Beacon Weekly Report

Archive: August 25, 2006

• Read the latest report

Publicity, Reviews, and Praise:

Mama's Boy, Preacher's Son, Kevin Jennings, cloth, August 2006, $24.95, 0-8070-7146-3

• People, review in August 28th issue:
  "Jennings crosses many Rubicons in this inspiring, power-packed memoir."
   
• The Washington Blade, feature interview in August 18th issue
   
• Salon, interview posted in August
   
• Booklist, review in August issue:
  "A refreshingly readable memoir."
   
• Newsweek, "Fast Chat" in August 21 st issue
   
• Horace, review in September issue
   
• Independent School, review in Fall issue
   
• Genre, review in September issue
   
• New York Blade, feature review, early September
   
• The Gay & Lesbian Review, review in November/December issue
   
• Lambda Book Report, review in Fall issue
   
• Winston-Salem Journal, feature forthcoming

The Earth Knows My Name, Patricia Klindienst, cloth, April 2006, $26.95, 0-8070-8562-6

• Yes! Magazine, review in Fall 2006 issue:
  "Anyone who feels most at home in the garden will revel in this book."

Thirst, Mary Oliver, cloth, October 2006, $22.00, 0-8070-6896-9

• NPR, The Writer's Almanac, Garrison Keillor will read Mary Oliver in August
   
• Utne Magazine, excerpt in September/October issue
   
• Harvard Divinity Bulletin, excerpt in Autumn 2006 issue
   
• America, running excerpt in September 25th issue
   
• Christian Century, excerpt in September issue

The Engaged Spiritual Life, Donald Rothberg, paperback, October 2006, $16.00, 0-8070-7725-9

• Tikkun, excerpt in September/October issue

Not in Our Classrooms, Eugenie C. Scott and Glenn Branch, paperback, October 2006, $14.00, 0-8070-3278-6

• Teacher Magazine, review in Fall issue
   
• Rethinking Schools, review in September issue

Making Art Together, Mark Cooper with Lisa Sjostrom, cloth, August 2006, $26.95, 0-8070-6618-4

• Perspective (Journal of YMCA Professionals), review in August or September issue
   
• Teacher Magazine, review in Fall/Winter issue