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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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Morning Haiku
Author: Sonia Sanchez
Product Code: 4043
Binding Info: Paperback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 01/25/2011
 
A collection of haiku that celebrates the gifts of life and mourns the deaths of revered African American figures in the worlds of music, literature, art, and activism.
 
 
Price: $14.00
Mosquito
Author: Gayl Jones
Product Code: 8943
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 03/08/2022
 
From the highly acclaimed author of Corregidora and The Healing—a rare and unforgettable journey set along the US–Mexico border about identity, immigration, and “the new underground railroad.”
 
 
Price: $19.95
Mother to Mother
Author: Sindiwe Magona
Product Code: 3169
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 08/23/2022
 

A searing novel, told in letter form, that explores the South African legacy of apartheid through the lens of a woman whose Black son has just murdered a white woman


 
 
Price: $16.95
Mousy Cats and Sheepish Coyotes
Author: John A. Shivik
Product Code: 6776
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 10/30/2018
 

A wildlife expert explores what science tells us about animals as unique individuals and why animal personality matters for the human-animal bond and for adaptation in nature


 
 
Price: $18.00
Myth of the Spoiled Child
Author: Alfie Kohn
Product Code: 5978
Binding Info: Paperback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 03/08/2016
 
A prominent and esteemed critic challenges widely held beliefs about children and parenting, revealing that underlying each myth is a deeply conservative ideology that is, ironically, often adopted by liberal parents.
 
 
Price: $17.00
Natural
Author: Alan Levinovitz
Product Code: 5828
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 05/04/2021
 

Illuminates the far-reaching harms of believing that natural means “good,” from misinformation about health choices to justifications for sexism, racism, and flawed economic policies.


 
 
Price: $18.95
Nature and Walking
Authors: Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson
Product Code: 4788
Binding Info: Paperback
Publisher: Beacon
Publication Date: 07/01/1994
 
Emerson's Nature and Thoreau's Walking together in one volume. Writing that defines our distinctly American relationship to nature.
 
 
Price: $15.00
New and Selected Poems Vol. 1
Author: Mary Oliver
Product Code: 4691
Binding Info: Paperback
Publisher: Beacon
Publication Date: 04/01/1994
 
Winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize
 
 
Price: $19.00
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


 
 
Price: $17.95
Not
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