Rural America

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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 107 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 59,629 ratings
    • Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis - that of white working-class Americans....

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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 241 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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    • 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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    • 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 10,637 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 13,664 ratings
    • Leo Tolstoy's classic story of doomed love is one of the most admired novels in world literature....

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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 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 13 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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    • A Collection of Western Stories
    • By: Louis L'Amour
    • Narrated by: John McLain
    • Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 09-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 570 ratings
    • Desert Death-Song is a compilation of some of Louis L’Amour’s greatest stories, many of which might otherwise be difficult to find....

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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 1,265 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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    • From Rural America to Silicon Valley—Making AI Serve Us All
    • By: Kevin Scott, Greg Shaw
    • Narrated by: Matt Godfrey
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 04-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 57 ratings
    • In this essential book written by a rural native and Silicon Valley veteran, Microsoft’s Chief technology officer tackles one of the most critical issues facing society today: the future of artificial intelligence, and how it can be realistically used to promote growth....

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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 9 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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    • 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 140 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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    • 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 1,026 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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    • A Muslim Doctor's Struggle for Home in Rural America
    • By: Ayaz Virji M.D., Alan Eisenstock
    • Narrated by: Ayaz Virji M.D.
    • Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 88 ratings
    • A powerful true story about a Muslim doctor's service to small-town America and the hope of overcoming our country's climate of hostility and fear....

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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 7,433 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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    • Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker
    • By: Katherine J. Cramer
    • Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
    • Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 04-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 106 ratings
    • Since the election of Scott Walker, Wisconsin has been seen as ground zero for debates about the appropriate role of government in the wake of the Great Recession....

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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 34,342 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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    • By: William Kent Krueger
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Length: 14 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 09-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12,352 ratings
    • 1932: Located on the banks of the Gilead River in Minnesota, Lincoln School is home to hundreds of Native American boys and girls who have been separated from their families....

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