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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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A diverse collection of autistic voices that highlights how parents can avoid common mistakes and misconceptions, and make their child feel truly accepted, valued, and celebrated for who they are
 
 
Price: $18.00
Slavery After Slavery
Author: Mary Frances Berry
Product Code: 9474
Binding Info: Hardback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 01/21/2025
 

An acclaimed historian narrates the stories of newly emancipated children who were re-enslaved by white masters through apprenticeships and their parents fights to free them

Available for preorder


 
 
Price: $27.95
Social Insecurity
Author: James W. Russell
Product Code: 5459
Binding Info: Paperback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 04/07/2015
 

How 401(k)s have gutted retirement security, from charging exorbitant hidden fees to failing to replace the income of traditional pensions.


 
 
Price: $20.00
Some of My Friends Are...
Author: Deborah Plummer
Product Code: 6934
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 01/21/2020
 
An insightful look at how cross-racial friendships work and fail within American society
 
 
Price: $15.95
Some of the Light
Author: Tim Z Hernandez
Product Code: 3205
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 03/28/2023
 

25 years of writing from one of our most gifted Latinx poets, featuring work from early explorations of machismo to new meditations on life as a single father, immigrant detention, and spiritual inquiry


 
 
Price: $17.00
Song for Almeyda and Song for Anninho
Author: Gayl Jones
Product Code: 8930
Binding Info: Hardback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 04/05/2022
 

From the highly acclaimed author of Corregidora and The Healing - two epic poems, the love songs of fugitive slaves, set in 17th-century Brazil; continuing the unforgettable journey told in Gayl Jones’s masterwork, Palmares


 
 
Price: $23.95
Soul Culture
Author: Remica Bingham-Risher
Product Code: 9303
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 08/15/2023
 

Examines firsthand the lives of legendary Black writers who made a way out of no way to illuminate a road map for budding creators desiring to follow in their footsteps


 
 
Price: $19.95
Soul Repair
Authors: Rita Nakashima Brock, Gabriella Lettini
Product Code: 2909
Binding Info: Paperback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 11/05/2013
 
The first book to explore the idea and effect of moral injury on veterans, their families, and their communities.
 
 
Price: $16.95
Stand Your Ground
Author: Caroline Light
Product Code: 6699
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 02/13/2018
 

A history of America’s Stand Your Ground gun laws, from Reconstruction to Trayvon Martin


 
 
Price: $18.00
Storming Caesars Palace Revised Ed
Author: Annelise Orleck
Product Code: 3220
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 04/25/2023
 

The inspiration for the PBS documentary premiering March 2023

The story of the revolutionary Black women welfare organizers of Las Vegas who spearheaded an evergreen, radical revisioning of American economic justice


 
 
Price: $23.95
Strength to Love
Author: Martin Luther King Jr.
Product Code: 6925
Binding Info: Hardback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 10/15/2019
 
The classic collection of Dr. King’s sermons that fuse his Christian teachings with his radical ideas of love and nonviolence as a means to combat hate and oppression
 
 
Price: $23.95
Stride Toward Freedom
Author: Martin Luther King Jr.
Product Code: 4792
Binding Info: Paperback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 01/01/2010
 

 
 
Price: $16.00