Beacon Press: Weekly Report

Beacon Weekly Report

February 13 , 2009

Fugitive Days, Bill Ayers, November 2008, paperback, $15.00, 978-0-8070-3277-0

Evidence, Mary Oliver, April 2009, cloth, $23.00, 978-0-8070-6898-4

Booklist, a lovely review by Donna Seaman in the March 1st issue

“Oliver has been publishing poetry collections since 1963, and her latest is gloriously alive, inquisitive, and welcoming.”

—Donna Seaman

Nature's Second Chance, Steven I. Apfelbaum, February 2009, cloth, $25.95, 978-0-8070-8582-0

New York Times; article to run in the Home-Currents section of the February 19th issue

Quiverfull, Kathryn Joyce, March 2009, cloth, $25.95, 978-0-8070-1070-9

Salon; Katherine Joyce will contribute an original article about Quiverfull; to run the second week of March

The Student Loan Scam, Alan Michael Collinge, February 2009, cloth, $22.95, 978-0-8070-4229-8

Beyond Bogotá, Garry Leech, January 2009, cloth, $25.95, 978-0-8070-6145-9

The Jim Bohannon Show; click on the link below to listen to the interview

http://www.jimbohannonshow.com/programhighlights
Cambio; author interview in this Colombian based magazine on the order of TIME or Newsweek, print date to come

News Blaze; nice mention for Helen Benedict’s Lonely Soldier Monologues, including images

http://newsblaze.com/story/20090210141401jnyc.nb/topstory.html

The Jeff Farias Show; interviewed live on February 11th

http://www.thejefffariasshow.com/

Beyond the Miracle Worker, Kim E. Nielsen, May 2009, cloth, $28.95, 978-0-8070-5046-0

Booklist, a nice review in the March 1st issue

“Historian Nielsen focuses attention on Macy’s troubled beginnings, her own devastating eye ailments, and her prodigious ambition to create a considerate yet equitable biography of a complex woman whose singular contributions to the burgeoning field of education for the blind have often been misjudged.”

—Carol Haggas

The Lonely Soldier, Helen Benedict, April 2009, cloth, $25.95, 978-0-8070-6147-3

“The Lonely Soldier tells an important and often ignored story about our military women. Benedict writes with skill and compassion, helping us understand what it feels like to be a women soldier in Iraq. I recommend this book to everyone who cares about our soldiers.”

—Mary Pipher, author of Reviving Ophelia and Seeking Peace