In honor of Veteran’s Day, our featured topic centers on the battles
our troops face at war and on the home front.
"Honoring the Warrior, Not the War" by Aidan Delgado
"Female Vets Fight Another Battle at Home: Restoring their Spirits"
by Helen Benedict
"Casualties on the Home Front: The Epidemic of Vet Suicides"
by Penny Coleman
"My Angel in the Desert: One Soldier’s Story of War"
by Marcus Eriksen
…plus Jewish Book Month’s recommended reading, Lion’s Honey
by David Grossman
Publicity, Reviews, and Praise
Acts of Faith,
Eboo Patel, cloth, July 2007, $22.95, cloth, 978-0-8070-7726-9
Good Morning America/ABC TV; taping Wednesday, November 14th; two
segments featuring Eboo and some of the young people who work with the Interfaith
Youth Core; air dates currently scheduled for November 21st and 22nd
Our World,
Mary Oliver and Molly Malone Cook, October 2007, cloth, $24.95, 978-0-8070-6880-9
Friday, November 30, 2007; 7:00pm; Harvard Bookstore hosts a reading at
the First Parish Church, 3 Church Street, Cambridge
“Part detective story and part political thriller, The Queen of
the Oil Club is the true account of the most influential woman of the
early oil age. It’s a book you can't miss.” —Gregg Easterbrook,
author of The Progress Paradox
"If you’re wondering why, in our age of plenty, the financial
treadmill keeps moving faster and faster for America’s increasingly educated
– and increasingly insecure—middle class, you owe it to yourself
to read this book. It’s all here: the big trends, the compelling portraits,
the ideas for personal and political change, and the call to arms we so desperately
need." —Jacob S. Hacker, author of The Great Risk Shift: The
Assault on American Jobs, Families, Health Care and Retirement and How You
Can Fight Back
"The best thing in its line since Dava Sobel's Longitude. Maria Mitchell
and the Sexing of Science tells a great, if too little known, story of an
intellectual woman in19th century New England. And it is beautifully told:
I simply could not put it down. Anyone who cares about women's education in
America should read this compelling and indispensable book." —Robert
D. Richardson, author of Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind, Emerson: The
Mind on Fire, and William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism
Beacon Press is a department of the