Kindred
by Octavia Butler will be featured at both B&N and Borders
Beacon’s website, www.beacon.org,
will feature related titles
Publicity, Reviews, and Praise
Without a
Map, Meredith Hall, cloth, April 2007, $24.95, 978-0-8070-7273-8
Elle Magazine, Without a Map has won the nonfiction readers’
pick for the month of April; the book will be highlighted on the top of the
“Elle Must Read/Readers’ Prize 2007” page in the April
issue
O Magazine, Readers’ Room, book covered in the April issue
More Magazine, review in April issue
Library Journal, review in the February 1st issue
The Iron
Cage, Rashid Khalidi, cloth, October 2006, $24.95, 978-0-8070-0308-4
Washington Post, Book World section, review forthcoming in the February
2nd issue
Soaring with
Fidel, David Gessner, cloth, April 2007, $24.95, 978-0-8070-8578-3
PW, review in the January 29th issue: “Gessner writes beautifully,
with grace and humor.”
"Soaring with Fidel is a grand and cheering journey on the wings
of one of nature's most sociable predators. It's impossible to watch an osprey
hovering above a crystal calm bay and not envy the great bird's freedom. Now,
thanks to David Gessner, we are invited to follow." —Carl Hiaasen,
author of Nature Girl
Not in Our
Classrooms, Eugenie C. Scott and Glenn Branch, paperback original, October
2006, $14.00, 978-0-8070-3278-6
Voice of Reason: The Journal of Americans for Religious Liberty,
review in the No. 4 2006 issue: “In Not in Our Classrooms Beacon
Press has provided the indispensable tool for combating this grave threat
to science and science education . . . This important book cannot be recommended
too highly.”
Come Out
and Win, Sue Hyde, paperback original, June 2007, $13.00, 978-0-8070-7972-0
“Sue Hyde has demonstrated in her own life that winning equal rights
for LGBT people is not a spectator sport. Now she has taken this one step
further and provided a guide for other LGBT people so that they can join her
in this effort.” —Congressman Barney Frank
“Sue Hyde's book answers the plaint, ‘What are we gonna do?’
So quit whining, get her book, pick a chapter, do the workbook. Repeat. Create
change. Badges not included.” —Kate Clinton, humorist and author
of What the L?
Out Law,
Lisa Keen, paperback original, June 2007, $13.00, 978-0-8070-7966-9
"Keen's book is brilliant in its concise and well-researched treatment
of complex legal issues for LGBT people. Engaging and accessible, it offers
a unique and smart focus on the rights of young gay people in each facet of
their lives." —Urvashi Vaid, author of Virtual Equality and Executive
Director of the Arcus Foundation
“Keen’s book is must reading for all gay youth and those who care
about them.” —Kevin M. Cathcart, executive director, Lambda Legal
Caravan Project:
Beacon has become partners with other non-profit publishers, Ingram Book Company,
and a group of independent and chain bookstores through The Caravan Project,
http://www.caravanbooks.org/. The
Caravan Project will offer buyers of serious non-fiction the option to purchase
books via print and digital formats. The launch of this project is now gaining
publicity:
In ABA’s Bookselling This Week eNewsletter an article ran about
Caravan’s list, which The Book News has linked to: http://news.bookweb.org/5004.html
Rights Update:
For the 1st time, Beacon Press will be attending the London Book Fair April
13-16th. Look for us in the International Rights Center (Table 31P)
Courting Equality by Gozemba and Kahn, book club, Bookspan’s
InSight Out Club
Come Out and Win by Sue Hyde, book club, Bookspan’s InSight
Out Club
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