Grace Matters with Rev. Peter W. Marty / Weekly Radio Program of
the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (broadcasts on nearly 180 stations
internationally); 30 minute interview with Craig Rennebohm was taped on
June 30th; to air in September, exact air date to come
Love You to
Pieces, Suzanne Kamata, paperback original, June 2008, $17.00,
978-0-8070-0030-4
Mothering; review in current issue
“. . . a moving collection of well-crafted memoirs, fiction, and
poetry that reflects the wild emotional complexities of living with and
loving a child with disabilities.”
Abilities Magazine; review in summer issue
ForeWord; Kamata interviewed for a parenting feature in the July/August
issue
“Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage is the book many have been
waiting for. It provides an alternative vision to the promotion of marriage,
whether it be heterosexual or same-sex. It proposes changes in the way we
think about marriage, about social structures, and about law. For those
who have asked the question, “If not marriage, then what?” Nancy
Polikoff provides answers worth contemplation and implementation.”
Red Bird,
Mary Oliver, April 2008, cloth, $23.00, 978-0-8070-6892-2
Upcoming Events:
Boise Egyptian Theater; reading and book signing; book sales through The
Rediscovered Bookshop; Boise, ID; September 23rd
Sun Valley Bookstore; reading and book signing; book sales through Iconoclast
Books; Sun Valley, ID; September 25th
Philadelphia Hall; reading and book signing; book sales through Joseph Fox
Bookshop; Philadelphia, PA; November 18th
Santa Rosa Hall; reading and book signing; book sales through Copperfield’s;
Santa Rosa, CA; December 1st
Herbst Theater; reading and book signing; book sales through Books Inc;
San Francisco, CA; December 3rd
Beacon Acquisition:
Beacon published Epic Journeys of Freedom by Cassandra Pybus in 2005.
The book garnered strong reviews, both in history journals but also in venues
like The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books. We’re delighted to
be publishing Pybus’s new book which will focus on Mary Perth, Billy Blue
and Doll Thomas, three individuals who emancipated themselves from slavery.
Known as a gifted story teller and indefatigable researcher, Pybus will literally
‘recover’ these three lives lost to history through conducting research
in several continents and cobbling together bits of biography to create vivid
narratives. Pybus will challenge our notions of what free people of color could
achieve and argues that Perth, Blue and Thomas had lives full of agency in ways
we simply can’t imagine. Revealing and unexpected, the book is classic
Beacon ‘bottom up’ history and will be on our fall 2010 list.
Beacon Press is a department of the