The Sound of Silence, Supreme Court Style by Jay Wexler
Drug-Free School Zone by Chris Mercogliano
A New Standard in Florida: Evolution is Fundamental
Link Roundup: UUs on Street Prophets, Human Guinea Pigs, Teaching Kids About
Racism
Publicity, Reviews, and Praise:
Our World,
Mary Oliver and Molly Malone Cook, October 2007, cloth, $24.95, 978-0-8070-6880-9
AARP Magazine; interview in March issue
Red Bird,
Mary Oliver, April 2008, Cloth, $23.00, 978-0-8070-6892-2
Town and Country; brief profile with excerpt of “Mornings at
Blackwater”; to run in March or April issue
Poets and Writers; highlighting Red Bird with jacket art
and author photo, plus excerpt of “Small Bodies”; to run in March/April
issue
Thirst,
Mary Oliver, cloth, October 2006, $22.00, 978-0-8070-6896-0
Book Sense; #2 ranking on the 2008 Book Sense Poetry Top Ten List; title
will appear with jacket image, author bio and full bookseller quote on the
Top Ten list PDF and print-out as well as inclusion in the “April is
National Poetry Month” displays
Sundays in
America, Suzanne Strempek Shea, April 2008, cloth, $24.95, 978-0-8070-7224-0
Booklist; starred review in March 15th issue
“It was for her and is for readers a captivating trip into the heart of
non-Catholic Christian America that reveals the amazing diversity of one complex
faith.”
—June Sawyers
Yankee Magazine; brief mention with jacket art; book called “compulsively
readable;” to run in March / April issue
P.O.V. / PBS; Traces of the Trade: A Story From the Deep North, the Sundance
selected documentary based on DeWolf’s book has been selected for a national
broadcast premiere; air date to come
The Advocate; excerpt in April 8th issue; on newsstands March 26th
Upcoming Events:
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center; Second Tuesdays
lecture series; New York City, March 11th, 10 a.m.
Center for New Words; book lecture at Simmons College at the Kotzen Meeting
Center, in Lefavour Hall; Boston, March 13th, 7 p.m.; click on link for more
information
The following Beacon titles were nominated by the Gustavus Myers Center
for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights for the Myers Outstanding Book Awards
Once in a Promised Land, Laila Halaby, cloth, January
2007, $23.95, 978-0-8070-8390-1
Drifting Toward Love, Kai Wright, January 2008, cloth, $24.95, 978-0-8070-7968-3
The Missing Class, Katherine S. Newman and Victor Tan Chen,
September 2007, cloth, $26.95, 978-0-8070-4139-0
Epic Journeys of Freedom, Cassandra Pybus, February 2007,
paperback, $16.00, , 978-0-8070-5515-8
Inheriting the Trade, Thomas Norman DeWolf, January 2008,
Cloth, $25.95, 978-0-8070-7281-3
Beacon Rights Deals:
Thousand Pieces of Gold, August 2004, paperback, $14.00, 978-0-8070-8381-9
Romanian rights sold to Univers Publishing House, Inc. 40,000 copies of
the paperback will be printed and sold for 7 days only on newsstands. The
book will be sold together with the Romanian daily newspaper Cotidianul.
Beacon Acquisition:
Beacon is proud to be publishing award-winning political humorist Kate
Clinton, an icon of the LGBT movement. Still touring and extremely active,
Clinton has had a high profile career for decades and has recorded eight comedy
collections, authored two books, appeared in several films, done extensive
tv and radio—and currently writes monthly columns for The Progressive,
and blogs for the Huffington Post. The book will cover her work over the
past five years and, as she notes, “those years were some of the most
gut-wrenching, mind-boggling, heart-breaking, cement blocks on the sternum
of justice that we’ve lived through.” The book will include a diversity
of topics: sexual hypocrisy, global warming, gay marriage, 9.11 and its aftermaths,
intelligent design, girls gone wild, boys gone to war, the creation museum,
electoral reform, families of choice, bee colony and other collapses, and
much more. Clinton promises to be “a charming interview, and [is] willing
to do most things, even vaguely illegal, to promote the product.“ Spring
09.
Journalist and foreign correspondent Stanley Meisler will write the
first complete history of the Peace Corps, tracing its evolution through the
past nine presidential terms. Founded as an American emblem for world peace
and international friendship, the organization recruited a total of nearly
200,000 people, many of whom later assumed high positions in private and public
life. Former volunteers include one senator, five members of the House of
Representatives, sixteen US ambassadors, and two governors, among others.
Relying on a variety of historical sources, including new material in national
archives, presidential libraries and anecdotal personal narratives, Meisler,
who was himself a volunteer for several years in 1964, is committed to writing
a ‘warts and all’ unofficial history. He will show, for instance,
how the organization often tilted its agenda to meet the political demands
of the White House. We’ll publish in fall 2010 to coincide with the 50th
anniversary of the Peace Corps.
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