Beacon Press: Weekly Report

Beacon Weekly Report

March 5 , 2009

Sowing Crisis, Rashid Khalidi, March 2009, cloth, $25.95, 978-0-8070-0310-7

Chronicle Review; click to read the lengthy cover profile of Rashid Khalidi, in the March 6th issue

http://chronicle.com/free/v55/i26/26b00601.htm?crnt
Charlie Rose Show/PBS; click to watch Rashid Khalidi’s interview, which aired Tuesday, March 3rd

http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/10126
Diane Rehm/NPR; click to listen to the interview

http://www.wamu.org/programs/dr/09/03/05.php#24111

New York Times Book Review March 15th; full page review on page 6 by James Traub
Back to press for second printing of 5,000 copies; will bring us to 15,000 in print

Big-Box Swindle, Stacy Mitchell, paperback, October 2007, $15.00, 978-0-8070-3501-6

American Booksellers Association; click to watch Mitchell’s Winter Institute workshop, “How Shop Local Movements are Saving Small Businesses”

http://www.bookweb.org/events/institute.html#Mitchell

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

Newsweek.com; adapted article on Quiverfull to run next week
Feministing; review (and promotion of Joyce’s March 16th event in New York) to run Thursday, March 12th
Mother Jones; click to read Joyce’s piece, “The Purpose-Driven Wife,” adapted from Quiverfull, in the March/April issue

http://www.motherjones.com/media/2009/03/books-purpose-driven-wife
Public Eye/the magazine for the political think tank, Political Research Associates; a nice review with cover art in the Spring issue

“[A]n excellent resource . . . Joyce tracks Quiverfull’s genesis and doctrinal roots to untangle the various strands of this complex patriarchal movement and explain why, in the 21st century, a group that eschews modernity and individualism is gaining ground and adherents.”

Click to read the full review:

http://www.publiceye.org/magazine/v24n1/book-review.html

Love in Condition Yellow, Sophia Raday, May 2009, cloth, $24.95, 978-0-8070-7283-7

“Raday has a solid sense of humor, an ear for dialogue and an eye for telling detail.”

Toxic Truth, Lydia Denworth, March 2009, cloth, $27.95, 978-0-8070-0032-8

The Pittsburgh-Post Gazette; review in the Sunday, March 1st issue; posted online, with cover art on March 4th

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09063/952881-44.stm

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

I Told You So, Kate Clinton, May 2009, cloth, $22.00, 978-0-8070-4442-1

Washington Blaze; review with cover image in Spring preview section, to run in the Friday March 6th issue

Early Spring, Amy Seidl, cloth, March 2009, $24.95, 978-0-8070-8584-4

Organic Gardening; the excerpt of Early Spring in the April issue hits stands this week

The Columbus Dispatch; the book was selected as a “Vendor’s Pick” in the Sunday, March 1st issue, recommended by Sandmeyer's Bookstore in Chicago

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/life/stories/2009/03/01/2_PICK0301_ART_03-01-09_E3_RVD1B62.html

Dating Jesus, Susan Campbell, January 2009, cloth, $24.95, 978-0-8070-1066-2

St. Louis Post-Dispatch; click to read the review, which ran in the Sunday, March 1st issue

“Dating Jesus reads better than a review makes it sound. Campbell has both a sense of humor and a knack for religious research. She sketches out in easy-to-understand prose the similarities and differences of fundamentalists, evangelicals and Pentecostals. She introduces readers to the likes of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, William Jennings Bryan and John C. Danforth. And she weaves their stories in with her own.”

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/entertainment/reviews.nsf/book/story/6CF17A5B4576E7418625756A007ABAAB?OpenDocument

Holy Hullabaloos, Jay Wexler, June 2009, paperback original, $16.00, 978-0-8070-0044-1

Another Kind of Public Education, Patricia Hill Collins, May 2009, cloth, $27.95, 978-0-8070-0018-2

Confessions of an Eco-Sinner, Fred Pearce, cloth, October 2008, $24.95, 978-0-8070-8588-2

Library Journal; Confessions of an Eco-Sinner was listed under “Best of 2008 Sci-Tech Books,” in this month’s issue
Share Guide: The Holistic Health Magazine; review with cover art in the March/April edition, Issue #102

The Muse of the Revolution, Nancy Rubin Stuart, July 2008, cloth, $27.95, 978-0-8070-5516-8

Cape Cod Magazine; March Women’s Issue, “A Legacy that Defies Time” on Mercy Otis Warren; piece written by Nancy Rubin Stuart

American Furies, Sasha Abramsky, cloth, May 2007, $25.95, 978-0-8070-4222-9

Winner of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency PASS (Prevention for a Safer Society) Awards in literature