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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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On Repentance and Repair
Author: Danya Ruttenberg
Product Code: 9307
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 09/12/2023
 

The 2023-2024 UUA Common Read

A crucial new lens on repentance, atonement, forgiveness, and repair from harm—from personal transgressions to our culture’s most painful and unresolved issues

PAPERBACK EDITION


 
 
Price: $18.00
One Drop
Author: Yaba Blay
Product Code: 9310
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 09/19/2023
 

Challenges narrow perceptions of Blackness as both an identity and lived reality to understand the diversity of what it means to be Black in the US and around the world


 
 
Price: $22.95
One Teacher in Ten in the New Millenium
Editor: Kevin Jennings
Product Code: 6454
Binding Info: Paperback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 08/25/2015
 
Twenty completely new stories of negotiating the triumphs and challenges of being an LGBT educator in the twenty-first century
 
 
Price: $17.00
Our Grandchildren Redesigned
Author: Michael Bess
Product Code: 8302
Binding Info: Paperback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 09/06/2016
 
A panoramic overview of biotechnologies that can endlessly boost human capabilities and the drastic changes these “superhuman” traits could trigger
 
 
Price: $22.00
Owls and Other Fantasies
Author: Mary Oliver
Product Code: 4109
Binding Info: Paperback
Publisher: Beacon
Publication Date: 04/15/2006
 
Twenty-three of Mary Oliver's poems about the birds that have been such an important part of her life.
 
 
Price: $17.00
Palmares
Author: Gayl Jones
Product Code: 3177
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 09/13/2022
 

The epic rendering of a Black woman’s journey through slavery and liberation, set in 17th-century colonial Brazil; the return of a major voice in American literature.


 
 
Price: $17.95
Parenting with an Accent
Author: Masha Rumer
Product Code: 3183
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 10/04/2022
 

A blend of on-the-ground reporting and personal anecdotes that weaves a tapestry of the immigrant experience, multicultural parenting, and identity in the US


 
 
Price: $14.95
Playbook for Progressives
Author: Eric Mann
Product Code: 4723
Binding Info: Paperback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 08/09/2011
 
A must-have for the activist's tool kit
 
 
Price: $17.00
Plum Bun
Author: Jessie Redmon Fauset   Foreword by: Morgan Jenkins   Afterword by: Deborah McDowell
Product Code: 8917
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 03/08/2022
 

A hidden gem from the Harlem Renaissance about a young Black woman’s journey toward self-acceptance while passing as white in 1920s New York City.


 
 
Price: $17.00
Poems to Live By in Troubling Times
Editor: Joan Murray
Product Code: 5511
Binding Info: Paperback
Publisher: Beacon
Publication Date: 04/15/2006
 

Sixty poems, by our most acclaimed and beloved poets, for the difficult times we live in.


 
 
Price: $16.00
Poems to Live By In Uncertain Times
Editor: Joan Murray
Product Code: 3778
Binding Info: Paperback
Publisher: Beacon
Publication Date: 11/01/2001
 
Features sixty of the finest poems by an international group of distinguished writers.
 
 
Price: $16.00
Political Emerson
Editor: David M. Robinson
Product Code: 6098
Binding Info: Paperback
Publisher: Beacon
Publication Date: 09/23/2004
 
The very best of Emerson's vintage essays on politics and social reform
 
 
Price: $16.00