Big-Box Swindle,
Stacy Mitchell, cloth, November 2006, $25.95, 0-8070-3500-9
Austin Chronicle, review: “There remain some publishers willing
to face the book-chain heat; we have Beacon Press to thank for Mitchell's
indeed fine and important book.”
Upcoming Events:
Bellingham, WA (12/4)
Elliot Bay Book Company, Seattle, WA (12/5)
Powell’s Books, Portland, OR (12/6)
Reviews forthcoming in Seattle Post-Intelligencer (12/1) and Cascadia
Weekly
Interview/Review forthcoming in Oregonian
Thom Hartmann Show, live interview Tuesday, December 5th at 7:30 am (PST)
KUOW (Seattle Public Radio), interviewed on “The Works,” Tuesday,
December 5th from 8-9 pm (PST)
The Iron
Cage, Rashid Khalidi, cloth, October 2006, $24.95, 0-8070-0308-5
Democracy Now (national, 500 TV and radio stations), live interview
on Tuesday, November 28th
In the works: an appearance on The Colbert Report a review in The New
York Times Book Review
Without a
Map, Meredith Hall, cloth, April 2007, $24.95, 978-0-8070-7273-8
Booklist, review in the December 15th issue: “Written in spare,
unsentimental prose, Without a Map is stunning; Meredy’s reunion
with her grown son (who was raised in poverty with an abusive father) is the
highlight. Book groups, take note.”
"Meredith Hall's magnificent book held me in its thrall from the moment
I began reading the opening pages. Without a Map is a fluid, beautifully-written,
hard-won piece of work that belongs on the shelf next to the best modern memoirs,
and yet is in a category all its own. It is a moving example of a difficult
life redeemed first through examination, then reflection, then finally--like
a rough stone polished until it gleams—into a genuine work of art."
—Dani Shapiro, author of Family History
With Speed
and Violence, Fred Pearce, March 2007, $24.95, 0-8070-8576-6
(10), 978-0-8070-8576-9 (13)
Publisher’s Weekly, review in the November 20th issue: “The
science behind climate studies is complex, but Pearce makes it accessible
enough to terrify even the most uninitiated layperson.”
Shout, Sister,
Shout!, Gayle F. Wald, cloth, February 2007, $25.95, 0-8070-0984-9 (10),
978-0-8070-0984-0 (13)
Essence, review in February issue
Reviews forthcoming in DownBeat, Living Blues, Time Out
Chicago, Black Issues Book Review, The Chronicle Review,
Los Angeles Magazine, African American Review, Sing Out!,
and MOJO
The Boston
Italians, Stephen Puleo, cloth, May 2007, $26.95, 978-0-8070-5036-1
“At long last, a historically accurate and well-crafted history of
the Italian community that flourished in Boston’s North End. Drawing
upon original documents, as well as anecdotes from the lives of his own family,
Stephen Puleo has produced a work that is a great read for the generalist
and a gold mine of information for the specialist. The Boston Italians
is the inspiring story of a people who rose from poverty and discrimination
to become a prosperous and productive part of Boston’s colorful history.”
—Thomas H. O’Connor, university historian at Boston College and
author of The Boston Irish
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