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If You Can't Quit Cryin', You Can't Come Here No More: A Family's Legacy of Poverty, Crime and Mental Illness in Rural America By Betty Frizzell Cover Image
$17.95
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The Foxfire Book: Hog Dressing, Log Cabin Building, Mountain Crafts and Foods, Planting by the Signs, Snake Lore, Hunting Tales, Faith Healing, Moonshining (Foxfire Series #1) By Inc. Foxfire Fund, Eliot Wigginton (Editor) Cover Image
$22.00
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Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth By Sarah Smarsh Cover Image
$17.00
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Woodsqueer: Crafting a Sustainable Rural Life By Gretchen Legler Cover Image
$18.95
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Dirt Road Revival: How to Rebuild Rural Politics and Why Our Future Depends On It By Chloe Maxmin, Canyon Woodward Cover Image
$24.95
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Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy By Anthony Harkins (Editor), Meredith McCarroll (Editor) Cover Image
By Anthony Harkins (Editor), Meredith McCarroll (Editor)
$28.99
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The Quiet Zone: Unraveling the Mystery of a Town Suspended in Silence By Stephen Kurczy Cover Image
$17.99
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Cattle Kingdom: The Hidden History of the Cowboy West By Christopher Knowlton Cover Image
$16.99
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Foxfire 11: The Old Home Place, Wild Plant Uses, Preserving and Cooking Food, Hunting Stories, Fishing, More Affairs of Plain Living (Foxfire Series #11) By Inc. Foxfire Fund, Kaye Carver Collins (Editor), Lacy Hunter (Editor) Cover Image
$22.00
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American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land By Monica Hesse Cover Image
$15.95
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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis By J. D. Vance Cover Image
$27.99
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A Small Farm Future: Making the Case for a Society Built Around Local Economies, Self-Provisioning, Agricultural Diversity and a Shared Ear By Chris Smaje Cover Image
$22.50
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