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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 Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
Author: Jeanne Theoharis
Product Code: 9472
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 01/07/2025
 

“Jeanne’s book not only inspired the documentary but has been a catalyst in changing our national understanding of Rosa Parks. Highly recommend!” —Soledad O’Brien, executive producer of the Peabody Award–winning documentary The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks

The NAACP Image Award–winning book that has helped redefine the public understanding of the civil rights icon—revealing her to be a radical and committed activist


 
 
Price: $22.00
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
Author: Jeanne Theoharis   Adapted by: Brandy Colbert
Product Code: 8383
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 02/16/2021
 
This biography examines Parks’s life and 60 years of activism and brings the multifaceted, decades-long civil rights movement in the North and South to life for young readers
 
 
Price: $18.95
The Right to Learn
Editors: Valeria C. Johnson, Jennifer Ruth, Ellen Schrecker
Product Code: 9328
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 04/09/2024
 

From leaders on the front lines of the battle for academic freedom in higher education, an empowering collection on fighting back against anti-CRT policies, book banning, and more


 
 
Price: $24.95
The Right to Stay Home
Author: David Bacon
Product Code: 5115
Binding Info: Paperback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 09/02/2014
 

The story of the growing resistance of Mexican communities to the poverty that forces people to migrate to the United States


 
 
Price: $25.00
The Separation of Church and State
Editor: Forrest Church
Product Code: 6290
Binding Info: Paperback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 05/03/2011
 

 
 
Price: $14.00
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 Sober Truth
Authors: Lance Dodes, Zachary Dodes
Product Code: 6420
Binding Info: Paperback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 03/17/2015
 
An exposé of Alcoholics Anonymous, 12-step programs, and the rehab industry—and how a failed addiction-treatment model came to dominate America.
 
 
Price: $18.00
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 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