Inside/Out Book Club; the book was selected as an alternate for this LGBT book club and will be featured in the summer catalog , which mails June 2009
Blurb from Dorothy Allison: “This is a damn fine piece of work which is unbelievably powerful. This story is true and passionate and fearless and funny as hell when it is not heartbreaking. I expect this book to charm the hell out of great numbers of people, piss off a few, and give hope to many more...”
Nature's Second Chance, Steven I. Apfelbaum, February 2009, cloth, $25.95, 978-0-8070-8582-0
New York Times; the book will be featured in the NYT’s Home-Currents section during the last week of February
The Lonely Soldier, Helen Benedict, April 2009, cloth, $25.95, 978-0-8070-6147-3
Huffington Post; read Benedict’s blog about violence among Iraq war Veterans; the book is mentioned in the byline
Illegal People, David Bacon, September 2008, cloth, $25.95, 978-0-8070-4226-7
20 Events in the Pac NW (see tour info below)
A Final Arc of Sky, Jennifer Culkin, April 2009, cloth, $24.95, 978-0-8070-7285-1
The book will be featured in PNBA’s Spring Northwest New Title Preview (galley offer, online listing) beginning January 23rd
Publicity, Reviews, and Praise:
Quiverfull, Katherine Joyce, March 2008, cloth, $24.95, 978-0-8070-1070-9
Publisher’s Weekly; review in the January 12th issue
“Journalist Joyce has conducted a groundbreaking investigation of a little-known movement among Christian evangelicals . . . future historians and journalists will owe Joyce a debt of gratitude for her foray into this still nascent religious group.”
Library Journal; review in the January 1st issue
“If any religious movement badly needs critiquing, the self-titled Quiverfull movement does, because its Christian patriarchy seeks to reverse the advances in equality women have made in the last 150 years or so. . . She writes in a readable style and has a respectful approach that will appeal to most readers. She doesn’t hesitate to highlight the social and personal damage caused by the movement to women’s physical and mental health and to large and poor families struggling to survive on one paternal income. . . Recommended for academic and public collections.”
Mother Jones; read Joyce’s article about Martha Peace (a prominent figure in the biblical womanhood movement; featured in Quiverfull) for “Purpose Driven Wife;” to run in the March/April issue (hits stands late February)
Babble.com; read Joyce’s article on her experience researching Quiverfull; possible cover art; to run in the March 10th issue
Search Magazine; read Joyce’s piece on demography and Israel in the February issue
Love & Death, Forrest Church, September 2008, cloth, $22.00, 978-0-8070-7293-6
Utne; excerpt to run in the March/April issue
Saving Paradise, Rita Nakashima Brock and Rebecca Ann Parker, July 2008, cloth, $34.95, 978-0-8070-6750-4
Tikkun; Brock and Parker’s were commissioned by the magazine to write an essay, based on Saving Paradise; the essay will run in the March/April issue
The Lonely American,Jacqueline Olds, M.D. and Richard S. Schwartz, M.D., February 2009, cloth, $24.95, 978-0-8070-0034-2
O Magazine; review in the “Reading Room” section of the February issue
Body + Soul; the book will be reviewed in the March issue
Utne; excerpt in the March/April issue
Family Circle; interview for forthcoming article on women and friendship
Audubon Magazine; review in the January/February issue
“Pearce travels the globe, mapping how his purchases influence the world… Witnessing slave like conditions and unweaving the often circuitous and corrupt t pathways of global trade, Pearce somehow remains optimistic.”
Early Spring, Amy Seidl, cloth, March 2008, $24.95, 978-0-8070-8584-4
Booklist; review in the February 1st issue
“[A]rtfully broadminded. . . reminiscent of the Old Farmer’s Almanac. . . [P]rescient. . . deeply personal and solidly scientific, Seidl’s chronicle manages to be concerned without being cloying.”
