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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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Birdcatcher
Author: Gayl Jones
Product Code: 9309
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 09/12/2023
 

Legendary writer Gayl Jones returns with a stunning new novel about Black American artists in exile


 
 
Price: $17.00
Blue Iris
Author: Mary Oliver
Product Code: 4108
Binding Info: Paperback
Publisher: Beacon
Publication Date: 10/04/2006
 

Elegantly illustrated, Blue Iris brings together ten new poems, two dozen of Mary Oliver's favorite poems, and two previously unpublished essays.


 
 
Price: $16.00
Boomerang/Bumerán
Author: Achy Obejas
Product Code: 8911
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 09/07/2021
 

A bilingual poetry collection from a Cuban-American writer-activist that explores themes of identity, sexuality, and belonging


 
 
Price: $16.00
Borderline
Author: Alexander Kriss
Product Code: 9335
Binding Info: Hardback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 04/30/2024
 

An intimate, compassionate, and expansive portrait of Borderline Personality Disorder that rejects the conventional wisdom that the condition is untreatable and those diagnosed with it are “difficult,” told by a psychologist who specializes in BPD


 
 
Price: $29.95
Boyz n the Void
Author: G'Ra Asim
Product Code: 8945
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 05/10/2022
 

Writing to his brother, G’Ra Asim reflects on building his own identity while navigating Blackness, masculinity, and young adulthood - all through wry social commentary and music/pop culture critique


 
 
Price: $14.95
Breaking Bread
Authors: Debra Spark, Deborah Joy Corey
Product Code: 9305
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 09/05/2023
 

Nearly 70 renowned New England writers gather round the table to talk food and how it sustains us—mind, body, and soul


 
 
Price: $18.00
Breaking Free
Editor: Marilyn Sewell
Product Code: 4009
Binding Info: Paperback
Publisher: Beacon
Publication Date: 09/23/2004
 

Groundbreaking anthology for women searching for spiritual guideposts to the second half of life.


 
 
Price: $19.00
Breathe
Author: Imani Perry
Product Code: 9321
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 01/30/2024
 

Imani Perry is the 2023 UUA General Assembly Ware Lecturer

The 2020-2021 UUA Common Read

Explores the terror, grace, and beauty of coming of age as a Black person in contemporary America and what it means to parent our children in a persistently unjust world


 
 
Price: $17.00
Buddhish
Author: C. Pierce Salguero
Product Code: 8919
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 03/08/2022
 

An engaging, accessible introduction to Buddhism for those who are looking to explore a new spiritual tradition or understand the roots of their mindfulness practice.


 
 
Price: $16.95
Can We Talk about Race?
Author: Beverly Daniel Tatum
Product Code: 4050
Binding Info: Paperback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 04/01/2008
 
Reflections on race and schools - by the best-selling author of Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
A Simmons College/Beacon Press Race, Education, and Democracy Series Book

 
 
Price: $16.00
Central America's Forgotten History
Author: Aviva Chomsky
Product Code: 8938
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 05/10/2022
 

Restores the region’s fraught history of repression and resistance to popular consciousness and connects the United States’ interventions and influence to the influx of refugees seeking asylum today


 
 
Price: $15.95
Chokepoint Capitalism
Authors: Rebecca Giblin, Cory Doctorow
Product Code: 9311
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 09/19/2023
 

A call to action for the creative class and labor movement to rally against the power of Big Tech and Big Media


 
 
Price: $19.00
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