Rural Poverty

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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: 18-04-2023
    • Language: English
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    • Poignant and unforgettable, The Forgotten Girls is a story of coming of age as the American dream ends - and a new American classic....

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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: 02-04-2024
    • 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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    • By: William Faulkner
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 30-10-2007
    • Language: English
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    • Intruder in the Dust is at once an engrossing murder mystery and an unflinching portrait of racial injustice....

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    • By: Sarah Stovell
    • Narrated by: Elaine Claxton
    • Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 20-01-2022
    • Language: English
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    • Rachel Saunders knows gossip is the price you pay for a rural lifestyle and outstanding schools. The latest town scandal is her divorce - and the fact that her new girlfriend has moved into the family home....

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    • By: Kate Worsley
    • Narrated by: Alix Dunmore
    • Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 27-04-2023
    • Language: English
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    • Combining a gothic sensibility with a visceral, unsettling sense of place, Foxash is a deeply original novel of rural experiment and dark secrets, set in 1930s England at the height of the Great Depression....

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    • By: J.D. Vance
    • Narrated by: Gabriele Donolato
    • Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 15-10-2024
    • Language: Italian
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    • Il libro che ha rivelato al mondo l'anima profonda dell'America. I nonni di J.D. sono sporchi, poveri e innamorati quando emigrano giovanissimi dalle...

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    • The Life of China's Peasants
    • By: Chen Guidi, Wu Chuntao
    • Narrated by: James Chen
    • Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 18-11-2009
    • Language: English
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    • The Chinese Economic miracle is happening despite, not because of, China's 900 million peasants. They are missing from the portraits of booming Shanghai, or Beijing....

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    • PURA: Innovative Solutions Towards Sustainable Development
    • By: Srijan Pal, A. P. J. Kalam
    • Narrated by: Dr Nitish Suryavanshi
    • Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 24-03-2020
    • Language: English
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    • With 750 million people living in villages, India has the largest rural population in the world. Based on his Indian experience, Dr Kalam recommends a sustainable and inclusive development system called PURA - Providing Urban Amenities in Rural Areas - to uplift the rural masses....

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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: 11-08-2020
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • By: Dave Patterson
    • Narrated by: Timothy McKean
    • Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 09-04-2019
    • Language: English
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    • A 12-year-old boy lives with his family in a small, poverty-stricken town in Vermont. His family has gained enough financial stability to move out of the trailer park. But then his mother is diagnosed with cancer, and everything changes....

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    • Stories from India’s Poorest Districts
    • By: P. Sainath
    • Narrated by: Gaurav Marwa
    • Length: 14 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 19-11-2019
    • Language: English
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    • Everybody Loves a Good Drought is the established classic on rural poverty in India. Twenty years after publication, it remains unsurpassed in the scope and depth of reportage....

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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: 15-10-2019
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • 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: 25-05-2021
    • Language: English
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    • 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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