ein wildes Amerika abseits des Zivilisation, wo es neben Unabhängigkeit und atemberaubenden Aussichten auch heftige Winde, Nachbarn mit krimineller Vergangenheit und minimale staatliche und medizinische Versorgung gibt.

Charlotte MacHen has been the Sheriff of Webb County, Georgia, for five years and settled into a tranquil family life with her college professor husband, Matt Hardt, and her daughter, Harper Jean. But her peaceful existence is suddenly disrupted when a serial killer makes quiet Webb County his home before branching into rural northern Georgia. Sheriff MacHen heads up a task force to hunt down the ruthless killer with help from a retired homicide detective from Florida, Bill Isbell. Together they navigate the complexities of the crime while tediously investigating and eliminating suspects. ...

It's 1951, and Miranda's mother has just married into one of the wealthiest families on Winthrop Island, a glamorous haven set off the New England coast. But beneath the surface, the island is a delicate balance of tension between the wealthy summer families who holiday there and the Portuguese fishermen and domestic workers who keep the island going. As Miranda begins to fall for Joseph, the lighthouse keeper's handsome son, the tension rises inexorably to the surface, and an explosive end to the summer will change everyone forever....

During 42 years of family medicine in rural Iowa, I had a number of cases where I definitely felt there was divine intervention to help patients that I cared for. In this book I describe eleven individual cases of patients who were cured or saved by human intervention and, more importantly, attention from the good Lord. I have not exaggerated or embellished these descriptions. Many other doctors and nurses probably have similar stories and cases to relate. Please enjoy these true tales of how the Lord works during times of medical need.

Black Jack Hollis was a daring outlaw before he was shot down. In the wake of his death, it's discovered that Hollis left behind an infant son. Elizabeth Cornish, coowner of the Cornish Ranch alongside her brother, Vance, takes it upon herself to raise the child as her own. Elizabeth names the boy Terry Colby and gives Terry a fictitious aristocratic background, believing the way the boy is raised will determine the man he will become. But Vance is convinced that Terry is destined to become an outlaw himself.

A dying man, Hank Peyton, tells his son Jerry Peyton that, after a lifetime of evil deeds, his only gift to his son will be his extremely valuable gun called The Voice of La Paloma. When Jerry is wrongfully accused of horse thievery, a cunning sheriff blackmails Jerry into stealing the gun from his father in exchange for a clean slate, even though the sheriff has already found the real horse thief.

Cops in the Wilderness How the COVID-19 Pandemic Impacted Rural Policing As cities emptied, the countryside changed—forever. When the COVID-19 pandemic sent shockwaves through urban life, millions fled crowded cities for the open spaces of rural America. But what happened when the stressors of big-city living followed them into small-town communities? Cops in the Wilderness explores how the pandemic didn't just change public health—it transformed the very landscape of rural law enforcement. Through sharp analysis and on-the-ground perspective, this book uncovers the hidden challenges ...

It’s 1985 in The Territory and it always will be. It’s so cold you can’t feel your feet and from here the outside world is just a dream, but two humans and one animal will show us the way. They’re each searching for someone, a woman who washed up on the shores of this far-flung town and then disappeared. To find her they will have to look deep into the darkness that lies at the edge of love. Heartbreaker is an astounding feat of imagination with its own riotous rhythm and the resounding message that humanity can be found in the wildest of places.