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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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The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls
Author: Mona Eltahawy
Product Code: 8438
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 09/15/2020
 

A bold and uncompromising feminist manifesto that shows women and girls how to defy, disrupt, and destroy the patriarchy by embracing the qualities they’ve been trained to avoid


 
 
Price: $17.00
The Spirit of Our Work
Author: Cynthia B. Dillard
Product Code: 3165
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 08/17/2022
 

An exploration of how engaging identity and cultural heritage can transform teaching and learning for Black women educators in the name of justice and freedom in the classroom.


 
 
Price: $14.95
The Spiritual Emerson
Editor: David M. Robinson   Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Product Code: 5028
Binding Info: Paperback
Publisher: Beacon
Publication Date: 04/15/2004
 
Brings together the essays and lectures that best articulate Emerson's spiritual vision,
 
 
Price: $21.00
The Stranger Next Door
By photographer: Arlene Stein
Product Code: 3190
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 12/27/2022
 

The story of a small town's fight over LGBTQ+ rights that reveals how the far right weaponizes social issues to declare whose lives are valuable—and whose are expendable


 
 
Price: $17.95
The Third Reconstruction
Authors: William J. Barber II, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
Product Code: 6527
Binding Info: Paperback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 09/20/2016
 

The 2016-17 UUA Common Read

A modern-day civil rights champion tells the stirring story of how he helped start a movement to bridge America’s racial divide.


 
 
Price: $16.00
The Unicorn Woman
Author: Gayl Jones
Product Code: 9414
Binding Info: Hardback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 08/20/2024
 

Marking a dramatic new direction for Jones, a riveting tale set in the Post WWII South, narrated by a Black soldier who returns to Jim Crow and searches for a mythical ideal

Available for preorder


 
 
Price: $26.95
The Vulnerable Observer 25th Anniversary Edition
Author: Ruth Behar
Product Code: 3188
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 11/15/2022
 

The 25th-anniversary edition of the groundbreaking book that changed anthropology, asserting that ethnographers needn’t exclude themselves or their vulnerabilities from their work


 
 
Price: $17.95
The War on Neighborhoods
Authors: Ryan Lugalia-Hollon, Daniel Cooper
Product Code: 6882
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 03/26/2019
 
A narrative-driven exploration of policing and the punishment of disadvantage in Chicago, and a new vision for repairing urban neighborhoods
 
 
Price: $20.00
The Water Defenders
Authors: Robin Broad, John Cavanagh
Product Code: 8925
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 03/22/2022
 

The David and Goliath story of ordinary people in El Salvador who rallied together with international allies to prevent a global mining corporation from poisoning the country’s main water source


 
 
Price: $16.95
The World in Flames
Author: Jerald Walker
Product Code: 6707
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 09/12/2017
 

A memoir of growing up with blind, African-American parents in a segregated cult preaching the imminent end of the world


 
 
Price: $18.00
The Young Crusaders
Author: V.P. Franklin
Product Code: 5917
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 01/25/2022
 

An authoritative history of the overlooked youth activists that spearheaded the largest protests of the Civil Rights Movement and set the blueprint for future generations of activists to follow


 
 
Price: $18.95
These Schools Belong to You and Me
Authors: Deborah Meier, Emily Gasoi
Product Code: 6869
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 09/18/2018
 
A challenge to narrow, profit-driven conceptions of school success and an argument for protecting public education to ensure that all students become competent citizens in a vibrant democracy
 
 
Price: $18.00