Beacon Weekly Report

Archive: April 25, 2006

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Publicity, Reviews, and Praise

My Father's Keeper, by Jonathan G. Silin (hardcover, May 2006, 0-8070-7964-2)

• Utne, review, May/June 2006 issue
  "Jonathan G. Silin writes with analytical precision, delivering, without undue sentimentality, a look at the private struggles and quiet delights of caring for aging parents…a series of illuminating investigations into the themes of aging: independence, guilt, control, acceptance, forgiveness. Through it all, he has a refreshing knack for handling contradiction and complexity without seeking resolution."

When the Rivers Run Dry, by Fred Pearce (hardcover, March 2006, $26.95, 0-8070-8572-3; paperback, March 2007, $14.00, 0-8070-8573-1)

• Salon, interview, online today
  
• San Francisco Chronicle, Sunday, April 2nd
  "Pearce does a masterful job of describing the raft of problems that drying rivers cause. . . . Pearce's anecdotes and examples are meticulously catalogued. . . . When the Rivers Run Dry is a timely book on an underreported issue. In an ideal world it would have a large audience here and abroad. . . .Those who patiently take Pearce's tour through the global water crisis will be treated to an enriching and farsighted work."

Unchosen, by Hella Winston (hardcover, November 2005, $24.95, 0-8070-3626-9; paperback, November 2006, $15.00, 0-8070-6523-4)

• New York Times, Op-ed by Hella Winston, "An Unorthodox Passover," Sunday, April 23rd

The Earth Knows My Name, by Patricia Klindienst (hardcover, April 2006, $26.96, 0-8070-8562-6)

• The Guilford Courier, front page feature in April 20th issue, also ran in 20+ Shore Publishing local newspapers

The New Single Woman, by E. Kay Trimberger (hardcover, September 2005, $25.95, 0-8070-6522-6; paperback, October 2006, $16.00, 0-8070-6523-4)

• San Francisco Chronicle, Op-ed by Trimberger, Sunday, April 23rd

Poems to Live By in Troubling Times, edited by Joan Murray (paperback original, April 2006, $12.00, 0-8070-6894-2)

• Albany Times Union, feature, Sunday, April 23rd
• Albany Times Union, Joan Murray will write a "Voices of Faith" column for a May issue
• Poets & Writers, Joan Murray will be featured in the July/August issue

News

3 Beacon Press titles will be included in the AAUP "Best of the Best" program at the 2006 ALA Summer Conference

• The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer (0-8070-8387-9, $13.00)
• Somebody's Daughter by Marie Myung-Ok Lee (0-8070-8389-5, $14.00)
• We Are All Suspects Now by Tram Nguyen (0-8070-0461-8, $14.00)

Promotion includes an ad in the conference program book and a book raffle of a set of the titles presented. Book covers and interiors will be shown during the presentations.