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1	Ethan Frome more books like this by Edith Wharton add to wishlist This tragic short novel tells the tale of Ethan Frome, who lives an isolated life in cold New England. When his mother dies, he marries his cousin Zeena for companionship, rather than for love. When they hire Mattie Silver as a live-in household helper, Ethan and the young Mattie fall desperately in love. Inevitably, Zeena discovers the affair. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Hungry Tide more books like this by Amitav Ghosh add to wishlist A cetologist named Piyali Roy is studying the Irrawaddy dolphin in the Sundarbans, the paradisal cluster of islands in southwestern Bangladesh. While there, she meets a man named Kanai Dutt, whose immersion in the diaries of his uncle Nirmal, a revolutionary intellectual who is now dead, provides a history of the Sundarbans, which has often ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Out of the Night That Covers Me more books like this by Pat Cunningham Devoto add to wishlist John McMillan was only eight years old when his mother died and he was ripped, without warning, from his sheltered world of books and gentility. Now on his aunt's run-down tenant farm in southern Alabama, abused by his alcholic uncle and completely bereft, John longs for escape - his only hope for survival. He's about to get his wish in a way no ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Worlds Apart: Why Poverty Persists in Rural America more books like this by Cynthia M Duncan, Robert Coles, M.D. (Foreword by) add to wishlist This work takes us to three remote rural areas in the USA to hear the tales of the residents - the poor, the rich, and those in between - as they talk about their families, work, hard times, and their hopes. It provides an insight into the dynamics of poverty, politics and community change. see all copies from $2.80! new only from $12.72! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Ethan Frome & Summer more books like this by Edith Wharton add to wishlist Set in rural New England, "Ethan Frome" is the story of its title character who marries Zenobia, a nagging hypochondriac of a woman, and finds himself trapped in an unfulfilling life. When Zenobia's young cousin Mattie Silver comes to live with them, Frome falls in love with her. "Ethan Frome" is the story of forbidden love and its tragic ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
6	My India more books like this by Jim Corbett add to wishlist Corbett, famous for his tales of hunting, created a classic of another kind with these stories of village life in the foothills of the Himalayas. see all copies from $13.30! new only from $20.59! \| first editions
7	The Price of a Dream: The Story of the Grameen Bank more books like this by David Bornstein add to wishlist This is a paperback reprint of the paperback edition published by University of Chicago Press in 1997. It has sold approximately 4,000 copies. It was originally published in cloth by Simon & Schuster in 1996. "The Price of a Dream" recounts the compelling story of the Grameen Bank, one of the most successful development organizations in the world. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.83! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Womenfolks: Growing Up Down South more books like this by Shirley Abbott add to wishlist Womenfolks is one of those books that, although written about specific people in a specific place, captures the hearts of all who read it. A rich blend of personal memoir and meditation on family myth and tradition, it is both an illuminating examination of mothers and daughters and a vivid tribute to the gritty, independent women who were the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Rural Development: Putting the Last First more books like this by Robert Chambers add to wishlist Rural poverty is often unseen or misperceived by outsiders. Dr Chambers contends that researchers, scientists, administrators and fieldworkers rarely appreciate the richness and validity of rural people's knowledge or the hidden nature of rural poverty. This is a challenging book for all concerned with rural development, as practitioners, ... see all copies from $3.79! new only from $17.42! \| first editions
10	Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness more books like this by Matt Wray, Matt Wray add to wishlist 'White trash'. The phrase conjures up images of dirty rural folk who are poor, ignorant, violent, and incestuous. But where did this stigmatizing phrase come from? And why do these stereotypes persist? Matt Wray answers these and other questions by delving into the long history behind this term of abuse and others like it. Ranging from the early ... see all copies from $23.57! new only from $23.57! \| SVS
11	The Dispossessed: America's Underclasses from the Civil War to the Present more books like this by Jacqueline Jones add to wishlist The specter of the Northern "underclass" haunts the American imagination. Many books focus on a piece of the problem: either the North or South, blacks or whites, industrial or agricultural workers. This sweeping chronicle of the roots of poverty reveals for the first time the full contours of this American tragedy. In a moving evocation of what ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $18.99! \| first editions
