Best Small Towns In America - April 2024

The 100 Best Small Towns in America

An updated guide to America's best small towns analyzes and rates each on scenic location, economic base, population diversity, health care, crime rate, and education and includes information on job possiblities, history, and recreational and cultural opportunities. Original.

• ASIN: 0028605772
• ASIN: 0028605772
• ISBN: 0028605772
• Manufacturer: Arco Pub

Making Your Move to One of America's Best Small Towns: How to Find a Great Little Place as Your Next Home Base

For those looking to raise a family in a storybook American town, or a change of pace from hectic city life, this book is the answer.

• ASIN: 0871319888
• ASIN: 0871319888
• ISBN: 0871319888
• Manufacturer: M. Evans & Company

The Boys From Hicks Drive Vienna, Virginia: True Adventures of Growing Up During The 1960s and 70s in The Best Small Town In America

This is an inspiring, often soul searching collection of true stories, featuring the adventures and mishaps of six lifetime friends; The Boys From Hicks Drive. Follow along as they find clever ways to entertain themselves, frequently with disastrous results, in those nostalgic times before video games, cable television, mobile phones, and the internet.And what better place for childhood adventure than Vienna, the town on nearly every Top Ten list of Best Places to Live, and located near the power center of the universe: Washington DC?The Boys began their odyssey on the day they met, and it has... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1732752311
• ASIN: 1732752311
• ISBN: 1732752311
• Manufacturer: Game 7 Publishing, LLC

The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America

• ASIN: 0060920084
• ASIN: 0060920084
• ISBN: 9780060920081
• Brand: Harper Perennial
• Manufacturer: William Morrow Paperbacks

The 100 Best Art Towns in America: A Guide to Galleries, Museums, Festivals, Lodging and Dining, Fourth Edition

Discover creative communities, fresh air, and ideal getaways. Whether you're looking for a great place to buy a painting on a weekend road trip or an inspiring and beautiful community in which to start a new life, The 100 Best Art Towns in America puts you on the right track. New Mexico author John Villani details all you need to know―from a town's lifestyle to interesting places to dine and must-do art festivals―written from the perspective of the nation's top arts travel writer. The communities profiled in this fourth edition of The 100 Best Art Towns in America range in size from under ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0881506419
• ASIN: 0881506419
• ISBN: 0881506419
• Manufacturer: Countryman Press

Famous in a Small Town

For Sophie, small town life has never felt small. With her four best friends―loving, infuriating, and all she could ever ask for―she can weather any storm. But when Sophie’s beloved Acadia High School marching band is selected to march in the upcoming Rose Parade, it’s her job to get them all the way to LA. Her plan? To persuade country singer Megan Pleasant, their Midwestern town’s only claim to fame, to come back to Acadia to headline a fundraising festival.The only problem is that Megan has very publicly sworn never to return.What ensues is a journey filled with long-kept secrets,... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1250179637
• ASIN: 1250179637
• ISBN: 1250179637
• Manufacturer: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)

The Best Lawyer in a One-Lawyer Town: A Memoir

If Frank McCourt had grown up in Depression-era Arkansas, he might write like Dale Bumpers, one of the most colorful and entertaining politicians in recent American history: Atticus Finch with a sense of humor. In The Best Lawyer in a One-Lawyer Town, Bumpers tells the story of his remarkable journey from poverty to political legend, and the result is a great American memoir that is already attracting wide acclaim for its clever Southern charm:“How agreeable to read a serious politician’s memoir and find it as full of wit, bite, scorn, compassion, and insight as Dale Bumpers himself.” -N... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0375505210
• ASIN: 0375505210
• ISBN: 0375505210
• Manufacturer: Random House

One Hundred & One Beautiful Small Towns in France (Rizzoli Classics)

A celebration of the most enchanting hamlets in France, now available in a popular format. Gorgeously illustrated as well as informative, One Hundred & One Beautiful Small Towns in France is a tour through the pleasures of the French countryside, a place where the pace slows, locals engage strangers in conversation, and every town presents a unique set of curiosities waiting to be discovered. Whether you are an armchair traveler or a Francophile planning another trip, this volume is the guide to the hidden treasures of France that proves once and for all that the heart of this popular travel d... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0847846822
• ASIN: 0847846822
• ISBN: 0847846822
• Brand: imusti
• Manufacturer: Rizzoli

Zebratown: The True Story of a Black Ex-Con and a White Single Mother in Small-Town America

Eight years in the making, this edgy, in-depth account follows a black felon’s attempt to find a new life for himself with a white woman in a small-town neighborhood where—as the book’s title implies—such relationships are common. A remarkably intense read, Zebratown reveals a rhythm of life spiked with violence, betrayal, sex, and the emotional dangers created by passionate love.Greg Donaldson’s Zebratown follows the life of Kevin Davis, an ex-con from Brownsville, Brooklyn, who, after his release from prison, moves to Elmira, New York, and takes up with Karen, a young woman with a ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1439153787
• ASIN: 1439153787
• ISBN: 1439153787
• Manufacturer: Scribner

The DEL-100 Best Small Art Towns in America: Discover Creative Communities, Fresh Air, and Affordable Living

Identifies towns that have been revitalized by the arts, and describes each town's population, climate, economy, recreational facilities, and arts organizations

• ASIN: 1562614053
• ASIN: 1562614053
• ISBN: 1562614053
• Manufacturer: Rick Steves

