Mama’s Boy, Preacher’s Son by Kevin Jennings has
been selected by the New York Public Library as part of their “Books
for the Teen Age 2007”
My Father’s Keeper by Jonathan G. Silin and Confessions
of the Other Mother edited by Harlyn Aizley are finalists for the
2007 Lambda Literary Awards
Thirst: Poems by Mary Oliver is #14 on the PNBA Hardcover
Fiction Bestseller List, its 17th appearance on a Book Sense List. (7,500
copy reprint now in stock for National Poetry Month)
Publicity, Reviews, and Praise:
Shout, Sister,
Shout! Gayle F. Wald, cloth, February 2007, $25.95, 978-0-8070-0984-0
New York Times Book Review, full review in the Sunday, March 18th
issue
WMBR, American Primitive, book giveaway on Saturdays from noon-2pm
WGNU Radio (St. Louis), Wake-Up Call with Lizz Brown, live by phone, Friday,
March 9th 7am (CST)/8am (EST)
WJLB Radio (Detroit), Sunday Morning Gospel, Sunday, March 11th, live by
phone, 9am
KKUP Radio (Cupertino, CA), The Wimmin’s Music Program, Sunday, March
11th at 3:30 (EST)/ 12:30 (PST)
Without a
Map, Meredith Hall, cloth, April 2007, $24.95, 978-0-8070-7273-8
People, review forthcoming
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
Boston Globe, forthcoming
Body + Soul Magazine, will cover in June issue
Soaring with
Fidel, David Gessner, cloth, April 2007, $24.95, 978-0-8070-8578-3
Orion Magazine, review in the BookNotes section in the March/April
2007 issue: “An engaging, lyrical guide to osprey migration, Cuba, and
a common humanity. On his impulsive journey, Gessner meets other devotees
of this magnificent raptor, and experiences the thrill of following what he
loves.”
OnEarth, review in the Spring 2007 issue: “Gessner’s travels
are filled with small delights. He has a great gift for conveying reverence
without sanctimony, and even at his most sardonic and self-deprecating, his
sense of wonder at the osprey never falters. As he stands on a rock above
Cuba’s Sierra Maestra, watching ospreys rocket past, we wish we could
be up there beside him, binoculars in one hand, a cold beer in the other.”
Audubon, review in the March/April 2007 issue, online edition also
includes an excerpt: “While O’Connor’s detailed responses are
full of ornithological facts, it’s their humor and irreverence that make
the book so entertaining.”
The Earth
Knows My Name, Patricia Klindienst, paperback, April 2007, $18.00,
978-0-8070-8571-4
Sierra magazine, review forthcoming in the May/June 2007 issue
“They
Take Our Jobs!”, Aviva Chomsky, paperback original, July
2007, $14.00, 978-0-8070-4156-7
“Chomsky’s book is an indispensable guide to the current debate
on immigration. If you are at all uncertain about how to deal with anti-immigrant
arguments, you will find Chomsky’s book a perfect response to those arguments.
She makes her points with crystal-clear clarity, and unassailable evidence,
while offering constructive solutions, both short-term and long-term.”
—Howard Zinn, author of You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train
“Immigrants take away jobs from ‘Americans.’Immigrants drive
down wages. Immigrants don’t pay taxes and yet benefit from public services.
You’ve heard it all before, probably from CNN’s Lou Dobbs. But as
Avi Chomsky demonstrates, these are all myths, if not outright lies. She not
only demolishes virtually every myth about immigrants and immigration to the
U.S., she offers policy makers and activists solutions for tackling many of
the issues created by globalization and an immigration policy grounded in
falsehoods, and in so doing destroys the greatest myth of all: that nothing
can be done.” —Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams:
The Black Radical Imagination
“Finally, a concise and comprehensive breakdown of the most prevalent
misconceptions about immigration. Avi Chomsky provides not only practical
ammunition for the pundit wars, but also real thinking about the intersection
of migration with the history of race and rights in the U.S. It's the definitive
field guide to today’s immigration debate.”—Tram Nguyen, executive
editor of Colorlines magazine and author of We Are All Suspects
Now
“With deep insight, Mercogliano shows how our society is suppressing
children’s creative energies. But he also brings a positive message,
showing how we can help young people break through conventional restraints
and pursue their passions. This is a beautiful, searching, and inspiring book.”
