Rural Poverty
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The Forgotten Girls
- A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America
- By: Monica Potts
- Narrated by: Monica Potts
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
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Growing up gifted and working-class in the foothills of the Ozarks, Monica and Darci became fast friends. The girls bonded over a shared love of learning as they navigated the challenges of their declining town and tumultuous family lives - broken marriages, shuttered stores and factories. They pored over the giant map in their classroom, tracing their fingers over the world that awaited them, vowing to escape. In the end, Monica left Clinton for university and fulfilled her dreams. Darci, along with many in their circle of friends, did not.
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The Forgotten Girls
- A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America
- 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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Foxash
- By: Kate Worsley
- Narrated by: Alix Dunmore
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
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Worn out by poverty, Lettie Radley and her miner husband Tommy grasp at the offer of their very own smallholding - part of a Government scheme to put the unemployed back to work on the land. When she comes down to Essex to join him, it's not Tommy who greets her, but their new neighbours. Overbearing and unkempt, Jean and Adam Dell are everything that Lettie can't abide. But as Lettie settles in, she finds an unexpected joy in the rhythms of life. She's hopeful that her past, and the terrible secret Tommy has come to Foxash to escape, are far behind them. But the Dells have their own secrets.
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Foxash
- 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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Other Parents
- By: Sarah Stovell
- Narrated by: Elaine Claxton
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
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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. Laura Spence lives in a poky bedsit on the wrong side of town. She and her son, Max, don’t really belong, and his violent tantrums are threatening to expose the very thing she’s trying to hide. When the local school introduces a new inclusive curriculum, Rachel and Laura find themselves on opposite sides of a fearsome debate.
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Other Parents
- 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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Unemployment and Poverty in Rural America: The Life and Hillbilly Culture of the Poor Majority
- By: Naven Johnson
- Narrated by: Monica Jaye
- Length: 39 mins
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In the recent years, people have studied the unusual increase in the number of prime-aged men who are unemployed. According to Nicholas Eberstadt, a political economist who holds the Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute, the drop of the share of prime-aged men in the labor market in other prosperous democracies has never been as severe as it is in the United States.
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Unemployment and Poverty in Rural America: The Life and Hillbilly Culture of the Poor Majority
- Narrated by: Monica Jaye
- Length: 39 mins
- Release date: 28-09-2018
- Language: English
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In the recent years, people have studied the unusual increase in the number of unemployed men. According to Nicholas Eberstadt, a political economist, the drop of the share of prime-aged men in the labor market in other prosperous democracies has never been as severe as it is in the US....
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Elegia americana
- By: J.D. Vance
- Narrated by: Gabriele Donolato
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
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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 regioni dei monti Appalachi verso l’Ohio nella speranza di una vita migliore. Ma quel sogno di benessere e riscatto è solo sfiorato, perché prima di diventare uomo il loro nipote lotterà a lungo con la miseria e la violenza domestica: una madre tossicodipendente, patrigni nullafacenti che si susseguono uno dopo l’altro, vicini di casa alcolisti capaci solamente di sopravvivere con i sussidi e lamentarsi del governo.
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Elegia americana
- 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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Intruder in the Dust
- By: William Faulkner
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
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Intruder in the Dust is at once an engrossing murder mystery and an unflinching portrait of racial injustice. Set in Faulkner's fictional Yoknapatawpha County, it is the story of Lucas Beauchamp, a black man wrongly arrested for the murder of Vinson Gowrie, a white man. Confronted by the threat of lynching, Lucas sets out to prove his innocence, aided by a white lawyer, Gavin Stephens, and his young nephew, Chick Mallison.
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Intruder in the Dust
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 30-10-2007
- Language: English
- Intruder in the Dust is at once an engrossing murder mystery and an unflinching portrait of racial injustice....
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All in Stride
- 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
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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. And they would find their way to do just that through the high-pressure world of distance running.
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All in Stride
- A Journey in Running, Courage, and the Search for the American Dream
- 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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Appalachian Fall
- Dispatches from Coal Country on What's Ailing America
- By: Jeff Young
- Narrated by: Gibson Frazier
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
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A searing, on-the-ground examination of the collapsing coal industry - and the communities left behind - in the midst of an economic and environmental crisis. The past few years have highlighted the paradox at the heart of coal country. Despite fueling a century of American progress, the people at the heart of coal country are being left behind, suffering from unemployment, the opioid epidemic, and environmental crises often at greater rates than anywhere else in the country. But what if Appalachia’s troubles are just a taste of what the future holds for all of us?
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Appalachian Fall
- Dispatches from Coal Country on What's Ailing America
- 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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Target 3 Billion
- PURA: Innovative Solutions Towards Sustainable Development
- By: Srijan Pal, A. P. J. Kalam
- Narrated by: Dr Nitish Suryavanshi
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
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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 not by subsidies but through entrepreneurship with community participation. Dr Kalam cites the examples of individuals and institutions, in India and from across the world, who, with an entrepreneurial spirit and a desire to make a difference, have successfully tapped into the potential of the rural masses.
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Target 3 Billion
- PURA: Innovative Solutions Towards Sustainable Development
- 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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Will the Boat Sink the Water
- The Life of China's Peasants
- By: Chen Guidi, Wu Chuntao
- Narrated by: James Chen
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
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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. Many of China's underclass live under a feudalistic system unchanged since the 15th century. Wu Chuntao and Chen Guidi undertook a three-year survey of what had happened to the peasants in one of the poorest provinces, Anhui, asking the question: have the peasants been betrayed by the revolution undertaken in their name by Mao and his successors?
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Will the Boat Sink the Water
- The Life of China's Peasants
- Narrated by: James Chen
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 18-11-2009
- Language: English
- 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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Soon the Light Will Be Perfect
- By: Dave Patterson
- Narrated by: Timothy McKean
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
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A 12-year-old boy lives with his family in a small, poverty-stricken town in Vermont. His father works at a manufacturing plant, his mother is a homemaker, and his 15-year-old brother is about to enter high school. His family has gained enough financial stability to move out of the trailer park, and as conflict rages abroad, his father’s job at a weapons manufacturing plant appears safe. But then his mother is diagnosed with cancer, and everything changes.
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Soon the Light Will Be Perfect
- 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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Everybody Loves a Good Drought
- Stories from India’s Poorest Districts
- By: P. Sainath
- Narrated by: Gaurav Marwa
- Length: 14 hrs and 36 mins
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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, providing an intimate view of the daily struggles of the poor and the efforts, often ludicrous, made to uplift them. An illuminating introduction accompanying this 20-anniversary edition reveals, alarmingly, how a large section of India continues to suffer in the name of development so that a small percentage may prosper.
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Everybody Loves a Good Drought
- Stories from India’s Poorest Districts
- 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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Going Over Home
- 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
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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. Over the course of his own life of farming, rural education, organizing, and activism, the stories of his home place have been his constant inspiration, helping him identify with the losses of others and to fight against injustices. In Going Over Home, Thompson shares revelations and reflections, from cattle auctions with his grandfather to community gardens in the coal camps of Eastern Kentucky.
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Going Over Home
- A Search for Rural Justice in an Unsettled Land
- 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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Downeast
- Five Maine Girls and the Unseen Story of Rural America
- By: Gigi Georges
- Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
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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. Their stories transform our understanding of life in small towns and offer hope for the future of rural America.
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Downeast
- Five Maine Girls and the Unseen Story of Rural America
- 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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