The Devil in Dover: An Insider's Story of Dogma V. Darwin in Small-town America

Local newspaper reporter Lauri Lebo was handed the story of a lifetime when the Dover (Pennsylvania) School Board adopted a measure to require its ninth-grade biology students to learn about intelligent design. In a case that recalled the famed 1925 Scopes “monkey” trial and made international headlines, eleven parents sued the school board. When the case wound up in federal court before a George W. Bush–appointed judge, Lebo had a front-row seat. Destined to become required reading for a generation of journalists, scientists, and science teachers, as well as for anyone concerned about ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 159558451X
• ASIN: 159558451X
• ISBN: 159558451X
• Brand: Brand: New Press, The
• Manufacturer: The New Press

You're Not from Around Here, Are You?: A Lesbian in Small-Town America (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiog)

This is a funny, moving story about life in a small town, from the point of view of a pregnant lesbian. Louise A. Blum, author of the critically acclaimed novel Amnesty, now tells the story of her own life and her decision to be out, loud, and pregnant. Mixing humor with memorable prose, Blum recounts how a quiet, conservative town in an impoverished stretch of Appalachia reacts as she and a local woman, Connie, fall in love, move in together, and determine to live their life together openly and truthfully.    The town responds in radically different ways to the couple’s presence, from pr... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0299170942
• ASIN: 0299170942
• ISBN: 0299170942
• Manufacturer: University of Wisconsin Press

Visiting Small-Town Florida

This new edition of Bruce Hunt's popular guide reveals the real, old-time Florida still to be found on the back roads of the Sunshine state in little towns that lure you in with their quaintness and keep you there for a spell with their friendly occupants. The towns featured all have a population of less than 10,000. The author revisited all the towns in the book for this update. He chatted with the inhabitants to get the inside story on how things have changed—and how they haven't. He introduces each town's history, museums, galleries, antiques shops, local eateries, and anything else he co... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1561644889
• ASIN: 1561644889
• ISBN: 9781561644889
• Manufacturer: Pineapple Press

A Home on the Field: How One Championship Soccer Team Inspires Hope for the Revival of Small Town America

A Home on the Field is about faith, loyalty, and trust. It is a parable in the tradition of Stand and Deliver and Hoosiers—a story of one team and their accidental coach who became certain heroes to the whole community. For the past ten years, Siler City, North Carolina, has been at the front lines of immigration in the interior portion of the United States. Like a number of small Southern towns, workers come from traditional Latino enclaves across the United States, as well as from Latin American countries, to work in what is considered the home of industrial-scale poultry processing... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0061120286
• ASIN: 0061120286
• ISBN: 0061120286
• Manufacturer: It Books

"If She Can Do It, So Can I!": Costa Rica Adventures: The inspirational tales of a woman who traded life in small town America for the lure of a tropical paradise.

       What happens when a small town Montana woman decides to jump without a net, into a new life in tropical paradise and a foreign world of unknown parameters? It’s surprising, it’s scary and it’s a whole lot of fun! I’m Lisa Valencia and I took that leap. My book, “If She Can Do It, So Can I !” chronicles two years of personal experience and gives an unbiased, insiders view of what it’s really like in Costa Rica. (134 PAGES, 86 FULL COLOR PHOTOS)        This compelling and informative book begins with ambivalent feelings about leaving and moving to Costa Rica. B... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1456518941
• ASIN: 1456518941
• ISBN: 1456518941
• Brand: Brand: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Manufacturer: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Mary Jane's Ghost : The Legacy of a Murder in Small Town America

"Summer 1948. In the scenic, remote river town of Oregon, Illinois, a young couple visiting the local lovers' lane is murdered. The shocking crime garners headlines from Portland, Maine, to Long Beach, California. But after

• UPC: 55799712
• Rating: 3.0

Boston: America's Best Sports Town

Boston is a city known for its storied sports heritage. This book recounts the stories behind the triumphs--and occasional setbacks--of the athletes, coaches and teams that have combined to make Boston: America's Best Sports

• UPC: 747598919

The Devil in Dover : An Insider's Story of Dogma v. Darwin in Small-Town America

Lebo covers the story behind the 2005 intelligent design case in Dover, Pennsylvania--the case that made front-page news around the

• UPC: 10736713

Methland : The Death and Life of an American Small Town

New York Times Bestseller "A powerful work of reportage ... A clear-eyed look at a scourge that continues to affect wide swaths of American society-whether we want to acknowledge it or not."-Cleveland Plain

• UPC: 13052449
• Rating: 3.907

Way Off the Road : Discovering the Peculiar Charms of Small Town America

Writing in the deadpan style that has endeared him to millions, Geist shares tales of eccentric individuals, and shows firsthand how life in fly-over America can be odd, strangely fascinating, hysterical, and anything but

• UPC: 8248406
• Rating: 4.2

The Left Behind : Decline and Rage in Small-Town America

9780691191669

• UPC: 692384614

Think Big, Act Small : How America's Best Performing Companies Keep the Start-up Spirit Alive

The bestselling author of "Less Is More" reveals how great companies blend the ambitions of a giant with the humility and focus of a

• UPC: 16724471

3dRose Chicago Boy - home town city pride - USA United States of America - black and white text and stars - Two Tone Blue Mug, 11-ounce

Chicago Boy - home town city pride - USA United States of America - black and white text and stars Mug is available in both 11 oz and 15 oz. Why drink out of an

• UPC: 773869500
• Model: mug_161615_6
• Color: WhiteBlue/White
• Size: 11 fl oz11 oz

Making Your Move to One of America's Best Small Towns - eBook

For those looking to raise a family in a storybook American town, or a change of pace from hectic city life, this book is the

• UPC: 972366994

The Best Small Towns In the United States - eBook

Once in a while, you discover a town that has everything—great coffee, food with character, shop owners with purpose. Each year, the Budget Travel team celebrates these places with our "Coolest Small Towns in America"

• UPC: 467819528