Beacon: 545 books
Can We Talk about Race?
And Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
**Major new reflections on race and schools—by the best-selling author of “Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?“
A Simmons College/Beacon Press Race, Education, and Democracy Series Book**
Beverly Daniel Tatum emerged on the national scene in 1997 with...
The Tent of Abraham
Stories of Hope and Peace for Jews, Christians, and Muslims
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2006
In recent years there has been an explosion of curiosity and debate about Islam and about the role of religion, both in the world and in the Arab-Israeli conflict. The numerous books published on these questions speak to issues of politics, history, or global security. None speaks to the heart and...
Looking for Lorraine
The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Winner of the 2019 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography
Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction
Winner of the Shilts-Grahn Triangle Award for Lesbian Nonfiction
**A New York Times Notable Book of 2018
A revealing portrait of one of the most gifted...
The Shoemaker and the Tea Party
Memory and the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2001
George Robert Twelves Hewes, a Boston shoemaker who participated in such key events of the American Revolution as the Boston Massacre and the Tea Party, might have been lost to history if not for his longevity and the historical mood of the 1830's. When the Tea Party became a leading symbol of the...
Soul Repair
Recovering from Moral Injury after War
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
The first book to explore the idea and effect of moral injury on veterans, their families, and their communities
Although veterans make up only 7 percent of the U.S. population, they account for an alarming 20 percent of all suicides. And though treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder has undoubtedly...
Typhoid Mary
Captive to the Public's Health
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
She was an Irish immigrant cook. Between 1900 and 1907, she infected twenty-two New Yorkers with typhoid fever through her puddings and cakes; one of them died. Tracked down through epidemiological detective work, she was finally apprehended as she hid behind a barricade of trashcans. To protect the...
Plain Secrets
An Outsider among the Amish
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
Joe Mackall has lived surrounded by the Swartzentruber Amish community of Ashland County, Ohio, for over sixteen years. They are the most traditional and insular of all the Amish sects: the Swartzentrubers live without gas, electricity, or indoor plumbing; without lights on their buggies or cushioned...
by Donald Hall
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Distinguished poet Donald Hall reflects on the meaning of work, solitude, and love
"The best new book I have read this year, of extraordinary nobility and wisdom. It will remain with me always."—Louis Begley, The New York Times
"A sustained meditation on work as the...
Belfast Diary
War as a Way of Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Resolution of intractable problems around the world requires understanding ordinary people as well as leaders. This street-level view of Northern Ireland provides the best explanation of the twenty-five-year conflict.
You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
A Personal History
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
**If you’re both overcome and angered by the atrocities of our time, this will inspire a “new generation of activists and ordinary people who search for hope in the darkness” (Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor).
Is change possible? Where will it come from? Can we actually make a difference? How...
Prison Baby
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
A deeply personal and inspiring memoir recounting one woman’s struggles—beginning with her birth in prison—to find self-acceptance
Prison Baby is a revised and substantially expanded version of Deborah Jiang Stein’s self-published memoir, Even Tough Girls Wear Tutus. Even at twelve years...
Fist Stick Knife Gun
A Personal History of Violence
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2010
A new edition, including the story of the founding of the Harlem Children’s Zone
Long before the avalanche of praise for his work—from Oprah Winfrey, from President Bill Clinton, from President Barack Obama—long before he became known for his talk show appearances, Members Project spots,...
Arms Wide Open
A Midwife's Journey
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
A midwife’s memoir of living free and naturally against all odds
In her first, highly praised memoir, Patricia Harman told us the stories patients brought into her exam room, and her own story of struggling to help women as a nurse-midwife in medical practice with her husband, an OB/GYN,...
The Man with the Beautiful Voice
And more Stories from the Other Side of the Couch
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Beautifully crafted stories of psychotherapy-told for the first time from the perspective of the therapist
In her long career as a psychotherapist, acclaimed author Lillian Rubin occasionally encountered patients who demanded a very special, even unorthodox, therapeutic approach. For the first...