Beacon Weekly Report

Archive: May 31, 2006

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Publicity, Reviews, and Praise

My Sister, Guard Your Veil; My Brother, Guard Your Eyes, edited by Lila Azam Zanganeh (paperback original, April 2006, $12.00, 0-8070-0463-4)

• NOW /PBS, interview with Azam Zanganeh aired May 26th

Confessions of the Other Mother, edited by Harlyn Aizley (paperback original, May 2006, $16.00, 0-8070-7963-4)

• Boston Globe, feature interview with Harlyn Aizley and Boston-based contributors Hillary Goodridge, Casandra McIntyre, Dawn Beckman, and Mary Cardaras, ran Monday, May 29th
  
• Oakland Tribune, Kathleen Geib included Aizley's book in a review of collections of essays by women

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)

• Newsweek, Trimberger is quoted in this week's issue (June 5th)
  
• AARP: The Magazine, Trimberger is quoted and book is mentioned, May/June issue

The Tent of Abraham, by Rabbi Arthur Waskow, Joan Chittister, OSB, Saadi Shakur Chishti (hardcover, July 2006, 0-8070-7728-3)

• Library Journal, starred review, June 1st issue
  
  "The Palestinian/Israeli conflict has elicited many books exhorting political and religious peace in the Middle East, but none has appealed to individual minds and hearts quite like this one."

Mama's Boy, Preacher's Son, by Kevin Jennings (hardcover, August 2006, $24.95, 0-8070-7146-3)

• Publishers Weekly, reviewed in May 29th issue
  
  "This rags-to-riches story, about growing up poor and eventually reaching Harvard has bite and pathos…Jennings writes of his journey with graciousness and candor."
  
• Kirkus Reviews, starred review, June 1st issue
  
  "Generous and illuminating."

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)

• Grist reviewed Pearce's book on Gristmill: A blogful of leafy green commentary

Global Values 101, edited by Kate Holbrook, Ann S. Kim, Brian Palmer, and Anna Portnoy (paperback original, February 2006, $14.00, 0-8070-0305-0)

• Working Knowledge, Harvard Business School's journal ran a review on April 10th
  
  "In its totality, Global Values 101 promotes citizenship, a concept often considered trite in modern American culture. A smart book."

Flashback, by Penny Coleman (hardcover, May 2006, $23.95, 0-8070-5040-7)

• Times-Union, Perspectives section, Coleman's op-ed ran on May 28th
  
• The Buffalo News, Coleman's op-ed ran on May 29th
  
• Daily Kos, covered on May 29th