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

 
 
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 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

Available for Preorder


 
 
Price: $17.95
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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
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
On Gold Hill
Author: Jaclyn Moyer
Product Code: 9326
Binding Info: Hardback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 03/26/2024
 

A young South Asian American woman’s story of reconnecting with her identity, family, and heritage through sustainable farming


 
 
Price: $29.95
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