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Beacon Weekly Report

February 13 , 2009

Headlines:

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

  • The New York Times Sunday Magazine, The Deborah Solomon Interview

Publicity, Reviews, and Praise:

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

  • Boston Globe; review date to come

  • About the Money/KCTS9-PBS affiliate; interview to air February 24th

  • Q13 Fox Morning News/Seattle; interview aired February 10th

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

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

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

Beacon Blurbs:

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

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