12	Few Comforts or Surprises: The Arkansas Delta more books like this by Eugene Richards add to wishlist Eugene Richards first came to the southeastern part of Arkansas--the so-called Delta--in 1968 as a VISTA volunteer. After nearly two years in that organization working to set up a daycare center and recreation programs, he and some of his associates in it left to found RESPECT Inc., a private social-action program providing paralegal services, ... see all copies from $44.96! signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	Earl in the Yellow Shirt more books like this by Janice Daugharty add to wishlist The Scurvy clan must bury their mother, who died after giving birth to her fifth child, a daughter named Joy. Money must somehow be raised for the funeral, and the buck gets passed to the self-effacing Earl and his beloved, Loujean. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.49! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Sensation & Sensibility: Viewing Gainsborough's Cottage Door more books like this by Professor Ann Bermingham (Editor) add to wishlist Late in his career Thomas Gainsborough became preoccupied with the theme of the cottage door, and he created a group of paintings and drawings that show rustic figures clustered around the open door of a cottage set in a deeply wooded landscape. Often seen as exemplars of the rural idyll, these works were among the first landscape paintings to ... see all copies from $5.50! new only from $17.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	Peasants Versus City-Dwellers: Taxation and the Burden of Economic Development more books like this by Raaj K Sah, Joseph E Stiglitz add to wishlist In this book Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz and co-author Raaj Sah address one of development's major issues. During the early phases of economic development, there are often serious conflicts between the interests of town and country. The Corn Law Debate in England, the economic conflicts between the North and the South prior to the US Civil War, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Necessary Lies: A Novel more books like this by Janice Daugharty add to wishlist The story of 17-year-old Cliffie Flowers who, uneducated, poor, and pregnant, hopes to marry the father of her child in order to escape the repressive place in which she lives. When she is accused of murder, she faces her accusers and becomes a heroine. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.21! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	A World Made of Fire more books like this by Mark Childress add to wishlist Stella, on the brink of womanhood, and her brother, Jacko, are the only survivors of a devastating fire. Jacko is paralyzed as a result, and the people in their town believe he is cursed and is causing a crippling epidemic that is striking their children. As the two search for their long-lost father, images of disease, fire, and cruelty dominate ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
18	Why poor people stay poor : a study of urban bias in world development more books like this by Michael Lipton add to wishlist see all copies from $29.25! first editions
19 view cover	Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie more books like this by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz add to wishlist This is a rendering of the author's childhood in rural Oklahoma, from the Dust Bowl days to the end of the Eisenhower era. Writer and journalist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz bears witness to a family and community which still clings to the dream America as a republic of landowners. Drawing deeply on the stories, often biblical parables, she heard in her ... see all copies from $3.99! new only from $14.67! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Endangered Spaces, Enduring Places: Change, Identity, and Survival in Rural America more books like this by Janet M Fitchen add to wishlist Rural America as a place and a way of life is undergoing major transformation. The farm crisis and the decline of manufacturing dealt a double blow in the 1980s to rural communities, which continue to lose farms, factories, and young people. Rural lands are increasingly being sought as places for vacation homes, state prisons, and waste dumps. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $19.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Poverty, Vulnerability, and Agricultural Extension: Policy Reforms in a Globalizing World more books like this by Ian Christoplos (Editor), John Farrington (Editor) add to wishlist The study draws on evidence from India and a range of countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America to argue that agricultural extension has an essential role in helping farmers to reach into new, often global, markets. There should be a comprehensive strategy within agricultural extension to address low-income agricultural households in the context ... see all copies from $4.00! new only from $4.00!
22 view cover	Land Labor and Rural Poverty more books like this by Professor Pranab K Bardhan add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.90! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Teenage Pregnancy more books like this by Anne L Dean add to wishlist Unwed teenage pregnancy is a national problem -- and a puzzle for clinicians and social psychologists. For how are we to understand a pattern of behavior that is strongly motivated and yet likely to end in unfortunate outcomes? Reporting on intensive social and psychological research in a rural African American community in Louisiana, Anne Dean ... see all copies from $4.00! new only from $33.35! \| first editions
24 view cover	Appalachian Mental Health more books like this by Susan Emley Keefe add to wishlist "This volume is the first to explore broadly many important theoretical and applied issues concerning the mental health of Appalachians. The authors--anthropologists, psychologists, social workers and others--overturn many assumptions held by earlier writers, who have tended to see Appalachia and its people as being dominated by a culture of ... see all copies from $9.99! new only from $24.99! \| first editions
25 view cover	Life and Death in the Delta: African American Narratives of Violence, Resilience, and Social Change more books like this by Kim Lacy Rogers add to wishlist "Winner of the 2007 Oral History Association Book Award""" "Finalist, 2008 National Council on Public History Book Award" Using oral histories with African American activists and community leaders, Kim Lacy Rogers explores the civil rights movement in several Mississippi communities in the context of the region's history of white supremacy, racial ... see all copies from $14.23! new only from $21.99! \| first editions \| SVS

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