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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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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
Looking for Lorraine
Author: Imani Perry
Product Code: 6919
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 09/17/2019
 

Imani Perry is the 2023 UUA General Assembly Ware Lecturer

A revealing portrait of one of the most gifted and charismatic, yet least understood, Black artists and intellectuals of the twentieth century.


 
 
Price: $17.95
Love and Death
Author: Forrest Church
Product Code: 5668
Binding Info: Paperback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 07/01/2009
 

An intimate and compelling work from a beloved minister facing his own imminent death

Temporarily out of stock.


 
 
Price: $17.95
Love's Promises
Author: Martha M. Ertman
Product Code: 6505
Binding Info: Paperback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 05/26/2016
 
Blends memoir and legal cases to show how contracts can create family relationships
 
 
Price: $20.00
Loving
Author: Sheryll Cashin
Product Code: 6749
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 02/13/2018
 
How interracial love and marriage changed history, and may soon alter the landscape of American politics.
 
 
Price: $18.00
Loving Our Own Bones
Author: Julia Watts Belser
Product Code: 9308
Binding Info: Hardback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 09/12/2023
 

Julia Watts Belser is the 2024 UUA General Assembly Ware Lecturer.

A spiritual companion and political manifesto that cuts through objectification and inspiration alike to offer a powerful new account of disability in biblical narrative and contemporary culture

For disabled people in religious communities, their families, and clergy and congregants


 
 
Price: $29.95
Loving Our Own Bones (p)
Author: Julia Watts Belser
Product Code: 9415
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 09/10/2024
 

A transformative spiritual companion and deep dive into disability politics that reimagines disability in the Bible and contemporary culture

A 2024 National Jewish Book Award winner and essential read on disability, spirituality, and social justice

Available for preorder


 
 
Price: $18.95