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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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Dear Specimen
Author: M.J. Herbert   Foreword by: Kwame Dawes
Product Code: 5902
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 10/05/2021
 

A National Poetry Series winner, selected and with a foreword by Kwame Dawes.

A 5-part series of interwoven poems from a dying parent to her daughter, examining the human capacity for grief, culpability, and love, asking: do we as a species deserve to survive?


 
 
Price: $16.00
Defund Fear
Author: Zach Norris
Product Code: 8465
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 02/02/2021
 

The 2021-2022 UUA Common Read

A groundbreaking new vision for public safety that overturns more than 200 years of fear-based discrimination, othering, and punishment


 
 
Price: $16.95
Defying the Nazis
Author: Artemis Joukowsky   Foreword By: Ken Burns
Product Code: 6583
Binding Info: Paperback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 08/29/2017
 

Official companion to the Ken Burns PBS film tells the little-known story of the Sharps, an otherwise ordinary couple whose faith and commitment to social justice inspired them to undertake dangerous rescue and relief missions across war-torn Europe, saving the lives of countless refugees, political dissidents, and Jews on the eve of World War II.


 
 
Price: $18.00
Demystifying Shariah
Author: Sumbul Ali-Karamali
Product Code: 5831
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 05/11/2021
 
A direct counterpoint to fear mongering headlines about shariah law - a Muslim American legal expert tells the real story, eliminating stereotypes and assumptions with compassion, irony, and humor
 
 
Price: $16.00
Desire
Authors: Lauren Fogel Mersy, Jennifer A. Vencill
Product Code: 9345
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 06/04/2024
 

A radically inclusive, sex-positive guide to managing the inevitable libido differences in our relationships, authored by two certified sex therapists who are passionate about good sex

Available for Preorder


 
 
Price: $19.95
Detained and Deported
Author: Margaret Regan
Product Code: 6491
Binding Info: Paperback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 05/03/2016
 
An intimate look at the people ensnared by the US detention and deportation system, the largest in the world
 
 
Price: $18.00
Did That Just Happen?!
Authors: Stephanie Pinder-Amaker, Lauren Wadsworth
Product Code: 8949
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 04/07/2022
 

An accessible guide showing all people how to create and sustain diversity and inclusivity in the workplace - no matter your identity, industry, or level of experience


 
 
Price: $15.95
Dirt Road Revival
Authors: Canyon Woodward, Chloe Maxmin
Product Code: 3217
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 05/09/2023
 

The Democratic Party left rural America behind.
This urgent rallying cry shows how Democrats can win back and empower overlooked communities that have been pushing politics to the right - and why long-term progressive political power depends on it.


 
 
Price: $16.95
Disability Pride
Author: Ben Mattlin
Product Code: 9317
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 11/24/2023
 

An eye-opening portrait of the diverse disability community as it is today, and how disability attitudes, activism, and representation have evolved since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)


 
 
Price: $21.95
Discovering Kwan Yin, Buddhist Goddess Of Compassion
Author: Sandy Boucher
Product Code: 5402
Binding Info: Paperback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 06/01/2000
 

Beautifully illustrated introduction for Western women to Kwan Yin, the bodhisattva who embodies mercy, modesty, courage, justice and wisdom.


 
 
Price: $18.00
Don't Knock the Hustle
Author: S. Craig Watkins
Product Code: 6997
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 04/14/2020
 
Offers a timely analysis of the sheer ingenuity and persistence of young people who cobble together the resources they need to pursue the lives and careers they want.
 
 
Price: $17.00
Don't Look Left
Author: Atef Abu Saif
Product Code: 9372
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 03/19/2024
 

A harrowing and indispensable firsthand account of the experience of the first 85 days of the Israeli invasion of Gaza, from a prominent Palestinian writer

On order.


 
 
Price: $17.95
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