At Blackwater Pond, by Mary Oliver (Audio CD, April 2006, $19.95, 0-8070-0700-5)
At Blackwater Pond by Mary Oliver is #2 on the 2006 Book Sense Poetry
Top Ten List
Beacon mourns the loss of master storyteller Octavia Butler, who died at her home on Saturday. Octavia was the author of some dozen works of fiction, including Kindred which Beacon had the honor of publishing. Obituaries have run in the Seattle Times, LA Times, on the web sites of USA Today, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Salon, Forbes, United Press International and on Democracy Now. WBAI (99.5 FM) is also doing a piece on Octavia every morning this week (during the morning show, Wake Up Call, 6:00 am - 9:00 am). They are running excerpts of her various book talks, etc
Shipping This Week
The Earth Knows My Name, by Patricia Klindienst (hardcover, April 2006, $26.96, 0-8070-8562-6)
“The Earth Knows My Name is a moving tribute to those who keep the ancient love of the land in their hearts, and who stand up to the giants of agrobusiness in their fight to preserve their cultural heritage. In protecting the land from the poisons of intensive agriculture, keeping alive knowledge of traditional farming and traditional foods, their battle is for the future of all of us - the future of planet earth.”
—Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE, Founder - the Jane Goodall Institute & UN Messenger of Peace, author of Harvest for Hope
Publicity: Multicultural Review, review, Summer 2006 issue Orion, review, May/June 2006 issue
Filoli Center newsletter, April 15th
Getting on Message, edited by Peter Laarman (paperback original, April 2006, $15.00, 0-8070-7721-6)
Publicity:
Z Magazine, short blurb in “Zap” section, March 2006 issue Publishers Weekly, blurb in Spring 2006 religion titles announcement, February 13th, 2006 issue American Scholar, excerpting Marilynne Robinson essay
Human Rights Campaign, excerpt of Bill Sinkford's essay on HRC website posted February 6th
“This timely little book offers a thoughtful, wide-ranging and captivating introduction …The brief, often breezy essays, reminiscences, reportage and interviews overturn the facile image of Iran as a single, homogenous entity…Arranged and framed with care by editor Zanganeh (and featuring original art by Satrapi), the book's contents resist an overarching, dogmatic point of view, presenting instead an open-ended invitation to dialogue. Readers will find this volume complex but accessible; it reveals the human stories behind the veil of the headlines.”
Publicity, Reviews, and Praise
Storming Caesars Palace, by Annelise Orleck (hardcover, August 2005, $29.95, 0-8070-5032-6; paperback, April 2006, $20.00, 0-8070-5031-8)
CNN, Annelise Orleck, Ruby Duncan, and Mary Wesley will be featured in a segment commemorating the anniversary of the march, Sunday, March 5th
C-Span/Book TV will be taping Cassandra Pybus's event at The Shrine of the Black Madonna in Atlanta on March 2nd, air date to come
One O'clock Jump, by Douglas H. Daniels (hardcover, January 2006, $27.95, 0-8070-7136-6)
Oklahoma Today, February 2006 issue
“Ahh, winter reading. These two Oklahoma-based histories will help while away the time till spring has sprung. Douglas Henry Daniels' One O'Clock Jump: The Unforgettable History of the Oklahoma City Blue Devils ( Beacon Press , $27.95, beacon.org) is a jazzy accounting of the band's life and times, beginning in the swinging 1920s…”
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