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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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The Not Good Enough Mother
Author: Sharon Lamb
Product Code: 6962
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 06/23/2020
 
A psychologist who evaluates the fitness of parents when their children have been removed from their custody finds herself reassessing her own mothering when her son falls victim to the opioid crisis
 
 
Price: $16.00
The Patriarchs
Author: Angela Saini
Product Code: 9334
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 02/27/2024
 

For fans of Sapiens and The Dawn of Everything, a groundbreaking exploration of gendered oppression—its origins, its histories, our attempts to understand it, and our efforts to combat it


 
 
Price: $17.95
The Price of the Ticket
Author: James Baldwin
Product Code: 8904
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 09/21/2021
 

An essential compendium of James Baldwin’s most powerful nonfiction work, calling on us “to end the racial nightmare, and achieve our country”


 
 
Price: $24.95
The Queering of Corporate America
Author: Carlos A. Ball
Product Code: 8430
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 10/27/2020
 
An accurate picture of the LGBTQ rights movement’s achievements is incomplete without this surprising history of how corporate America joined the cause
 
 
Price: $18.00
The Racism of the People Who Love You
Author: Samira K. Mehta
Product Code: 9318
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 01/09/2024
 

An unflinching look at the challenges and misunderstandings mixed-race people face in family spaces and intimate relationships across their varying cultural backgrounds


 
 
Price: $18.95
The Radiant Lives of Animals
Author: Linda Hogan
Product Code: 8396
Binding Info: Hardback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 10/13/2020
 

From a celebrated Chickasaw writer, a spiritual meditation, in prose and poetry, on our relationship to the animal world, in an illustrated gift package


 
 
Price: $21.95
The Rainbow Ain't Never Been Enuf
Author: Kaila Adia Story
Product Code: 9718
Binding Info: Hardback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 05/13/2025
 

A queer Black feminist debunks the myth of rainbow solidarity, repositioning Black and Latinx LGBTQ+ people at the forefront of queer pasts, presents, and futures


 
 
Price: $28.95
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
Author: Jeanne Theoharis
Product Code: 9472
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 01/07/2025
 

“Jeanne’s book not only inspired the documentary but has been a catalyst in changing our national understanding of Rosa Parks. Highly recommend!” —Soledad O’Brien, executive producer of the Peabody Award–winning documentary The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks

The NAACP Image Award–winning book that has helped redefine the public understanding of the civil rights icon—revealing her to be a radical and committed activist


 
 
Price: $22.00
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
Author: Jeanne Theoharis   Adapted by: Brandy Colbert
Product Code: 8383
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 02/16/2021
 
This biography examines Parks’s life and 60 years of activism and brings the multifaceted, decades-long civil rights movement in the North and South to life for young readers
 
 
Price: $18.95
The Right to Learn
Editors: Valeria C. Johnson, Jennifer Ruth, Ellen Schrecker
Product Code: 9328
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 04/09/2024
 

From leaders on the front lines of the battle for academic freedom in higher education, an empowering collection on fighting back against anti-CRT policies, book banning, and more


 
 
Price: $24.95
The Right to Stay Home
Author: David Bacon
Product Code: 5115
Binding Info: Paperback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 09/02/2014
 

The story of the growing resistance of Mexican communities to the poverty that forces people to migrate to the United States


 
 
Price: $25.00
The Separation of Church and State
Editor: Forrest Church
Product Code: 6290
Binding Info: Paperback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 05/03/2011
 

 
 
Price: $14.00