Rural Development

The beloved actress and star of One Tree Hill, White Collar, and Lethal Weapon, Hilarie Burton, tells the inspiring story of leaving Hollywood for a radically different kind of life in upstate New York with her husband Jeffrey Dean Morgan—a celebration of community, family, and the value of...

Why is it said that the empowerment of Panchayati Raj institutions is necessary for rural development. In a rapidly changing world, it is necessary to take care that the units of local self-government do not lag behind. In such a scenario, what is the government doing to improve the economic...

Taking on this story of heart and hardship, award-winning journalist Brian Reisinger weaves forgotten eras of American history with his own family’s four-generation fight for survival in Midwestern farm country. Listeners learn the truth about America’s most detrimental and unexplained socioeconomic crisis: How the family farms that feed us went from cutting a middle-class path through the Great Depression to barely making ends meet in modern America.

When Annie Jacobson's brother Mike enlists as a medic in the Army in 1967, he hands her a piece of paper with the address of their long-estranged father. If anything should happen to him in Vietnam, Mike says, Annie must let their father know. In Mike's absence, their father returns to face tragedy at home, adding an extra measure of complication to an already tense time. As they work toward healing and pray fervently for Mike's safety overseas, letter by letter the Jacobsons must find a way to pull together as a family, regardless of past hurts.

When Lilliana Swope’s beloved mother dies, Lilliana gathers her last ounce of courage and flees her abusive husband for the home of her only living relative in the foothills of No Creek, North Carolina. Though Hyacinth Belvidere hasn’t seen Lilliana since she was five, she offers her cherished great-niece a safe harbor. Their joyful reunion inspires plans to revive Aunt Hyacinth’s estate and open a public library where everyone is welcome, no matter the color of their skin.

Explore Bankura is not just a district-level study; it is a deeply personal and visionary exploration of a land where red soil meets resilience, heritage meets hope, and tradition meets transformation. Written by Dr. Gurudas Bandyopadhyay, a son of the soil born and raised in Chhatna, this book captures the spirit of Bankura through lived experience, research, reflection, and strategic foresight. It invites readers to rediscover a region that holds immense untapped potential for sustainable development, cultural revival, and global integration. Bankura, often known for its terracotta ...

An "instant classic", this genre-bending blend of naturalism, memoir, and social manifesto is a fascinating study for rewilding the city, the self, and society (Jeff VanderMeer, New York Times bestselling author). During the real estate crash of the late 2000s, Christopher Brown purchased an...

Set in early 1950s rural South Carolina, One Good Mama Bone chronicles Sarah Creamer's quest to find her "mama bone", after she is left to care for a boy who is not her own but instead is the product of an affair between her husband and her best friend and neighbor, a woman she calls "sister". When her husband drinks himself to death, Sarah, a dirt-poor homemaker with no family to rely on and the note on the farm long past due, must find a way for her and young Emerson Bridge to survive.

When Dr. Will Cooke, an idealistic young physician just out of medical training, set up practice in the small rural community of Austin, Indiana, he had no idea that much of the town was being torn apart by poverty, addiction, and life-threatening illnesses. But he soon found himself at the crossroads of two unprecedented health-care disasters: a national opioid epidemic and the worst drug-fueled HIV outbreak ever seen in rural America. Confronted with Austin’s hidden secrets, Dr. Cooke decided he had to do something about them.

Roadmap to Land & Legacy A Strategic Guide to Housing, Infrastructure, Ownership, and Generational Wealth Land is more than property. It is stability, leverage, shelter, opportunity, and legacy. Roadmap to Land & Legacy is a practical and thought-provoking guide to understanding how land, housing, infrastructure, ownership, and real estate shape families, communities, economies, and future generations. This book moves beyond surface-level real estate advice and gives readers a deeper understanding of why ownership matters, how property systems work, and how disciplined planning can create ...

