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Beacon Weekly Report

March 21, 2007

Publicity, Reviews, and Praise:

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

  • More Magazine, review in the April issue, on sale March 20th

  • Boston Globe, review date to come, coverage in Jan Gardner’s column, date to come

Shout, Sister, Shout! Gayle F. Wald, cloth, February 2007, $25.95, 978-0-8070-0984-0

  • Vibe Magazine, review in the April issue: “Mixing tireless reporting with nuanced musical and cultural insights, Wald’s Shout, Sister, Shout! is about as good as musical reparations get.”

  • News and Notes/NPR, taping on Wednesday, March 21st at 10:30pm (EST), air date to come

  • To the Best of Our Knowledge/Syndicated Nationally through Wisconsin Public Radio, taped interview Thursday, March 22nd at 4pm, air date to come

Widening the Circle, Mara Sapon-Shevin, paperback original, March 2007, $14.00, 978-0-8070-3280-0

  • Education Week, review in the March 21st issue

Awards:

  • Douglas H. Daniels’s One O’clock Jump (9780807071373) is a finalist for the 2007 ARSC Awards (Association for Recorded Sound Collections)

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 more publicity:

  • Write-Up in the Washington Post, Monday, March 19th

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