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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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Code of Silence
Author: Lise Olsen
Product Code: 3163
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 08/09/2022
 

In the age of #MeToo, learn how brave whistleblowers have dared to lift the federal court’s veil of secrecy to expose powerful judges who appear to defy laws they have sworn to uphold.


 
 
Price: $17.95
Collected Poems
Author: Sonia Sanchez
Product Code: 8941
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 03/22/2022
 

A representative collection of the life work of the much-honored poet and a founder of the Black Arts movement, spanning the 4 decades of her literary career


 
 
Price: $17.95
Common Grace
Author: Aaron Caycedo-Kimura
Product Code: 3181
Binding Info: Hardback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 10/04/2022
 

The first major poetry collection from an award-winning student of Robert Pinsky, exploring the inherited trauma within his Japanese American family, his life as an artist, and his bond with his wife


 
 
Price: $16.00
Conflagration
Author: John A. Buehrens
Product Code: 8394
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 10/27/2020
 

A dramatic retelling of the story of the Transcendentalists, revealing them not as isolated authors but as a community of social activists who shaped progressive American values


 
 
Price: $20.00
Considering Hate
Authors: Michael Bronski, Kay Whitlock
Product Code: 6450
Binding Info: Paperback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 01/19/2016
 
A provocative book about rethinking hatred and violence in America
 
 
Price: $20.00
Corregidora
Author: Gayl Jones
Product Code: 6875
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 01/29/2019
 
The new edition of an American fiction masterpiece, this is the harrowing story of Ursa Corregidora, a blues singer in the early 20th century forced to confront the inherited trauma of slavery.
 
 
Price: $16.00
Craft and Conscience
Author: Kavita Das
Product Code: 3182
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 10/04/2022
 

The first major book for writers to more effectively engage with complex socio-political issues—a critical first step in creating social change


 
 
Price: $19.95
Cries Of The Spirit
Editor: Marilyn Sewell
Product Code: 4297
Binding Info: Paperback
Publisher: Beacon
Publication Date: 03/01/1994
 
More than 300 readings pay homage to the sanctity of women's lives. Alice Walker, Margaret Fuller, Margaret Atwood and many others speak out about women's experiences. Perfect for public rituals and personal reflection.
 
 
Price: $31.00
Daddy King
Author: Martin Luther King Sr.
Product Code: 8311
Binding Info: Paperback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 01/10/2017
 
First-person account and rarely heard life story of the man known as “Daddy King,” the Reverend Martin Luther King, Sr.
 
 
Price: $16.00
Dance We Do
Author: Ntozake Shange
Product Code: 8395
Binding Info: Hardback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 10/13/2020
 
In her first posthumous work, the revered poet crafts a personal history of Black dance and captures the careers of legendary dancers along with her own rhythmic beginnings.
 
 
Price: $19.95
Dangerous Religious Ideas
Author: Rachel S. Mikva
Product Code: 5906
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 11/02/2021
 

Reveals how faith traditions have always passed down tools for self-examination and debate, because all religious ideas-not just extremist ones-can cause harm, even as they also embody important moral teachings


 
 
Price: $18.00
Daring Democracy
Authors: Frances Moore Lappe, Adam Eichen
Product Code: 6582
Binding Info: Paperback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 09/26/2017
 

The 2017-18 UUA Common Read

An optimistic book for Americans who are asking, in the wake of Trump’s victory, What do we do now? The answer: We need to organize and fight to protect and expand our democracy.


 
 
Price: $15.00
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