A good road into your property can be the difference between a landlocked parcel–useful only for recreation–and an extremely valuable real estate asset. But you don't have to wait and hope for a road to come your way. You can build it yourself. Not all roads are constructed by the government or large commercial interests. Private landowners all over the country build roads to and into their own property.

When a young mother's crisis sparked a movement that has the ptential to serves 2,600+ people annually at just $8.50 per person—proving rural communities can solve complex problems with remarkable efficiency and authentic compassion. In the hills of rural West Virginia, Clarissa Tallman faced every parent's nightmare: her infant son needed specialized formula that wasn't available locally, and the stress of trying to meet this basic need threatened to overwhelm her family. What happened next challenges everything we think we know about effective social services and rural capacity. Instead...

In a continent rich with resources yet shadowed by scarcity, the problem is not shortage—it is a failure to share. Africa's Fifth Resource reveals how communities across Africa are transforming cooperation from philosophy into practical action. Through real-world examples—from Water ATMs in Turkana to solar cooperatives in Burkina Faso—Isaac Milioti shows that cooperation can be measured, rewarded, and scaled. This book offers a blueprint for sharing land, water, energy, and minerals not as commodities to be extracted, but as commons to be sustained. A must-read for anyone seeking a ...

Small-town drama makes Hollywood look like a walk in the park. For those going through a divorce in a small town and are ready to feel confident, capable, and competent, now is the time to take action with Small Town Divorce. Denise Anderson walked through those same trenches after experiencing her own dramatic small-town divorce. She has coached and mentored dozens of others who have experienced similar drama, taking them from surviving to thriving.

OZ Wizard 2.0 Certified Opportunity Zone Advisor — COZA Training Manual Opportunity Zones have reshaped the landscape of impact investing, community development, and long-term capital strategy. OZ Wizard 2.0 is the definitive training manual for professionals who want to understand—not speculate—how Opportunity Zones truly work under the modern OZ 2.0 framework. This book serves as the official academic foundation for the Certified Opportunity Zone Advisor (COZA) designation. It is not a marketing guide, a surface-level overview, or a collection of theories. It is a rigorous, ...

Lizzie has an unfortunate knack for attracting bad luck, but this time she's hit the jackpot. Losing her heart to her boss at the radio station where she works leads directly to losing her job, and with no money in the bank she's forced to swallow her pride and return home to her parents. As if...

Stacks of moving boxes—a loaded gun—two terrorized women and a would-be thief. Sharon Aimsley spent her divorce settlement buying the former bank building in her old home town in the mid-1980s. The plan was to open it as a craft shop with her sister, but that had fallen through. So , when Ashley Adams arrives to demonstrate a line of sewing machines, Sharon couldn’t have been less interested. Minutes later, a robber bursts into the building, gun waving! Will the women rise to meet the challenge or crumble under the pressure? The Vault, like all of the short stories in the ‘80s Tales...

Inspired by a true story. In 1825, in a remote Irish valley lying between the mountains and Flesk River of Killarney, three women are brought together by strange and troubling events. Nora Leahy, a widow, has lost her daughter and her husband in the same year and is now burdened with the care of her grandson, Michael. The boy cannot walk or speak, and Nora has kept him hidden from neighbours, who might see in his deformity evidence of supernatural interference.

Immerse yourself in a gripping new eBook, "Rising from the Dead." This thrilling read takes the world's most popular apocalypse trope - the zombie outbreak - and builds a captivating narrative around survival, resilience, and the reestablishment of socities in a world after the dust has settled. Has the end truly come when the dead start walking? "Understanding the Post-Zombie World," the first chapter, introduces you to the stark new reality and the immediate fallout of this zombie apocalypse. In the subsequent chapters like "The Art of Rebuilding Societies" and "Formulating New Systems of...

He’s a fish out of water, she’s fighting the current, but together will they Sink or Swim? Arriving back in the small Lake District town of Inglemere, Aria thinks she’s reclaiming her childhood home after her dad’s untimely death. Resentful of her self-involved stepmother, and dodging...