Beacon Press: Weekly Report

Beacon Weekly Report

December 5, 2007

Acts of Faith, Eboo Patel, cloth, July 2007, $22.95, 978-0-8070-7726-9

Good Morning America/ABC TV; two segments featuring Eboo Patel and some of the young people who work with the Interfaith Youth Core; air date to come

The Missing Class , Katherine S. Newman and Victor Tan Chen, cloth, $24.95, September 2007, 978-0-8070-4139-0

Greater Boston with Emily Rooney/WGBH TV; interview with Katherine Newman; aired December 11th, 2007
Cspan to film Cambridge Forum Event on December 5th for future broadcast

Our World, Mary Oliver and Molly Malone Cook, October 2007, cloth, $24.95, 978-0-8070-6880-9

America: Our World and Thirst in Christmas reading round up; http://www.americamagazine.org/content/article.cfm?article_id=10473.
Ad in New York Times Book Review (page 9 of 12.09.07 issue)
Harvard Bookstore Bestsellers w/e 12.2.07: Thirst #1 PB; Our World #2 Cloth
LA Times syndicated interview with Mary to run within next week

Flashback, Penny Coleman, paperback, $16.00, 978-0-8070-5041-5

American Forum with Karen Kwiatkowski/WTPRN Radio; interview with Coleman aired December 3rd

http://mp3.wtprn.com/Karen07.html

AlterNet, read Coleman’s November 26th piece, 120 War Vets Commit Suicide Each Week

http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/68713

Closing the Food Gap, Mark Winne, January 2008, cloth, $23.95, 978-0-8070-4730-9

Chronicle of Philanthropy; Winne will write a piece related to Closing the Food Gap for the January issue
Edible Magazine; excerpt will appear in Winter issues of 40 regional Edible publications; total circulation 1.25 million
Santa Fean Magazine; profile forthcoming in the December/January issue
Eating Well Magazine; coverage forthcoming in the January/February issue

Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage, Nancy D. Polikoff, February 2008, Cloth, $24.95, 978-0-8070-4432-2

Booklist; review forthcoming in December 15th issue

“Ultimately, marriage isn’t the right dividing line, Polikoff maintains in this provocative argument for valuing all kinds of family.”— Whitney Scott

Uncertain Peril, Claire Hope Cummings, March 2008, cloth, $24.95, 978-0-8070-8580-6

Booklist; starred review forthcoming in December 15th issue

“…a meticulous and lucid exposé…this wake-up call should renew public debate about our food and land use.”
— Donna Seaman

Library Journal, review in the November 15th issue

“. . . Rubin tells it like it is . . . she is very smart and very angry—and highly readable . . . [her book] is a clear-sighted wake-up call . . . recommended for all libraries.”

Saviors or Sellouts, Christopher Alan Bracey, cloth, February 2007, $26.95, 978-0-8070-8375-8

Kirkus; review forthcoming in December 15th issue

“His conclusions will be controversial, but DeWolf’s intimate confrontation with white America’s “unearned privilege” sears the conscience.”

Young people have always left small towns for bigger cities and brighter opportunities but the “rural brain drain” is now jeopardizing small-town America, where one out of five people still live, of the next generation of professionals. Sociologists Maria Kefalas and Patrick Carr, who are married, moved to a small town in northeastern Iowa, for a year and a half, in order to better understand this occurrence. They found that in spite of being hit hard by the loss of talented young people, small towns put enormous resources into encouraging them to leave, so that those “most likely to succeed” make their fortunes elsewhere. In Hollowing Out the Middle: Why America’s Small Towns are Dying and What Can Be Done to Save Them, Kefalas and Carr describe the various types of groups they found: the Stayers; the Leavers—Achievers and Seekers; the Returners—Boomerangs (those returning after a short time) and High-Flyers (educated professionals who politicians try to lure back with various benefits). This timely book about an important contemporary phenomenon will be on our fall 09 list.