Beacon Press: 516 books
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...
by Scott Russell Sanders
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
This award-winning collection moves from the dark and technically astonishing title essay—on growing up within the confines of a huge Army arsenal in Ohio—to reflections on mountain hikes, limestone quarries, and fathers teaching their sons.
Fist Stick Knife Gun
A Personal History of Violence
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Long before U.S. News and World Report named him one of America's Best Leaders and Oprah Winfrey called him "an angel from God," Geoffrey Canada was a small, vulnerable, scared boy growing up in the South Bronx. Canada's world was one where "sidewalk" boys learned the codes of...
by Shelina Janmohamed
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
When Shelina Janmohamed, an Oxford-educated Muslim living in the bubbling ethnic mix of North London, opted for the traditional “arranged” route to finding a partner, she never suspected it would be the journey of her life.
Through ten long years of matchmaking buxom aunties, countless mismatches,...
Faitheist
How an Atheist Found Common Ground with the Religious
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
The story of a former Evangelical Christian turned openly gay atheist who now works to bridge the divide between atheists and the religious
The stunning popularity of the “New Atheist” movement—whose most famous spokesmen include Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and the late Christopher Hitchens—speaks...
Souls in the Hands of a Tender God
Stories of the Search for Home and Healing on the Streets
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Since 1987, Craig Rennebohm has ministered to people on the streets of Seattle who are homeless and struggling with mental illness. In Souls in the Hands of a Tender God, he tells the evocative stories of persons who desperately need psychiatric, psychological, and spiritual support-like Mary, who...
Breathing Space
A Spiritual Journey in the South Bronx
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
This book is a song of Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving for the people whose courageous witness has transfigured this community-and this pastor. Thanksgiving for the gift of these stories that cry out to be told and retold because in the midst of death they rise to fill the air with life.
Breathing...
Beyond $15
Immigrant Workers, Faith Activists, and the Revival of the Labor Movement
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
The inside story of the first successful $15 minimum wage campaign that renewed a national labor movement
With captivating narrative and insightful commentary, labor organizer Jonathan Rosenblum reveals the inside story of the first successful fight for a $15 minimum wage, which renewed a national...
Big-Box Swindle
The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America's Independent Businesses
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2006
Large retail chains have become the most powerful corporations in America and are rapidly transforming our economy, communities, and landscape. In this deft and revealing book, Stacy Mitchell illustrates how mega-retailers are fueling many of our most pressing problems, from the shrinking middle class...
Billionaires' Ball
Gluttony and Hubris in an Age of Epic Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
The concentration of wealth today in such a small number of hands inevitably created a dynamic that led to freewheeling financial speculation—a dynamic that produced similarly disastrous results in the last great age of inequality, in the 1920s. Such concentrated economic power reverberates throughout...
Social Insecurity
401(k)s and the Retirement Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
**How 401(k)s have gutted retirement security, from charging exorbitant hidden fees to failing to replace the income of traditional pensions
Named one of PW's Top 10 for Business & Economics**
A retirement crisis is looming. In 2008, as the 401(k) fallout rippled across the country,...