Beacon Press: Weekly Report

Beacon Weekly Report

March 14, 2007

Without a Map, Meredith Hall, cloth, April 2007, $24.95, 978-0-8070-7273-8

A Book Sense Pick for May 2007
Elle Magazine, Without a Map has won the nonfiction readers’ pick for the month of April; the book is now highlighted on the top of the “Elle Must Read/Readers’ Prize 2007” page in the April issue
O Magazine, Reader’s Room, book covered in the current April issue
More Magazine, review in the March 20th issue

Soaring with Fidel, David Gessner, cloth, April 2007, $24.95, 978-0-8070-8578-3

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: "Rosetta Tharpe's story, salvaged here by Wald, a professor of English at George Washington University, is very much a woman's story, refreshingly free of Svengalis and impresarios. Her picaresque journey from Pentecostal child prodigy in Cotton Plant, Ark., to preteen phenom on Chicago's church circuit to Cotton Club darling to one of gospel's first recording starts in constantly surprising."

From the Palmer Raids to the Patriot Act, Chris Finan, cloth, May 2007, $25.95, 978-0-8070-4428-5

Booklist, starred review in the April 1st issue: “Unlike many commentators, Finan treats the villains fairly, presenting them not as wild-eyed fanatics but as people who thought they were doing what was right. The book is a welcome and much-needed change from the simplistic good-versus-evil treatment this subject often gets. Could be the definitive study of a perpetually complex, contentious issue.”

Can We Talk About Race? Beverly Daniel Tatum, cloth, April 2007, $22.95, 978-0-8070-3284-8

Big-Box Swindle, Stacy Mitchell, cloth, November 2006, $25.95, 978-0-8070-3500-9

Maine Literary Awards, Big-Box Swindle has received an honorable mention
KUNM, New Mexico Pubic Radio, interview with Mitchell aired March 12; extended interview to air Saturday, March 17th: http://www.kunm.org/news/current/index.php?id=EEZFZFAyEuksAGUMRk
Albuquerque Journal (New Mexico), coverage in the Sunday March 11th issue

In Defense of Childhood, Chris Mercogliano, cloth, August 2007, $24.95, 978-0-8070-3286-2

“Chris Mercogliano’s provocative meditation on childhood sets up a dialectic among maple-sugaring, swan-diving in forest pools, slingshots, and adventuring on the one hand, and the adult-supervised ‘play’ of the Little League, Boy Scouts, YMCA, and Playground Movement on the other. Along the way are insights about the functions of solitude and self-organization that lead the reader to conclude: no self-organization means that no self worthy of the name will emerge. A very strong and attractive book.” —John Taylor Gatto, author of Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

Why Don’t Woodpeckers Get Headaches?, Mike O’Connor, paperback original, April 2007, $9.95, 978-0-8070-8574-5

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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.”
Publishers Weekly, review in the February 12th issue: “The avian equivalent in tone and expertise to NPR's Car Talk Magliozzi brothers, O'Connor should net a wider audience with this amusing collection.”
Boston Globe, Shelf Life Column, a featured title in the Sunday, January 7th issue: http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2007/01/07/in_with_the_new/
Forthcoming reviews in Birder’s World, Cape Cod Times, Cape Cod Magazine, Cape Cod Life, Birder’s World, Northwest Indiana Times, and Portsmouth Herald

Blurbs:

“Mike O’Connor knows birds—I mean, REALLY knows them. He has been answering questions about birds for years, and he can deliver the straight scoop with a hilarious twist that makes it unforgettable. Reading this book is almost as fun as bird watching, and that’s saying a lot!” —Kenn Kaufman, author of the Kaufman Field Guide to the Birds of North America

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