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Beacon Press books seek to change the way readers think about fundamental issues, promoting such values as freedom of speech and thought, the importance of economic and social justice issues, religious pluralism, respect for our environment, and the importance of the arts in a civil society.Beacon has published several national bestsellers, and its books are frequently reviewed and discussed in national print and broadcast media.They are also used in university and secondary school curricula, citywide reading programs, and reading groups, and within a variety of organizational and faith - based reading programs.

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Natural
Author: Alan Levinovitz
Product Code: 5828
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 05/04/2021
 

Illuminates the far-reaching harms of believing that natural means “good,” from misinformation about health choices to justifications for sexism, racism, and flawed economic policies.


 
 
Price: $18.95
Nature and Walking
Authors: Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson
Product Code: 4788
Binding Info: Paperback
Publisher: Beacon
Publication Date: 07/01/1994
 
Emerson's Nature and Thoreau's Walking together in one volume. Writing that defines our distinctly American relationship to nature.
 
 
Price: $15.00
New and Selected Poems Vol. 1
Author: Mary Oliver
Product Code: 4691
Binding Info: Paperback
Publisher: Beacon
Publication Date: 04/01/1994
 

Winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize


 
 
Price: $19.00
New and Selected Poems, Volume Two
Author: Mary Oliver
Product Code: 5622
Binding Info: Paperback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 04/15/2007
 

The essential companion collection to Mary Oliver’s National Book Award-winning New and Selected Poems, Volume One


 
 
Price: $18.00
Nice Racism
Author: Robin DiAngelo
Product Code: 3186
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 10/11/2022
 

Building on the groundwork laid in the New York Times bestseller White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo explores how a culture of niceness inadvertently promotes racism.


 
 
Price: $16.00
No Human Involved
Author: Cheryl L. Neely
Product Code: 9473
Binding Info: Hardback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 01/21/2025
 

An urgent examination of the invisibility of Black women and girls as victims of targeted killings, and the lack of police intervention and media coverage


 
 
Price: $29.95
No Meat Required
Author: Alicia Kennedy
Product Code: 9347
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 06/25/2024
 

A culinary and cultural history of plant-based eating in the United States that delves into the subcultures and politics that have defined alternative food—Diet for a Small Planet for a new generation


 
 
Price: $17.95
Not
Author: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Product Code: 3170
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 08/23/2022
 

Debunks the pervasive and self-congratulatory myth that our country is proudly founded by and for immigrants, and urges readers to embrace a more complex and honest history of the United States


 
 
Price: $17.95
Notes of a Native Son
Author: James Baldwin
Product Code: 4158
Binding Info: Paperback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 11/20/2012
 

A new edition of the book many have called James Baldwin’s most influential work


 
 
Price: $15.00
Notes of a Native Son
Author: James Baldwin
Product Code: 9704
Binding Info: Hardback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 02/04/2025
 

A deluxe hardcover edition of one of James Baldwin’s most admired works, exploring what it means to be Black in America and his own search for identity

Beacon Classics edition, with a gorgeous spot gloss cover and retro, classic palette


 
 
Price: $24.00
Nothing Personal
Author: James Baldwin   Foreword by: Imani Perry
Product Code: 5829
Binding Info: Hardback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 05/04/2021
 
James Baldwin’s critique of American society at the height of the civil rights movement brings his prescient thoughts on social isolation, race, and police brutality to a new generation of readers.
 
 
Price: $18.00
Odetta
Author: Ian Zack
Product Code: 5823
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 04/13/2021
 
The first in-depth biography of the legendary singer and “Voice of the Civil Rights Movement,” who combatted racism and prejudice through her music
 
 
Price: $19.00