Beacon mourns the loss of our cherished author, Forrest Church, who passed away Friday, September 25th. He died peacefully at home, surrounded by family and friends. A memorial service to celebrate Forrest’s life will be held Saturday, Oct. 3rd at 4p.m. at the All Souls Unitarian Church in NYC.
The New York Times; ran obituary September 27th. Click the link below to view story:
NPR; Fresh Air interview rebroadcast and re-posted on Books Page (“Forrest Church And The 'Valley Of The Shadow'”) on September 29th. Click the link below to view the story:
Uncertain Peril, Claire Hope Cummings, March 2008, cloth, $24.95, 978-0-8070-8580-6
American Book Awards 2009; Selected as the WINNER! This honor is awarded by the Before Columbus Foundation
Evidence, Mary Oliver, April 2009, cloth, $23.00, 978-0-8070-6898-4
New Fall bookstore events:
Wednesday, October 14th, 7p.m.
Tilden Arts Center at Cape Cod Community College, 2240 Iyannough Road in West Barnstable, MA (as part of 40th anniversary celebration of Titcomb’s Bookstore)
Thursday, December 3rd, 6p.m.
Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard Street, Brookline MA
The Blue Cotton Gown, Patricia Harman, September 2009 paperback $16, 978-0-8070-7291-2
October Indie Next “Now in paperback”—one of 6 titles noted
Book of the Week:
Hollowing Out The Middle, Patrick J. Carr And Maria J. Kefalas, October 2009, cloth, $26.95, 978-0-8070-4238-0
Readers Digest; October issue – book mentioned in “Big Ideas” section
NPR National’s “On Point”/WBUR Radio; Kefalas will be on-air October 1st at 10 - 11:00am EST, live via remote from Philadelphia. The show repeats at 8pm
New Hampshire Public Radio, “Word of Mouth”; Carr was featured on the show September 29th. Click on the link below to listen to the interview:
Holy Hullabaloos, Jay Wexler, June 2009, paperback original, $20.00, 978-0-8070-0044-1
Washington Post; author’s article for On Faith is now available on the website. To read his post “School Prayer and Senate Prayer Are Not the Same,” click the link below:
Unreasonable Faith(blog); a very nice, in-depth review, "Life Among Conservative Christian Homeschoolers," was posted Wednesday, September 30th. Part two of the review will run Thursday, October 1st. Visit the website by clicking the link below.
"The Death of Josseline is a border reality check. It tells searing stories of those who've died crossing the Sonora/Arizona desert, of young people sent to prison in Tucson for the crime of working, and of the courageous people of conscience who stand up for the rights of migrants. Read it, and see why our deadly immigration policies need to be changed."
—David Bacon, author of Illegal People
Beacon Acquisition:
Beacon is delighted to announce the acquisition of Jay Wexler’s new book. If the United States Constitution were a zoo, and the First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendments were a lion, a giraffe, and a panda bear, respectively, then the Boston University School of Law professor’s The Odd Clauses: Understanding the Constitution Through Ten of its Curious, Obscure, and StrangeProvisionswould focus on the shrews, wombats, and bat-eared foxes. This deeply informative, but accessibly written book focuses on the less well-known clauses, the ones that quietly promote key democratic functions. Ecologists remind us that even a weird little creature like a shrew can make all the difference between a healthy environment and an unhealthy one—similarly, understanding the odd clauses offers readers a healthier appreciation for our constitutional system. His first book, Holy Hullabaloos: A Road Trip to the Battlegrounds of the Church-State Wars (Beacon Press) was dubbed, “The sharpest, the most insightful, the most side-splittingly funny book on law since—Supreme Courtship!” by Christopher Buckley, author of Supreme Courtship and Thank You For Smoking.
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