Beacon Press

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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Junk Raft
Author: Marcus Eriksen
Product Code: 6752
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 06/05/2018
 

An exciting account of an activist scientist’s unorthodox fight against plastic marine pollution and of his expedition across the Pacific on a home-made junk raft


 
 
Price: $18.00
Kabir
Translated By: Robert Bly
Product Code: 5255
Binding Info: Paperback
Publisher: Beacon
Publication Date: 04/15/2007
 

 
 
Price: $15.00
Kindred
Author: Octavia E. Butler   Foreword by: Tomi Adeyemi
Product Code: 9341
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 05/21/2024
 

Now with a new foreword by author Tomi Adeyemi

The New York Times best-selling author’s time-travel classic that makes us feel the horrors of American slavery and indicts our country’s lack of progress on racial reconciliation


 
 
Price: $14.99
Kindred (p)
Author: Octavia E. Butler
Product Code: 4119
Binding Info: Paperback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 03/01/1990
 

The visionary author’s masterpiece pulls us - along with her Black female hero - through time to face the horrors of slavery and explore the impacts of racism, sexism, and white supremacy then and now.

More on order


 
 
Price: $16.00
Kindred, Gift Ed
Author: Octavia E. Butler
Product Code: 3180
Binding Info: Hardback
Publisher: Beacon
Publication Date: 09/20/2022
 

The New York Times best-selling author’s time-travel classic that makes us feel the horrors of American slavery and indicts our country’s lack of progress on racial reconciliation

Soon to be an FX Networks TV series with a pilot directed by Janicza Bravo (Zola), written by Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins (Watchmen), and executive produced by Jacobs-Jenkins and Darren Aronofsky (The Fountain)


 
 
Price: $27.95
Launching While Female
Author: Susanne Althoff
Product Code: 5905
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 10/26/2021
 

An exposé of the gender gap in entrepreneurship and a road map for a more inclusive and economically successful future for us all


 
 
Price: $14.95
Let My People Vote
Author: Desmond Meade
Product Code: 8942
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 04/19/2022
 

2021 General Assembly Ware Lecturer

The inspiring and eye-opening true story of one man’s undying belief in the power of a fully enfranchised nation


 
 
Price: $14.95
Life as Jamie Knows It
Contributor: Michael Berube
Product Code: 6708
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 11/14/2017
 

The story of Jamie Berube’s journey to adulthood and a meditation on disability in American life


 
 
Price: $18.00
Life Lines
Author: Forrest Church
Product Code: 6112
Binding Info: Paperback
Publisher: Beacon
Publication Date: 10/01/1997
 

 
 
Price: $21.00
Lifecraft
Author: Forrest Church
Product Code: 5385
Binding Info: Paperback
Publisher: Beacon
Publication Date: 06/01/2001
 
Church challenges us to imagine ourselves as a "consortium of personae" rather than as a fixed identity...otherwise, we will either think too much or too little of ourselves. A joyous book on the art of finding meaning in daily life.
 
 
Price: $18.00
Like One of the Family
Author: Alice Childress   Foreword By: Roxane Gay
Product Code: 6553
Binding Info: Paperback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 01/24/2017
 

A new edition of Alice Childress’s classic novel about African American domestic workers, featuring a foreword by Roxane Gay


 
 
Price: $18.00
Living When a Loved One Has Died
Author: Earl A. Grollman
Product Code: 4131
Binding Info: Paperback
Publisher: Beacon
Publication Date: 05/01/1994
 

 
 
Price: $15.00