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Beacon Weekly Report

September 13, 2006

Breaking News!

Big-Box Swindle, Stacy Mitchell, cloth, November 2006, $25.95, 0-8070-3500-9

Publicity, Reviews, and Praise:

The Iron Cage, The Iron Cage, Rashid Khalidi, cloth, October 2006, $24.95, 0-8070-0308-5

  • Publishers Weekly, review in September 4th issue: "Historian Khalidi…brings vital perspective…admirably synthesizing the latest scholarship…first-rate and up-to-date historical and political analysis of the Palestinian predicament remains illuminating."

Somebody's Daughter, Marie Myung-Ok Lee, paperback, April 2006 $14.00, 0-8070-8389-5

  • The ALAN Review, book cover used for the cover of three 2006-2007 volume issues (NCTE Adolescent Literature section)
  • Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, interview forthcoming

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

Once in a Promised Land, Laila Halaby, cloth, January 2007, $24.95, 0-8070-8390-9

  • Publishers Weekly, review in September 11th issue

With Speed and Violence, Fred Pearce, cloth, March 2007, $24.95, 0-8070-8576-6

  • "If you want to quickly get up to date on climate change and its consequences, I recommend With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change. If you can read only one book on climate change, this is it." —Lester Brown, president, Earth Policy Institute

On the Courthouse Lawn, Sherrilyn A. Ifill, cloth, February 2007, $25.95, 0-8070-0987-3

  • "On the Courthouse Lawn is an elegantly written and persuasively argued case for local communities to confront their history of lynching and racial violence as a means of healing race relations." —Mary Frances Berry, Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania

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

  • Christian Century, review in September 19th issue: "…most urgent for people concerned about protecting the earth and saving people from economic and social oppression."

Getting On Message, Rev. Peter Laarman, paperback original, April 2006, $16.00, 0-8070-7721-6

  • Dallas Morning News, review in August 5th issue

Upcoming Releases

Releasing September 20th:

Big-Box Swindle by Stacy Mitchell
Unchosen (pa) by Hella Winston

Releasing September 27th:

Mind of Winter (pa) edited by Robert Atwan

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