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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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Plum Bun
Author: Jessie Redmon Fauset   Foreword by: Morgan Jenkins   Afterword by: Deborah McDowell
Product Code: 8917
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 03/08/2022
 

A hidden gem from the Harlem Renaissance about a young Black woman’s journey toward self-acceptance while passing as white in 1920s New York City.


 
 
Price: $17.00
Poems to Live By in Troubling Times
Editor: Joan Murray
Product Code: 5511
Binding Info: Paperback
Publisher: Beacon
Publication Date: 04/15/2006
 

Sixty poems, by our most acclaimed and beloved poets, for the difficult times we live in.


 
 
Price: $16.00
Poems to Live By In Uncertain Times
Editor: Joan Murray
Product Code: 3778
Binding Info: Paperback
Publisher: Beacon
Publication Date: 11/01/2001
 
Features sixty of the finest poems by an international group of distinguished writers.
 
 
Price: $16.00
Political Emerson
Editor: David M. Robinson
Product Code: 6098
Binding Info: Paperback
Publisher: Beacon
Publication Date: 09/23/2004
 
The very best of Emerson's vintage essays on politics and social reform
 
 
Price: $16.00
Power in Words
Authors: Mary Frances Berry, Josh Gottheimer
Product Code: 6326
Binding Info: Paperback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 09/06/2011
 
Barack Obama's most memorable speeches.
 
 
Price: $20.00
Powered by Girl
Author: Lyn Mikel Brown
Product Code: 8306
Binding Info: Paperback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 09/13/2016
 
A playbook for working with and training girls to be activists of their own social movements
 
 
Price: $16.00
Pregnant Girl
Author: Nicole Lynn Lewis
Product Code: 8944
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 05/03/2022
 

An activist calls for better support of young families so they can thrive and reflects on her experiences as a Black mother and college student fighting for opportunities for herself and her child


 
 
Price: $14.95
Project Fatherhood
Author: Jorja Leap
Product Code: 6497
Binding Info: Paperback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 06/07/2016
 
A group of former gang members come together to help one another answer the question “How can I be a good father when I’ve never had one?”
 
 
Price: $16.00
Prophet Against Slavery
Authors: Marcus Rediker, David Lester, Paul Buhle
Product Code: 5907
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 11/02/2021
 

The revolutionary life of an 18th-century dwarf activist who was among the first to fight against slavery and animal cruelty


 
 
Price: $15.00
Prophetic Encounters
Editor: Dan McKanan
Product Code: 4444
Binding Info: Paperback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 11/06/2012
 
In this groundbreaking, definitive work, McKanan treats the histories of religion and the Left as a single history, showing that American radicalism is a continuous tradition rather than a collection of disparate movements.
 
 
Price: $24.00
Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate
Author: Alexandra Minna Stern
Product Code: 6961
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 04/07/2020
 
What is the alt-right? What do they believe, and how did they take center stage in the American social and political consciousness?
 
 
Price: $16.00
Proverbs of Ashes
Authors: Rebecca Ann Parker, Rita Nakashima Brock
Product Code: 6173
Binding Info: Paperback
Publisher: Beacon
Publication Date: 11/18/2002
 
An emotionally gripping combination of memoir and theology
 
 
Price: $25.00