Upcoming Author Tours:
Inheriting the Trade, Thomas Norman DeWolf, January 2008, Cloth, $25.95, 978-0-8070-7281-3
Click on the link to view DeWolf’s upcoming tour schedule
Illegal People, David Bacon, September 2008, cloth, $25.95, 978-0-8070-4226-7
See Bacon’s Northwest tour schedule below:
Tuesday, January 20 6 -9 pm
Congregational Church of Lincoln City
1760 NW 25th St.
Lincoln City, OR
Thursday, January 22 6:30 pm
Central Oregon Community College
Hitchcock Auditorium, Pioneer Hall
Bend, OR
Friday, January 23 10 am-11:20 am
International School of the Cascades
Redmond, OR
6:30 pm
Jobs with Justice
UA Local 290 Training Center
Redmond, OR
Saturday, January 24 7 to 9 pm
University of Oregon Law School, Agate & 15th, Rm 110
Eugene, OR
hosted by the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics
Monday, January 26 3:00-4:30pm
Western Washington University
Communications Facility 110
Bellingham, WA
sponsored by Fairhaven College and Associated Students Social Issues
6:45pm
Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship
1708 T Street
Bellingham, WA
Tuesday, January 27 12noon
University of Washington
Tacoma, WA
7pm
Kings Books
218 St. Helens Ave.
Tacoma
Wednesday, January 28 12noon
University of Washington
Bridges Labor Center
Seattle, WA
4:30-6pm
Northwest Immigrant Rights Project
615 Second Ave., #400
Seattle, WA
7:30
Elliott Bay Books
101 S. Main St.
Seattle, WA
Thursday, January 29 1:30-3:00pm
Evergreen State College Labor Center
SEM II-B1105
Olympia, WA
Friday, January 30 12-2pm
Portland State University
Portland, OR
4-5:30pm
University of Portland
St. Mary's Student Center Lounge
5000 N. Willamette Blvd
Portland, OR
Saturday, January 31 10:30-12noon
Cross Border Labor Organizing Committee
Portland, OR
1-4pm
Jobs with Justice - Financial Crisis Forum
Portland, OR
Sunday, February 1 1-2:30pm.
Western Oregon University
ITC 211 (Information Technology Building, right in the middle of campus)
345 N. Monmouth Ave
Monmouth, OR
4:00pm
Corvallis Public Library
645 NW Monroe
Corvallis, OR
Monday, February 2 7pm
Medford Public Library
205 S Central
Medford, OR
sponsored by Ashland Peace House, University of Oregon, and UNETE immigrants rights organization
Beacon Blurbs:
The Khaarijee, J. Malcom Garcia, September 2009, cloth, $26.00, 978-0-8070-0057-1
“Malcolm Garcia’s The Khaarijee is a beautifully written book. The intimacy of Garcia’s reflections on life and Afghanistan, combined with his flash-bang prose, gives readers the much desired, but rarely achieved, sensation of being inside a writer’s head. Garcia’s honesty makes The Khaarijee an irresistible read.”
—Nicholas Schmidle, author of To Live or To Perish Forever: Two Tumultuous Years in Pakistan
“Why does Facebook have the same appeal as gated communities? Is distraction more concerning than addiction? How do videogames like World of Warcraft value friendship? Bracing yet reassuring, often surprising, and always substantive, Craig Watkins acts as an honest broker, testing the contradictory claims often made about young people’s digital lives against sophisticated field work.”
—Henry Jenkins, author of Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide
Beacon Acquisition:
Beacon Press is pleased to announce the acquisition of Dr. Danielle Ofri’s new memoir about her experiences treating immigrants at Bellevue, the oldest public hospital in the country. Combining personal narrative, reflection, and reporting, this book speaks poignantly about the challenges facing immigrants in the US health care system: language barriers, religious and racial divides, the emotional and practical difficulties of exile and sometimes political asylum—all from the front-line perspective of the doctor who cares for them. Fall 2009.
Beacon is delighted to announce a new acquisition tentatively titled To Uphold the Worldby Bruce Rich. In 1991, Rich traveled to Orissa and gazed upon the rock edicts erected by emperor Ashoka, over 2,000 years ago. Intrigued by the stone inscriptions that declared religious tolerance, environmental sustainability, non-violence, protection of all species, and human rights, Rich was drawn into Ashoka’s world. Ashoka is remembered as a powerful conqueror who converted to Buddhism on the heels of a bloody war. But what many don’t realize is that his ethics rested on a previous economic system that held the accumulation of wealth above all else. This system was designed by one of history’s greatest political geniuses—Kautilya, a philosopher who wrote the world’s first treatise on economics. Already widely praised in India, in this updated U.S. edition, Bruce Rich distils the timely messages of Ashoka and Kautilya for our 21st century world. With a unique blend of historical and political essay combined with reflections on varied thinkers—from Aristotle to Adam Smith to George Soros, and more—Rich critiques the current wave of globalization, urgently calling for a new global ethic. Fall 2009
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