—William Crain, Professor of Psychology, The City College of New York,
and author of Reclaiming Childhood: Letting Children Be Children in Our
Achievement-Oriented Society
“The point of view in this book is extraordinary—a Buddhist G.I.
inside Abu Ghraib prison, a witness to the horrors, a conscientious objector.
Aidan Delgado is a keen observer and an eloquent writer, and he shocks us
while also educating us about the reality of the war in Iraq.” —Howard
Zinn, author of You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train and A People's
History of the United States
Just Released:
My River Home, Marcus Eriksen, April 2007, cloth, $24.95,
978-0-8070-7275-2
Print:
Publishers Weekly, review in the January 15th issue
Outside Magazine, interview forthcoming in the May 2007 issue
Sea Magazine, review in the November 2006 issue
Veterans for Peace, book will be posted to website and reviewed in newsletter
Events:
Barnes and Noble (Santa Monica, CA), Wednesday, April 18th at 7:30pm
Octavia Books (New Orleans), Wednesday, May 9th at 6pm
Barnes and Noble (Metairie, LA), Saturday, May 12th at 2pm
Left Bank Books (St. Louis, MO), Monday, May 14th
Blurbs:
“A beautiful story of healing, hope, faith, and renewal. Like Mark
Twain’s Huckleberry Finn, Marcus Eriksen takes us on an extraordinary
journey; home from war, chaos, and sorrow, down the mighty Mississippi, he
searches to find meaning in all that has been lost and all that has been wasted.”
—Ron Kovic, author of Born on the Fourth of July
“My River Home is a Homeric epic that starts at the top of the
United States, plummets to the depths of the Gulf War, and probes the soul
of a man born to be a Marine who learns the dangerous truth that ‘sometimes
patriotism requires that one be willing to protect one’s nation from
its own government.’ Through vivid stories, Eriksen exposes the tragic
personal consequences of corporatocracy policies—wars that enrich a few
and ruin the lives of millions.” —John Perkins, author of the NY
Times bestseller Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
“Marcus Eriksen is a natural writer. In the best American tradition
of Twain, Kerouac, and others, he uses the hard-fought journey as a means
to cross not only physical space but psychic space as well. Eriksen's memoir
cuts to the core of the great dilemma of what it means to be an American man.
As his story of an epic journey down the Mississippi attests, he is immensely
courageous, determined to overcome every obstacle in his path, and an ingenious
problem-solver. But as the memories that won't leave him alone attest: he,
like so many other Americans, both male and female, allowed himself to be
trained and used as a professional killer. The beauty of this book is that
Eriksen takes it one step further: he begins the forging of a badly-needed
new archetype—an American man who is both participant and witness in
the great struggle for forgiveness and a final end to all war.” —Gerald
Nicosia, author of Home to War
“All politicians considering war as a policy tool—especially those
with no personal military experience—should read this book, and take
special note of Marcus Eriksen's epiphany as he wandered with his brother
amongst Iraqi corpses during the Gulf War. ‘I'm glad it wasn't us,’
says his brother. Eriksen, with the added perspective of the current Iraq
War, finds devastating precision for his response: ‘But it was.’
The futility and tragedy of war is made agonizingly clear by the inspirational
journeys recounted with searing elegance in My River Home.” —Peter
Laufer, author of Mission Rejected: U. S. Soldiers Say No to Iraq
Foreign Rights Sales:
Why Don’t Woodpeckers Get Headaches?, Mike O’Connor,
paperback original, April 2007, $9.95, 978-0-8070-8574-5
Canadian rights sold to Fitzhenry & Whiteside
The Iron Cage, Rashid Khalidi, cloth, October 2006, $24.95, 978-0-8070-0308-4
Arabic language rights sold to Arab Institute for Research and Publishing
Thirst, Mary Oliver, cloth, October 2006, $22.00, 978-0-8070-6896-0
Beacon Press is a department of the